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How to install the Internet Explorer 9 Google search provider from Australia

How to install the Internet Explorer 9 Google search provider from Australia

Currently with Internet Explorer 9 if you attempt to add a new search provider in Australia by selecting Manage add-ons, Search Providers, and then click on Find more search providers … you’ll be presented with a very meager listing, which doesn’t include google search. The solution is quite simple. Read more about How to install the Internet Explorer 9 Google search provider from Australia

How to have different shipping rates when using Paypal Hosted Buttons

How to have different shipping rates when using Paypal Hosted Buttons

Paypal web services allows you to specify a shipping rate when adding items to the cart by specifying an hidden input with the name set to shipping and the value set to the amount. The problem is that this doesn’t work when you are using hosted button’s which have shipping details already saved. Try it yourself. Set up a hosted button and then try using <input name=”hosted_button_id” type=”hidden” value=”abcdefghji”> and <input name=”shipping” type=”hidden” value=”0.0″> within the same form. You’ll find that the shipping input will be ignored and the settings you have setup in the hosted button will be used. So what is the solution?
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How to fix VirtualBox apt updating when you get the error Requires installation of untrusted packages

How to fix VirtualBox apt updating when you get the error Requires installation of untrusted packages

When updating VirtualBox on our Ubuntu server today I received the following error: Requires installation of untrusted package. The action would require the installation of packages from not authenticated sources.

It turns out that the authentication key for the repository had been deleted. Run the following command to resolve this problem Read more about How to fix VirtualBox apt updating when you get the error Requires installation of untrusted packages