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Towing Scam | 11-04-2011 - HP laserjet MFP, Digital Sending and JRE problems The current model I have been having problems with is the HP 9000 MFP. From some reason someone decided to make the "Digital Sending" menu stuff in java. I needed access to this menu to change the "Send From" option on the scan to email. Well, over the years java has gone through many changes. Using the latest versions of IE or Firefox are unable to pull this menu up. Either you get an illegal fault error or: Your browser does not have the approprtiate Java Runtime Environment. Please update your system to the latest JRE. Yes, the mispelling was also in there. I cut 'n pasted it straight from the webpage. After much trial and error I finally got it to work. #1 - Make sure there is not JRE (Java Runtime Enviroment) installed. It will want to install SE v1.4.2_01 #2 - Make sure you are using IE 6. I tried using a couple different versions of Firefox, but was unable to get it to work. You are probably asking IE 6? What the crap? Yes, the easy way was to use "Windows Virtual PC". It had IE 6 all ready for me. #3 - Make sure to uncheck the box labeled "Prevent MFP user from changing the Default 'From:' Address. (0) Comments 11-01-2011 - The windows "Are you sure" box solution Over the years I have had users ask me how to remove that annoying "Are you sure" box to keep from popping up. I've looked it up a couple times and finally decided to post it on my blog today for reference. There error message referencing this is "The published has not been verified". So to get rid of the annoying message do the following: To disable the warning start the Group Policy Editor (Start > Run, type -gpedit.msc- and press OK) and go to: User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Attachment Manager Then set -Inclusion list for low file types- to Enabled and enter the file types you don't want to be warned about in the box (for example: .exe). (0) Comments 09-16-2011 - How to get a bag of crap from Woot For years I have known of the bag of crap from Woot. Any tech person I know covets getting one. I know of no one personally that has ever got one. The rumor is someone got a big screen TV from a bag of crap. The other day there was a woot off. In the middle of the woot off there was a Bag of Crap. I took the time to run a couple experiments this time. I used two browsers. Firefox and Internet Explorer. I opened 3 tabs on each. 6 total. I would change back and forth from http and https. I watched the URLs closely. There are only 3 main URLs needed to get a bag of crap. They are: https://account.woot.com/login https://www.woot.com/Member/Order.aspx https://www.woot.com/Member/OrderConfirmation.aspx All other URLs seemed like redirects to get to those pages. Valuable time can be lost going through a redirect. If you know when a Bag of Crap is coming, then make sure to login to you account. Thanksgiving, Christmas and April Fools seems to be the standard days of Bag of Crap. Even though wou will still get timeout errors in the browser, I have reason to believe you will greatly increase your chances by just using the URL's above. Hopefully woot does not change them while I try to get me next bag of crap. Btw, my wife asked me what I think I might get. My response was "An inflatable dinosaur, old casette tape and hello kitty stickers. I'll be sure to post the contents when the bag arrives. (0) Comments 06-23-2011 - Google Keyword Tool Today I came across a keyword tool by google that I wanted to make note of. https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal There have been other I have tried using in the past, but this one had information that seemed to be valuable to me. (0) Comments 05-06-2011 - PHP Error of a lifetime I have been programming computers for quite some years. Today I came across an error I have never seen before. Below is the code:  Below is the webpage response:  If you have any ideas then please post below or email me. Thanks. (2) Comments 04-13-2011 - Hacked =( My server was hacked over the weekend. From what I could tell from the log files, the hacker had only been on the one day. So I think I caught it the same day. He started to try to install and configure some ilegend package. After I noticed he was on the server at the same time as me, I added an entry to block his IP Address. At the same time he start trying to undo what he had started adding. (0) Comments 03-09-2011 - HTML to PDF revision My last entry I talked about HTML to PDF. I need to admit I was wrong. wkhtmltopdf rocks!!! It hasn't been around very long, so my server either needed to be upgraded to use the recent compilied package on ubuntu, or I needed to compile my own. After trying a couple things, I stumbled onto static-build.sh. I had to modify it just a little. It seemed that the line: get http://download.qtsoftware.com/qt/source/${QT}.tar.bz2 $QT.tar.bz2 || exit 1 ... was barking at me. download.qtsoftware.com was an invalud URL. Looks like it got bought out or something. I used my friendly neighborhood search engine and found another source. So I change the line to: get http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/trolltech/pub/qt/source/${QT}.tar.bz2 $QT.tar.bz2 || exit 1 . It compiled perfect. I ran a test and loved the pdf conversion. The fonts looked really nice. I almost thought about presenting the option of prince to speed my job up, but at $1900 for an academic server license... I thought I'd explore my options. Looks like wkhtmltopdf is here to stay. Oh, and as for my silly work around with html2ps and convert with imagemagick? I seems that html2ps has problems with tables spanning over multiple pages. So it worked nice for 1 page documents, but more then that it got all squishy. (0) Comments 03-04-2011 - HTML to PDF on your Linux Server Lately, I've been working on a project that requires the conversion of HTML to a PDF file. I remember looking at this years ago. There was no simple single step process, but I was able to find a fairly easy 2 step process. You will need to install the following packages: apt-get install html2ps imagemagick gs The first step is to convert html to a postscript file: html2ps sample.html > sample.ps Then use imagemagick to convert postscript to a pdf file: convert sample.ps sample.pdf I'm amazed at what a simple solution it ended up being. Especially since there are other solutions, but they have problems. wkhtmltopdf was on I found that said it was direct, but it could not be found using to code below, but there was a way to install the package by hand: apt-cache search wkhtmltopdf . Another one I remember years ago was a package called prince, but they wanted you to pay for it. (0) Comments 02-28-2011 - How to get PoE over Cat2 Wire (6 wires or 3 pair) Recently we have been wanting to try to reuse the wiring of the old phone system at my work for network. I really never paid much attention to what type of wire was being used. I assumed it was Cat5. When I discovered I was wrong and it was only Cat2 I was shocked. I wanted to reuse the wiring from the old PBX that we replace with VOIP many years ago. I knew there had to be a work around to make it work. I have run into problems in the past with crappy wiring in old buildings, so I know I'm not the only one. After reading and reading about PoE (Power over Ethernet) I finally found an easy solution that ended up working. The hint came from a website that talked about troubleshooting PoE. We tied wires 4 and 5 together (DC +). We also tied wirse 7 and 8 together (DC -). From what I could tell PoE has a couple different implementations. One of them sending the DC power over the data lines. You might be asking "What about data transfer rates on the crappy lines? You might be lucky to even get 10mb.". Typically uncompressed voice only needs 88k/sec. So bandwidth isn't much of a factor in this situation. This fix may not work from all PoE equipment, but it did work for the Linksys/Cisco SPA942. Hopefully that helps someone in the remote corner of the world. (0) Comments 12-10-2010 - 25 Reasons to leave a website in 10 seconds It's been forver since I've posted. I have soo mush to write, but very little time. I came across this helpful list of do not. I felt it was important enough to make note of it. (0) Comments
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