The Wichita Computer Guy's Contribution Blog
Standard TCP/IP Printer Port Missing on Windows 98
Tue, 2008/05/06 - 14:51 | 
phil I maintain several computers for a small Sign & Screen printing company, who use Windows 98SE for their main vinyl plotting computers. The reason (I'll try to keep this short) is because the store owner has a few years of age on her and she really didn't like the newer versions of the plotting software they use, so they've stuck with a version that really only works in Windows 98. (I've tried to talk them into upgrading and it hasn't happened yet...)
Use Image as a Background in Microsoft Word 2007
Thu, 2008/03/20 - 19:17 | phil Have you ever wanted to insert an image as a background for a Microsoft Word document? Usually you would use MS Publisher for something like this but not everyone has free loads of cash to purchase a fancy flier program like Publisher.
I spent about an hour trying to figure out a way to effectively embed a picture as the background for a word 2007 document and decided to blog it in hopes to save someone else some time.
32MB nVidia Driver Update Ubuntu Beryl - Compiz Fusion Fix
Mon, 2008/03/10 - 03:25 | phil I'm not a Linux guy... I find Linux to be rather frustrating. It is a programmers operating system and I am not a programmer. That aside, I am writing myself a note on how to "fix" and update the nVidia driver on my laptop, and get it to work with Ubuntu Gusty 7.10 & Compiz-Fusion.
(If you are looking for Beryl, like I was for an hour and a half today... Beryl has merged with the extra plugins sector of Compiz and become Compiz-Fusion)
Drupal Default Filter - Role (role) user is not allowed to use format Full HTML.
Thu, 2008/02/07 - 00:08 | phil I ran across a beautiful Drupal module this evening called Default Filter which allows the Drupal administrator to set input filter defaults, based on various roles within the system.
I have run into issues where I have wanted to assign the Full HTML input format for all administrative users, and Filtered HTML for all anonymous or low level authenticated users. Up to this point, I just set the default filter to Filtered HTML and manually changed it when I created a new page.
Default Filter takes care of this problem!
Drupal Fix for Internet Explorer Cannot open the internet site with embeded Youtube and Google Video
Sun, 2008/01/27 - 15:01 | phil Drupal is a wonderful CMS platform for building an encompassing and professional website presence. I have however, run into an issue where Drupal does not like to show embeded video's through Youtube or Google Video when viewing a page in Internet Explorer. If you try to visit the page with the embeded YouTube or Google Video, Internet Explorer throws up an error message to the effect of:
Internet Explorer Cannot open the internet site http://domain.com/page
Operation Aborted.