Trying to get a Madison Blogger Meetup going. There is a Facebook group here: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=17843681384
Hopefully next week (Thursday Feb 21st, at Mickey’s Tavern)
Everything is subject to change at this point 🙂
On an unrelated note, Obama is in Madison tonight, at the Kohl Center. I got called 3 times to go and twice to go by people here. I am not going, I will watch it streaming online and watch MSNBC for the Chesapeake Tuesday results 🙂
So, after I upgraded to 1.1.3 Firmware on my iPhone, I tested everything. Everything works as planned, even my voicemail works great (not visual VM, but when I hit VM when on a diff carrier it actually goes to my VM!)
But, one issue I saw: "You must first connect to iTunes with an Internet connection to enable Youtube" when I tried to use YouTube
To fix: go to Installer.App, add a source "i.unlock.no" , let it refresh, then install the YouTube Activation Fix. Restart your iPhone and it works! Brilliant!
The other day I blogged about getting Cisco VPN to stay connect in Vista. The fix was a constant ping. It is all good but then you have this CMD window open all day in your taskbar, just taking up space, etc.
I decided to workaround it.
I created a .vbs (Visual Basic Script) called pingserver.vbs and put this in it:
Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
cmd = "ping servername -t"
Return = WshShell.Run(cmd, 0, True)
set WshShell = Nothing
(replace servername with your name of the server you want to constant ping)
Then in Cisco VPN. Options Menu->Application Launcher. Check "enable" and browse to your VBS. Then when you connect it will run that VBS file, and you will have a hidden constant ping going to your server. Nice..
I decided to try out a new IM client tonight, Digsby
I have been using pidgin for a long time and really like it. Looks like digsby is just like pidgin with some more features, so that is cool. I used code "lifehacker" to download/install
Check it out if you are sick of your current (read: trillan) IM client
I tried this http://cre.ations.net/blog/post/the-113-soft-upgrade-jailbreak-faq but for whatever reason it thinks my phone isn’t 1.1.1 and jailbroken, so I had to find another way.
found this: http://modmyifone.com/wiki/index.php/OsX113devjailbreak
but I am 1.1.1, so need to update to 1.1.2, so I followed this tutorial http://modmyifone.com/wiki/index.php/Getting_Started_iPhone_Modding_OS_X_current_3
Worked great .. well wait, at the end my phone was stuck in restore mode. Doh. What to do? Well, try to restore 1.1.2 again I suppose, probably going down debacle road here.. we will see..well I decided to restore back 1.1.1 (http://modmyifone.com/wiki/index.php/Getting_Started_iPhone_Modding_OS_X_current) first, then go back to 1.1.2 again..
Unlocked 1.1.1 again using the same method I did before (the prefs, but did the jailbreakme.com stuff)
I restored to 1.1.2 then, and it was at emergency screen. I decided to use independence 1.1.3 beta to active/jailbreak 1.1.2 for me, so now I am there, not unlocked yet. I need to get Installer.app on there manually here (http://rapidshare.com/files/87105691/Installer.zip.html)
I then decided to unlock using AnySim 1.2.1u before trying 1.1.3 (maybe just so I could check my text messages in between upgrades? :)) Didn’t work. Forgot to turn on airplane mode. Restored back 1.1.1, then to 1.1.2, but this time I used independence to get it out of restore mode at the end (the tutorial above doesn’t say that – so the first time I did it, I figured I messed up or something! Doh!)
Now, lets unlock this baby using AnySim 1.2.1u (http://modmyifone.com/wiki/index.php/Unlock_the_iPhone_1.1.2_Upgrade) – remembering airplane mode!!!
Ok that worked, now I am on 1.1.2, unlocked, jailbroken, ready to go to 1.1.3..(http://www.modmyifone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27648)
After it running for an hour, then a black screen for a while, I decided to reboot, and BOOM 1.1.3! I love the web clips, I put Facebook, Google Reader and Meebo on the home screen, as well as installed the Contacts Icon app through installer.app (since I am running 1.1.3, jailbroken, and unlocked (T-Mobile))
Whew..I am sure I missed some thing in between here, but I kind of "live blogged" it 🙂
The Google Maps locate map feature doesn’t work by default (known issue when upgrading/unlocking) So I am installing Navizon to try that, I guess it fixes Google Maps (http://repo.navizon.com to sources in Installer.app)
After I updated to WordPress 2.3.3, I was seeing some pages in my admin screens getting errors like this:
Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted
WTF? So, pages still worked though. I cleaned out everything I wasn’t using (themes, plugins, etc) in my WordPress directories, still getting it.
So researched a little, had to edit my php.ini in the etc directory of my webhost. I changed memory_limit from 8M to 16M. Pages started working again. cool!
Anyways, Windows Live Writer was getting an error on posting after I upgraded "Invalid response document returned from XmlRpc server" and the post would save as a draft in WLW (but still post to my blog) After posting to the WLW groups on MSN, Joe Cheng at Microsoft wrote me to send me the WLW log file. (Help->About->Show Log File). After looking at the log file myself I noticed the same "Allow memory size…" errors and realized that the php.ini fix probably fixed the posting problem.
After I fixed the php.ini, my posts now go through with no issue.
I know some people have just updated the xml-rpc.php and they are having issues. I recommend just updating your whole WordPress installation. If you are using a custom theme you are ok. Just disable your plugins and re-enable after updating the files. the wp-config.php doesn’t get overwritten, so you are ok.
Ok, so I wasn’t sure about this, but tried. it.
Create a batch file with this in it and execute:
@echo off
reg delete HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionWindowsUpdateVistaSp1 /f > NUL 2>&1
reg delete HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREWow6432NodeMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionWindowsUpdateVistaSP1 /f > NUL 2>&1
reg add HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionWindowsUpdateVistaSp1 /v Beta1 /t REG_SZ /d dcf99ef8-d784-414e-b411-81a910d2761d /f
IF NOT %errorlevel% == 0 ( goto ERROR)
:SUCCESS
@echo.
echo ===========================================================
echo Windows Vista SP1 registry key has been set successfully.
echo Please check for updates in Windows Update.
echo ===========================================================
@echo.
goto END
:ERROR
@echo.
echo ===========================================================
echo FAILED to set Windows Vista SP1 registry keys.
echo Please run this script by right clicking and selecting
echo "Run as Administrator".
echo ===========================================================
@echo.
goto END
:END
pause
Then run windows update. I had to install and reboot twice with two updates first before I got the SP1 download. In Windows Update it says it is the RC1 version, but after install my build is 6001.18000.x86fre.longhorn_rtm.080118-1840
which I have read in various forums is the RTM version that matches Windows Server 2008 RTM
Works for me. If it isn’t RTM, I will just update when it comes out.
There have been a few security related fixes for WordPress released. The are currently on 2.2.3
http://wordpress.org/development/2008/02/wordpress-233/
I use HostMySite.com for my hosting and they won’t upgrade your WordPress installation for you, so you need to do it yourself. Pretty simple, just follow the directions here:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress
I backed up my WordPress instance, then disabled my plugins, then uploaded the files to FTP over my existing files, then hit the upgrade link on my site, and it all worked.
I already had Akismet plugin but they have a new version in the 2.2.3 zip file, everything worked after, I just re-enabled it. As for my other plugins, some work, some have new versions that I need to update..
Viper’s Video Tags causes errors with class-snoopy.PHP , I have tried numerous things to fix it but it seems that the only one at this point that I can get to work is to disable the plugin, which means all my YouTube videos are not working at this point – ugh…
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"A boy asked his mother how come she cuts off the edges of a pot roast when putting it into the pot. Mother told him that that’s how her mother taught her to do. So, boy went to his grandmother and he got the same answer. Then he went to his grand-grandmother and ask her the same question. The answer was: Well, back then my pot was to small and the meat didn’t fit inside." – Steve Maguire’s book Debugging the Development Process.
Sort of playing off my last post
You shouldn’t be afraid to as "Why are we doing this again?" Usually in business and IT/Development the answer is: "That is the way it was when I got here, so we just kept doing it that way." Now I am not saying that every practice and procedure in place is bad or wrong, what I am saying is that you should not be afraid to ask why a certain thing is done the way it is done.
"Why are we using batch files to do XYZ?" – now we can use VBS/C#/PowerShell/One Line CMD, etc
"Why are we using MS Access as a backend?" – now we can use SQL2005!
"Why do we have 18 steps to get something approved?" – now we can streamline it and speed up everything!
"Why am I doing more documentation than programming?" – documentation goes out of date 2 minutes after it is completed, let’s self-document our code with unit tests!
"Why do I spend more time in meetings that actually working?" – do you really need to be in all those meetings? Can it be solved without a meeting? Via Email? Phone? Small face to face talk?
and the list keeps going, but you get the idea…
Always question "Why?" and sometimes you will see that things are just being done because that is the way it has always been. Don’t be afraid to change things when you do see they need to be as well. Like it is always said – "there is always room for improvement"
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