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Comment on Web Best Practices - The Web Page by Idalia Entz

Idalia Entz — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 23:15:22 +0000

Hey, I don’t normally put up feedback on blogs, as I want to learn only. However I find the article that you just’ve written earlier has very insightful info, and I find it very informational.

Comment on Testing Contribute CS3 by Donky Kong

Donky Kong — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:25:20 +0000

It is, however, worth mentioning that on Mac OSX you can NOT COPY AND PASTE anything from Word Documents into Contribute. Also this did not work with Openoffice - copy-pasting from Text Editor ist kind of retarded, because all formatting is lost. With this heavy disfunctionality Contribute looses one of it´s main selling arguments and is a piece of crippleware - as a tool for non-tec stuff it means “copy text from word docs to website” - not supporting this is like selling a car that has no wheels. Stupid, plain.
Just to make sure that this is not a mistake: yes, I am talking about ultra primitve Copy-and-Paste functionality, something you would maybe expect on some exotic Linux distro to make troubles - no, it is not working with Contribute on OSX - afaik also Dreamweaver has this deficit. *facepalm*

Comment on BMW Climate Control Failure by amer

amer — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 01:23:07 +0000

another 96 BMW 328i back on the raod
I just wanna say thank you for your posting on the web, the heat in my car is working again, your directions for replacing the capacitor were very eazy and simple.
thanx again man.

Comment on Web Best Practices - Layout by Mike

Mike — Sat, 30 May 2009 16:39:22 +0000

Yup, half-assed because I was doing this on my spare time, and instead devoted my full attention to my job, and clients.
I regret not having this up to par, but it just hasn’t worked out so far.

Comment on Browsing Sharepoint (and other IE-specific sites) in Firefox by Mike

Mike — Sat, 30 May 2009 16:37:48 +0000

Hey Donny,
You’re right. I haven’t had the time to finish the template for my site, and have now reverted back to the default WP template.

It’s more important to recognize certain principles, so that you may use them, than be ignorant of them, and not care.

No, I’m not perfect. No one is.

Comment on Browsing Sharepoint (and other IE-specific sites) in Firefox by donny

donny — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:37:45 +0000

Take a look at your own home page in IE6, Mr-I-am-so-perfect…..

Comment on Web Best Practices - Layout by donny

donny — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:35:30 +0000

yet another half-ass implementation of a web site…

Comment on BMW Climate Control Failure by Ernie Hammons

Ernie Hammons — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:50:04 +0000

I had been quoted a price of $800 from my local BMW Dealer to have the control head replaced on my 97 328i. Found that the part alone was available from Bavarian Motorsports for $300, could be repaired (ad on eBay) for $49, and then found the do-it-yourself instructions. Total cost was $1.19 from Radio Shack for a 47 microfarad capacitor, part #272-1027. Time was about one hour and now everything is working perfectly. Thanks from Louisiana.

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Comment on We’re moving … well, renovating, really. by Carlo

Carlo — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 10:42:41 +0000

Just dropping by local (Arizona) blogs.

Glad to see another fellow developer.

Comment on BMW Climate Control Failure by Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 18:46:25 +0000

Thanks for the help with the fiks
Everything worked like a charm.
There, now you can add Norway to the list as well

Comment on … One Sick Bastard … by Mista_Random

Mista_Random — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 23:45:59 +0000

I had a problem similar to this once, turned out that the Power Switch in the case I had was shorting out on it self. After re-wiring the power/reset buttons I never had the problem again.

Comment on BMW Climate Control Failure by Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 27 May 2007 00:18:09 +0000

Many kudos to Richard for taking the time and care to show exactly what has to be done. Also Mike.

However, I found that a good cleaning out of the accumulated lint of 117K miles from the fan and sensor more than likely solved the problem altho I did resolder the capacitor connections just to make sure. No new capacitor was required. An electronics expert advised that 95% of the problems he fixes just required a good cleaning.

I recommend trying that first.

'98 328IS in New Jersey

Comment on BMW Climate Control Failure by Paul

Paul — Sun, 13 May 2007 19:17:18 +0000

Hi,

I also followed Richard's guide and it was a great help, saved me lots of time and fixed the problem.

However, a note on the capcitor, u47 means it is a 0.47 uF capacitor, not 47uF, the 'u' takes the place of the decimal point, it's an old naming convention.

As a general rule capacitors bigger than about 1 uF tend to be polarised. This is simply because it's not practical to make large valued non polarised capacitors.

The original capacitor is not polarised so this would seem to back up the argument.

Comment on Ubuntu 6.10 - Setting up a Wireless Network with D-Link WDA-1320 by Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 15:50:41 +0000

I followed the initial instructions and when I searched for the “network manager” and “network manager gnome” I didn’t come up with anything that was install-able.

Comment on Ubuntu 6.10 - Setting up a Wireless Network with D-Link WDA-1320 by erin

erin — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 01:52:54 +0000

Thank you so much for the info, i’m a virgin linux user (and its way above my head) but i’ve got my wireless card working now thanks to your blog entry and its great!

erin

Comment on BMW Climate Control Failure by Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 23:37:50 +0000

Thanks for the fix. We just purchased a 97′ 328i and noticed right away the problem. We found a place on the internet that we could get it repaired for $50 plus shipping both ways. I decided to try the fix and spent only $ 1.19 at the local Radio Shack.
Thanks again,
Jeff - Alabama

Comment on Ubuntu 6.10 - Setting up a Wireless Network with D-Link WDA-1320 by Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 22:34:44 +0000

thanks for clearing that up~! but after installing the card and booting up it is not detecting it.

the network manager applet is installed but it reads 'no network connection'.

under networking, the 'wired connection' seems to be rechecked after i unchecked it as per instructions. also, there is no new 'wireless connection' that one would expect.

the 'power' light on the networking card keeps a steady blink, but the 'activity' light does not turn on.

on my laptop (running windows), there is no problem detecting the wireless network.. i am stumped~

also, under repositories i checked all under Internet..

Comment on Ubuntu 6.10 - Setting up a Wireless Network with D-Link WDA-1320 by Mike

Mike — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:25:24 +0000

Have you tried copy/pasting the command into your terminal window (right-click and select paste)?
If you are typing it in, be sure to use the back-tics located above your tab key, and not the normal apostrophe.
The error message indicates that it didn't recognize the back-tics properly.

There is one more thing you can try: make sure you have all the correct repositories enabled in Synaptic:

System > Administration > Synaptic Package Manager.
[enter your password] > Settings > Repositories.
Ubuntu 6.10 tab > check all options under Internet.
Optionally uncheck all options under CD-ROM / DVD so that it no longer asks you for your CD everytime you want to update something, but rather it will download the latest version for you.

Let me know if this helped you out. If it didn't let me know your results and I'll research it a bit further.

Good luck!

Comment on Ubuntu 6.10 - Setting up a Wireless Network with D-Link WDA-1320 by Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 05:43:59 +0000

Hi, I'm having a problem at the command propmt when inputing:

sudo apt-get install linux-restricted-modules-`uname -r`

when i press enter, i get this:

reading package list... done
building dependency tree
reading state information... done
e: couldn't find package linux-restricted-modules-uname -r

anything i could be doing wrong?

Comment on BMW Climate Control Failure by Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 15:21:10 +0000

i done this fix, work’s fine but after a month, the fan increase button, stops working and the right side temp increase button dont work,it starts working when the unit get’s a bit warm?

Comment on Ubuntu 6.06 - Part 4: Windows Games by Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 02:18:33 +0000

If you start a OpenGL app that is not working with the compiz overlay do this>

DISPLAY=:93 (app-name)

And it should run ontop of everything else

Comment on Ubuntu 6.06 - Part 1: Installing the Desktop by Mike

Mike — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 15:13:54 +0000

Hi Alex!
I have the same setup as well (although on a different network, and not using Linux). There could potentially be many problems associated with this, these being the first you should check:
- Your Linux networking needs to be set up to have the IP address of your SBS server as the gateway.
- Your SBS server should not be using domain authentication to allow access (I don’t believe that Ubuntu supports domain authentication ‘out of the box’). I haven’t tried domain authentication under Linux at all yet, and wouldn’t know what to tell you.
- Try browsing the internet on your SBS server (just to make sure that it has connectivity), but I’m sure you’ve already established that it does.

Once the above are working, you should not have any problems. Please report back with your findings, or perhaps more details. I’m eager to hear how things turn out.

Best of Luck!
Mike

Comment on Ubuntu 6.06 - Part 1: Installing the Desktop by Alex Hart

Alex Hart — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 09:50:47 +0000

Very cool

I got Ubuntu installed, but now I can’t connect to the internet.
I am running Windows 2003 SBS 2003 Premium. I use the server as my DNS, Firewall, etc.