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Once again, the MBP I (have to) use at work encountered a problem: OSX refused to eject a perfectly good audio CD from an external Lite-On DVD burner. I tried the usual things - dragging the disc icon to the Trash, right-clicking and choosing Eject... Nothing worked.
Fortunately, the MacRumors Guides site had a page with some protips to help eject stuck CDs/DVDs - including a nice drutil command which solved the problem nicely. Once again, the Mac Users community saves the day 🙂
One of my many tasks on a daily basis is checking up on various web sites and the servers they're hosted on. I needed to disable Safe Mode for a WordPress but, for the life of me, I couldn't find an easy way to do it via the appropriate Reseller login. (I read a blog entry on lampdocs but a crucial screenshot was missing and the other instructions weren't very helpful without it!)
As it turns out, it's as simple as three mouseclicks. Continue reading "Tiplet: Disabling PHP Safe Mode and open_basedir in DirectAdmin through the control panel"
In our office we have a Logik IR100 - it's a handy little Internet Radio, but it's a little... fiddly... to navigate, particularly when you just want to skip to a favourite station. The device has a My Streams menu, but it wasn't appearing on ours.
I spent ages looking for the My Stuff menu, but just couldn't find it (in case you're wondering where it is, this Logik IR100 info site has detailed info, with a photo of the screen). I'd already registered the receiver on reciva.com (following the blessedly simple instructions), and added a test stream to the My Streams facility on the web site, but it wasn't showing on the unit.
Having added (and saved) the custom stream on the Reciva portal, it turns out that if you've already downloaded a station list and not powered the unit off for a reasonable amount of time, it still caches the old data. To force the unit to redownload complete listings - including the new 'My Streams' entry/entries, the simplest way to do it is to turn the unit off on the front panel then power off the unit at the wall socket. Wait a few seconds, power it back up, then turn it back on. The next time it downloads the station listings, bam! there's 'My Stuff' in the root of the unit's main menu. Navigate into there, navigate into 'My Streams' and listen away. 🙂
Such an obvious thing once you realise how to do it (you'd think Logik would've put an option in the menu to force a manual download of the full station listings for scenarios such as this).
The Domain Registry of America is a scam organisation which fraudulently invoices individuals and companies alike for renewal of .com/.net/.org domain names. They work on the assumption that clueless people will simply fill out the form and send it back - but by doing so, you end up paying far above the going rate for the domain name renewals, plus they actually take ownership of your domain names and move them away from your current registrar.
How do they send you convincingly-written letters? Well, they just poll the public whois information for your domain names (which includes expiry date, full address and full name). So, be mindful also that whatever information you provided during registration will be available for the whole world to see! You may consider anonymising some of the data, or going through a third party anonymous registrar service (which will cost extra on top of the domain registration fees - GoDaddy currently charge $20 for two years).
The Domain Registry of America is one of the older scam organisations making money off the backs of unsuspecting Internet users, but sadly their 'business' persists. UK-Cheapest has published an article detailing the DROA and their various other companies (with similar names) - read and avoid if you get a letter through the post from them!