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Problem: Incorrect database name/user name/password.  After creating a database and uploading WordPress to your web server you can usually go straight through the installation process simply by visiting the WordPress directory in your web browser and inputting the requested information, but if something goes wrong (maybe you made a typo or forgot to add the user name prefix many servers add to their database, and database user names) visiting the WordPress directory will no longer take you through the setup process it will simply give you an error message.

Solution: The way you can reenter your information correctly is by going to /wordpress/wp-admin/install.php where “/wordpress” is the instillation directory of your copy of WordPress.

Problem: Post are showing in your content editor but you’re getting 404 errors on the front end. The reason for this is usually broken permalinks caused by a unwritable htaccess file.

Solution: The solution to this problem is to simply change the write permissions for your htaccess file.

Problem: User being asked for FTP credentials when upgrading/installing anything within WordPress.  One way to fix this would be to hard code your FTP credentials into your wp-config file but installing/upgrading anything would still be painfully slow. The best solution for this problem unfortunately is also the most complicated and the average user may require some assistance. The problem is that the user running Apache is not the owner of the WordPress directory.

Solution: The way to fix this is to log-in to your server as the root user via SSH, find out which user is running Apache,  and make that user the owner of the WordPress directory by chowning the directory. More detailed instructions for this process can be found here http://robspencer.net/auto-update-wordpress-without-ftp/

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The steps listed in this post will allow you to set up you Android devise as a network location on your Windows PC. The two-step process is simple first you install and set up a FTP server on your Android Phone, I recommend SwiFTP which can be downloaded from the market by scanning the QR code below.

After your FTP server is installed and you have the IP address with port number you can proceed with setting up your phone as a network location in Windows.  To set up your phone as a network location on Windows simply take the IP address port number user name and password and form a URL like this ftp://user:pass@192.168.20.51:2112/sdcard/ where user is your user name, pass is your password, 192.168.20.51 is the local IP address of your phone, 2121 is the port number you used when setting up your FTP server, and optionally sdcard is your phones SD card or directory  you would like to access.
After you have your link copied to you clip board, open up MyComputer and right-click on the white background, select Add a Network Location, click Next, select Choose A Custom Network Location (this may be the only option available anyway), select Next, paste your FTP URL into the box labeled Internet or network address, click Next, type in the name of your New location as you would like it to appear in MyComputer, click Next, click Finish. Make sure your FTP server is running on your Android devise and you should now be able to browse, upload to, and download from your android devise via WiFi.

If you plan on uploading media to your phone that you would like to play back without rebooting your devise you should get the app called SDrescan which will invoke Androids media scanner without restarting your devise.

If you have any Android networking or media streaming tips feel free to share them in the comments below.

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What It Is

WebM is a new video format which uses the open source Ogg Vorbis audio codec, and the VP8 video codec recently acquired by google which it has made open source.

The Haters Deterents

Who would like to stop the use of Web M (or at least make sure it’s not so free) ?  Most likely the 26 companies contributing to the patent pool for H.264 which is the primary video format for the iPod and a number of other software and consumer electronics. Some of the companies which make up this pool are Microsoft, LG Electronics, Panasonic, Philips Electronics, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, Toshiba, and Apple (news.cnet.com 2010).

Supporters / Software Developers

Some supporters of the WebM project include Mozilla, Opera, Adobe, and Google of course, click here for an official list. Google released the specs for the new video format very recently so most of the software which supports WebM is still in the development / testing phase.

Viewing

• Chromium nightly builds
• Firefox Nightly Builds
• Opera Labs
• VLC Media Player 1.1.0 Pre Release Candidate

Encoding / Transcoding

• Miro Video Converter

See it in Action

If you have a web browser with WebM support you can view WebM video by enrolling in YouTube’s HTML5 experiment at www.youtube.com/html5

For More information about WebM visit www.webmproject.org

Do you have any WebM resources not listed above? If so feel free to share them in the comments below.

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WordPress is a great CMS, and blogging platform, but there are a few things you should change or consider adding out of the box. I’ve listed a few of these things below.

Permalinks: The most commonly used, and recommended  permalink structure for SEO is http://yourdomain/category/post-title. This Can be achieved in your WordPress admin area by clicking on Settings > Premalinks then selecting the Custom Structure option and placing /%category%/%postname%/ in the area provided.

XML Site Maps are used by many search engines to help index pages on web sites. Google XML Sitemaps is a popular plugin which helps generate a site map for your blog and keep it updated. Once you have your site map created it’d be a good Idea to set up a Google Web Master Tools account and submit your XML site map. Web master tools can be used to give you good information about your site and alert you to any potential problems.

Feed Settings: Many people subscribe to their favorite blogs via feeds. You can manage your feed settings in WordPress by going to Settings > Reading.  “Syndication feeds show the most recent” lets you chose how many post to keep in your feed, most people leave this at the default of 10.  The next option is one that many people differ on, it’s the option to display a Full Text or Summery feed. The full text option will allow readers to view your entire post in what ever software they use to subscribe to you blog feed without having to click through to visit your blog, the summary option displays the first paragraph of text and requires readers to click through to your site to read the entire post. There are advantages and disadvantages for each, Full Text feeds give sploggers an easy way to steal your content. Summary feeds may discourage some users from subscribing to your blog. If you choose to use Summary feeds there is a WordPress plugin called Thumb Nails for Excerpts which allows you to add an image to your Summary feed.

Site Statics: Google Analytics is probably the best free analytical tool for keeping track of the number of visitors to your site, and useful details about them which can help you to improve your site. A good plugin for helping integrate your blog with Google Analytics is Google Analyticator.

Social Diffusion: Once you have your content written it’s a good idea to tell people about it so they can read it and hopefully tell others about it. A great plugin for WordPress that will automatically alert your Twitter, MySpace, and Facebook networks when you publish a new blog post is Socialite. It’s also a good idea to give your readers an easy way to share your content as well, for this I recommend using a social bookmarking plugin like Digg Digg, Sexy Bookmarks, or Socialble.

If you host your own WordPress blog what actions would you recommend taking after installing WordPress?

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• Canon Digital ELPH (2000)
• Apple PowerBook G4 (Titanium) (2001)
• Microsoft Windows XP (2001) / Apple Mac OS X (2000)
• Apple iPod (2001)
• TiVo Series2 (2002)
• Motorola RAZR V3 (2003)
• PalmOne Treo 600 / 650 (2003 / 2004)
• Microsoft Xbox 360 (2005)
• Apple iPhone (2007)
• ASUS Eee PC 900 (2008)

pretty good list overall What are your thoughts ?

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Presumably Chrome OS will be tied to your Google account where all of your data , settings etc will be stored, this does present the ability to truly have your data available everywhere without additional software , vpn’s other and other remote access tools.

Chromium IS is about a year from a first user release but for those who want to try it a VMWare virtual machine is available at gdgt.

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Gunnar Peipman has an excellent article on creating a SharePoint global calendar using site data query and calendar view control. I have slightly modified the code to allow the Global Calendar web part to query all SharePoint event list and I have added a custom field in SharePoint which will determine if the list item will display on our global calendar web part.

You can visit Gunnar Peipman’s blog to view the entire code I will list sections of the original code and modifications I have made.

When querying list one method is to query each list to query like:

private DataTable GetQueryData(SPWeb web)
{
    var query = new SPSiteDataQuery();

     query.Lists = @"<Lists>
                        <List ID='{56F5E040-D547-4BF5-8C99-F019D54F9997}' />
                        <List ID='{92A87CB9-E39B-4C2D-B37D-5721E6C7FECD}' />
                    </Lists>";

    query.Query = @"<Where>
                        <Gt>
                            <FieldRef Name='ID' />
                            <Value Type='Number'>0</Value>
                        </Gt>
                    </Where>";

    query.Webs = "<Webs Scope='SiteCollection' />";

    query.ViewFields = "<FieldRef Name='Title' />";
    query.ViewFields+= "<FieldRef Name='ID' />";
    query.ViewFields+= "<FieldRef Name='EventDate' />";
    query.ViewFields+= "<FieldRef Name='EndDate' />";
    query.ViewFields+= "<FieldRef Name='Location' />";
    query.ViewFields+= "<FieldRef Name='Description' />";
    query.ViewFields+= "<FieldRef Name='fRecurrence' />";

    query.RowLimit = 100;

    return web.GetSiteData(query);
}

This will query the list with the specified GUIDs and you can enter the GUID for each list you would like to query. In one instance I was working on a  setup  where new collaboration workspaces were always being created,in this case to avoid modifying the code each time I queried the event list template ID by replacing

query.Lists = @"<Lists>
                        <List ID='{56F5E040-D547-4BF5-8C99-F019D54F9997}' />
                        <List ID='{92A87CB9-E39B-4C2D-B37D-5721E6C7FECD}' />
                    </Lists>";

with

query.Lists = @"<List>

                         <List ServerTemplate=’106’/ >

                <List>”

which will query every event  list in the site collection and the calendar will display items from every event list up to the query row limit that is set.

Since this limits the control I have on what gets returned I have taken this one step further by creating a new content type named “Global Calendar Content type” with the Event content type as the parent. In this content type I have added an additional column titled “Display on Global Calendar”  and allowed this content type in the source calendars ( you can follow the instructions here to unhide the event content type and follow the instructions here for adding a content type to a library or list.)

I will now modify this code to check if the “Display on Global Calendar” column is checked , if it is then the item is displayed on the Global Calendar web part, with the two changes they query section of the code now looks like this

private DataTable GetQueryData(SPWeb web)
{
    var query = new SPSiteDataQuery();

     query.Lists = @"<Lists>

                       <Lists ServerTemplate='106'/>

                    </Lists>";
    query.Query = @"<Where>
                        <Eq>
                            <FieldRef Name=’Display_x0020_on_x0020_Global_x0’/>
                            <Value Type='Boolean'>1</Value>
                        </Eq>
                    </Where>";

    query.Webs = "<Webs Scope='SiteCollection' />";

    query.ViewFields = "<FieldRef Name='Title' />";
    query.ViewFields+= "<FieldRef Name='ID' />";
    query.ViewFields+= "<FieldRef Name='EventDate' />";
    query.ViewFields+= "<FieldRef Name='EndDate' />";
    query.ViewFields+= "<FieldRef Name='Location' />";
    query.ViewFields+= "<FieldRef Name='Description' />";
    query.ViewFields+= "<FieldRef Name='fRecurrence' />";

    query.RowLimit = 100;

    return web.GetSiteData(query);
}

Get the entire code from the blog posting creating a SharePoint global calendar then make the modifications listed in this article and compile and deploy the code to your server. The final result will be a calendar view web part and it should pull results from all event list items in the site collection where you are using the new content type and have checked the custom “Display on Global Calendar” column.

I have attached a solution for the web part and the content type. Source code is also available.

I have tested the web parts in Moss 2007  the downloads are provided “As is” with no warranties of any kind.

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In brief, the solution requires that you:

• Disable mirroring and set the mirror databases to read-only
• Route network and database traffic to the read-only databases
• Apply software updates to the offline servers
• Route network and database traffic to the updated servers
• Apply software updates to the secondary farm
• Re-enable mirroring and set the mirrored databases to read/write

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