Jason L. Froebe - Tech tips and How Tos for Fellow Techies

I was trying to install Oracle 11g client on to a WinXP box but Symantec Antivirus wouldn’t let me because it thought it was infected with over 800 viruses.  Same file was marked clean on another box.  So, I picked several of the viruses it said was infected with and looked for any evidence of [...]

The static pages (like Store) are working again.  I’ve had to fix the redirect plugin by Nick Berlette.  If you want it to work with your modern Wordpress blog (2.6 or higher) you just need to change a tiny bit.
Remove this:
require_once($_SERVER[‘DOCUMENT_ROOT’] . ‘/wp-config.php’);
Replace with:
$root = dirname(dirname(dirname(dirname(__FILE__))));
if (file_exists($root.‘/wp-load.php’)) {
    require_once($root.‘/wp-load.php’);
} else {
    require_once($root.‘/wp-config.php’);
}
It should [...]

I rebuilt an Ubuntu 9.10 server this past week, ripping off VMware and replacing it with VirtualBox 3.1.2. Setting up VirtualBox as a headless server was very easy with VBoxTool. However, I ran into a problem that I was unable to connect using remote desktop (rdesktop) as any user but the user that [...]

When my bought the Sony MEXBT2700 CD Receiver with Bluetooth Hands-Free with Integrated Microphone (Black), I was thrilled. It seems to be a nice little radio with bluetooth and all the whiz bang that I needed.
We purchased the wiring adapter and the harness so that it fits well and looks nice in my Saturn [...]

I wrote a simple image viewer that will load a photo image into a Gtk.Image widget using a Gdk.Pixbuf.  I then added a tool bar with four clickable icons.  Zoom out, zoom in, fit to window and original size.

All but the fit to window worked well.  When I pulled the width and height from image1.GetSizeRequest(out [...]