Today I was browsing through old related posts in my personal blog, when I noticed that it was showing question marks (?) instead of certain accented characters. I’ve seen this kind of problem before, and the culprit was the character encoding. I could force the browser to display the question marks properly, but I didn’t [...]

I run a vBulletin forum, so it’s always fun to figure this kind of stuff out. With vBAdvanced, you can show certain threads and show an excerpt from them by using the “News” module. Just go to Edit Pages and edit the Homepage.

Here are three useful plugins:
Different Posts Per Page
I wrote a review of the Different Posts Per Page plugin. Read it here!
MaxBlogPress DealDotCom Widget
BlogRush Click Maximizer
What do you think of these plugins?

In vBulletin, is there any way to list all members who have disabled receiving email from Administrators?

My dad’s computer has the Gmail Notifier installed. For some time now, he’s been getting notifications when I get new emails. “Hey, that’s not my account!”
We tried uninstalling it and reinstalling it. Nope, still my email. There’s no option on the program to log out or log in. We use Firefox as our default browser, [...]

For example, CouponBug.com. Here are some comments from around the web:

I print them all the time, no problem whatsoever.
I also own a coupon train group. This is another way to get different coupons that you need.
I print coupons all the time. Its fine. You want to make sure you’re doing it from accepted manufacturers sites.
Typically [...]

From an article in IEEE Spectrum, it looks like they had a pretty serious situation on the International Space Station this past June, but they’ve worked it out. It shut down the station’s three computers, which are crucial for space station operation.
October 2007 -Aboard the International Space [...]

I have a PHP/MySQL-powered website running on CentOS, which is some variation of Unix or Linux. Recently, we started getting this error…
Warning: mkdir(…) [function.mkdir]: Too many links in … on line … 
(I replaced the paths and line number with …)
Here’s the only relevant and useful page I could find on the problem: ext3: too many [...]

Today I browsed the HostGator website to take a look at what hosting options they offer. They look like extremely good deals. Lots of space and bandwidth, and very low, competitive prices. One thing bothered me, though: no mention of backups.
If you have a website, you know that the most valuable part is the data. [...]

I tried to create an AdWords account today, and got this error. Pretty weird, if you ask me. It was a dead end, so there was nowhere for me to after this page.
We apologize for the inconvenience, but we are unable to process your request at this time. Our engineers have been notified of this [...]