Customize the Windows 7 Login/Logon Background
Overview This article outlines the steps required to change the background image of a computer when you are trying to log into it. Using these steps you can display an image behind the log in screen as a reminder to the users. This background can be found under C:WindowsSystem32oobebackground.bmp and is shown in the screenshot below. Default […]
What do TV Personalities Earn?
Nathan Yau at Flowing Data posted some interesting data from TV Guide. TV’s Top Earners includes compensation data for some of of the highest paid actors and personalities on television. Pay for actors (comedy and drama) is expressed on a per episode basis, so we created a parameter control that gives you the ability to […]
CD Drive Missing or Not Recognized
If your CD drive or DVD drive is missing or not recognized by Windows or other programs, so you cannot play or access a CD or DVD. This problem is caused by two Windows registry entries that have become corrupted. To fix the problem, you have to use Registry Editor to delete the corrupted Registry […]
Internet Explorer ignoring CSS files
Like most web developers, I do most of my development work in one browser (in my case, Firefox) and then do cross browser checks after I’ve finished my work. One issue that I recently saw crop up was IE ignoring cerrtain stylesheets for no apparent reason. After a little digging, I uncovered the issue: Internet […]
Road Traffic Death Rates from the World Heath Organization
I enjoy reading many different blogs that include data visualizations, particularly those that include Tableau Public posts. A couple of weeks ago I ran across an interesting visualization at Russian Sphinx. Her post included a dashboard of World Health Organization data on road traffic deaths. I liked the style she used for her map visualization […]
Scan Large Documents in a hurry with Topicmarks
A new startup called Topicmarks has created some very interesting technology for summarizing long documents. Give it a try. You can send in texts in many ways: Upload a file from your computer Enter a URL to download from the web Copy/paste text Send in a file by email You can send in texts in […]
Superbowl Showdown: Win/Loss History Visualization
As the Green Bay Packers and the Pittsburgh Steelers prepare to face each other in Dallas to decide who will take home the Vince Lombardi trophy, I thought it would be fun to look back in history at the other times these teams have faced off. Powered by Tableau About this Superbowl Visualization This viz […]
Creating checkout panes for Ubercart
All code comes from a shipping insurance module I wrote for Ubercart. I plan to release it on ubercart.org and drupal.org after I finish up the remaining work on it. Ubercart is the most robust solution for e-commerce sites running on Drupal today; one of its greatest strengths is the ability to add new functionality […]
Symantec LiveUpdate Certificate Expiration Notice
Direct from Symantec I thought I’d pass this information along in case you are still using some older symantec products. I believe we already have all our clients off of these older products, but some of you out there might still be on an older version. Please look at the chart below to see if […]
Booting in Safe mode hangs on “crcdisk.sys”
When Windows won’t boot up, the natural course of action would be to start it in safe mode. When safe mode loads the drivers, and you see it hang up on “crcdisk.sys” there are several possible causes: 1) If the registry has become corrupt or changed and “crcdisk.sys” is trying to reference an entry there […]