Tag: computers
Missing IMCE upload button on TinyMCE on Drupal 6
I was asked to fix a problem with an IMCE/TinyMCE/Drupal 6 for someone today. Basically, the upload button wasn’t appearing in the popup box when you click the image icon on the TinyMCE toolbar.¬¨‚Ć This has happened to me before, on Drupal 5.x, and was because I hadn’t given the relevent users permission to use IMCE, or configured IMCE to be used with TinyMCE. In the new version of IMCE, the latter option is no longer available, and everything else …
Spectrum Adventures in Wii Homebrew
It would seem that the Wii Homebrew “scene” has now matured to the point where not only are fully working games, apps and emulators now available, but there’s a modchip-free way of installing them. You stick a hacked Zelda save game on your Wii, load the game, and it crashes allowing some code to run. This installs the amazing “Homebrew Channel” on your Wii. There are loads of things you can do with it, but, as is my “thing”, the …
Fixing jrnl_wrap_error on Windows 2000 SYSVOL shares
I came across this strange thing today. One of the domain controllers wasn’t picking up new group policies. Basically, there were fewer folders in the policies folder in SYSVOL on that DC than in the others.¬¨‚Ć Looking at the event log, the following was thrown up: Event Type:¬¨‚Ƭ¨‚Ƭ¨‚Ć Error Event Source:¬¨‚Ƭ¨‚Ƭ¨‚Ć NtFrs Event Category:¬¨‚Ƭ¨‚Ƭ¨‚Ć None Event ID:¬¨‚Ƭ¨‚Ƭ¨‚Ć 13568 Date:¬¨‚Ƭ¨‚Ƭ¨‚Ć ¬¨‚Ƭ¨‚Ƭ¨‚Ć 06/06/2008 Time:¬¨‚Ƭ¨‚Ƭ¨‚Ć ¬¨‚Ƭ¨‚Ƭ¨‚Ć 12:17:46 User:¬¨‚Ƭ¨‚Ƭ¨‚Ć ¬¨‚Ƭ¨‚Ƭ¨‚Ć N/A Computer:¬¨‚Ƭ¨‚Ƭ¨‚Ć GWEN Description: The File Replication Service has detected that the replica set …
SyncMate upgrade problems
After upgrading to v1.2 (v1.2.0.325, in fact) of SyncMate, my Vario II (Windows Mobile 5 phone) decided it no longer wanted to talk to my Mac. Either of my Macs, in fact. I kept getting the message “Can’t start driver, error 2”. The “fix” suggested (deleting some files on the Vario II, reinstalling the driver, etc. – see thread here) then prevented the Vario II from talking to ActiveSync on my PC at work too. An uninstall of v1.2 on …
Extracting install files from an installer
Being a netrock manager (like a network manager, only more metal), I often need to deploy software across hundreds of PCs. Helpful companies provide “msi” files which I can just plug into a Group Policy on Active Directory, but less helpful companies insist on using exe installers, using InstallShield or WISE or whatever. These companies need to be punched in their actual faces. Luckily, some of these installers actually include msi files within the install exe, but actually getting to …
Bento – Now I don’t need Windows at all
Yesterday, I came across a Mac program called Bento. It’s a database application made by the Filemaker bods, and instantly interested me because a database application is the only thing I still need Windows for in day-to-day use. It’s also very cheap – around ¬¨¬£25. I downloaded the demo, and had a bit of a play last night. It basically works just like the form designer in Access, but rather than having to create the fields in a table first, …
Fixing Drupal’s anonymous user access denied problem
I run several Drupal-based websites, and today one of them stopped allowing unregistered users access to new content, for seemingly no reason. One solution I found was to upgrade from v5.6 (which I was running) to v5.7, but that didn’t work. It turns out there’s a really simple fix that worked for me. I just ran the following SQL command: INSERT INTO node_access VALUES (0, 0, ‘all’, 1, 0, 0); I renamed “node_access” to include the Drupal table prefix (you …
Connecting to Nintendo WFC through a Mac
A while ago, I upgraded all the networking kit in my house. My wireless access point kept freezing, and I was getting some lag on Xbox Live, so I thought I’d replace the lot.¬¨‚Ć In doing so, I also bumped my wireless security up from WEP to WPA – something my old kit didn’t support. However, my DS only supports WEP or nothing. That meant I wasn’t able to connect to the internet for Nintendo WFC games like Mario Kart …
Annoying drop-shadows in Leopard grabs
In my previous post, you’ll see a screengrab of a PC88 emulator running on my Mac. hat you don’t see, is the 50 pixels or so of drop-shadow and transparency that Apple decided Leopard should add to window grabs not only as a default, but with no option to turn them off. Exactly why they thought everyone would need drop-shadows on every window they take a snapshot of, I don’t really know. The type of grab I’m talking about is …
Geek number spotting
I just got an email from some loyalty card points company telling me some offers they have and how many points I currently have. “Your balance is 3128 points” it said. The first thing I thought was, that’s odd – 3128 is the default port number for the squid proxy server.
Making a Mac wake and sleep remotely
I’ve been having a play with the sleep options on my new iMac over the last few days. Since it’s replacing an always-on PC, I could keep this always-on too, but I thought I may as well make it sleep overnight and save the planet from global warming. As an aside, I don’t believe in global warming. But anyway. Things weren’t working right, as far as sleeping was concerned, and I asked about in uk.comp.sys.mac for some help. An interesting …
“Iif” statements with Yes/No fields in Access
I came across an odd thing today. I have a database with a numeric field and a Yes/No field. If the Yes/No is Yes, a calculation is done on the numeric field (in a query), otherwise a different calculation is carried out. Lets say the numeric field is “Hours” and the Yes/No is “Extra”, and the calculation is to multiply Hours by 0 (if Yes) or -1 (if No). This may not make sense here but does in the context …