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GoDaddy hosting not responsive to Drupalgeddon.

Posted on October 31, 2014 (Last modified: January 10, 2015)

GoDaddy hosting is not responsive to Drupalgeddon . I might as well manage my own site. Time to move to AWS. Update: Move to AWS completed over the holiday break. Now I have to work on putting together a better theme. [Read More]

One or more problems were detected with your Drupal installation. Check the status report for more information.

Posted on April 26, 2014

Wow, this error caused me some grief for a couple of days. Anytime that I would access the “Configuration"menu of my Drupal 7 site I would get the error, “One or more problems were detected with your Drupal installation. [Read More]

Enable 3D Acceleration in VMware Workstation 9.0 on Ubuntu 12.04

Posted on April 10, 2014

The following .vmx setting works for enabling 3D acceleration in VMware Workstation 9.0.3 running on Ubuntu 12.04.3 Linux. This configuration is deployed on a HP Pavilion dv7 laptop with Intel 3000 integrated graphics. [Read More]

Brightness keys do not work on HP Pavilion dv7 laptop with Ubuntu 12.04

Posted on February 27, 2014 (Last modified: April 10, 2014)

After installing Ubuntu 13.04 as the main OS on my HP Pavilion dv7 laptop, I noticed that I could not change the screen brightness using the f2 and f3 brightness keys. [Read More]

Node.js in Action

Posted on February 20, 2014

Node.js in Action just arrived from Amazon. Time to start digging in and getting started on my next project…