Hello! Sorry, I've been busy for the last 5 months or so. I've managed to land a job working for a web development company in Hampshire. Email me for details if you want to know where.

Anyway, this weekend just been I gave my laptop a big fright - I removed all the partitions and reinstalled Windows XP on it. Of course, there is a boot loader on there first that allows me to run Suse 9.1 off my external HDD, although I have to get USB support compiled into the kernel first - something that I haven't done before. A big thanks to Herman for the help with it :)

During the process of reinstalling windows and customizing things as they should be, I thought it would be a good idea to blog these links to helpful thingies, for me for next time and for you if you need them.

After installing Firefox, entering a URL into Start/Run doesn't bring up Firefox - fix at http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/firefox_bug_246078.asp

PHP complains that the authentication protocol is not supported while connecting to a mysql5 database server - fix at http://lists.mysql.com/win32/13142

Can't use Windows Search to search contents of .php files (and others) - fix at http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=464

That's all for now :)