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16. Permission Denied on Hosts File (Windows 7)

    On Windows 7, I was trying to edit the host file using Komodo and was getting Permission Denied, and tried notepad too still got permission denied. I thought initially it was McAfee Anti Virus that was disabling the edit of host file as this …

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17. PHP file_get_contents giving garbled output

    Are you getting garbled values when using file_get_contents fetching an external URL (website scrapping using php) and wondering what went wrong ? The content is appearing to have wierd characters instead of normal HTML output because of GZIP output encoding by the website you are …

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18. CHDK for Canon SX120 IS Camera ( Canon Hack Development Kit )

    

    CHDK is not yet officially released for Canon SX 120 IS, but I found a development version which works for my Canon SX 120 IS.

    About CHDK

    For those who are wondering what a CHDK is, it is Canon Hack Development Kit. CHDK is an …

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19. Sony Vaio Gamma error and color is not saved (Nvidia Geforce GT 300)

    

    The default settings on my Sony Vaio CW Series laptop had wrong Gamma settings, therefore the color reproduction on the screen was slightly on the redish side.

    The setting on the Display on Control Panel was not getting saved due to some reason (Windows 7). …

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20. Correct Colors displayed on Laptop / LCD Screen on Windows 7

    

    Laptop and LCD Monitors are poor in reproducing the actual colors compared to conventional Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) Monitors. If not properly caliberated, the colours displayed can vary drastically. If you are using a laptop or LCD monitor, see the coloured box below.

     
    
    

    The …

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21. Make WWW::Mechanize do not exit on GET Errors

    When using PERL and WWW::Mechanize, your script can stop if there is some error in GETing a URL (such as 404 Not Found, 403 Permission Denied). Instead of resuming, the script terminates. If you want the script to continue resuming, you have to pass

    autocheck …

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22. Sony Vaio CW VPCCW26FG Windows Experience Index

    

    The Sony Vaio CW Series (VPCCW26FG) Got Experience index of 5.8

    More Details

    Component	Details	Subscore
    Processor	Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU M 520 @ 2.40GHz	6.7
    Memory (RAM)	4.00 GB	5.9
    Graphics	NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M	6.3
    Gaming graphics	2263 MB Total available graphics memory …

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