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 = [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I didn’t do this myself so I can’t vouch for it, but there was a recent discussion on one of the mailing lists I’m on about getting Sendmail to work with Rogers Smarthost settings.
Apparently this howto:
http://www.newthink.net/2007/05/18/smarthost-authentication-with-sendmail/
Will get you going, but there is one critical change you must make as determined by the Hugo on the [...]
No thanks to Adobe, even after numerous complaints going all the way back to Creative Suite 1, if you have a bad font on your system, you may have issues saving as an .ai in Illustrator. You’ll get the dreaded “an unknown error has occured”.
If you disable PDF compatibility, it will save, but that’s not [...]
Recently we had to do some work in Arabic for a client of ours. We had never used Arabic in Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator before. So when the client asked “you can do Arabic” the response was “oh yeah of course” without giving it a second thought. Windows supports Arabic, so in turn Adobe [...]
