Alessandro Zanello

Send a virtual bouquet of flowers to someone / o:

The service is free, non-profit and sympathetic just choose the vase, the flowers and their colors, fill out the ticket and include your email address and that of / the addressee / o:

http://www.flowers2mail.com

And do not even need to change the water ...

Sometimes you need to know the format of the connection string to a database, both for the format for the username and password by default. You can use ConnectionStrings.com a site that lists the connection string to access a particular database.

They are the connection strings for MySQL, Access, SQL Server, Oracle, but also for Firefox, VistaDB, Interbase, AS / 400, Ingres, etc..

The Sony PRS-505 Reader Digital Book is a digital player that lets you effortlessly carry around a library (to SD / SDHC or Sony), reads in full sun, the battery ricaricabile ion battery lasts long enough to turn approximately 7,500 pages (if not consumed by turning pages or playing music).

Electronic paper makes it almost as well as the actual paper and reads well everywhere, while reading it can play music in MP3 and AAC files (with optional earphone).

Supports Adobe PDF, RTF, text and displays grayscale images in JPEG format.

Features

24/07/2008 With the software update available here , the unit:

• also supports the EPUB format
• supports Adobe ® Digital Editions 1.5
• allows you to "reformat" on the fly PDF improving the text readability
• supports SDHC cards with more than 4 GB
• erases the books directly from its menu

And 'the most affordable solution currently on the market (compared to Kindle, Cybook, Iliad and the like) for reading addicts, by experience.

Randy Pausch passed away today, we remember him for his last important lesson.

Some happen to be users of hosting services such as Aruba, which does not allow access to the settings of the PHP and Apache, and simultaneously do not allow to update these components, as they are in reality shared by all guests / condominiums Aruba managed by the same PC.

In these circumstances can happen to need a plugin to integrate a CMS like Wordpress , like good WP Download Manager , Lester "Gamerz" Chan, it is designed for PHP interpreter other than the environment can support (in PHP PHP 4.x and 5.x supports Aruba), the result, at best, can be an avalanche of error messages, which is still better than not working ...

In these cases we often forget the existence of the simple function:

ini_set ("parameter", "value");

that enables you to manipulate the parameters of the local interpreter, or the one where your script is running, other than global. In this case, the plugin mentioned works well in PHP 4 but generates error messages can not delete them to version 5 interpreter pear ² can be acknowledged by setting the PHP setting display_errors to off by entering a simple call:

ini_set ("display_errors", "off");

leading the php file download-manager.php that generates the warning.

Other useful tips are here and suggest to replace the calls of the type

$text = html_entity_decode($text, ENT_QUOTES, get_option('blog_charset'));

with the following

$text = utf8_decode($text);

apply if the site uses UTF-8 encoding to bypass the incompatibilities with PHP 4.

As always, know that you are navigating waters is useful to resort to a file that contains the single line myphpinfo.php

<? Php phpinfo ();?>

to put on your site and call, you will from there ¬ useful information about the settings of your system.

If you have not understood anything of this article, I have just given an excellent opportunity for free to congratulate yourself for not having chosen a profession related to information technology ...

Updating

In a newsletter of 29/08/2008 Aruba informed that:

"In € ™ optics to continuously improve our service, we are pleased to inform all our customers we are providing to upgrade PHP4 to PHP5 version on all servers that manage the Windows Hosting and Linux Hosting services."

Alleluia

A series of useful links to organize the holidays; sites are listed in Italian and in English:

Sites to choose a destination
http://www.tripbase.com
http://www.wikitravel.org
http://www.turistipercaso.it
http://www.viaggiaresicuri.it

Sites to choose how to get there
http://www.kayak.it
http://www.wegolo.com
http://www.viamichelin.it
http://www.map24.it
http://www.ferroviedellostato.it

Sites to choose a hotel
http://www.travelxl.com
http://www.tripadvisor.com
http://www.hotelscombined.com
http://www.expedia.com
http://www.hostel-world.com
http://www.gimio.com

Sites to decide what to see
http://it.viaggi.yahoo.com/trip-planner
http://www.tripwiser.com
http://www.schmap.com
http://www.italyguides.it
http://www.worldeventsguide.com
http://www.eventful.com

Octavo
"Introduced shortly after the invention of printing with movable type, in octavo format was developed specifically to make the first books to low-cost products in large scale"

Do you have a passion for old books (and famous) but you can not satisfy her wandering museums?

Want to print a few pages of Galileo's Sidereus Nuncius, or experience the thrill of browsing the Manual of Giambattista Bodoni Typeface? Then octavo.com for you:

Here you can examine the surface or a few tens of dollars to buy an electronic edition in PDF format of a rare and famous ancient book, eventually translated, with bookmarks, enlargeable up to 300%, printed and on which you can also perform fast searches.

A temptation ...