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Fixed: Drupal Media Browser unable to press the submit button

I build and maintain a site for my cousin, Stef Marcinkowski, a graphic designer here in Toronto. Stefmarcinkowski.com.

We use the WYSIWYG module on Stef’s site for the body content and handling inline images, but were unable to press the Submit button after uploading an image using the Drupal Media browser. From what I can tell, the interplay between the JQuery Update, WYSIWYG editor and Media modules is the cause of the problem.

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Do B/G clients slow down Wireless-N networks?

I work for an internet service provider and we are beginning to roll out wireless access points for our customers. I am building wireless network management in to our online customer portal so our customers never need to open the dreaded 192.168.1.1 in their browsers again. We are also giving out multiple APs to some customers with larger homes and our management tools ensure that each AP has the same network settings so wireless clients will correctly switch between APs without losing network connectivity.

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Recovering tmux sessions

As a long-time vim user and evangelist, I have grown to love tmux over the past year. A co-worker introduced it to me while my office workstation was still running OSX because iTerm2 has special tmux support.

My terminal session occasionally loses track of my tmux sessions when I log in via SSH while working remotely.

I found the following answer on Stack Overflow: http://superuser.com/questions/279169/tmux-died-and-says-no-sessions-is-there-any-way-to-recover

TL;DR: tmux needs to be told to recreate its socket files.

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Decoding DMR radio using RTLSDR, GQRX and Pulseaudio

I recently watched Melissa Elliot’s talk from DEFCON 21 titled Noise Floor Exploring Unintentional Radio Emissions 2013 which inspired me to buy a Realtek SDR (software defined radio) dongle from eBay.

I am running Ubuntu (13.04 to be specific).

I am assuming that you already have your SDR dongle working and gqrx installed on your system.

Sources

I have compiled these instructions from a couple of sources:

DSD

DSD is the digital speech decoder that you need to pass the audio output from your software radio (gqrx in our case) through in order to get useful audio output on the other side.

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Decoding DMR Part 2 - Pulseaudio null sink

When listening to decoded digital speech radio, it is bothersome to have the raw radio traffic playing in my ears over top of the decoded sound. To get around this, I am bridging the output of gqrx to a Pulseaudio null sink which dsd is listening on.

I found this answer on askubuntu.com that shows how to create a Pulseaudio null sink in a single line. I’m sure I could have looked through the Pulseaudio docs, but this was one of the first hits on Google.

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[SOLVED] Neverwinter Nights (from GOG.com) black screen in Wine 1.6

The problem

I bought Neverwinter Nights for my father to play on his Ubuntu 13.04 system and wanted to get it working on my own machine before trying on his.

After installing, I was having trouble with the whole screen being black and unresponsive to keyboard and mouse input. The only option was running it in safe mode (a safe mode shortcut is created by the GOG installer).

I found an extremely simple fix for this while trying to disable the intro videos. Disable the intro movies.

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Fixing Initial PS4 PSN Login Trouble

If you’re like me, and you just got a PS4 because you F5’d the stock page for your local electronics retailer until you could send a retired family member to snatch a PS4 from the clutches of some other deserving gamer, you may be having some difficulty signing in to the Playstation Network.

I certainly was, until I came across the following thread on the Playstation Support Forum. http://community.us.playstation.com/t5/PlayStation-4-Support/i-cant-log-onto-my-acc-stuck-on-quot-please-wait-quot/td-p/42126099/highlight/true/page/4

The following directions seemed to work for me:

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How I fixed Wine with Pulseaudio on Ubuntu 12.10 using regedit

Oh. My. God.

I have returned from quite a long hiatus in blog entry writing to write about how I got sound working in Wine with a stock install of Ubuntu 12.10 and the (mostly) default Pulseaudio setup that Ubuntu uses. It took me 2 months and tens of Google searches for things like “Wine Ubuntu 12.10 no sound” and “What the hell? No pulseaudio sound with wine1.5.”

All I wanted to do was play Starcraft 2 without booting in to Windows. I’m fine with the lower frame rate when running under Wine. I JUST WANTED SOUND!

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