What, who, where am I?!?
Craig Lotter is a web developer based in Gordon's Bay, South Africa, who seems completely incapable of shaking off that pesky inner child within, the one that forces him to love all things animated or hand drawn.
The Rugged Rock of Craig contains snippets of his life, popular culture and all the important things like anime, manga, games and comic books. The CodeUnit of Craig on the other hand contains the more serious stuff like code snippets and tutorials, while the House of C chronicles his foray into the world of web comics.
For which it never seems he has enough time anyway.
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Tag Archives: microsoft
How to Install Arial Black Font in Ubuntu 11.04

I like Arial Black. There is something compelling about that big and chunky font that makes me always want to include it in my designs. However, it is a Microsoft Windows font and it comes thus as no surprise that it isn’t available by default on a new Ubuntu desktop installation. Never fear though, not all is lost… it turns out that installing some of the Microsoft Windows core fonts isn’t necessarily that difficult after all!
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Posted in Ubuntu
Tagged arial black, core fonts, microsoft, synaptic package manager, truetype font, ttf mscorefonts, Ubuntu, ubuntu software center
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Create Excel 2007 Spreadsheets using PHP

For the quickest implementation time in terms of churning out Excel 2007 spreadsheets in your PHP-based project, look no further than the brilliant PHPExcel project! Continue reading
Posted in Software & Websites
Tagged codeplex, creation, Excel, excel 2003, excel 2007, generation, microsoft, openxml, PHP, phpexcel, spreadsheet
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Free Microsoft Anti-virus for Windows

I’ve now found myself shifting over to Microsoft’s very own offering, namely Microsoft Security Essentials – free to use for anyone running a genuine copy of Windows. Continue reading
Posted in Software & Websites
Tagged anti-virus, free, malware, microsoft, microsoft security essentials, mse, protection, virus
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Where do I find that old Word 2003 Command in Word 2007?

However, Microsoft did of course replace it back in 2007 with the updated Word 2007 which formed part of the Microsoft Office 2007 suite – which of course lead to countless headaches thanks to the radical overhaul of the menu functionality and look and feel when it came to the new offering. Continue reading
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Tagged command guide, guide, microsoft, tutorial, word 2003, word 2007
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Set IIS 6.0 To Allow .exe Downloads

How do I configure IIS 6.0 to allow .exe files to be downloaded? Continue reading
Posted in Technology & Code, Tutorials
Tagged downloads, exe downloads, executables, fileserver, iis 6.0, microsoft, mime, mime map policy, web server
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