We've been looking for a good email validation tool for wordpress user registrations to prevent unwanted or spam registrations such as these.  

New user registration on your site Thoughts and Scribbles:

Username: LillaLucero

E-mail: agd_hare @ n s c r e  a m . c o m

To that end, here's a good plugin to do just that.  You'll get a link verification in your email to force the user to confirm their account before it's registered.  The plugin is called Register Plus Redux and is available from the WordPress plugin page.

Cheers,
TK

So after tinkering with my HTPC I notice the 120mm fan over my video card came loose.  I mounted it on to the side of the case but the fan less video card's heat sink was not hot.  Sure enough, after booting VLC wouldn't play anything.  No sound no video just:

 xcb_xv vout display error: no available XVideo adaptor

I did update the kernel as well sometime back and don't recall playing any videos since that time.  And I also upgraded my SL Linux to 6.3 from 6.1.  Either way, here's what we had to do:

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This is an extension of the gdb and cores file post earlier and viewable int he link below.  In this case, whenever we restart or try to shutdown the system, we see a brief message on the prompt about some crash which quickly disappears.  Then the system restarts but is not capable of shutting down unless we cut the power.  It's so quick we can barely make out any characters.  So we check the cores files folder setup earlier so we can double check on why this could be happening by corrolating this with last|more information and the core files produced.

[root@mbpc cores]# locate gvfs-gdu-volume
/cores/core.gvfs-gdu-volume.10346.mbpc.1372911605
/cores/core.gvfs-gdu-volume.12094.mbpc.1372910362
/cores/core.gvfs-gdu-volume.14548.mbpc.1369504171
/cores/core.gvfs-gdu-volume.28404.mbpc.1372697005
/cores/core.gvfs-gdu-volume.29440.mbpc.1372704190
/cores/core.gvfs-gdu-volume.32474.mbpc.1372707034
/cores/core.gvfs-gdu-volume.4191.mbpc.1369503901
/cores/core.gvfs-gdu-volume.5841.mbpc.1372910706
/cores/core.gvfs-gdu-volume.7077.mbpc.1372707292
/usr/libexec/gvfs-gdu-volume-monitor

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Windows 7 Home Premium edition doesn't come with RDP enabled by default.  Luckily, there is a set of files available out there if you wish to enable it.  However, keep in mind, this is a workaround to lack of RDP on Windows 7 Home Premium so naturally there are risks associated (see the site disclaimer).  

To summrize, we do not recommend following these steps unless the reader is willing to take responsibility for all risks and consequences both perceived and real as a result of following these steps.  This worked for us but YMMV.  Keep this in mind!  On to the steps:

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To change your mysql password for any user, use the following procedure, in case the password is lost or forgotten.  For this post, we'll be changing it for the root user.

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In our quest to install OpenStack, we run into this thingy 

# keystone user-list
Expecting authentication method via 
  either a service token, –token or env[SERVICE_TOKEN], 
  or credentials, –os-username or env[OS_USERNAME].
#

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To disable autosaves in WordPress comment out the following in wp-admin/post.php:

        // wp_enqueue_script('autosave');

Cheers,
TK

When trying to launch System -> Preferences -> Sound you get the following message in a panel:

Waiting for sound system to respond

In this case, this was the result of my tinkering with the sound system, in an attempt to try to make multiple applications use the sound drivers simultaneously instead of the sound system getting locked by one application only.  So I knew exactly what the issue was based on what I added to the following files:

/etc/pulse/daemon.conf

/etc/pulse/default.pa

The file in question causing the issue was the .pa above.  Here's the offending line:

Taking a look further down for text detect in the .pa file from above revealed we're already loading some detect lines as per the default .pa file configuration so I only needed to add tsched=0 to disable the timer based scheduling for the module arleady being loaded: module-udev-detect & module-detect:

While uploading images to the blog, I run into this little error:

Fatal error: Unknown: Cannot use output buffering in output buffering display handlers in Unknown on line 0

The solutionw as to disable WP Super Cache temporarily while I try to figure out the real root case.

Cheers,
TK