Installing Windows Server 2008 RC1 on VMWare is dead simple.
First Download the necessary files:
1 Download the Windows Server 2008 Image from Microsoft
3 Download VMware virtual disk files
4 Download this VMWare configuration file or create an file here.
This is a very easy hack that I created today.
Prerequisites
- You'll need a RememberTheMilk Account
- The Custom Buttons Firefox Extension
Once you've got a RTM account setup and the Custom Buttons extension installed you're ready to add the button.
In FF click View->Add new button....
A dialog box will appear with space to add a Name, an Image, some Code and Initialization Code.
The name and image are self explanatory. The Code box is where you'll paste the code below which will launch a new window that displays a form to add a new RTM task. The Initialization Code box is for code that will run when the browser starts up.
Past this JavaScript code into the Code box which will launch the RTM dialog when the custom button is clicked.
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javascript:(function(){h='www.rememberthemilk.com';p='/services/ext/addtask.rtm';if(window.getSelection){d=window.getSelection();}else if(document.getSelection){d=document.getSelection();}else if(document.selection){d=document.selection.createRange().text;};cp='http://'+h+p+'?d='+encodeURIComponent(d)+'&t='+encodeURIComponent(document.title);w=window.open(cp,'addwindow','status=no,toolbar=no,width=475,height=260,resizable=yes');setTimeout(function(){w.focus();}, 500);})();
Click OK to save and close the dialog and then click View-Toolbars-Customize and add your new button to a toolbar.
Clicking the button will launch the RTM form and now you can add tasks right from Firefox.
This is an easy hack that took me forever to figure out. This all came about because I wanted to test out some browser computability issues within Linux. The normal easy way would be to download a LiveCD, burn it to a disc and then reboot a computer using the LiveCD. This method works fine but while I am at work I use a laptop running WindowsXP with an external keyboard, video and mouse and spend most of my time running Remote Desktop to other computers on our network. So instead of reboot my work station into Linux I'd rather just run Linux in as a Virtual Machine. Enter VMWare Player.
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updated: aug 7, 2006 - fixed code error added hack for 2 side-bars
Summary
While browsing Theme Viewer looking for a cool theme that I could hack up I found theme that was tagged as "Widget ready". "Humm what's a widget?", I asked my self.
A widget is? The creator of WordPress Widgets says this:
“Widgets” is just a silly buzzword we’ve chosen for this sidebar-chopping plug-in we have developed. They could have been called Gadgets or Gizmos or Wizbangs or Whatevers. On the surface, they’re just things you can use to personalize your WordPress site without knowing HTML. Way down deep, they may be something entirely more significant.
That's cool but what if I don't like any one of the 54 Widget ready themes? Can I use my own theme and hack this into it?
In my quest of Shameless Self-Promotion I have been spamming, oops I mean submit..no no it's spamming, the internet with links back to my articles. I want to see how well I can promote my site using free tools and no advertising. I also want to push my content so that I will hopefully get request to write content for other sites.
One of my methods of Shameless Self-Promotion (SSP) is to submit my RSS Feeds to FeedBurner so that in a few weeks or months my site will "on the radar" of advertisers and other content sites.
I always find it ironic that people write blog posts on "how to blog" or "how to promote your blog" and here I am with a "how to promote your blog" post.
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Over the past few months I have been toying with Ajax and .NET via the Ajax.NET Professional Library and my first few attempts left me feeling that Ajax was not very useful. Then I recently had a specific task to complete and it seemed to be a perfect candidate for Ajax. The task was very simple, get a list of Albums by an Artist. This functionality is of course part of a much larger on-line music app I was constructing but I needed to start with something small. The UI was very simple a TextBox to enter an Artists’ Name and a Table to display the Albums. Since this was such a simple task I decided to spice it up with some AJAX.
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