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Using Blockquote in Drupal to highlight text...

Posted Sat, 01/21/2012 - 15:03 by donmc

OK- I finally have one I like to highlight a quotation with.
It is a Drupal module called "Blockquotes" and it goes like this:

Posted by zeta ζ on July 14, 2008 at 7:38pm

The Blockquote module is used to create styled blockquotes in your pages.

These blocks of text are intended for one or more verses or paragraphs that are quoted verbatim (word for word). Separating this text into a block shows that the whole block is quoted, therefore no punctuation marks are needed to indicate the beginning or end of the quotation.

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Pull Quotes

Posted Sat, 01/21/2012 - 13:11 by donmc

I wanted to add some CSS to my Drupal sites to provide a cool quotations look for blog posts etc. This is the module that I found that I think does a very good job. Unfortunately, I also need an option to remove the original text from the post - so that ONLY the pull quote is viewable. But that doesn't appear to be available as an option with this module. For most of the time, I really want the quote to be INLINE in the text. Any thoughts on how that could be done would be welcomed - you can comment on it here if you like... Read more »

Twitter Module Breaks if you don't upgrade to OAuth 6.x-3.0

Posted Tue, 01/17/2012 - 13:12 by admin

I just sorted out the newest version of the Drupal Twitter module (https://drupal.org/project/twitter) - it was broken somewhere around December by an upgrade that pushed the version required of the Drupal OAuth Module http://drupal.org/project/oauth up to the newer OAuth 6.x-3.0-beta4
There is also now a required module ADDED called "Autoload" (Currently Version 6.x-2.1 - http://drupal.org/project/autoload) that was not required prior to this. Read more »

Resetting the TCP settings in Windows 7 (& probably Vista etc.)

Posted Mon, 01/02/2012 - 17:37 by donmc

It's hard to admit this, but I have had a great deal of trouble with Windows 7 and VPN - connecting to a remote VPN service from a Win7 Desktop.

I looked everywhere to try to resolve it, when I finally ran across this little gem:

netsh winsock reset catalog [resets winsock]
netsh int ip reset reset.log hit [resets the TCP/IP stack]

Run these two at the command line, REBOOT, and (at least for me) all of my issues with VPN connection failures were GONE !

Settings (in Vista and Windows 7) to access Samba Shares...

Posted Wed, 09/14/2011 - 20:17 by donmc

Microsoft Vista’s default security policy is to only use NTLMv2 authentication. I am not sure what the setting is by default in Windows 7 - so this may apply there too.

Note that NTLMv2 authentication is supported in Samba 3.0+

Seems like we ought to be heading towards Kerberos for all our authentication needs in the longer term.

See the forum discussion on this at:
http://www.builderau.com.au/blogs/codemonkeybusiness/viewblogpost.htm?p=...

HP Array Configuration Utility in a Redhat Linux Server

Posted Mon, 07/11/2011 - 09:20 by donmc

To review the HP Drive Array Diagnostics in a Redhat Linux Server:

Start the services:
hp-health System Health Monitor and Command line Utility Package.
hpsmhd    System Management Homepage server.

Then start the "Array Configuration Utility":

# sudo  /usr/sbin/cpqacuxe -R

Then browse to the URL on your server (in this example 10.2.2.1):
https://10.2.2.1:2381

Great Visio Resource

Posted Fri, 06/24/2011 - 09:53 by donmc

Greg Ferro has great ideas for representation of complex VLAN & routing layouts in Visio:
http://etherealmind.com/category/network-diagrams/

Mount an NTFS Filesystem in Linux

Posted Sat, 04/30/2011 - 23:17 by donmc

Under CentOS 5.6 OR Redhat Enterprise Linux RHEL 5.6
To mount NTFS file systems, you'll need to do this:
mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt

CentOS 5.6 HTTP Install

Posted Sat, 04/23/2011 - 13:39 by donmc

Website Name: mirror.centos.org
CentOS Directory: centos/5.6/os/i386

Sprint EVO 4G data reset procedure

Posted Wed, 04/06/2011 - 08:26 by donmc

In order to get your data working again after an outage of 3G or 4G you need to do the following in sequence:

  1. Phone this number: ##3283#
  2. Hit "EDIT" - it will prompt for a password
  3. Hit 287804
  4. Hit "OK"
  5. Select "DATA PROFILE"
  6. Go to Menu --> Restore
  7. Hit "OK" [Twice]

It will reboot, and do stuff...
Then, once it has fully rebooted, go to: Menu/Settings/System Updates/Update Profile
Once that is done, your data connection via 3G or 4G should be repaired.

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