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WPMU Permission Error

The other day I was at one of my sites where I run WordPress MU and encountered this error message: You don’t have permission to view this site. Please contact the system administrator. This appeared after the url after my login screen. The interesting thing was that the URL ending in ?c=1 counted up to [...]

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Mon, August 23 2010 » Programming » Comments Off

Twacon Announced

I’m proud to announce “Twacon“. Twacon is a twitter application that searches twitter for mentions of the word bacon and refreshes every 15 seconds.

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Sat, October 31 2009 » Programming » Comments Off

Format Sandisk Cruzer in OS X

I went to my local Best Buy to pick up a Sandisk 2GB USB thumbdrive. I noticed there was programs already loaded on it for the PC, but I wanted all of my $20 worth on this drive. When I came home and plugged it into my Powerbook (g4 550) it mounted two volumes; a [...]

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Tue, December 16 2008 » Programming » Comments Off

Rivendell How To – Ubuntu Style

This page is meant to mirror http://www.kdrt.org/resources/Rivendell. Introduction The following packages for Ubuntu differ from the 0.9.80 version of Rivendell as follows: – Ogg-Vorbis read/write support – Mpeg read only support – When using Ogg-Vorbis for the library format mpeg and ogg-vorbis files are copied in (no transcoding). All other formats transcoded to Ogg Vorbis. [...]

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Sun, November 9 2008 » automation » Comments Off

Share OS X Secondary Drive with Vista

Although I’ve found a way to share user files on my PowerMac G3 (B&W) running OS 10.4 I found it nearly impossible to find anything online that would allow me share the secondary drive on my Vista laptop. Enter SharePoints. This program allows someone designate a mount point for your share in the System Preferences [...]

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Sun, October 28 2007 » Programming » Comments Off