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WordPress Thesis Theme…?

I’m looking into the WordPress Thesis theme today and finding many interesting articles on the business & politics behind the thesis theme: http://successcreeations.com/1838/has-thesis-developer-chris-pearson-torpedoed-his-business/ http://trishussey.com/2010/07/15/wordpress-thesis-gpl-and-premium-themes/ Do I really want to do it? Well, I’m going to do some R&D over here … Continue reading

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Combatting drupal comment spam with mollom

Last night I deleted about 300 spam comments from a drupal site I maintain for a friend. If that had been a month’s worth I might not have minded, but those were all submitted yesterday, the vast majority by a … Continue reading

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Disable button onclick

I needed to disable a button onclick and used the code from this guy, Dave Taylor: I wonder if this is any good?

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USB Webcam on Linux Desktop

Seeing if I can get a USB webcam to work with my garage CentOS desktop. Maybe I need to install a kernel module for this GSPCA main driver business. Trying to follow this page http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BuildingKernelModules and getting into some kernel … Continue reading

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linux firefox css issues

Just noticed omniweb.com is broken in firefox on linux… why? Another challenge for another day: this is why. So, based on what fonts are available, it seems like the character widths of the fonts chosen when you specify ‘font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; … Continue reading

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(re)Getting the drupal going

Last night I set up a drupal multi site installation: Site1: drupal.omniweb.com Site2. www.thousandoakswebhosting.com Served from the same folder… pretty tricky.

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Red5 installation – this could be it?

OK so back on the Red5 install issue; here we were with this error no matter what I try: Target “build” does not exist in the project “RED5” So this guy tells me to just run “ant” without “build” – … Continue reading

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Tomcat Yes Red5 No

Another day, another hurdle. I got Tomcat running on the development server, I see the development page and I was able to set up an admin account and log in…. but same exact result when I try to install red5 … Continue reading

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Hard Drives and CD Drives

OK Still no Red5 server running – i did not even try to install tomcat yet. I just need to figure out the correct java path, but for some reason I did not even get a chance to look at … Continue reading

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Mission for the next day too

Red5 – getting this to work is quite a project http://www.red5server.org/content_red5installlinux_500006 got ant, tzupdater, jdk / sdk installed: jdk-6u21-linux-x64.bin java_ee_sdk-6u1-unix.sh did this rpmbuild –rebuild java-1.6.0-sun-1.6.0.21-1.0.cf.nosrc.rpm and that yum –nogpgcheck localinstall java-1.6.0-sun*.rpm now I’m stuck here; # /opt/ant/bin/ant prepare Buildfile: /usr/local/src/red5/build.xml … Continue reading

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