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Monday, June 30, 2008

Removing HP QuickPlay from Pavilion with Vista

HP have failed miserably with its QuickPlay entertainment suite integrated in all HP Pavilion models. Do as I have and just dump it.

HP QuickPlay from Pavilion with Vista

[/caption] Don’t slam HP too quick though, you may be reinstalling QuickPlay sooner that you think… the concept behind QuickPlay allows consumers to use [...]
Sunday, June 29, 2008

WP User Manager Unofficial Update

Add styling and formatting to the Wordpress Administration view of custom fields by updating WP User Manager with this unofficial update.

WP User Manager

[/caption] I install and configure WP User Manager on all commercial Wordpress-powered sites requiring custom user profile fields, Dealsway Solution’s plugin really is in a league of its own, plus [...]
Saturday, June 28, 2008

How To Be A Man

Or more eloquently, How Not To Be Gay. A Man should not watch Oxygen, Womens Entertainment, or Lifetime. A Man should not swing his arms when he is walking. A Man should never carry a woman’s handbag. A Man should never go tanning. No Man should dye their hair. A Man should never refer to an athlete as a “stud”. A Man [...]
Sunday, June 15, 2008

Sony Ericsson P1i Rejected SMS floods Inbox Bug

I’ve known about this issue for some time affecting the Sony Ericsson P1i but never published the article. Sending a SMS from a pre-paid account with insufficient credit creates a error report loop that is very difficult to escape as new error report messages flood the Inbox. This SMS rejection flood bug affects the latest Australian [...]
Saturday, June 7, 2008

Default Trixbox Flash operator panel password

The default password for the Flash operator panel in Trixbox is “passw0rd“, be sure to include the zero character. To change the password from it’s system default do the following: Open the configuration file op_server.cfg within /var/www/html/panel. Locate the line with “security_code=passw0rd” Replace the value of security_code with your desired password Press CTRL-X to exit and the Y key to [...]

WP-Forum PHP Date function bug fix

Warning: date() expects parameter 2 to be long, string given in /htdocs/michaelvisser/wp-content/plugins/wp-forum/forum-functions.php on line 668 Look familiar? There is a bug in the current release of WP-Forum which exists in the plugin’s PHP function ul() hidden away in cookies.php of the plugin root directory. To fix this issue open cookies.php with your favourite text editor and [...]
Friday, June 6, 2008

Easy way to identify your graphics card in Windows

One of my common Windows XP/Vista shortcuts that can be performed over the phone is finding out what graphics card/display adapter is installed on the clients computer. Clients using Windows XP On the Desktop, right click and select Properties Swap to the Settings tab Below the active screen diagram ask the client to state the name of the graphics [...]
Thursday, June 5, 2008

Installing themes on the Sony Ericsson P1i

Visitors have encountered problems installing custom themes on their Sony Ericsson P1i, I want to clear this up by explaining step-by-step what to do so we can move onto more exciting topics! Download your UIQ 3.1 theme As your Sony Ericsson P1i is built on the UIQ 3.1mobile platform is makes use of standard *.utz files for [...]