Qiuck Fixes
Sony produces great stuff, but when it comes to the drivers support, they are unbelievably inconsistent and confusing with their driver releases.
I have a Sony Vaio VGN-SZ770N notebook and it was a painful experience to get Windows 7 32bit install with all the proper drivers, and for the 64bit, it was even harder.
Bluetooth was …
Read MoreNovember 28, 2010 Tags: 6.2.1.1200, 6.3.0.6700, ALPS, BCM2046, Bluetooth, Broadcom, Drivers, Notebook, Sony Vaio, VGN-SZ770N, WIDCOMM, Windows 7 X64
Category: Quick Fixes, Windows 4 Comments 
UPDATE: This article may help you, however if you are looking for more flexible way to install and handle multiple versions of Ruby on one system, you should check my article about Installing RVM (Ruby Version Manager) and Ruby 1.8.7/1.9.2/REE on CentOS 5.6 64Bit.
If you think that having yum handy and Ruby in one …
Read MoreSeptember 1, 2010 Tags: centos 5.5, gems, gems 1.3.5, rails, rdoc, ri, ruby, ruby 1.8.5, ruby-rdoc, ruby-ri, rubygems, zlib, zlib-devel
Category: Linux, Quick Fixes 5 Comments
Some of you probably use dedicated virtual hosting like Media Temple and are aware that the big hosting providers like to take their time and test all new versions of software prior to deploying it and making it part of their default server images.
Paralels Plesk version 8 for example is somewhat slow and not …
Read MoreHere is quick install howto for swftools 0.9.1 on CentOS 5.5:
Get the swftools-0.9.1 (this is the current for now):
[root@centos5 ~]# wget http://www.swftools.org/swftools-0.9.1.tar.gz
[root@centos5 ~]# gunzip swftools-0.9.1.tar.gz
[root@centos5 ~]# tar xzf swftools-0.9.1.tar.gz
Now you have to compile it so you need to have gcc and some libraries and components installed (automake, zlib-devel, libjpeg-devel, giflib-devel, freetype-devel) so you …
Read MoreAugust 23, 2010 Tags: 0.9.1, 5.5, centos, linux, swftools, swftools-0.9.1
Category: Linux, Quick Fixes 5 Comments
I keep forgetting these few important things almost every time I attempt to automatically upgrade my wordpress, or themes, or plugins and I get the “Download failed. Could not create Temporary file” error. Here they are:
1. Manually create a folder called “upgrade” in “wp-content”
2. Set permissions pf “wp-content” folder to 777
3. Set the php safe-mode …
