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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

I upgraded the free ZoneAlarm a few days ago, haven’t not done so in about 6 months, and was annoyed when it started asking me if I wanted to allow all the programs I’d previously allowed.¬¨‚Ć I thought upgrades were supposed to carry over the settings too? However, I’d noticed this morning that ActiveSync, which I use with my PDA/phone, wasn’t able to fully connect. It’ll see the phone when I plug it in, but can’t sync. Looking in ZoneAlarm’s …