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Windows 2008 R2 / IIS 7.5 & Problematic PDF Downloads

IIS 7.5 (Windows Server 2008 R2) has a known bug while streaming PDF documents to client browsers. Random PDF documents simply don’t work! The bug is with the byte range request browsers send while streaming PDFs. Microsoft still haven’t wrapped this hotfix within any Windows updates or service packs.

June 9th, 2010  |  By Oliver  |  Tags: , , ,   |  Posted in Web Development, Web Platforms  |  No Comments »

UK Car Make / Manufacturer / Marque & Model Databases

I’ve not been able to find a decent source for a UK car manufacture & model database, so I’ve put one together using various sources. I’ve tried to match Autotraders lists, but I cannot guarantee complete accuracy, these databases were last updated on the date of this post.

May 20th, 2010  |  By Oliver  |  Tags:   |  Posted in Other Stuff, Web Development  |  No Comments »

Lonely Robot CGI – One of the best CGI showreels / scenes I’ve seen

Lonely Robot CGI – This has to be one of the best single producer CGI showreels I’ve seen, you’ve probably seen it by now, reposts don’t hert!

May 19th, 2010  |  By Oliver  |  Tags:   |  Posted in Other Stuff  |  1 Comment »

ASUS UL30JT – “Not coming to the UK”

Following on from my last post about the UL30JTs Pre-Release in Taiwan, I have now been advised by one of ASUSs UK resellers – SimplyASUS.com – that the UL30JT won’t actually be coming to the UK.

May 12th, 2010  |  By Oliver  |  Tags:   |  Posted in Other Stuff  |  No Comments »

Asus UL30JT On Pre-Sale!

The UL30JT is one of Asus’s latest range of ultra light & ultra portable notebook range that was unveiled at CES2010. With an estimated 10 hour battery life I have been eagerly awaiting release dates for this new Intel Core i5 powered model that comes loaded with a separate dedicated Nvidia graphics chipset as well [...]

April 10th, 2010  |  By Oliver  |  Tags:   |  Posted in Other Stuff  |  1 Comment »

How to stop Skype Toolbar from changing numbers to ‘Skype Buttons’ & ruining your website design [UPDATE]

Following on from my last post with my crude ‘Skype Killer’ javascript, I have updated the script to now support removing the buttons from within Google Chrome & FireFox.
This has again only been tested with the most recent versions of the browsers & toolbars, should be backwards compatible.
I have put a demonstration of the script [...]

April 7th, 2010  |  By Oliver  |  Tags: , , ,   |  Posted in Web Development  |  1 Comment »

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