http://www.lukebrowning.com/ Luke Browning I had been trying to set up Internet Information Services (IIS) under Windows 7 to use PHP and MySQL to save myself the trouble of having both IIS and XAMPP installed. After a short time I managed to get it running rather easily using the Web Platform Installer. This was great apart from a couple of small annoyances when developing PHP applications. After a few weeks of use, I decided it was about time to switch back to XAMPP as it removed all of the annoyances I had encountered - here, I ran into a couple of problems! http://www.lukebrowning.com/blog/nt-kernel-system-using-port-80/ Wed, 24 Aug 2011 20:35:42 GMT Here's a simple and easy way of making a backup image of your disk. It uses dd (used for low-level copying) to copy either an entire disk or just one partition, into either a gzipped file or onto another disk. http://www.lukebrowning.com/blog/backup-and-restore-a-disk-image-in-linux/ Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:17:15 GMT One of the most annoying features of Windows is its ability to restart your machine automatically once you've installed Windows updates. This issue becomes even more annoying if for instance you leave things running overnight to continue next morning, or leave your machine running while you go grab some lunch. Thankfullly it really quick and easy to fix. http://www.lukebrowning.com/blog/disable-windows-7-automatic-reboots/ Tue, 30 Nov 2010 19:36:52 GMT Something that's cost me a lot of time recently is trying to install the .net 3.5 Framework to multiple computers in a domain using Group Policy. You would think, being a Microsoft product that the installer would be provided as an MSI as well as an EXE to ease deployment through domains, this however is not the case. The following steps should get .net 3.5 deployed to your domain computers. Please note that .net 3.5 cannot be installed without the previous versions (2.0 SP1 and 3.0 SP1) being installed. It will also not tell you there is a problem and there will not be any errors in the Event Viewer. http://www.lukebrowning.com/blog/deploy-net-3-5-using-group-policy/ Mon, 16 Aug 2010 17:14:09 GMT If like me you get annoyed every time an application crashes on Windows and it then tries to send an error report, you may wish to follow this short guide to disable error reporting! http://www.lukebrowning.com/blog/disable-error-reporting-in-windows-7/ Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:14:53 GMT 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... http://www.lukebrowning.com/blog/sell-on-codecanyon/ Mon, 28 Dec 2009 13:13:29 GMT Getting the longitude and latitude from Google maps can be quite annoying, here's a simple way to do it! http://www.lukebrowning.com/blog/get-longitude-and-latitude-from-google-maps/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:12:41 GMT 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. http://www.lukebrowning.com/blog/ssh-into-uwe-externally/ Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:22:59 GMT 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. http://www.lukebrowning.com/blog/grub-17-error/ Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:24:39 GMT 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! http://www.lukebrowning.com/blog/roundcube-folder-protection/ Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:06:39 GMT Welcome to my new site, lukebrowning.com! I am a Computer Science student at the University of the West of England in Bristol. I am currently in my second year. http://www.lukebrowning.com/blog/hello-world/ Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:37:37 GMT