Alex Stanhope - technology

Default colours for vis.js

admin — Thu, 17 Sep 2015 13:22:07 +0000

vis.js is great. Here are the colours it uses for traces by default:

blue: #4f81bd
orange: #f79646
green: #75c841
purple: #8c51cf

Update: found a much longer list in the source code:

How to tell VMware player to DHCP an IP to a MAC address

admin — Sat, 08 Aug 2015 05:48:46 +0000

Open C:\ProgramData\VMware\vmnetdhcp.conf

Add a host entry at the end

host elan {
hardware ethernet 00:0c:29:fc:b0:f6;
fixed-address 10.12.2.160;
}

Don't worry about the vmnetdhcp.leases files. They seem to be the active ones, but .conf is the master source.

Shopify vulnerability reported in PCI DSS scan

admin — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 15:50:10 +0000

Having migrated CultureLabel over to Shopify, I'm now ticking the boxes. Qualy's PCI is reporting a single failure: TCP Source Port Pass Firewall.

Cygwin-based rsync without destroying permissions

admin — Sun, 27 Apr 2014 07:14:15 +0000

I use rsync to keep my drives backed up under Windows 7 (using Cygwin). Windows permissions were getting messed up, but the solution was to disable ACL within Cygwin. I inserted this line into /etc/fstab.

none /cygdrive cygdrive binary,posix=0,user,noacl 0 0

There was no need to change the rsync command itself:

rsync -avn --stats <source> <destination>

Getting Draytek LAN-to-LAN VPN setup

admin — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 09:10:22 +0000

I've been trying to get two Draytek Vigor 2920Vn routers to connect to one another using LAN-to-LAN VPN. The setup process was largely intuitive, save one detail.

The general VPN process was pretty simple. The two routers are connected all the time, but there is still a sender (dial-out) and a receiver (dial-in). As I use this LAN-to-LAN connection to enable multiple foreign offices to connect back to headquarters, HQ is dial-in and everyone else is dial-out.
Dial-out end

Login to Draytek admin interface
Select VPN and Remote access

Drupal form validation failure can double up js settings array

admin — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 17:12:01 +0000

I had an interesting Drupal bug. One of my forms has some javascript that turns an file field widget into an image gallery. When the form fails validation, the page reloads with the invalid fields highlighted (excellent Drupal feature). Unfortunately the Drupal.settings array is reloaded (using jQuery.extend) without clearing the previous array. This has the affect of changing an array of strings and ints into an array of arrays.

button_remote_url "Choose something from the URL"

button_remove
"Change picture"

button_upload
"Upload your own"

error_ajax

Poser Pro 2014 Content library error messages again

admin — Sat, 24 Aug 2013 06:44:49 +0000

I seem to have endless problems with Poser Pro 2014. I did with Poser 9 previously. I'm using 10.0.1.25099 and again I'm getting a startup error in the content library:

FAULT Detected!
[FaultEvent fault=[RPC Fault faultString="HTTP request error" faultCode="Server.Error.Request" faultDetail="Error:[IOErrorEvent type="ioError" bubbles=false cancelable=false eventPhase=2 text="Error #2032"].
URL: http://127.0.0.1:11530/apps/lms/api.py"] messageId="F74FC0CF-8F68-0592-DE4E-AEFE08947FED" type="false" bubbles=false cancelable=true eventPhase=2] --- Fault Request Info:
op=appConfig

Windows-updated Intel HD4000 driver broke Battlefield 3

admin — Fri, 31 May 2013 06:45:12 +0000

My problems with auto-update continued today. Battlefield 3 failed to start up properly. The mouse froze over the in-game menu. This was a proper hardware crash that won't respond to task switching (Alt + Tab) or interrupts (Ctrl + Alt + Delete).

When Windows Updates fix Poser problems

admin — Thu, 30 May 2013 19:04:46 +0000

Recently my copy of Poser 9 stopped working. The Library manager refused to open, posting this error message:

FAULT Detected!
[FaultEvent fault=[RPC Fault faultString="HTTP request error" faultCode="Server.Error.Request" faultDetail="Error:[IOErrorEvent type="ioError" bubbles=false cancelable=false eventPhase=2 text="Error #2032"]. URL: http://127.0.0.1:11530/apps/lms/api.py"] messageId=978869C0-8C30-E958-7AD1-F63700E8A6F1" type="fault" bubbles=false cancelable=true eventPhase=2] --- Fault Request Info:
op=appConfig

Samsung Galaxy S3 freezing and looping black (start-up logo) screen of death

admin — Fri, 24 May 2013 20:23:51 +0000

I recently had a problem with a friend's S3. They had rooted their SGS3, which invalidates the warranty and is clearly something I would never do myself (ahem)!

The phone had been worked fine with its rooted OS (CF-Root-SGS3-v6.4.zip) for months, but on the evening of Saturday 4th May, Vodafone pushed an update. That update seemed to conflict with the rooted OS, and when they returned to the phone it was stuck in an endless loop; it would flash the Samsung Galaxy S3 screen (white text on black background) for a few seconds, then go black (reset), then flash it again for a few seconds.