Spare your sanity. If you don want this to happen, never ever install Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional on a Windows Vista system with UAC enabled and Microsoft Office 2007 installed: No amount of reinstalling solved the problem. You could either disable UAC, which leaves a big security hole in your system because almost everything will [...]
March 18, 2008 – Microsoft has finally released the first service pack for Windows Vista to consumers after months of delays due to technical and compatibility issues. The RTM version of the service has already been released to MSDN and Technet subscribers since early March. For users who don’t want to wait for SP1 to be available [...]
It took me 2 solid hours to figure out why two visually identical strings would produce totally difference checksums. After examining the byte output of mcrypt_decrypt, I found there are tons of trailing nulls behind the decrypted string. The reason why I could not visually differentiate between a string with trailing nulls ($A) and the [...]
One of the most common problems encountered by novice PHP users is that cookies do not seem to persistent across subdomains using a normal approach found in many website examples. The solution is simple. The full argument of PHP’s setcookie function is as follow: bool setcookie ( string $name [, string $value [, int $expire [...]
While many PHP applications have started offering MySQLi connectivity, strangely enough, WordPress does not seem to have MySQLi support enabled out of the box.