The wireless card Intel Pro 3945ABG on a Thinkpad T60 stopped working after the latest Windows XP Update.  It showed as “working properly” in my hardware profile but neither the Windows Network Tool or the IBM / Intel Network Manager could pick it up and the Fn+F5 combination couldn’d switch the wireless back on. If [...]

I have been frustrated for some time – having to click to change tabs in firefox as opposed to using a alt-tab like solution for changing tabs. However today whilst using my wifes laptop – with a slightly different keyboard layout than mine, i accidently discovered that Ctrl + tab will change the tab you [...]

MM_XSLTransform error. [RSS URL] is not a valid XML document.  Non-static method DOMDocument::loadXML() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in file I recently came across this error and took me a lot of searching to find out the right fix for it. Here is where you can find the fix. http://groups.google.com/group/macromedia.dreamweaver.appdev/browse_thread/thread/832446ccb50569f3 [...]

Creating a secure firewall is essential for any openvpn configuration. First of all, I’d strongly recommend grabbing a copy of Linux Firewalls. Its got a great section on iptables, with a look at all the commands available to you as well as an example firewall configuration. I have setup an openVPN which has a configuration [...]

In some of my wx python apps, I have come across this error. It usually appears like this on the command line Segmentation Fault (core dumped) The most common reason for me getting this error, has been when a non-main thread tries to directly manipulate something in wx. Be it to Hide() a window, or [...]

Part3: Setting up the schedule So you’ve got the python screen capturer and emailer sorted. Now all we need to do is combine the two and set up a process to perform on a regular basis. 1. ScreenMailer First, we’ll combine the two. When this module is run, it should grab a screen image and [...]