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CodeCanyon is a website where subscribed users have the chance to submit snippets of code and have them promoted and sold. Currently, the CodeCanyon website allows developers of JavaScript, PHP, Java and ASP.NET to upload scripts which can then be bought by users...

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Getting the longitude and latitude from Google maps can be quite annoying, here's a simple way to do it!

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If you're not living on campus at UWE and you are based in BIT, it's often useful to be able to access your files on the UWE systems without having to go into the University. Using a tool such as Putty or a terminal (in Linux), you can connect to the Universities Remote Access Server (RAS). Once connected, you can edit files, move images around, copy videos, change file permissions and pretty much anything else you could do when sat in front of a machine.

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After performing a few software upgrades, including my kernel, I got a Grub Error 17. I use Linux Mint and at the time used Windows Vista. Both OS's were installed on separate drives and, of course, I use Grub to select which to access. Now I'm not sure what caused the problem, but it happened randomly as far as I could tell. A quick search on the internet tells me this is because an "Invalid device requested". The problem didn't happen just the once either, it has happened a couple of times so that's why I'm writing up my solution.

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So over the past couple of days I did a fresh install of Roundcube Webmail (0.3.1) following a pretty good tutorial. Everything installed fine and all my configurations were assumed to be correct, other than Roundcube wouldn't download folders!

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