Fix DD-WRT Lighttpd error “(server.c.1105) fdevent_init failed” on Asus WL-500

Tonight I was messing with my Asus WL-500 and was having trouble getting lighttpd to start. I found some post in russian that I was able to decypher thanks to my excellent linguist skills (haha). Anyway, it’s pretty easy.
# ipkg install nano
# nano /opt/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
and then change
# server.event-handler = «freebsd-kqueue» # needed on OS X
to
server.event-handler = [...]

Office 2007 and the Live Office Popup window keeps popping up. Here’s how to remove it.

Have office? Want to get rid of that annoying “have you tried live office yet?” popup, that just doesn’t go away?
Create a new file on your desktop, called “officefix.txt”
Paste this into it;
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\OfficeLive]
"FirstRunCredsDeleted"=dword:00000001
"FirstRunDontShow"=dword:00000001

Then rename that file to “officefix.reg”
Double click it to add it to your registry.
Re-run word, powerpoint, or whatever.
Thank me in [...]

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Fixing MySQL Error 1064 with PHPList when selecting new criteria

Today we had to fix a clients PHPlist. There was an error in their mysql select statement for whatever reason – whether it was their setup (they had some really weird group names and country names) or something with PHPList. Took us a while to figure it out, but as it turns out someone else [...]

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Just returned from Microsoft Tech Days 2008 in Ottawa

And I got a buttload of free stuff from Tech Days 2008. Including, but not limited to – a Microsoft sticker, a cool toque, a spoon that also functions as a pen, a technet 6 month subscription, tech ed dvd sets, vs pro 2008, expression web, and a bunch of demo software. All in all [...]

Cool, looks like I’m in the PS3 Home Beta. Along with thousands of others no doubt.

WELCOME TO HOME BETA
Dear PlayStation®Network member,
Congratulations, you have been selected to help beta test PlayStation®Home!
We appreciate your help in making the PlayStation®Home experience the best it can be! Please log in to Home this evening from 6 pm – 8 pm PST for a big celebration of Version 1.0 and a load test of our [...]

The desk

Here’s my desk in a blurry as hell photo. Enjoy.