EnK’s Blog
There’s nothing more entertaining than to applaud a man who would beat his son or kill his daughter for showing body-language similar to homosexuality. This is the exhortation, the demand from alleged “ pastor” Sean Harris from Fayetteville, NC: (Hint: sound availability.)
Whether you grab a club and kill a baby-seal, or you “crack your son’s wrist”: It doesn’t give you an absentee-slip from “detention”. You’re no more a “man” by brutalizing your children based on a stupid social stereotypes than your lip-wristed son and your butch daughter rising up against you and kicking your stupid-ass because you’re a lame-f$ck as an alleged “Dad”.
Yes! Yes! We’re all impressed! You’re manliness is certainly defined by your brutality towards your own children! <clap!><clap!> We’re in your debt! As a society, we’re so much better off with your brand of …ehem…”religion”!
I was out with Little Otis for a nice healthy stroll in the woods and I came across this bush. Now, this is Minnesota! We shouldn’t be seeing this kind of action until early May!
Well, I had to take a couple of shots of it with my crappy cell phone and got back and decided I’d put it up on my cobweb of a site…
Now all I can think about is what kind of a tree/bush is this thing anyway? It isn’t a dogwood – although it does look a little like one. (You can click on it for a closer inspection if you want.)
Turning off Google Voice – Verizon and Sprint
mark : December 29, 2011 10:45 am : Blog, UncategorizedThere’s a lot of chatter on the subject of Google Voice. Like others, I decided to give it a try and it really wasn’t what I was hoping for in the end. I get a voicemail message and I end up with 3 to five text messages depending on how much chatter the caller left. Then, I have to log on into Google to retrieve the message in a text format, which is “terrible” at best. The only option is to listen to the playback, and that’s really poor quality as well. The best chance – turn it off and opt-out.
There’s a lot of gibberish saying you can’t opt-out, with a few bubble-gum teenagers complaining about “monopolies” like Google. Actually, opting out is quite easy if your Verizon or if your using Sprint.
Log into Google, and then open a new browser and type “Google Voice”. That will bring up your Google Voice page easily enough. On the lower left-side, you’ll see your phone number. Click it. Then on top is a tab for “Phone” and finally, look below the body section there and you’ll be giving an option to disable.
You’ll get a pop up with a magic number to dial on your phone. Dial it and your phone will give you a quick busy signal. Now, you’re done!
IE8, albeit better than that piece of crap IE, which was better than IE6, is still a piece of crap. Internet Explorer just hasn’t been ready for prime-time for over ten years now and it appears that IE9 will also be a piece of crap. (IE9 is in beta, last heard.)
The “rule” to make sure all three play together nicely is simple: Everything within your code must be HTTPS!
So, you load the jQuery engine from Google’s servers, you must use HTTPS to connect:
If your website is HTTPS, your call from the Google API servers must also be HTTPS. This example found in the <head> section will work:
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
This example will NOT work.
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
I ran into this problem and it took me an eternity to figure it out. Look at the reply on April 26th (2011) from this Stackoverflow conversation.
Also to note: What’s also trending these days is to simply embed the “correction code” stored on Google’s servers in the <head> section.
<html id="ie6" dir="ltr" lang="en-US"> <![endif]--> <!--[if IE 7]> <html id="ie7" dir="ltr" lang="en-US"> <script src="https://ie7-js.googlecode.com/svn/version/2.1(beta4)/IE7.js"></script> <![endif]--> <!--[if IE 8]> <html id="ie8" dir="ltr" lang="en-US"> <script src="https://ie7-js.googlecode.com/svn/version/2.1(beta4)/IE8.js"></script> <![endif]--> <!--[if !(IE 6) | !(IE 7) | !(IE 8) ]><!-->
and yes… You should include the HTTPS on those calls from “Mount Google” too.
Trying to get a ShopperPress WP theme on-line. The Payment’s section pulls this tool out and throws it at me:
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare gateway_google() (previously declared in /home/content/46/7822446/html/wp-content/plugins/wp-e-commerce/wpsc-merchants/GoogleCheckout-XML.php:23) in /home/content/46/7822446/html/wp-content/themes/shopperpress/PPT/func/func_paymentgateways.php on line 900
The hack is pretty easy… Just turn off all of your plugins, including your WP eCommerce plugin. Then it will work just fine.
This is positively crazy! I’m loving my Ubuntu more every day.
A few months ago, I had to burn the Ubuntu because there were severe upgrading problems. No problem, really – I had it dual-booting with Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.04 and running VirtualBox with Windows XP inside. The only thing I need Microsoft for these days is for my Quickbooks and one of my web-authoring software packages. The web-authoring, I can run inside of Linux’s WINE, but it gets a little clunky. I backed up Windows 7 with all o the repair CDs and DVDs and then burned the whole thing. I loaded Ubuntu, and added VirtualBox and put Windows XP inside of it. But, I’ve never taken the time out to re-install the printing capabilities on it. I rarely print anything anyway, and we have a wireless printer in the back room.
The other day, the wireless router crashed on me. I couldn’t connect to it nor could I reset the EPROM to the factory defaults. So, off I went to the Geek Superstore in St Louis Park aptly named “Microcenter”. This place is Disneyland for geeks. It’s unbelievable what those guys put on their shelves. Huge bins of knock-off crap everywhere, the latest in all of the software, wiring and coaxial needs, monitors, hand-held PDAs — everything! But, I digress.
I bought a new wireless for $50 and set it up last night. Works like a charm. I thought: “Well, let me work on the printing for this PC.” I got to work and it took me about two hours. HP will rabbit-hole you by explaining that you need their HPLIP drivers. It’s really clunky because it really doesn’t do what it’s supposed to do. It crashes, or your have to hook it up to the printer directly with a USB cable and then it’ll crash on you. It’s just a pain. However, I did get it to work after I rebooted Ubuntu.
This morning I’m thinking: “Well, if I can get that to work, then when can’t I get the scanner portion to work as well?! There’s gotta be a way to scan from that box wirelessly!”
The image you see will blow to actual size. The blow-up as everything you need to see to do the same thing I did including the URL of the website. It took me all of six minutes. The scanned image is the Ubuntu “Print Test” page. I just flipped to the top rack and tried the scanner portion…
Paul Simon: The Sounds of Silence – 9/11 10 year anniversary
mark : September 11, 2011 11:45 pm : BlogCourtesy Crooks and Liars:
a wanna know the best way to turn off that crazy thing? I hate ‘em frankly… They’re useless and they get to be too much for me.
Crack open your Administrators’ panel, go to Appearance – and select Editor.
First thing up to edit should be your stylesheet (filename style.css)
Roll all the way to the bottom and add this:
.avatar {
display:none;
}
…without the quotes of course. Save it and you’re done!
Have a happy day!
MWH
I am always the guy – -
If there’s a hole in the code of your software, I’m the guy who’ll find it. Accidentally, of course! I don’t try to find this kind of crap – it just happens and it’s always happening to me.
Last week, I’ve worked out a Merchant Account with my bank who contracts through with First Data. They give me a weblink for me to read the PDF’s
I need to connect my website with my bank account so clients can pay my invoice on-the-fly instead of routing through PayPal.
I’m working at this for a freaking 10 hours and I can’t figure out how to make this work. So, I called up tech support. They said a bunch of blah-blah saying this and that. Essentially, the examples given (in the blue shaded area) are live links – that is, the actual verbiage I am to when I have my bugs worked out. My “sandbox” allows me to test with play-money and there’s no transaction actually taking place. When all of the bugs are cleaned out, then I change the address links to the ones listed in blue.
I’m calling tech support again – and again. I finally got a guy named Howie who actually paid attention and began to look at it.
What was wrong?
The address listed in the PDF is wrong. They sent a request to update the PDF a long time ago and I’m the idiot who actually reads the danged manual.
Who needs this kind of nonsense?!
MWH
Here’s my seed post for my blog. Most of the stuff here should be technical in nature – although I might get a little crazy at time.
