Forum: Technical

I create a table with numeric columns but do not put data in it via ODBC. When I read it back the comes back as a varchar because it is unable to tell the data type without data. Is there any way around this, can you create the columns with some kind of tag etc?

Been sorting a problem with manual spam sent from my website contact page and found another. If I enter my @gmail.com address in the email field the mail is sent but if I enter my @btinternet.com address it isn't. Can't see why that should be. The PHP code is: $title = "Web Site Enquiry"; ...

Currently working on a project where we want to provide an appliance for customers to run some software which is only ever touched once a year but is required for our other software to run. As the requirements for this system are pretty basic, we're looking at a SBC to use as the actual systems...

My wife's old laptop is dying and I had a quick look at Currys... and was amazed what you can get at bottom-end prices these days. For £300 or even under I saw a proper CPU, 4Gb RAM, etc. Last time I bought a laptop that money would get you an Atom and 32Gb hard drive; whereas these seem like...

If I have www.randomdomainname.com/testfolder and I want to redirect it to testfolder.randomdomainname.com what's the easiest way of doing it?

I would like to able to switch countries for Netflix on the Smart TV or fireTV stick. I currently use nordvpn and I am aware I can set it up with my Asus DSL AC68U router. I am not so keen on all household traffic through the vpn just because I am watching Netflix. I don't much about...

If you were watching BBC Springwatch last night, you might have seen a piece about filming wildlife in your garden. BBC Blogs - Springwatch - Filming Wildlife in Your Garden Anyway, even if you didn't, here's a link to how to build a trail cam for < £40. They are even experimenting with an IR...

Hi all, I'm currently on the bench and looking to make good use of this time to deepen my practical security knowledge before the next gig. As I learn (and enjoy) best by doing, I've been googling for online red/blue style security simulations but haven't yet had much luck in finding anything...

I'm creating a test word press site on Azure using a copy of wordpress code and database from a client. So far, I've created a fresh wordpress site using in-app database in Azure. I've created the database ok using client script and I've pointed the fresh wp install at this database. So...

I’m doing a bit of a road trip in a month and I’m looking to learn a bit of the lingo. Really I’m just after enough French to order drinks, food and understand a French menu. Though might want to expand on it in the future. I don’t really want to pay for something. The bbc site is ok but...

I've got a fitbit and it's fine but the stats are a bit lacking. I'm getting back into my running and want something that gives me more information about my health, exercise etc. I've heard the Apple Watch 3 is quite good now and is particularly good for exercise and reporting on your stats. I...

Playing around with hosting wordpress websites for Plan B, very low revenue at the moment but it's better than nothing. At the moment I am using Azure hosting, I have 1 MySQL server (2 CPU, 8GB Ram, SSD) and each website is being hosted on a small dedicated VM (1 CPU 1.75 GB Ram). ...

I want to get a fairly budget-y TV for my office (maybe another for the gym). 24-32" - ideally 28" though this is less common. I think I want to require full HD just for more future flexibility - it's fine for live TV which is the main use-case (news & sport while at work) but full HD means I can...

Anyone else getting this mail? What am I supposed to do? CBA2RTFM and accountant is about as much use as open toed wellies.

So this is for a shared house of 5 or 6 people. Only option is broadband with speeds measured today of 10mbps UP and 1mbps DOWN. Frankly appalling. No options in the area for fibre or cable. 4G coverage on phones is very good around there. Is there any other way of getting high speed...

Has anyone here bought a HDD from Amazon recently (within the last 6 - 12 months)? If you have, was the packaging adequate? Reason I ask is because when I last ordered a drive from them (couple of years ago), it arrived packaged like a book or CD/DVD. E.g knocking around loosely in the...

Evening all. I think I know what the answer to this will be but Ill ask anyway. Ive just had a client contact me for some short term work migrating some wordpress sites onto a new server. The situation is that my clientco was a 50/50 joint venture between company A and company B where the...

Hi all, first post here, so I'm hoping I don't come off *too* clueless. I'm a computer visual effects contractor, operating as a limited company. My contracts invariably take the form of subcontracting for larger visual effects studios. Until fairly recently I hadn't even heard about GDPR, and...

Ok, so the conventional wisdom was that your domain should contain your site concept keywords. So, if your site concept keywords were Manchester United Rule The World your domain name would be manchester-united-rule-the-world.com such that the individual kewords could be distinguished by search...