What can drive Apple’s methods?

I have to say I found the antenna fiasco quite amusing mainly because I thought it would not become much.  However, I always believed that the iPhone market had the potential to drive a change at Apple.  I have read the articles about deleted Apple support forums posts and the silence when it comes to acknowledging a problem.  Cell phones have become a vital part of the consumer and business markets.  There is not a lot of room for a “finicky” cell phone.  Users will want quick answers followed by firmware or hardware fixes. Continue reading

Posted in Apple | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

xe-edit-bootloader, Found 2 for VM, but only 1 is allowed.

This may come up following my two ubuntu on XenServer guides.  I figured I would explain what is happening and how to fix the error “Found 2 for VM, but only 1 is allowed” error from xe-edit-bootloader.

Continue reading

Posted in Virtualization, XenServer | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Adobe crash in Vista/2008

Recently I ran into an annoying little Adobe Reader 9.3 crash while doing product testing.  My first thought was that the product being tested was causing the problem, but I first started with a Google search to make sure it was not a known Adobe issue.  I found many a person with my runtime error, but mostly because of redirecting AppData to a UNC path.  In my situation I was not doing any redirection.

Continue reading

Posted in Windows | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

ubuntu 10.04 beta server DomU on XenServer 5.6 beta

I’m one that always likes to test out the latest and greatest.  As frustrating as it can sometimes be, I do enjoy it.  So once I had ubuntu 9.10 server up on XenServer, I wanted to try ubuntu 10.04 server beta.  It is almost exactly the same as 9.10, but changes in grub have made it a little more involved.

Continue reading

Posted in Virtualization, XenServer | Tagged , , | 6 Comments

ubuntu 9.10 server DomU on XenServer 5.6 beta

I’ve been trying to get ubuntu up an running as a DomU in PV mode under XenServer for a while.  The Citrix blog article is horribly old and some info is no longer accurate.  There are a few key things to getting this done that I discovered along they way.

Continue reading

Posted in Virtualization, XenServer | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Xen Desktop on ESX backend

Getting Xen Desktop 2.0 Beta up and running on a VMWare ESX backend.

Continue reading

Posted in Virtualization, XenDesktop | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Joomla Tooltips

In my porting of Zoom Media Gallery to Joomla 1.5 I had to figure out how to recode the tooltips. Here you’ll find the most basic way to fully customizing your tip.

Continue reading

Posted in Web Development | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Joomla popup button

Joomla 1.5 has a nice pop up button class. This will dim the webpage and popup a smaller page over it. I found that it doesn’t work quite right outside a toolbar, so here’s how to manually do it.

Continue reading

Posted in Web Development | Tagged , , | 1 Comment

Playing with the Joomla WYSIWYG editor

One thing I had to figure out was how to set the editor’s contents via JavaScript and get its contents in my controller. It turns out that Joomla 1.5′s API provides a way to do so without knowing what editor you are actually using.

Continue reading

Posted in Web Development | Tagged , , | 1 Comment