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Sending Emails: How to Remove the X-Authentication Warning

Here is the header that appears in emails that your web server has sent through sendmail or postfix: X-Authentication-Warning: serverx.mysite.com: apache set sender to webmaster@yoursite.com using -f The reason is that you haven't told ... (more)

How Fed-Ex tried to overcharge us

Here's an exerpt of our correspondence with Federal Express after they tried to hit us with a £180 bill for Excise and VAT (and Fed-Ex!) charges: The goods were not Camping Gear as indicated on the invoice, but rather 1) A non-motorised ... (more)

How to Use the Twitter API

Here is a PHP class to push Twitter updates from your own web app: (more)

How to choose high-income stocks

There are two key measures when calculating how suitable a company stock may be for income: Dividend yield: the % return a company pays out as a dividend to stockholders Projected Earnings Growth (PEG) which measures how much a company's ... (more)

How To Select Your Oil Supplier

Ask Yourself, "How do I choose a supplier of domestic heating oil?" We've been asking visitors to our website for years for their suggestions, and here is a summary. Price Not surprisingly, most people choose on the basis of cheapest price ... (more)

How to Produce Electricity?

How Do You Think We Should Produce Electricity? Here are some good (or debatable) suggestions. If you want to add your own, complete the survey on the right! (more)

How to Publish Your Facebook Stream

If you'd like to publish your Facebook status updates on your own website, it takes a bit of figuring out. Fortunately, the instructions at techlifeweb.com explain how to do it. Here is my status feed: (more)

How to Fall Off a Bike

It was pretty icy this morning. Here's footage from my handlebar-mounted camera, showing how I managed to slip over whilst going pretty slowly. (more)

How to get a fast, informative Health Check

I turned 45 recently, so was looking forward to getting a comprehensive health-check done via my NHS GP surgery. COVID-19 restrictions put paid to that, however, and as of July 2020 there is no idea about when these tests will be up and running ... (more)

How to Flatten a PHP POST Array

The situation is this: You have a PHP script that takes POST data, and you need to pass that data on to a remote server. How do you do it? Well, there are three options: Use $_SERVER['HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA'] but only if php.ini has that enabled ... (more)

Guide to Home Heating Oil

Guide to Home Heating Oil Oil is the primary source of warmth for a significant proportion of the US and UK. It tends to be restricted to rural areas where pipelined heating (ie, natural gas) is uneconomical. Despite tending to be more ... (more)

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