HTML entities for British Pound and Euro symbols

The HTML entities for the British Pound and Euro are as obvious as they should be, but I found myself recently having to look them up just to make sure I was right… British Pound HTML entity The British Pound entity code is this: £ and looks like this when rendered: £ Euro HTML entity …

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Scroll Lock Key on a Mac

I am the king of random shortcuts and always seem to hit keys when typing that have unexpected consequences, such as this morning when I was doing something in Excel and managed to trigger scroll lock. But there’s no scroll lock on a Mac keyboard…

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Mac mail queue commands

This post is a quick reference for some of the mail server commands for Apple Mac OSX: how to show the queue, flush it, delete everything, delete a particular message, etc.

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PHP upload_max_filesize and nginx

I’ve recently set up a new server with PHP & Nginx using packages from dotdeb. The default upload_max_filesize and post_max_size for this setup with php-fpm is 2M. To adjust it, the Nginx config also needs a configuration change, otherwise you’re still stuck with a 2MB limit.