Manually Repair Broken Blocks In Drupal

Friday, August 24th, 2007

Quite a few times I have had to manually repair MySQL databases in Drupal installs because new PHP code in a block is crashing. When you add a block written in PHP it may behave differently to when you have tested it outside of the CMS because of the way Drupal works.

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The Following Packages Have Been Kept Back

Sunday, August 19th, 2007

If you are trying to update software packages on Debian / Ubuntu Linux using this command -

sudo apt-get upgrade

and you get this kind of response (listing different packages) -

The following packages have been kept back:
gtk2-engines-gtk-qt kdebluetooth skype totem wpasupplicant

Then you may want to condsider doing the following…

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K3B Needs Extra Work To Burn Mp3 To Audio CD’s

Sunday, August 19th, 2007

So you have Mp3 working on your Linux box and you think everything is fine. Then one day you want to burn some Mp3′s to an audio CD and all hell breaks loose – no Mp3 support in K3B! K3B, the CD and DVD “kreator” for KDE is great but it needs some extra work to get it to work with Mp3 files.

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Drupal Module RoleSignUp Bug / Feature Request

Friday, August 17th, 2007

This is a great module for auto assigning roles… however there is a possible bug or unwanted effect in the function theme_rolelist in rolesignup.module I am posting my suggested fix here incase it does not get adopted by the modules developers, so that other developers can find it useful.

Navigate through the file rolesignup.module in the modules directory and modify the function so that it appears like so…

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Skype Down – Users Can’t Connect

Friday, August 17th, 2007

After two days of not being able to connect to Skype from my Linux system, I today noticed that Windows systems also can’t connect. What does this mean? It means its not an isolated problem specific to the client side programs on either Windows or Linux – it’s a server side software issue.

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Malaysia Today Blog Membership Disabled

Sunday, August 12th, 2007

A Malaysian Chinese student defended posting a rap video of the national anthem on YouTube that enraged ethnic Malays, saying he was merely exposing the truth in his music, according to a newspaper report Thursday.

- Quoted from Malaysia Today

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Malaysia Wants To Import Food From Starving Nations

Thursday, August 9th, 2007

Some greedy and ignorant people who want to travel around the world for free (and have a great time no doubt) may have managed to break up a “beef import cartel” in Malaysia. I can’t beleive people actually beleive this nonsense….

The cartel that has been controlling beef imports for the last 20 years has been targeted to be broken by the Government.

– Quoted from the Star Newspaper.

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Malaysian University Student Comes Under Fire For Video Clip

Thursday, August 9th, 2007

Congratulations to Wee Meng Chee in Taiwan on 400,000 + views of his video online. The Star newspaper reported and is quoted below…

His six-minute video clip, which used Negaraku in a Mandarin rap, has been viewed more than 400,000 times since the middle of last month.

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Cockroach Trap Kills The Cockroach Killer

Monday, August 6th, 2007

If you have never tried one of those cockroach traps that are often for sale in supermarkets in Malaysia – don’t bother. These traps are crazy, they don’t target cockroaches as they claim but they will trap anything trying to pass by. And so the story begins…

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Malaysia PHP User Group Forum Is Back!

Sunday, August 5th, 2007

After a good few months in hiding, the Malaysian PHP Group forums are back. I did take a few moments to write to the people who run the site and ask for them to bring the forums back. Of course a few other people must have asked too. Anyway the forums are finally back in action and its great news – as the WordPress site that was up in its place was totally bare and lacking interactivity.

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