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Last Updated: 13 December 2012

The open source stuff that JomSocial uses to convert and render video uploads (ffmpeg) also supports audio files.  I thought it would be cool to modify JomSocial to allow audio files to be used in its videos section.  It actually wasn't as hard to figure out as I thought it would be.  Please let me know if you have a better way to do this.  It would be cool if I could figure out how to customize the dull background ffmpeg puts on the "video," but at least it works.  Anyways, here's what I did...

* Find this file --> /components/com_community/helpers/videos.php
* Find the section that lists the MIME types that will be accepted
* Change / add MIME types as necessary

For example, I added this to videos.php:

Read more: How to Modify JomSocial to Support MP3 Audio Uploads

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Last Updated: 19 March 2013

I gave myself a home project--upgrade / reorganize my home studio so that it is both more comfortable and more like a proper man-cave.  As a man-cave cannot be complete without a game console, a PS3 was high on the agenda since my wife commandeered the living room PS3 for Netflix viewing.  I thought it would be relatively easy to connect a PS3 to my PC monitor.  The video part was easy of course--just plug in the HDMI cable (duh).  However, the audio part was an unexpected challenge.  Since I'm such a nice dude, I share my story for the benefit of others.

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Last Updated: 10 December 2012

1. IT: we're a bunch of freakin' morons! yeeeeeeeehhaaaaaaaawwwwwwwww!
2. Incompetance with a smile.
3. Proud to say it's always our fault.
4. IT: we do nothing all day long (except play the network version of
Unreal Tournament).
5. We love to look like idiots.
6. Can't print? Call someone else. We're busy playing video games (see
#4).
7. IT: join us and you'll know why we're always drunk.
8. Reboot and call me after I finish this beer.
9. Opened a virus? Now you look as dumb as we do everyday.
10. IT: a department that slipped through the cracks.
11. IT: yes, we read your email (and we know about your pregnant 14
year-old daughter).
12. IT: yes, we know where you go on the web (and pornosluts dot com is WAY
better than stripperparadise dot com by the way).
13. IT: serving you better--one goddamn m*th*r f**k*n' user at a time.
14. Try our new DS3's! They'll help you waste company time 80% more
efficiently.
15. Always here to help you open those ultra-compressed mpeg-2 family
videos that have absolutely nothing to do with work.
16. Always here to teach you how to use a mouse--day in and day out.
17. Accelerating the web so that XXX collegegirl download puts YOU in the
action.
18. If it hurts your productivity, we'll do it!
19. We NEVER know what we're doing. Guaranteed or your money back.
20. Making your workplace experience that much more dreadful.

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Last Updated: 19 March 2013

In the course of my IT career, I can't tell you how many times some guy has brought a computer to me saying, "I dunno what happened.  It seems to have a virus or something.  Can you take a look?"  I take a look and the story is always the same.  The guy just doesn't know the right way to look at porn.  The parallel to real life is creepy--if you bang hookers without knowing how to use condoms, you're gonna get an STD eventually.  Accordingly, if you whorishly surf waves of Internet porn without protection and know-how, you're gonna wipe-out your computer.  Here are a few tips on how to safely and respectably look at at Internet porn.

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Last Updated: 10 December 2012

PROBLEM
Recently I switched a number of networked HP printers (Laserjet P4515n) to the universal print driver because the model-specific print driver was crashing and rebooting the print server.  After switching, the print server no longer crashed; however, opening the printer properties / settings pages was terribly slow, taking 1~2 minutes to finally open.

CAUSE
The cause I determined was actually McAfee Virusscan.  Luckily, I found this entry in the on-access scan log:

Not scanned  (scan timed out)     C:\Windows\System32\spool\drivers\w32x86\3\hpchl118.cab    none (Virus)

SOLUTION
Adding this CAB file to McAfee's scanning exceptions list solved the problem.