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My girlfriend lost access to her Facebook account this week and Facebook kept reporting that her e-mail address wasn't registered. Her profile was still active and looking on the Internet showed unfortunately this has happened to a number of people and a… more »

After upgrading to Kubuntu 10.04 I was disappointed to find that KDevelop wasn't listed in the default repositories as apparently it wasn't ready in time for the release of 10.04. From what I've read there's not much chance of it being added to the repos… more »

I've just finished fighting with some code where I wanted to resize some QGraphicsPixmapItems. I was able to scale them but this didn't allow me to resize to specific pixels. I decided to take a step back and noticed that if I create a pixmap object firs… more »

When converting a tm structure to a string using the asctime function in c++ you are left with a cstring ending with a newline character (\n). This is often a pain if you want to insert the date into another string to use later. Since we are using a… more »

I've seen this a few times now. When you use the "Mozilla Firefox Browser Installer" application the installation seems to run through fine but no Firefox is installed. Attempting to run the application again results in an error message about it already… more »