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…what I know now!

Today I’ve been having a conversation with my mother and we were talking about relationships and personality. We’re both of the opinion that its futile to attempt to change yourself in order to please someone else. If only I knew then, what I know now cropped up.

A paradox. The epiphany can never be true. I find in conversation that this phrase usually refers to attitudes and not knowledge. I have now the attitude I do only because of the experiences between then and now so it becomes impossible to ever have the vogue attitude without the requisite experience.

Jase

I want to hold you close to me.
I want to feel your warmth embrace me.

I want to feel your heart beat.
I want to smell your scent, sweet.

Your touch is all I need.
Your attention my only greed.

When all I wanted was for you to stay.
It wasn’t right, now, you’ve gone astray.

I recently got hold of a Hewlett-Packard Mini Note 2133 but couldn’t get it to hibernate at first. I’m a huge fan of hibernation I’ve always used it because I think it makes sense to have the computer in a useable state as left more quickly.

Normally when its enabled there’s a hibernate tab to the Power Options Properties where you can enable and disable the feature. The tab only appears if the hibernation facility has been switched on and that is done with the following command.

• Open the Command Prompt
  • Start > Run > “cmd” > OK
• To Turn Hibernation On
  • powercfg.exe /H ON
• To Turn Hibernation Off
  • powercfg.exe /H OFF

Now with hibernation turned on I’m a happy bunny again.

Today I came across an error whilst trying to install Microsoft Office 2007 on an XP machine with service pack 3. The error occured part way through the installation process and caused the installer to roll back and give the following message.

Microsoft Office 2007 encountered an error during setup. The Windows Installer service cannot update one or more protected Windows files.

Well that’s not very useful is it!  I did a bit of searching as you do when you have a problem and came across the solution. Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve been meaning to try Joomla for some time and a friend mentioning it last night was the impetus for me to give it a go. I downloaded the latest stable version just now and decided to give it a go.

I was very impressed by the installation script and how it guides you through the installation process with handy guidance, however, I feel it falls down in one area.
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I’ve been doing some work involving an application that needs to query databases on separate servers however one of the servers will only accept mysql connections locally so the way round it is to forward connections from a port on one system to a port on a remote system. That way the connection to the remote database will appear as though it originated locally and be accepted.

To set up a tunneled connection you issue the following command on any client:

ssh -fNg -L 3307:127.0.0.1:3306 myuser@remotehost.com

The first command tells ssh to log in to remotehost.com as myuser, go into the background (-f) and not execute any remote command (-N), and set up port-forwarding (-L localport:localhost:remoteport ). In this case, we forward port 3307 on localhost to port 3306 on remotehost.com.

Recently I’ve been getting a few promotional txts from T-Mobile about their products and services. Now one of my phones is plugged into my computer to send text messages (see this post) so its a bit of a hassle to unplug the phone and delete them.

I phoned T-Mobile and asked them to stop! The helpful Scottish girl on the line said that she’d commence the internal process to get it sorted but that I could send a free text message to stop…

Text ‘STOP’ to 49001

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I’ve created a Wordpress plugin to create and manage lists of frequently asked questions. Currently its a work in progress but you can download the beta if you want a preview. If you want more information  or to download a copy then check out the Easy FAQ page above.

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I’ve set up SMS Server Tools on my Mac Mini so that I can send text messages from my PC and I thought someone might be able to use the Applescript I’ve created or even suggest a better way of doing things.

If you’re not familiar with SMS Server Tools it’s a really great utility for sending text messages from your PC (I use the term generically) it works on (almost?) all UNIXs and Windows too. It works by having folders which it monitors for text message files and then sending them via the phone. It was very easy to set up just download the source, make, make install, edit the config file and away you go.

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A while ago I had an old Nokia N-95 plugged into a Gentoo box and I was using SMS Server Tools to send myself text message alerts. I got rid of that sim and so stopped using it. The phone has been sat in a drawer since then along with a couple of others.

I recently decided I wanted to set it all up again, this time on my Mac Mini. I was trying out different phones and settings but I couldn’t get the N95 or an old Motorola V series phone to do anything even after plugging them both in! Read the rest of this entry »