Category Archives: Tech

WordPress for iOS

Posted on August 27, 2010 by ratatosk

An iPhone app for wordpress. Trying it out now. Seems pretty straight forward to set up and use. Loving the feature to upload pics from the phone cam directly.

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Windows FLP and Serial to USB adapters

Posted on June 17, 2010 by ratatosk

One word: serenum.sys FLP is Fundamentals for Legacy PC. This is a very trim installation of Windows XP, meant for Embedded systems like thin client PCs. It’s so trim, that the OS does not expect the hardware to have serial / … Continue reading →

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Tech: PHP PEAR Extension silliness

Posted on May 18, 2010 by ratatosk

Website using Drupal with PEAR extensions for users to export class schedules into an Excel file. Certain class schedules won’t export. Throwing an error like: Fatal error:  Call to undefined method PEAR_Error::write() in /opt/lampp/htdocs/xxx/xxx/xxx.module on line 166 The line of … Continue reading →

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Tech: EMail-Merge with Microsoft Office 2007

Posted on May 13, 2010 by ratatosk

Synopsis: IT IS TERRIBLE!!! DON’T DO IT!!! Google for a solution using OpenOffice!!! GET OUT WHILE YOU STILL CAN! The adventure started easy enough… We are migrating about ten thousand students over to a new email system. There’s this Live@Edu … Continue reading →

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Tech: Absolute-Privacy plug-in for WordPress

Posted on May 13, 2010 by ratatosk

Very useful plug-in. Setting up a blog to act as a collective brain for the department. Thus thought of using WordPress and then use a plug-in to make it private so that only those who are able to log in … Continue reading →

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