jQuery Impromptu provides a nice way of implementing a pop-up feature.
Flag of course flags a node.

<?php
  // Load necessary to avoid error
  module_load_include('pages.inc','privatemsg');

  // Adds javascript to header
  jquery_impromptu_add();

  // Gets rid of whitespaces that break javascript code
  // drupal_get_form retrieves the privatemsg form
  // $uid is the author of the node
  // $title is the title of the node
  $form = str_replace("\r", '', str_replace("\n", '', drupal_get_form('privatemsg_new', $uid, $title)));

  // javascript that runs jquery_impromptu on flag event
  print '<script language="javascript">';
  print "
  $(document).bind('flagGlobalAfterLinkUpdate', function(event, data) {
    if(data.flagStatus == 'flagged'){
      $.prompt('$form');
    }
  });
  ";
  print '</script>';

  // Necessary because previous module_load_include changes title
  drupal_set_title(check_plain($node->title));
?>

For more information on how you can customize the privatemsg form, look here http://drupal.org/node/624528

For a couple of years now, I’ve been developing a game in my head. I’ve created some goals that I want that game accomplish:

• It has to be open-ended
• It should be realistic
• The interface should be text-based with natural language
• It should have different types of gameplay
• It should be free

The open-ended feel, realism, and natural language interface goals are there to make the game immersive. I don’t want the player to feel like they’re playing a game. I want them to invest more time, thought, and emotion in this game than the usual game. The game should almost feel like an extension of life. A sort of alternate universe where the player gets to live out different life scenarios. It’s not just a game. It’s a way of living a different life.

That means the point of this game isn’t pretty graphics. You’re going to be able to shoot somebody–and maybe even headshot somebody–but you’re not going to see it on the screen. You’re going to read it. The imagination has a much better visualization engine than anything I could write or any open source alternative out there. And, that is why I want the game to be text-based. I’m hoping the immersiveness of it aids the player in imagining everything while reading how the game is playing out.

The game should have different types of gameplay so that its hard to be bored by the game and so that it can broaden its audience. That does mean that two players should be able to get a similar experience from the game even if the part of the game each player takes part in has different gameplay. For example, some players can have a purely business/logisitcs/tycoon kinda game, others can have a stock market kinda game, others can have a kingdom/mafia kinda game, and others can have a third-person(in the literary sense) shooter.

It has to be free because I remember being bored as fuck as a kid. I remember wishing a game like this existed and that it was free so I could play it. So, yea its gonna be free.

I’ve of course thought about how all of this will be coded. Creating a realistic feel and a an open-ended feel will be complicated. I need to make walking, driving, bus routes, non-player characters(NPCs), and a whole lotta other complicated crap work smoothly. We’re not even talking about natural language yet. If a PHP library, jQuery plugin, or Drupal module don’t already exist for natural language interpretation, it’s probably gonna be a bitch to code. Maybe some crazy Python programmer out there made something I could use. We’ll see. Since it’s text based, I’m going to need to output everything properly. Everything includes: location description, actions taking place by neighboring players & NPCs, actions you’ve done, possible error messages. Creating functionality for different types of gameplay and making sure each interacts with the other gameplays in a realistic and meaningufl way will also be difficult. The stock market player’s decisions should affect the kingdom players decions. To make it free, the coding has to be done well as to not waste calls to the server.

This is going to be a very complex game. The decision tree will be huge. The possibilities will be hopefully endless.

<?php
function chkuri($link){
//$link is the website which i am checking
// If file_get_contents failed to retrieve
// the page, it's not up
  if(!file_get_contents($link)){
    return 'I\'m sorry, but the Ampache server is down. :(';
// It is up
  }else{
    return 'It\'s up! <a href="'.$link.'">Click here to go!</a>';
  }
}
print '<h2>'.chkuri('http://martinez.homelinux.org/ampache').'</h2>';
?>

Content Construction Kit

The Content Construction Kit (CCK) allows you to add custom fields to nodes. CCK is basically what lets you create great custom content-types for your Drupal instance.

wget http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/cck-6.x-2.6.tar.gz
tar xfvz cck-6.x-2.6.tar.gz

Date

The Date module comes with an API that allows other modules to use newer PHP date functions. It also adds a nice Date field for use with CCK. The Date module also comes with a pop-up date picker.

wget http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/date-6.x-2.4.tar.gz
tar xfvz date-6.x-2.4.tar.gz

Views

Views is an amazing module. A view can be a collection of nodes of a certain type. The view can be displayed as a table, grid, teaser list, full node list, and a RSS feed. There are a number of arguments and variables you an change to make dynamic views.

wget http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/views-6.x-2.7.tar.gz
tar xfvz views-6.x-2.7.tar.gz

WYSIWYG, IMCE, & The Bridge

These three modules combine to form a near perfect WYSIWYG editor. The WYSIWYG module is an API that enables multiple editors to work with Drupal. IMCE is an image/file uploader. The IMCE WYSIWYG Bridge module brings the two together. The Bridge is only compatible with the FCKeditor and TinyMCE WYSIWYG editors, but those two are probably the best ones out there.

wget http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/wysiwyg-6.x-2.0.tar.gz; wget http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/imce_wysiwyg-6.x-1.0.tar.gz; wget http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/imce-6.x-1.3.tar.gz
tar xfvz wysiwyg-6.x-2.0.tar.gz; tar xfvz imce_wysiwyg-6.x-1.0.tar.gz; tar xfvz imce-6.x-1.3.tar.gz

CAPTCHA & reCAPTCHA

These two modules enable a simple anti-spam measure. You could use CAPTCHA on its own, but I prefer reCAPTCHA simply because it helps digitize books while also preventing spam. You could also use the Mollom module or the Spam module.

wget http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/captcha-6.x-2.0.tar.gz; wget http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/recaptcha-6.x-1.3.tar.gz
tar xfvz captcha-6.x-2.0.tar.gz; tar xfvz recaptcha-6.x-1.3.tar.gz

Download the Advanced Taxonomy Blocks module & install it.

In your terminal enter:

wget http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/taxonomyblocks-6.x-1.8.tar.gz
tar xfvz taxonomyblocks-6.x-1.8.tar.gz

Repeat for its dependencies.

Configure your block

Once installed, you can configure Taxonomy blocks. You can do so by going to your administration page and selecting ‘Advanced Taxonomy Blocks configuration’ under the ‘Site Configuration’ section.

Set visibilty settings with PHP

Now, enable the block you just configured in the Blocks page. For the ‘Page specific visibility settings’, select the PHP-mode. Remember to substitute the vocabulary IDs for the taxonomy_get_tree function.

Enter the following PHP code:

<?php
// If node->type == blog
if(arg(0) == 'node' && is_numeric(arg(1))){
  $node = node_load((1));
    if($node->type == 'blog'){
      return TRUE;
    }
    // Main blog page
    }else if(arg(0) == 'blog'){
      return TRUE;
    // On tag page that is a blog tag
    }else if(arg(0) == 'taxonomy' && is_numeric(arg(2))){
      $tid = arg(2);
      $tree1 = taxonomy_get_tree(1);
      $tree2 = taxonomy_get_tree(2);
      foreach($tree1 as $term){
        if($term->tid == $tid){
          return TRUE;
        }
      }
      foreach($tree2 as $term){
        if($term->tid == $tid){
         return TRUE;
        }
      }
    }else{
      return FALSE;
    }
  return FALSE;
}
?>

If everything’s working, you should be able to see the taxonomy of the blog page, term pages associated with the blog, and on every blog entry.

I found a fix though: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-January/msg05487.html

Basically, all you have to do is open up a terminal and run this:

alsamixer

You can switch between the things using the left and right arrows. Press m to mute or unmute it.

In addition to muting the headphone jack and line jack, I muted the external. If that doesn’t work for you, just mess around muting and unmuting stuff.

I used pptpd. Nietzsche is running Xubuntu Hardy Heron.

Install

sudo apt-get install pptpd

Add Users

sudo vim /etc/ppp/chap-secrets

The format is:

username pptpd password

Edit pptpd.conf

sudo vim /etc/pptpd.conf

Add lines similar to these

localip 192.168.1.72

remoteip 192.168.1.200-253

localip is the IP for the VPN server. remoteip are the IPs that will be given to the VPN clients. I'm using unused IPs.

Edit pptpd-options

sudo vim /etc/ppp/pptpd-options

Uncomment #ms-dns 10.0.0.1. Change 10.0.0.1 to your DNS server or router

Edit sysctl

sudo vim /etc/sysctl.conf

Add the following lines

net.ipv4.conf.default.forwarding=1
net.ipv4.conf.all.forwarding=1

Restart

sudo /etc/init.d/pptpd restart

Your server should be up and running.

For some reason, the hostnames of about every computer were being forgotten by my 2wire router. This is bad because I named my computers for a reason! I didn’t want to memorize IP addresses. The IPs weren’t hard to remember. Its just that memorizing an arbitrary number to a computer that does specific things is hard.

I couldn’t ssh into the servers easily, because I’d have to look up the IP each time rather than just typing in the hostname.

It was a simple fix!

You just have to edit dhclient.conf

sudo vim /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf

Insert this line

send host-name "yourhostname";

Restart the DHCP daemon
I used this command for Hardy Heron

sudo /etc/init.d/dhcdbd restart

I used this command for Jaunty Jackalope

sudo /etc/init.d/dbus restart

Your computer should now tell your router its hostname!