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FTP it somewhere and provide the downloadee with an account to grab it.

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To Fix the Problem:

Start > Control Panel > Programs & Features > (now look to the left) you will see a link Turn Windows Features On or Off, click it!

You'll see a new window titled Server Manager, now look to the right and click the Configure IE ESC, adjust your settings, meaning TURN IT OFF!

Refresh your browser, Javascript and/or AJAX functions can now get back to work. I'll elaborate on my thoughts about this "feature" later, but for now, to quickly post an easier-to-find solution I'll publish it now, hope this helps!

To preface, I'm running Red Hat Linux Enterprise and assume you know and/or use nano by now, instead of vi(m) ;)

Also using PuTTY to access my Linux server from a Windows host.

So, to jail folks up we've taken this approach which I think is pretty straight forward and easy.

1. Open a terminal and type:

nano /etc/password

2. Make two changes:

Set the user's home directory to whatever the home directory is for the website they work on:
/var/www/html/website_name
Set their login shell to /sbin/nologin

Save it with a Ctrl+x, hit the "y" key, then Enter to confirm.

To finish up, you must add their login name to the /etc/vsftpd/chroot_list.

Yes it is and it's also becoming an all to common phrase out of you as of late. While it's embarrassing it's also a bug, right?

It's nice that team Mozilla makes light of the situation but the more I see this message the more frustrated I get because of its overly polite, yet humble approach.

I can't help but wonder, "Why didn't you use this nice, friendly error message for problems that might occur much less often”? That way, when your browser REALLY screws up, you wouldn't feel so bad about it!

But now that it's showing up as often as once or twice a day, I'd prefer to see a more serious or common message, such as "an error occurred, we're working on it".

Of course life could be worse and I'm not bearing a grudge, it's just an opinion.

Browsing the web? Get a life:

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Funny thing happened within the last few days, I was asked by three people, "Hey Mike!". "Yes". "How can I add Google Analytics to my [Drupal] site?". My reply... "would you like fries with that?"... just kidding. But that's a decent amount of requests so I think it warrants a quick bloggy blog.

What came to mind? Maybe you could find this on Drupal.org (yes, you can), maybe they have a module for it (yes, they do).

I upgraded to Red Hat Enterprise from Fedora Core 7 recently. I wasn't running SELinux on the Fedora box but decided to try it out on the shiney new RHE server.

I ran into seemingly simple problem, my apache log was reporting a 403 - Forbidden permission denied to index.php when trying to access a simple test index.php in one of my virtual hosts. This is something that I've done probably 120 times before in only minutes, but it took me about 3 hours last night to get to the bottom of this. I figure it deserves a post as a personal note, and hopefully save others the time and a headache.

I use it because I'm a webmaster

I use it to transfer large files, like pictures and multi-media

I use it on my home or office network to back stuff up

I use it at work cause they tell me to

I use it to upload my school work

I use it for another reason (if so, please comment and tell me the reason!)

lol, an FTP client? seriously?

I've been using WebsiteGrader.com website.grader.com a lot lately, I'm getting kind of addicted actually. I grade everything... you got a website I've probably graded it! just kidding... It's a super tool for those just starting out in the confusing and many times hypocritical world of SEO. It'll give you a good base-point to help you understand where your website really stands according to those search engines we all use every day.

Barack Obama went from being a virtual unknown in 2004 to being the president-elect in 2008.

He was the third African-American to deliver a keynote address at a Democratic National Convention when he took the stage at the 2004 convention in Boston, MA. A few months later, the former law professor at the University of Chicago became the fifth African-American US senator in history, winning with a landslide 70% of the vote.

I pulled over into this field in WeBo, just off Prospect Street, when I saw like a million of these things taking over the lot. At first I thought it might have been cotton, but remembered quickly that I wasn't in Georgia anymore. I like this shot, interesting subject and like how the color really hits...

Some curve edits in Photoshop, a little dodging and burning to get the pop...

Original here Milk Weed Thing

A photo taken early summer 2008 in my Uncle's backyard. It's a tall "bud thing", about to become a tall "flower thing" I think, and me standing there with my belly and Under Armor flops. Taken straight down, no flash, held steady, no breathing.

Added some curve edits in Photoshop to get the pop...

Original here Flower bud thing

I got a somewhat frantic call today from a relative asking me why they had hundreds of porn and other unrelated links embedded in the HTML source of their business web site.

At first, they thought it might have been the design company that did it, or maybe an inside job by someone in the company. I thought it was probably just a forum web site that got hit by some bot or whatever...

Opening Existing Projects in Flex

First, you might think there would be an option as soon as you opened the IDE to open "Recent Projects" but there isn't.
Second, you might think there would be an option at least in the File menu to “Open Project”, but there isn't.

Ok, so stop reading this for a second and look at Flex, do you see a panel called Flex Navigator? You do?? Then why are you reading this, double click your project and get to work! : )

If you’re like me and you don’t see this silly little panel you’ll have to enable it!

Open the Flex Navigator, by selecting Window > Flex Navigator this will open a little panel with a list of your existing/recent projects. A few of my projects were closed (I did that before I closed the panel at some point) so they had a blue suitcase looking icon next to the name... just double click the project and your back to work.

I feel kinda stupid for not digging deeper to find the answer with the product, but... in the end it comes down to a usability issue that Adobe should at least consider.

I've been playing with Flex for about a year, on and off, but never long enough at any given point to let what I was learning sink in, however I think it’s a great tool for web and RIA developers. The last week or so I’ve been back into it, working on a bunch of little projects, trying different things and just tinkering.

But I just got a little annoyed about something that you would think should be simple as can be. I’m not sure if it warrants a post on the blog or not, but only because I didn’t find much help elsewhere (another typical Flex annoyance) maybe this will help another poor soul that finds themselves in the same situation.

From A List Aparts web site

"Calling all designers, developers, information architects, project managers, writers, editors, marketers, and everyone else who makes websites. It is time once again to pool our information so as to begin sketching a true picture of the way our profession is practiced worldwide.

Possibly the most important invention of the past century, the web is undeniably one of the most robust engines of knowledge transfer, political and social change, artistic endeavor, and economic growth the world has seen.

occursus
Latin, meaning: a meeting.

The Occursys™ web site was released today and is ready for users and their content!

Occursys™ currently develops Meeting Press™, but can also be considered a community portal for the scientific students and professors attending such meetings as Cytokines 2008 in Montreal, and the upcoming Cytokines 2009 meeting in Lisbon.

Anyone in the community can create an account and post abstracts, questions and other field related content. Colleagues can comment and provide feedback on each other's work and studies.

MeetingPress™ is currently running the 7th Joint Meeting of the International Society for Interferon and Cytokine Research and the International Cytokine Society Cytokines 2008, to be held October 12 to 16, 2008 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. MeetingPress™ has also successfully hosted their 2004 conference in Puerto Rico and last year’s 2007 meeting in San Francisco CA.

Six Key Features:

1. Abstract submission via the conference web site.
2. Abstract management, including tools for reviewing, editing and distributing.
3. Attendee registration via the web.

Lately I've been playing around with a few open source CMS platforms trying to figure out which would be the best fit for my clients, and myself I guess. Building every site from scratch is history for me... basically I'm just tired of reinventing the wheel.

Word Press, Joomla!, and Drupal we all installed. The truth is each of them are good good stuff which made it a tough call. I can see where one might outweigh the other under certain requirements but in the end Drupal takes the cake, at least for me.

It seemed like Drupal did the best job at handling different languages and provided the most support for e-commerce. Drupal also seemed to include a lot of modules that are important to me, Google Adsense and Analytics.

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