Technology at Play!

Submitted by zourtney on Sat, 2008/08/30 - 12:44

Welcome to Tech

Welcome to Randomland's Technology and Development section! This section of the site, formerly known as "dev," is dedicated to electronics, computer hardware, and software development. We simply don't do enough tinkering anymore, but as it happens we will post it here. You can plan to see Flash, Flex, JavaScript, C# and maybe even some C++ code samples.

Arcade Machine Project

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Arcade Machine Project

 

A scratch-built MAME cabinet project.

 

The project is currently in the design and material collection phase.

Broken module: '500 Internal Server Error' given to web-bots

Submitted by nick on Sun, 2010/04/04 - 09:41
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Recently we discovered a problem with google accessing the site here at Randomland. The problem was silent and mostly invisible (unless you were watching the access logs for apache.) What was happening is a module was failing, returning a php error (or nothing, as error reporting was set to silent) thus causing a '500 server error.'

Windows Media Player 12, Excessive Disk Access (Updated!)

Submitted by zourtney on Fri, 2010/04/02 - 21:13
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Months ago, when I first installed the Windows 7 RC, I noticed a Windows Media Player service (wmpnetwk.exe) was running constantly. The results were excessive disk access and constant CPU usage when no applications were running. After reinstalling Windows a few weeks ago, I came across this issue again. Fortunately, it's a very simple fix (read on).

wmpnetwk3.jpg
Core 1 working hard

Microsoft Word: Embedded Image Background All Black

Submitted by zourtney on Wed, 2010/02/10 - 16:50
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Today at work, I came across a very strange quirk in Microsoft Word. We had an image embedded in a .dot file whose background was supposed to be transparent. Instead, the background was showing up entirely black on some computers.

This had me baffled for a few minutes, but the solution is simple. Click for full text.

Upgrading CentOS 5.2 to php 5.3

Submitted by nick on Mon, 2009/12/07 - 12:10
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Randomland was recently moved to a new server. Well, not really new per say, but better then what it was on. On this server was installed CentOS 5.2. This distro, being based off Redhats enterprise linux, lacked php > 5.1. We needed at least version 5.2 of php to run our drupals like we likes. To make a long story short...
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