tips&tricksI’m still on the Windows 7 Media Center journey that I started describing earlier. With the addition of an IR Blaster I can now get through the channel setup and record from cable. I don’t see the listings again for my antenna, but that will have to wait. The latest issue is that it appeared [...]
[update: JW Player has some nice instructions on how to use the player with CloudFront. But it doesn't clarify the interaction with playlists...] I have some flv videos that I need to make available to our staff, and I don’t want to put them on a public site like YouTube. I’m new at hosting streaming [...]
Check out my first post on ChurchIT: Monitor Your Data Closet Temperature for Under $75. And check out the rest of the 8BIT Network.
I’ve been running a home-built DVR next to my TV for quite a few years. It ran Windows XP with GBPVR and custom XMLTV scripts to get guide information. It was just what we needed when we had a BUD (Big Ugly Dish), since we could customize the guide for all of the crazy c-band [...]
I’ve been writing a perl cgi script to populate a Google spreadsheet, using LWP, the spreadsheet list-based feeds, and the model outlined in the Google article “Using cURL to interact with Google Data Services“. Everything was working fine until I had an html form with some multiline textarea input fields. I wanted multiple lines of [...]
If you’ve tried running WordPress on Bluehost, you may have run into this: you change your Permalink Settings, and the site no longer works. You get “403 Permission Denied”. The fix is pretty simple. Just edit the .htaccess file in the blog’s root directory and add the line Options +FollowSymlinks. I put it after <IfModule [...]
I was trying to use Akeeba Backup (formerly “JoomlaPack”) to move a Joomla site from a temporary location under my personal site to its own hosting account. The site packed up fine, but I got the error “Could not open logs/index.html for writing” when unpacking with kickstart.php. A little research revealed that you sometimes get [...]
We are using the free Comodo antivirus product in our not-for-profit office.? It seems to work pretty well, but the updater is failing on many of our machines. I think I’ve narrowed the issue down to the fact that we used to have a proxy server.? Even though I removed the group policy that configured [...]
We’re using mod_auth_cas on a linux reverse proxy to authenticate users to our DotNetNuke (DNN) intranet site.? After dealing with the entropy problem that was really slowing down access, we had just one problem remaining:? files that were attached to DNN pages with the built-in editor were not accessible through the reverse proxy. It turns [...]
Here’s a video by Laura Chappell analyzing the network traffic from a bot-infected host.? Good stuff!
