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So I have been working on fixing John’s computer this morning and the solution to the problem was much easier then people were making it out to be, so I wanted to write out these steps so that next time John has this problem, it will be much easier to fix.

So the problem that John was having is that his computer somehow got corrupted or something and it wouldn’t allow him to install any DMG files.  So after doing research the solution was to install a patch, but that patch is provided in DMG format, which he can’t open.  So the solution.  Reboot the problem computer, hold down the T key upon reboot so that it will start up the hard drives but not the OS.  Then connect a working computer to this computer via FireWire cable.  And then open the dmg file that can’t be open, then move the PKG file that is within the DMG file, and put it on the broken computer.  Then reboot the broken computer, and then run the PKG file.

Then after the broken computer runs the PKG file, it will probably reboot a few times, but then it will be working again.  So this is my brief solution on how to let a computer that can’t open DMG files to open DMG files.

I have now entered into the world of being a hosting provider.  I have been hosting several sites for a while, but just recently decided that I should start doing my own hosting.  So I am still working out some of the kinks, and will start adding some new pages here in the next few days talking about my hosting opportunities, and how I can serve the people who want me to host their site for them.  But I just wanted to put this note out there letting people know that I now can provide hosting.

I was over using Plaxo this morning, I got an email about someone joinging Plaxo or something like that.

Any way, while I was there I noticed that Plaxo now accepted openIDs.  Which got me thinking that I have always wanted to have my own openID server.  Well, while I was looking how to setup my own openID server, I noticed that google was now an openID site, so when I signup to sites that use openID, I can use google as the openID site.  So I decided to add an openid login to my sites, so I added an openID plugin.  So if you need to login to this site, you can now do so using openID.

I stumbled across this site, that is great.  Its just a site that lists all the information about a really bad travel agency that we tried to use to get airline tickets.  So here is a link to the info about this crappy company.

http://www.freewebs.com/travelsafe/

Check this out.  This is a site about the scams we faced when dealing with, lastminutetickets.net.  They now appear as they are doing business as http://www.lowest-ticket.com/ & http://lowestfares.travel.  Be warned of these companies as they are no good.

I am slowly working on this module to allow wordpress and phpgedview, which is the genealogy software that I use on my sites, to be linked together.  I met this guy online who has been working with me on the process.  The plugin is going to be called WPPGV, but we keep having problems with the code because both Wordpress and PhpGedview have a php method that is named the same.  The biggest problem that I see is that the one is wordpress is deprecated, so I am tring to determine how to turn off that procedure that is deprecated.  Any one have any ideas.

I know that I could go in a modify the code, but I don’t want to do that.  i mean, how could I do it without modifying the Wordpress code?  Any ideas?

I upgrade this site to be wordpress 2.7 beta 3 today, let me know if you notice any problems or anything that doesn’t seem to work with the site.

For work I connect to all sorts of Oracle Databases, so we have been using a tool called SQL Developer, it is a java based app, released by Oracle. I had to do this class the other day, to share tips and tricks that I have found using SQL Developer with my co-workers. It was an entertaining class, but one thing that I noticed while they were asking questions, was that I didn’t have the latest version of the software. SO I got the new version and when to start using it and noticed that I was missing all my connections, so I did a little google search, and found this site, and this article, that helped, so I thought I would post it as a place I found useful information

This is just the place where I will play with plugins and other sorts of code so I don’t break anything else.  I am going to start working on the integration of Wordpress and Pggview.  Hopefully we will get this plugin working and it will allow us to integrate our site and our genealogy site.  I’ll keep you posted.