WordPress Upgrade

August 3rd, 2010 Kurt Wolf No comments

I just upgraded my worspress site using safari on an iPhone. Pretty neat. Just make sure your phone does not lock or press the home button.

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Feather Text in Table

June 28th, 2010 Kurt Wolf No comments

I have been working on a project at work to create a status board display of important company metrics. Since this will eventually make it to a large LCD display, I am doing everything I can to make sure it is as perfect as possible. Now, I’m no professional designer but one of the things that really bothered me was the tables of information running together and there was no easy way to distinguish the data columns. I wanted to feather (fade) the text at the end of the column before the start of the next.

It seems there is not too much about this on the good old inter-web so I was off to hacking. Like most of my good ideas, they come to me when I stop thinking about them and just allow a moment of quiet. That came tonight at the dog park.

I was really consumed with the idea that I had to address the column that I wanted to feather, when in fact I needed to add the feather to the column I did not want to run into. The picture above shows to table rows, the first does not have the treatment, and the second does. Code to follow…

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<html>
    <head>
        <title>Sample Table Layout</title>
 
        <style>
 
			*, HTML {
				padding: 0px;
				margin: 0px;
				font-family: verdana
				font-size: 12px;
				background-color: #000000;
				color: #FFFFFF;
			}
 
			TABLE {
				table-layout: fixed;
				width: 675px;
			}
 
			TD {
				white-space: nowrap;
				overflow: hidden;
			}
 
			TD SPAN {
				background: url(feather.png) repeat-y;
				background-position: right;
				position: absolute;
				/* Set these both to the width of your feather image */
				margin-left: -20px;
				width: 20px;
				height: 100%;
			}
 
        </style>
 
    </head>
 
    <body>
 
        <table>
            <tr>
                <th>Col 1</th>
                <th>Col 2</th>
                <th>Col 3</th>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>The quick brown fox jumped over the log</td>
                <td>This is the start of a second column.</td>
                <td>Parker</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>The quick brown fox jumped over the log</td>
                <td><span></span>This is the start of a second column.</td>
                <td><span></span>Parker</td>
            </tr> 
        </table>
 
    </body>
</html>
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Upgrade to WordPress 3

June 27th, 2010 Kurt Wolf No comments

Ok, I took the plunge and upgraded to WordPress 3 tonight. Looks like TentyTen will be my default theme for a while as I pick it apart.

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Infra has changed hands once again

April 14th, 2010 Kurt Wolf No comments

The product formally known as Ionix Service Manager, formally known as Infra has been moved to VMWare and is now known as VMWare Service Manager. Since the move, there seems to be new material on the website referencing version 9. I know that this version has been talked about by EMC for a while so I am curious if it will really come out.

In other news, Microsoft has granted me access to System Center Service Manager. I am going to dig into that product to see how it compares. If it accomplishes 80% of what Infra accomplished, I may be sold.

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Infra / Ionix and Windows 7 64bit

April 14th, 2010 Kurt Wolf No comments

Just a note for all of you Infra / Ionix users… The db and wrapper controls that are downloaded ARE NOT 64bit compatible. You must use the 32bit version of IE to launch Infra. This is for version 8, I have not tested version 9 yet.

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Mac Airport Utility

November 23rd, 2009 Kurt Wolf No comments

I needed a quick way to check the type of connection I had running. After a quick Google, I found that the MacOS has the utility, it just needs to be tweaked a little.

Open terminal and create a link to the utility.

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sudo ln -s /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport /usr/sbin/airport

Now that the utility is available, run airport -I for all of your wireless information.

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Sonicwall NetExtender and Snow Leopard

September 13th, 2009 Kurt Wolf 5 comments

Seems like pppd is no longer setuid anymore. To correct this, fire up terminal and enter the following:

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sudo chmod u+s /usr/sbin/pppd

This will enable NetExtender to once again work its magic.

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Snow Leopard – 64bit

September 13th, 2009 Kurt Wolf No comments

Looks like Snow Leopard does not boot into a 64bit kernel by default. There are a couple of ways to get some 64bit goodness.

Read more…

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Motorcycle ride: AZ – Cape Cod

August 1st, 2009 Kurt Wolf No comments

Friend of mine is taking a ride from AZ to Cape Cod and blogging about his adventure. Check out his site at: http://www.azweeks.com/.

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Administrative Tools for Windows 7

July 29th, 2009 Kurt Wolf No comments

I am running Windows 7 (build 7100) and I manage quite a few Windows 2003 servers, one of which is running Exchange 2003.  I am not a fan of having to RDP to a domain controller just to manage some user settings and I was patiently waiting for Microsoft to release something…

Don’t bother trying to install the Windows 2003 Admin Tool Pack in Windows 7.  It will not work.

Microsoft has released the Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7.  Download and install this little jewel.  Once installed, hop into your “Control Panel”.  Click on “Programs” and then “Turn Windows features on or off”.  You will see a new section called “Remote Server Administration Tools”.  Mark which tools you need and then click Ok.  No reboot needed.

That was half the problem…  Now onto the Exchange tools.  Microsoft seems to not have much information about the Exchange tools for 2003.  I can’t blame them.  I would like to be running Exchange 2007 right now but it is not in the cards for another year.  By that time, probably jump right into Exchange 2010.  In the meantime, I found a download over at Will Dove’s website.  What he has done is take the official ESM for Vista build from Microsoft and removed the check for Vista in the install process.  This works like a charm.  I have not run into any issues using this on my system.

Next up for my admin tool build project, Citrix Tools and OCS.

Updates:

  • 20090817 – Updated the link to the Remote Server Administration Tools
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