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Switch Between Multiple iTunes Profiles – Mac OS X

Snave — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:17:05 +0000

Apple Option Key

Want to be able to select multiple iTunes profiles on a mac? Wondering why holding shift isn’t bring the profile selection window up? Well it’s slightly different on mac than on windows, you need to hold down the apple option key instead!

Simples!

Cannot Connect to Steam Network

Snave — Sat, 29 May 2010 17:35:27 +0000

I had this error message when trying to log onto Steam today. I left it a couple of hours but it still wouldn’t let me log on.

Cannot Connect to Steam Network – please try again later.

What you may need to do, which worked for me is to delete ‘ClientRegistry.blob’ in Steam’s installation folder (C:\Program Files\Steam) and try to restart steam. If this doesn’t do the trick try deleting ‘AppUpdateStats.blob‘.

Steam Error Message

I also had to run Steam with administrator privileges initially after this to get it to work, let me know if this works for you too.

ImageMagick Plesk and open_basedir

Snave — Sun, 23 May 2010 01:27:09 +0000

Because of the way that ‘open_basedir’ works in restricting everything some things that you access file system wise in code, it will restrict you also in using programs such as ImageMagick , or in applications that may use it such as Coppermine Gallery or Menalto Gallery.

To fix this you need to either turn off openbase_dir or make it so that the PHP running on the target domain can access the directory where ImageMagick resides. First you need to modify your vhost.conf, you can see examples of modifying/changing/reloading this config file here.

php_admin_value open_basedir /var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs:/tmp:/usr/bin/

Above you can see the line of code that needs to be added, the first two options ‘/var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs’ and ‘/tmp’ are the default running settings (restricting things), so when defining the value of the open_basedir you need to re-declare these two. The third path allows our PHP to access that folder when running, and so can now access ImageMagick etc, along with a lot of other things.. Security risk perhaps, but at least it works for now.

I’ll look into a more secure method, please comment if you can suggest/add anything to this topic.

Halo Reach Panoramas and Screenshots

Snave — Sat, 22 May 2010 17:07:50 +0000

Here are some Panoramas and Screenshots I took from Bungie’s recent Halo Reach Beta. Just a few I didn’t go too crazy with these. When the full game comes out I will take plenty! MjolnirTactics has some amazing full screen Panoramas that put mine to shame, and so does HaLo2FrEeEk which you can see at the end of the post.

Panorama Elite Generator

Powerhouse Panorama

Blueteam Lift Attach - Swordbase

Halo Reach Elites Powerhouse

Elite Guard Powerhouse

Red Spartan Needle Rifle

Spherical Panorama’s

HaLo2FrEeEk has been making some amazing things too, he spent a lot of time carefully taking each screenshot and stitching them together; check out all these stunning spherical panorama’s he’s created:

Spherical Panorama Powerhouse

Spherical Panorama Overlook

Spherical Panorama Boneyard

Spherical Panorama Swordbase

Bungie Moving Office or Expanding?

Snave — Sat, 08 May 2010 12:38:05 +0000

According to a new job posting over at bungie.net, there’s a new listing for a ‘Personal Assistant/Gopher’, this may not seem like big news but there is a little tid bit in there that is very interesting.

Poised, professional and mature-minded Assistant/Gopher needed to provide personal support to Studio Head and to assist in the coordination of a major office relocation/move. Duties will include running personal errands for Bungie’s Studio Head, providing transportation services (vehicle provided) and other duties, as needed. Office relocation/move tasks may include, but are not limited to, procuring equipment, supplies and services as needed.

Now are Bungie planning on relocating from their current office in Kirkland, WA? Which was setup during Bungie’s era with Microsoft, or perhaps since their recent deal with Activision they are looking to expand with the recent cash injection to work on the ‘Next Big Title’.

Bungie needs more space and they couldn’t find that in Kirkland – Kirkland’s Economic Development Manager Ellen Miller-Wolfe.

There were talk’s of this in 2008 and Halo.Bungie.org picked up on this as well as other news sources. It was reported then that they were purportedly moving ‘to a former movie cineplex in downtown Bellevue’ – Techflash.

So the move that has been in planning for a while now looks like it is finally coming to fruition! Just like moving house there is no perfect time to move, but with Halo3/ODST firmly out the door, and Reach development winding down would now be the perfect time to move everyone? Then again the other title Bungie is working on is surely in full swing.

Interesting time’s indeed for everyone involved at Bungie Studios!

Coppermine Tag Cloud on the Home Page

Snave — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 12:07:34 +0000

Coppermine gallery is a great piece of software, as of version 1.5.3 RC it has the ability to display ‘tags’ on the search page of your gallery and then you can click on one of those tags to display all pictures that have been assigned with that specific keyword. To see what i mean, see bellow:

And when you click through from one of the keywords you should see:

So that’s great, but the tags are hidden away on the search page, wouldn’t it be great to show these on the home page somewhere? Luckily is relatively simple to achieve.

First things first is to head to the config page and then to the ‘Album list view’ area, you need to edit the ‘The content of the main page’ section, which in my case has:

breadcrumb/alblist/catlist/toprated,2/lastcom/lastup/random/anycontent

Yours will be similar to this, what you will need to add to yours is the ‘anycontent’ bit where you would like the tags to be displayed. A short description of anycontent:

‘anycontent’: inserts php-generated content that has to reside within the file ‘anycontent.php’ into the index page. Can be used to include banner-rotation scripts or similar.

So go ahead and open up your anycontent.php that should be located in the root directory of your gallery installation, yours may be blank, or may contain some other data, for this example you can use the code bellow to display the tag cloud on your home page only. If you already have functional code in there it will be overwritten..

/*************************
Coppermine Photo Gallery
************************
Copyright (c) 2003-2010 Coppermine Dev Team
v1.0 originally written by Gregory Demar

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3
as published by the Free Software Foundation.

********************************************
Coppermine version: 1.5.3
$HeadURL: https://coppermine.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/coppermine/trunk/cpg1.5.x/anycontent.php $
$Revision: 6985 $
$LastChangedBy: gaugau $
$Date: 2010-01-02 11:38:29 +0100 (Sa, 02. Jan 2010) $
**********************************************/

/**
* This file gets included in index.php if you set the option on the configuration panel: “content of the main page”.
* It can be used to display any content from any program, it is to be edited according to one’s tastes.
*/

if (!defined(‘IN_COPPERMINE’)) {
die(‘Not in Coppermine…’);
}

starttable(“100%”, ‘Tags’);

if ($CONFIG['clickable_keyword_search'] != 0) {
include(‘include/keyword.inc.php’);
}

endtable();

?>

Cannot unsuspend domains – After Plesk Backup

Snave — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 12:30:25 +0000

For one of my domains, I noticed it was stuck as ‘suspended’ but was still functioning. This was due to my server going offline during a Plesk cp backup. There are two ways of fixing this:

If your domain is just that, a domain then run this command as root from your CLI

/usr/local/psa/bin/domain -u -status enabled

It should then tell you that it was successful, and hopefully your domain is back to normal. -

SUCCESS: Update of domain ‘example.com’ complete.

For domains that are part of a client, or if a client has been susspended simply run

/usr/local/psa/bin/client -u -status enabled

FirePHP Codeigniter – Fatal error: Call to undefined method FirePHP_Fake::error() in /server/path/

Snave — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 23:44:40 +0000

Simple error to fix.. You just need to add in a blank function to FirePHP_Fake.php Codeigniters Library.

public function error() {
}

the.pacific.i.720p-dimension RAR Archive Password

Snave — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:39:38 +0000

Its annoying when these people keep password protect these files that I download.. So you don’t have to complete the surveys they make you fill out, which earns these people money I may ad. So here is the password for the.pacific.i.720p-dimension.rar:

comedy

UPDATE

For those looking for passwords to the other episodes here’s a list of ones that I know of (Thanks to those people that have commented with the passwords!) If you have the other passwords just comment and I’ll add them to the list.

Episode 1 – I – the.pacific.i.720p-dimension

comedy

Episode 2 – II – *

Needed

Episode 3 – III – *

Needed

Episode 4 – IV – *

Needed

Episode 5 – VI – *

areg

Episode 6 – VI – *

Needed

Episode 7 – VII – the.pacific.vii.720p-dimension

rift

Episode 8 – VIII – *

dumb

Install Winrar (UnRar) on CentOS Linux Easily – CLI Version

Snave — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:17:11 +0000

It took me an hour or so to find out how to install which was a pain, so for anyone having trouble here is the code your need. Replace the wget with the latest version to install the most recent, up-to date version.

These instructions are for the CLI, terminal version so no GUI here.

# wget http://rarlab.com/rar/rarlinux-3.7.1.tar.gz
# tar xvzf rarlinux*
# cd rar
# make
# make install