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You want it, Ubuntu Supplies It: sudo apt-get install nautilus-open-terminal More Reading:Debugging Programmatically Opened Terminals in GnomeCustom Terminals for SSH in Gnome UbuntuUbuntu Nautilus Sudo Extension – Open as SudoStart windows on a specified workspaceSun Java 1.6.0.30 packages for Ubuntu « « Flexion.Org Blog Flexion.Org BlogServer Migration – Pipe Tar from Server to Server using [...]

The latest incarnation of Ubuntu is out in a couple of days Looking forward to upgrading and taking advantage of the latest and greatest version of this awesome operating system! More Reading:Start windows on a specified workspaceSun Java 1.6.0.30 packages for Ubuntu « « Flexion.Org Blog Flexion.Org BlogDebugging Programmatically Opened Terminals in GnomeKeep ssh aliveMagento [...]

If you are scratching your head trying to figure out where in your Javascript the mysterious doIt error is coming from when testing using Chrome, this might just save you.. After loads of digging around it turns out that the error is actually caused by the Chrome SEO extension I had installed. Disable that and [...]

If your Magento store is occasionally throwing up redirect loop errors in your web browser this might be your problem, and your solution. It seems that Magento doesn’t properly support British Summer Time as standard, so if you are using GMT then your times might be an hour out. That’s not ideal but its not [...]

Check out this little query for checking for obviously invalid EANs. Note this is not checking the check digit for validity, it is purely looking for data that is in no way possibly an EAN number. PLAIN TEXT SQL: UPDATE products SET ean = '' WHERE ean != '' AND ean NOT REGEXP '[0-9]{13} assuming [...]

If you upgrade to Magento version 1.4 and find that your admin totally stops working then this might be for you. If you view source and notice that your javascript paths are totally wrong then it could be that Merge JavaScript Files is causing it. The answer is: go to System -> Configuration -> Developer [...]

Very interesting to read about the latest Magento Enterprise version release. Among other things, they have implemented Solr for searching. Solr is what can only be called a "proper search engine" and is the alternative to searching a database which is the usual way the Magento search works. By using a proper search engine, the [...]

Edmonds Commerce are a UK based e-commerce development specialist and along with osCommerce and Magento development, we also do work on Prestashop. Prestashop is a nice modern open source ecommerce platform that uses a lot of jQuery to get some nice user interface effects. If you are looking for a company that can help you [...]

If you use an external drive on your Mac and find yourself looking at the spinning colour wheel all the time waiting for the drive to spin up again, then this tip is for you. Just go into system preferences and then energy saving and untick the box that says "put the hard drives to [...]

Firefox used to have an addon called duplicate tab. It was great, did exactly what it said on the tin. However it is no longer developed and so we are stuck without any duplicate tab functionality - damn. Until that is I discovered tabberwocky. Not the most descriptive name which is probably why it didn't [...]