January 12th, 2010 Matt
I recently started a new blog for my photos, which I’m starting to advertise for sale through Etsy (links to follow once I have some more things in place 
) and I added the Wordpress Flickr Manager plugin so that I can easily pull in pictures from my Flickr account into the blog. However, it didn’t work with Wordpress 2.9 
So, I made a couple of changes to some files and it seems to be working now – so, if anyone is having the same problems, here’s a list of the files that I changed:
- wordpress-flickr-manager/js/wfm-lightbox.php
- wordpress-flickr-manager/js/media-panel.php
- wordpress-flickr-manager/js/wfm-hs.php
In each of those files, remove any ‘@’ characters that are in the files, for example:
this: wfmJS(‘a[@rel*=flickr-mgr]‘).each(function() {
becomes: wfmJS(‘a[rel*=flickr-mgr]‘).each(function() {
Once you have made the changes, the plugin should work fine.
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December 4th, 2009 Matt
There’s a line from C3-PO in Attack of the Clones where he sees robots making battle droids, and he says something like “machines making machines! Huh! How perverse”.
So now that I have VMWare running, here’s my version – Linux running Linux
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December 4th, 2009 Matt
OK – so now I’ve got the VMWare default username for logging in.
It’s “root”. EEK!
Couple of minor things there – firstly, I’m not too keen on just running these things as the root user. Secondly, not everyone knows the root password. And thirdly, not everyone changes the root password from the default that is generated when you install Ubuntu.
Now, in Windows, any Windows user can log into the VMWare console. In order to get that to work under Ubuntu (and I guess every flavour of Linux), you need to edit the configuration file which can be found in /etc/vmware/hostd/authorization.xml.
So, modify the file and then restart VMWare using
sudo service vmware restart
and you should now be able to log in as your different user.
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December 4th, 2009 Matt
Well, the installfest continues….
Today, I had problems getting the 64-bit version of VMWare server to install correctly. I uninstalled it, started again, hit errors (some of my own making, some not) and then found out that it was a bug.
Since it took me a while to find out how to fix it, I’ll just give you a link to where I got the info from – it’s here.
Thankyou AcmeLabs – now I just need to find out my username and password to get into it!!
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December 3rd, 2009 Matt
As I said earlier today, the installfest to get rid of Windows and move to an operating system is under way.
I eventually got three monitors running at the same time after much playing with xorg.conf, but ended up with one screen doing it’s own thing, and a separate desktop spanning the other screens. Not quite what I wanted, since I want to be able to drag and drop between the screens.
In the end, I’ve given up on the idea of getting the three screens working together, and have gone for the following really basic xorg.conf file which gives me a desktop spanning two of the three screens – something I can live with!
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Configured Screen Device"
Device "Configured Video Device"
SubSection "Display"
Virtual 2560 1024
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
EndSection
I’m sure that there must be a way to get one big desktop across the three screens, but for now, I’ll settle for the two working properly!
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December 3rd, 2009 Matt
When Windows 7 was released, I gleefully decided that this was going to be my chance to get away from XP Professional 64-bit, since it crashed reasonably frequently (every day or so). Not too much of a problem, since it normally happened overnight, but when you are downloading the latest version of eBusiness Suite, then it can be annoying to say the least.
So, I stumped up my £150 for Ultimate edition, and a couple of days after the release date, it duly arrived. Nice clean install – two new 1.0TB hard drives, two new ATI graphics cards, all ready to go. No problems with the install (which was only to be expected, since the drives were completely new and hadn’t been used before), and then I started to actually use the system.
And it crashed.
And it crashed.
And it crashed again. At least once a day, and every night – the PC crashed. Annoying when you aren’t using it – VERY frustrating when you have just waited 20 minutes for a virtual machine to start and it blue screens. No help from Microsoft, no help on the net, nothing.
And so, this week, while I was at UK OUG, I decided to leave the machine running a live CD version of Ubuntu 9.10 to see how that went. Last night, when I got home, it was still running – 5 days of uptime.
So, today it’s goodbye to Windows 7, hello Ubuntu – and the installfest continues
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August 27th, 2009 Matt
Normally, I’m described as wither a “consultant” or a “contractor” depending on what the client is expecting me to do – I much prefer the more consultancy-oriented roles, where there is a genuine interest in your input to help devise the best solution for them, rather than the contractor-oriented roles which tend to be much more of the “here is what you need to do, here is how to do it, now go and do it and don’t ask any questions” variety.
Recently, I found an amusing definition of consultant, contractor and freelancer on The Daily WTF (Worse Than Failure!) blog:
Consultants fill the gap when an organization needs to leverage their collective synergy with a quality-driven approach that focuses on delivering key objectives. Contractors are great when the only remaining solution is throwing more bodies at the problem. And freelancers, they’re perfect for companies on a budget, hoping to build their technology infrastructure ten dollars at a time.
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August 18th, 2009 Matt
I can’t remember how long ago it was, but there’s an episode of The Simpsons where Homer is looking at a prompt on his computer that says “To start, press any key” and he’s saying “Which one’s the any key?”
I always thought that it was a made-up scenario, until I saw this example from a RAID controller:
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August 14th, 2009 Matt
I know it’s an old post, but I was sent this article from the Daily WTF about how you should use flat files rather than databases.
Because databases crash, and flat files don’t.
Just something that made me
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July 19th, 2009 Matt
I was looking at the MySQL website recently to see whether they had updated much on there about the Oracle takeover of Sun, and consequently MySQL. It seems, looking here that they haven’t
MySQL Enterprise Unlimited
Deploy an unlimited number of MySQL Enterprise Servers for the price of a single CPU of Oracle Enterprise Edition
They might want to have a think about updating that soon!
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