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Entries from January 2007

Workaround Discovered For Clean Install With Vista Upgrade DVDs

January 31st, 2007 · No Comments · SBS2K-SBS2K3

Microsoft internal documentation reveals workaround for Vista Upgrade DVDs with no need for a previous version of Windows
Link to Workaround Discovered For Clean Install With Vista Upgrade DVDs
Original article can be found at Workaround Discovered For “Clean Install” With Vista Upgrade DVDs at Dailytech.com. Clean installs are a useful fix for a variety of [...]

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idproxy.net: Use your Yahoo! account as an OpenID

January 30th, 2007 · No Comments · CSS/WebDesign, WordPress

In an ideal world, some or all of the sites with large user databases (Yahoo!, AOL, Google, Amazon and so on) would act as OpenID providers, allowing their users to sign in to OpenID supporting sites around the Web. Until that happens, people who want to use OpenID need to sign up for Yet Another [...]

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The Outlook "Move" tool for DST has been released

January 30th, 2007 · 1 Comment · SBS2K-SBS2K3

Download details: Microsoft Office Outlook Tool: Time Zone Data Update Tool for Microsoft Office Outlook:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e343a233-b9c8-4652-9dd8-ae0f1af62568&displaylang=en&tm
To install this download:

Before running this tool, make sure that you have installed the Windows patch that contains the most up-to-date time zone definitions or you are running Windows Vista with the most up-to-date time zone definitions.
Download the file by clicking [...]

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"Synctoy is unable to determine if other instances of SyncToy are running, possibly because perfmon counters are turned off for some components. Is this the only instance of SyncToy currently running?"

January 25th, 2007 · No Comments · SBS2K-SBS2K3

 
Stuffa,
Enabling that perf counter for the PerfProc.Dll addresses this issue andenables SyncToy to run.
We will take a look at alternative means of determining whether SyncToy isalready running for possible inclusion in a future release.
For those interested, the registry entry for PerfProc is:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\PerfProc\Performance
As you might expect, the Disable Performance Counteres REG_DWORD = 0 for notdisabled and [...]

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WP Lightbox JS WordPress plugin

January 25th, 2007 · No Comments · WordPress

WP Lightbox JS is a WordPress plugin that enable you to use Lightbox JS script to overlay images on the current page. This plugin also adds a “Lightbox JS” quicktag to the post window in the WordPress admin section.
What is Lightbox JS
Overview
Lightbox JS is a simple, unobtrusive script used to overlay images on the current [...]

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Windows NT Backup - Restore Utility

January 25th, 2007 · No Comments · SBS2K-SBS2K3

This download is a utility that runs on Windows Vista and Windows Server Codename “Longhorn” to restore older backups, made using the “NT Backup” application on Windows XP or Windows Server 2003. NT Backup has been replaced in Windows Vista or Windows Server Codename “Longhorn” with different applications, which are not compatible with the .bkf [...]

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ImageManager 2.0

January 24th, 2007 · No Comments · WordPress

Current Version: 2.3.9 (WordPress 2.1 supported)
NOTE, the plugin is only tested with WordPress 2.0 and WordPress 2.1

The ImageManager plugin integrates the stand alone PHP ImageManager + Editor with WordPress. The ImageManager provides an interface for browsing and uploading image files on/to your server. The Editor allows for some basic image manipulations such as, cropping, rotation, [...]

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WordPress 2.1 Self-inflicted Problem

January 23rd, 2007 · No Comments · WordPress

I upgraded one of my blogs to WP 2.1 and in the process I ran into an interesting problem. When I tried the insert image button I could not see the insert or cancel buttons at the bottom of the pop up window. When I clicked on X to close the window, it refused to [...]

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WordPress Plugins I need to upgrade for WordPress 2.1

January 22nd, 2007 · No Comments · WordPress

I decided to quickly check my plugins for V2.1 compatibility and here is what I found.

Akismet Version 1.2.1 should be okay.
Feedburner Feed Replacement I have versions 2.1 and Wordpress 2.1 needs 2.2 or later.
Google Sitemaps I have version 2.7.1 and Wordpress 2.1 needs 3.0b5.
ImageManager Version 2.3.7 is okay. Updated: I just installed upgraded a site [...]

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10 Things You should Know About WordPress 2.1 » Technology, Blogging and New Media

January 22nd, 2007 · No Comments · WordPress

 
Plugin Compatibility - As mentioned above, many plugins will no longer work in 2.1 due to deprecation of database table variables. However, whenever there is a new version of WordPress, the other possible “plugin breaks” extend farther. Fortunately, the WordPress community has been hard at work testing plugins with 2.1 determining compatibility. You can find [...]

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Resizing Animated GIFs

January 10th, 2007 · No Comments · General

Problem: The animated GIF is too large. In my case it was too wide for the sidebar of a blog I was updating.
Solution: Although you can resize the animated GIF using a variety of programs, such as GIMP, and at http://www.gifworks.com/index.php, I found that the highest quality reproduction was made by Photoshop. I used a realtively old [...]

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Keyboard Shortcuts for special characters

January 10th, 2007 · 1 Comment · General

Link to Keyboard Shortcuts for special characters

HTML Name Code
HTML Number Code
Glyph
MacOS
Windows
Description

‘


option - ]
Alt + 0145
left single quote

’


option - shift - ]
Alt + 0146
right single quote

‚

single low-9 quote

“


option - [
Alt + 0147
left double quote

”


option - shift - [
Alt + 0148
right double quote

„


option - shift - w

double low-9 quote

†


option - t
Alt + 0134
dagger

‡


option - shift - [...]

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New Backup drive for SBS

January 5th, 2007 · No Comments · General

Buffalo 500g drive station external USB 2.0 SATA hard drive
Source: Micro Center Online BYOPC Specific Product Information
I took advantage of an After Christmas sale and upgraded my backup drive. The Lacie 250 GB drive was a little bit too small. This drive cost me $170 including two rebates. I also picked up [...]

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