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Windows Vista Service Pack Problems

Something went wrong with my gaming PC recently and it started BSODing on a regular basis. During these crashes I managed to lose or corrupt something in Vista.

I went for a clean install after searching a bunch of forum posts, few of which helped.
Most said my memory was suspect, but my GTX260's fan wasn't spinning up so I figured that was the problem. Yay for more expensive.

Anyway, the problem with the re-install was applying service packs. What a piece of work this turned out to be.

Drupal Issue

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The problem is being researched and status will be provided when information is available.

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scriptlet failed, exit status 3

When executing `rpm -e some-other.rpm` the following error snippet "scriptlet failed, exit status 3" is encountered. The RPM is not removed.

To work around this error, execute `rpm -e --noscripts some-other.rpm`.

Blood Bowl and Steam

Well, Blood Bowl (Games Workshop, Cyanide Studios and Focus Home Interactive) was "released" on Steam November 25th, 2009 in the US. Released being quoted since I am still getting an error when trying to launch it.

"This game is currently unavailable. Please try again at another time."

The only thing that chaps me worse than not getting what I pay for is not getting what I pay for AND not getting any support either.

Linux Cheatsheet


General Linux
snmpwalk -v 1 -c public check snmp availability
/usr/sbin/modules-config auto-configure modules.conf

D4rk Theme Issues

New Drupal theme issues:

(FIXED)1. Text - Links Too dark. The gray is a couple shades too dark for it's background color.

(FIXED)2. Text - Black text, in text entry areas, is too dark. (search box)

(FIXED)3. Spacing - Spacing on articles and blocks.
There needs to be a CR between the controls of an article teaser and the title of the next.
In blocks, there needs to be a CR at the end.

(MOSTLY)4. Preview - white text on white background. Mostly fixed. You can now see the body but some fields, like author, still have some white text on white background. Comment preview works fine however.

(FIXED)5. Bottom AdSense block not showing properly. (Apparently main page only)

(FIXED)6. Pager black text too dark.

CIALUG, the local linux users group, suggested using firebug to find these issues.

Red Hat / CentOS: Install from a specific repo

yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=

--disablerepo = Here we disable all repositories
--enablerepo = Give the name of the repo you want to use
= Name of the software package you wish to install

Funny IRC Quote

#9346 +(406)- [X]

[bob] you're like "i want something that uses gtk :(" and redhat's like "YOU MUST NOW INSTALL GNOME-CORE; GNOME-TOYS; GNOME-QUAKE; GNOME-PRETTY-CAT-THAT-DANCES-ON-YOUR-WINDOWZ"
[bob] "Press Space Bar to install 1986 Space Shuttle Schematics"
[bob] "Or Enter to install HAM RADIO to RealPlayer signal converter"
[bob] "Or press nothing, and I will Reboot"

Building a MySQL Capable Postfix RPM

Build Environment:
CentOS 5 x86_64
Postfix 2.3.3 Sources
gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-44)

2.6.18-164.el5 #1 SMP Thu Sep 3 03:28:30 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Deb Package Status script

A little script written to track the status of .debs.

Tells which packages need to be purged or upgraded and if a dist-upgrade is in order.

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