After installing Live Messenger, the check boxes below the username/password fields are disabled. When trying to login, error code 80070005 is displayed immediately(There’s no sign of it trying to connect)

I have tried to fix it by removing the windows account password to log in to Live Messenger, but that didn’t work.

Solution:

Quite simple, create another windows administrator account and use live messenger there. Creating a non administrator account might work as well, but I didn’t try that.

The error is believed to be caused by the interface - Live Messenger’s interface is not translucent like the rest of the applications in Windows Aero.

The colours used expresses a sense of obsessiveness. The background is subtle yet the blocks are divided distinctively through the margins and padding, with this comes the sense of order and clarity.

Except for the colour, there is nothing organic in this theme and that is a good thing. Whether your content are pictures of food or creatures, or just plain, cold words, the theme will not contaminate the perception of your content. The focus is on your content and you are the master.

Template Pages

It comes with 2 template pages, the archive and a contact page. The archive can be accessed in the demo. To add the page to your blog, all you need to do is write a page with your choice of title and select the page template.

Search Widget

Please use the search widget that comes with the theme instead of the default one or it will look imperfect.

The Avatar in the Header

If you look at the demo, you would see an avatar at the right end of the header. It is turned off by default. You can configure it by editing the gravatar_config.php that is included in the theme. You would need an account at gravatar.com for that.

Demo

View the Scientist Theme Demo and look around. Feedback is encouraged.

Download

Scientist Wordpress Theme (Downloaded 63 times)

Future Editions

Different styles and enhancements will come, so watch out and provide feedback.

It was uploaded before, but the server went down along with all the data, so I am reuploading it now. I uploaded it because I figured if it just sat in my hard disk it would just err…. sit there. So, if I upload it maybe someone interested in it can learn something from it or make good use of it. (That is if you figure it out somehow) Please post any comments if you do

If you understand the concepts of this map maker, you could probably make a better one yourself because you will learn what is possible with flash.

I will upload a demo later, too lazy now.

• Actionscript 2
• Flash 8
• Isometric
• Saving and loading map using XML and PHP into text files
• OOP

Some documentation I attempt to write:

Introduction

Everything is contained in the “world instance” sitting in the stage. The movie clip name is called worldMC and it’s functions are in gameWorld.as. If you understand OOP in flash, this means that the constructor in gameWorld.as which is gameWorld() would run as soon as the flash is loaded. Okay, the init() function runs as well, but I don’t remember where did I call it.

The engine is able to read and generate XML and since flash alone cannot write files, PHP is used to save it to the hard disk. You could save it to a database if you know PHP. Oh and by the way if you need a hosting with PHP and MySQL, I can provide it.

The engine draws the isometric map using lines and fills that is inbuilt in flash. You then apply the “texture” AKA map objects onto it. These objects are in .swf formats within the texture.zip.

Installation

Just extract everything into a folder then open the html file to view it. Extract textures.zip into the same folder as well unless you want to put it in a separate folder and modify the path to load from it. I did not include the php files to save it, maybe later.

XML generation and loading

The current XML format is not very human-friendly or valid. If you change the format of the XML generated, you must also change the way it is loaded, which is the load_map function.
XML generation function - generateMapXML(map) in map_maker.as
XML loading function - load_map(url) in map.as

The text commands

This is basically the /load, /save and /texture commands. The function that deals with this is the command(msg:String) function found in map_maker.as line 57.

1. /load <xml_file_name> would load the file into the map
2. /save <xml_file_name> would save it if you are running php on the server(mapper.php is the file that does the writing of the xml file to the hard disk).
3. /texture <swf_file_name> would load the swf “texture” as your current texture. To apply that texture, select a tile by clicking on it and click on apply texture.

Map Size

The map size is controlled by mapInit() function in map.as

Download

Download >> Oasis - Flash Isometric Map Maker (Downloaded 304 times)

It is recommended that you bookmark this page for further reference or updates.

Grapher is a flash graph application programmed with actionscript 2.0 in OOP. The basic version 1.0 allows you adjust the axis and plot points in the class <world.as>. There is not much you can control with the output now except to mouse over the points to show the coordinates and drag them to move the points around.

I have a few features in mind - such as calculating the angles, areas and distances between points making it more useful for those who are learning geometry. And I could also add a GUI to add, remove and join points.

Demo:

Drag the points around.

There are currently 3 classes:

1. world.as - Which in the stage contains everything except the background. It controls the axis and adds and stores the points and lines. There is a tick() function which executes every frame (24 FPS) in every iteration it loops through the points and executes each point’s tick().
2. point.as - This is the class of the point movie clip. The constructor function creates all the interaction function with the user’s mouse such as dragging and the pop up tooltip when user rolls over it. This class also draws the line, but stores as a child of world.as’s line container movie clip. The line is drawn to the previous point by calculating the relative coordinate from this point to the previous.
3. Tooltip.as - Is a modified class taken from http://theflashblog.com/?p=16. I added the function update_text(theText) in order to update the text on the tool tip. This is because by giving the user the ability to move the point, the text must be updated.

Within the point class’s tick() function, there are 3 functions that run every iteration, the update_tooltip() which updates the text in the tooltip, the update_line() which redraws the line and the update_text() which updates the coordinates (It is hidden by line 41 in the point class, you can un-hide it by commenting out that line.

Download:

• Download >> Flash Grapher (Downloaded 172 times)
• Open source, have fun with it and link back if you can.

This is what I am attempting to do:
newdomain.com to show olddomain.com/folder and
newdomain.com/whatever-that-follows to show olddomain.com/folder/whatever-that-follows

You are required to have SSH access for this, which is available for (gs) accounts by default.

For the purpose of this article, newdomain.com and olddomain.com are used to explain the steps easily. You are trying to make newdomain.com appear as olddomain.com/folder. Please replace these names with your own.

Step (1)

Add the alternate domain to your account associated with your domain. (Note that domain name takes up to 48 to start working after you changed it’s nameserver.)

Step (2)

Create a directory(folder) under olddomain.com by any means you know. eg. “folder”

Step (3)

Connect to your SSH create a symbolic link from the newdomain.com to the olddomain’s folder you are trying to target by doing the following:

Ussing SSH, browse to your newdomain.com’s folder. In (gs), use the following:

cd domains/newfolder.com

Note:
cd is a command that moves you to another directory.
cd <relative to current dir> to move to that directory.
dir is a command that display all directories and files inside the current directory.
These are standard command line interface commands. Google for more.

Continue…

Now that you are in the newdomain.com folder. Use the following command. The following command assumes that you are using (gs), please modify it accordingly if your file system is structured differently. For (gs) users, replace ###### with own number too.

ln -s /home/######/domains/olddomain.com/html/[path to folder] ./html

Explaination:

ln -s is a command that creates a symbolic link from 1 path to another.
In this case, since we are in the newdomain.com folder, the ./html folder at the end is the sub-directory of the current folder you are in. Which is newdomain.com/html.

./html is linked to /home/######/domains/olddomain.com/html/[path to folder] (An absolute path to the olddomain.com’s folder you want).

More Information

If you are using Cpanel, please refer to the previous article.

For other Mediatemple accounts please refer to their kb article and adapt accordingly to achieve your desired result.

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Update: 2:30 PM 5/9/2008

A simpler method for doing this with (gs) account is discovered.

Please refer to Pointing Add-on Domain to Existing Domain’s folder 2

–End of Update–

This is what I am attempting to do:
newdomain.com to show olddomain.com/folder and
newdomain.com/whatever-that-follows to show olddomain.com/folder/whatever-that-follows

I am using mediatemple.com Grid Service (gs) as my host in this experiment, however those using Cpanel or other platforms should be able to do this as well, as long as you can add add-on domains.

Using mediatemple (gs) add-on domains must be configured manually using SSH after adding it as an alternate domain in their interface.

The following is for Mediatemple (gs) only, other platforms are most probably done differently as the folder structures are different. You can skip Step (1) if you are using Cpanel, you just have to add newdomain.com as a add-on domain to olddomain.com.

Step (1) Delete the existing domain’s folder. Although this can be done manually using FTP or the file manager, the SSH command is:

cd domainsrm -rdf newdomain.com

Then, create the sym link:

ln -s olddomain.com newdomain.com

Step (2) Now add a .htaccess file to olddomain.com’s web root directory (html folder of (gs) and public_html folder for Cpanel)

The contents of the .htaccess file (”thefolder” is the folder within olddomain.com’s root folder that I want newdomain.com to show):

Options +FollowSymlinks

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /#Fix trailing slash issue

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/[^.]+[^/]$

RewriteRule ^(.+)$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/ [R=301,L]

#Send to the correct web site directory

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} newdomain.com

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !thefolder/

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ thefolder/$1 [L]

Completed (!) Now newdomain.com should be showing olddomain.com/thefolder.

Replace with your own domains/folder names for it to work.

This is a totally manual method, but you could create a php script to modify the .htaccess to partially automate it so that users can fill in the form with their domain at olddomain.com.

In theory, you could create a bot on your computer or run a program on server side to fully automate this which might be what blogger.com is doing. However, I don’t think (gs) supports such server side programs.

I not an expert at .htaccess, maybe there is a way to do this where I don’t need to modify it everytime.

Procut

• 5508 downloads (Last check)

I have not updated it for awhile and I am seeing quite an amount of traffic coming in through the theme. So if you have any questions please post it below.

Procut 2 Version 1.0

This is the new version which is more compact.

1. Smaller width
2. Sidebar under header
3. Live Demo
4. Download it Procut 2 (Downloaded 160 times)

Feedback at comments below.

Error Message: Unexpected file error while reading ###.part.met (): An unknown error occurred while accessing: …

This error differs from the other message “Error: ###.part.met () is corrupt, unable to load file” which I addressed in another post.

My computer shut down without my knowledge and when I switched it on, the download disappeared and a check at the log shows the error message as stated above. I then tried to access part.met and part.met.bak with notepad, both file is corrupted and inaccessible although it is not 0KB. I successfully recovered it by doing the following…

Successfully recovered by using Emule Morph Mod (http://emulemorph.sourceforge.net/)

Solution: 

1. Download and install Emule Morph Mod if you haven’t got it
2. Import downloads to your Morph Mod version of emule
3. Go to downloads.txt and find the file name of your corrupted part.met as displayed in your error log (e.g. 004.part.met ())
4. Copy the ed2k link by it’s side
5. Click on the “Tools” icon on your Emule Morph, and click “Paste eD2K Links”
6. Take note of the file name. Your new download should appear in your Downloads.
7. Right click on it and click “Imports parts to file…”
8. Browse to your emule Temp folder
9. Select your corrupted mets, part file. If your corrupted part.met is 004 then select 004.part
10. Now your new download should have the all the downloaded parts as your corrupted version
11. You may now delete the corrupted version’s part.met and part if you want to

Thats all. Post if you have any questions. I would love to hear about it anyway

I used to have a blog komirad.com but it is lost when my hosting account was destroyed, and I got loads of links from my theme, you can check the links to me from technorati and stuff like that. (Sorry, I wanted to be significant for awhile hope you don’t mind. Ah, you are kind, THANKS)

I love simple and neat themes, here are some I selected:

1. http://templates.arcsin.se/natural-essence-wordpress-theme/
2. http://paulstamatiou.com/2006/11/01/introducing-281-the-lightning-fast-wordpress-theme
3. http://koch-werkstatt.de/2007/03/24/wordpress-theme-simplicity/
4. http://www.briangardner.com/themes/dropshadow-wordpress-theme.htm
5. http://www.itcouldbethisone.com/?p=63
6. http://journal.barleyhut.com/the-gathering-wordpress-theme/
7. http://www.bestwpthemes.com/cutline/
8. http://www.bestwpthemes.com/skittlish/
9. http://www.bestwpthemes.com/k2/

Problem:
Corrupted file, missing downloads.
Sample error message: Error: ###.part.met () is corrupt, unable to load file

Causes:

• Emule crash
• Not enough disk space (I guess, don’t know if it is true)
• Bad servers/sources sending corrupted data (Use PEER GUARDIAN -3rd party software to reduce this)

Possible Prevention Methods:

• PEER GUARDIAN, reduces corrupt data sent from bad sources
• Make a separate list downloads along with file name and ed2k link to remember lost and forgotten files

Possible Solutions:

1. Check the downloads.txt and downloads.bak file to find the part which the file is corrupted
   1. If you have a large list, you might want to CTRL+F to search for the file number
   • Both files are inside your “eMule Downloads” directory
   • Open .bak with notepad or other text editor
   • .bak file is backup of the .txt file
2. If you CAN find the part inside downloads.txt, it means you know what file you lost.
   1. Look at the ed2k link at the side you should be able to make out what file name it is.
   2. You might be able to recover the file - SEE BELOW [possible recovery] section
3. If you CANNOT find the part inside downloads.txt, go to your TEMP directory which contains incomplete files of your emule
   • Move on to [possible recovery] section

POSSIBLE RECOVERY

1. 1. Look for the corrupted part’s ###.part.met and ###.part.met.bak files
   2. If these files are not 0 KB in size, you can find your file name of the corrupted file by opening it with a text editor such as notepad
   1. If these files are 0 KB in size, it means these files are corrupted too and the file name is lost. (Go on to next step)
      1. If you think the download is actually a video, and the .part file is not 0 KB, you can try to open the .part file with VLC PLAYER.
      2. You might be able to see some parts of the video as VLC scans/plays through the video (From this, you can try to guess the file that you lost)
   • This means that you can recover the file (Please view here for more info on recovery)

Relevant Links:

• How To Save “corrupt” Downloads! - Official eMule-Board (http://forum.emule-project.net/index.php?showtopic=49931&st=-15)
• Fixing Corrupted Files? (http://www.zeropaid.com/bbs/archive/index.php/t-13687.html)

Note: If you have any questions or if any information is inaccurate or inadequate, please post in the comment section below.