One problem you may encounter when moving an old system to a totally new system is the hard drive will not even attempt to boot. There are a lot of possible solutions that pop up, but what if they start asking for extreme measures like nuking the whole hard drive and starting over? I've got one more possible fix before going to such drastic measures.

I'm working on three new Bitcoin tools: Bitcoin Conduit, Bitcoin Relay, and Bitcoin Nexus. The plan is for these tools to work in concert together. I probably won't get very far by myself, but I do plan to try it past the concept phase before getting others involved.

Each tool will leverage one or more existing tools/clients. The plan is to develop each to a proof of concept state, hopefully get parts of it integrated back into the tools/client(s) I've borrowed from where it makes sense, and maintain lightweight versions of each.

Stay tuned.

There's probably a time in your life where you will encounter a clogged sink at home where you can't easily pawn off the task of unclogging it to someone else. In today's article I will tell you the three cheap and easy things you can try before you ought to call in the plumber. A little bit off theme here, but useful article ahead nonetheless.

This posting is to just keep track of pending feature requests, enhancement, and general development discussion forum. Users are encouraged to leave a comment regarding feature requests or the development of this extension.

I've published my keyboard rating extension for the first time. It's a very simple plug-in that gives you a few extra hot keys to make rating music in songbird easier. After a repackage and feedback, the end result is summarized after the break.

I've been very disgruntled that Songbird does not support rating your songs using the keyboard. Read on to see are the most basic problems and what I'm going to do about.

One thing common thing for a Greasemonkey script to do is to load another page in the window, or even just refresh a page when certain conditions are met. The problem is what happens when the page does not load at all? If the script is activated by a page load event the script will not be triggered. If it is not, the script may make assumptions about the page content that will cause it to get stuck on a page load error. The question then becomes, did the page load?

If you are having spam problem with your shiny new Drupal 6 site, there's a very simple solution that will get you most of the way there. That solution is the CAPTCHA module.

Before you make a web site, you need to decide how you are going to use it. Are you going to put everything up once (static), or add stuff to it regularly over time (dynamic)? Here are some things to consider when starting a new web site. I won't go into details or even make any referrals. This is more about getting you to think, rather than actually getting you started.

One of the problems you might encounter when setting up Drupal 6 on a host being used for multiple purposes is a conflict in path. For example, one of my forums being hosted on different domain/subdomain used the same folder name that Drupal maps its forums to. This meant that the link Drupal would use for forums would actually point to my other, unrelated, forums. This is obviously a problem if the forums aren't supposed to be linked as such.