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Entries from November 30th, 2009

“Boy gets arm crushed by car”

November 30th, 2009 No Comments

I received an email just now purporting to show a series of photos where a young Iranian lad had his arm crushed by a car as punishment for stealing some bread.
A few moments of research showed that it was likely that the photos were taken out of context, and the lad - a performer in [...]

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SEO Ely

November 26th, 2009 No Comments

If you’re searching for an SEO Ely specialist, you should definitely contact ISVirtual.
We specialise in all aspects of Search Engine Optimisation including:

Keyword research - finding out what people who are looking for your products and services actually search for, in the real world.
On-page SEO - editing and/or creating the following tags to make sure they [...]

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SugarCRM issue: CentOS, PHP 5.2.11, Junk Characters, Plesk, OneandOne

November 20th, 2009 1 Comment

This post is just a pointer to a solution which it took me a *long* time to find on the SugarCRM forums.
The symptoms are that you install (or migrate) SugarCRM and are presented with a pile of  ”junk characters” instead of a normal login screen.
The reason, I eventually discovered after a tedious amount of trial, [...]

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IM Success Notes Down

November 10th, 2009 No Comments

I’m so sorry.
Here’s what happened:
When we set up ISVirtual we bartered a server from a business associate in return for setting up and maintaining a SugarCRM install for them.
I hosted IM Success Notes on this server as it was very over-spec and could deal with huge traffic spikes. (It had 4Gb of RAM and an [...]

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