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

<?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>';
?>

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.

Currently, my tower has Xubuntu Hardy Heron installed. One laptop I can’t touch till I find a way to get into and save the files. The other laptop is problematic because it doesn’t have a working screen or CD drive.

I decided to install Xubuntu Hardy Heron onto the problematic laptop with a thumb drive. My personal laptop is running Intrepid Ibex and its got that “Create a USB Startup disk” option. Problem solved? Wrong!

Did you know that some thumb drives just cannot be booted from? Well, I have one of those thumb drives…

I had two options at that point: I could buy another thumb drive or I could install a PXE server onto my tower and install Xubuntu over the net.

I took the free option…

What is a PXE Server?

PXE stands for Preboot eXecution Environment. That means you can create a server that boots anything over the network. I would be able to essentially boot the install disc from over the network!

Since open source software is awesome, I knew I could google ‘hardy heron pxe server’ and find the tutorials I needed! That proved to be true. There were lots of tutorials, but none of them worked for me. I combined several and got it nearly working. I would get timeout errors, but I knew the server was up and running. I later found an obscure article with a comment that solved the problem!

I’m writing this so you won’t have to go through what I did just to install an OS! Here we go!

Stuff you need

• a server pc (this will be your PXE)
• a client pc (this is what you’re installing on)
• a LAN

Install some stuff

sudo apt-get install dhcp3-server tftpd-hpa tftp-hpa inetutils-inetd 

Download some stuff

You have to download netboot.tar.gz

wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy/main/installer-X/current/images/netboot/netboot.tar.gz

Make sure to change the X in installer-X to your appropriate chip architecture which should be either amd64 or i386.

Extraction and folder prep

sudo tar xvzf netboot.tar.gz -C /var/lib/tftpboot/
sudo chown -R nobody:nogroup /var/lib/tftpboot
sudo chmod -R 777 /var/lib/tftpboot

Configure your DHCP server

You have to edit dhcpd.conf

sudo vim /etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf

Change the contents of the file to be:

ddns-update-style none;
default-lease-time 8600;
max-lease-time 74000;
subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0{
  range 192.168.1.0 192.168.1.100;
  filename "pxelinux.0"
}

This part is a little weird. I’m running this over a LAN so I just used 192.168. Run

sudo ifconfig

to find out your IP address. You may need to change this file to reflect your network’s setup.

Configure TFTP server

Edit tftpd-hpa

sudo vim /etc/default/tftpd-hpa

The contents of the file should be:

#Defaults for tftpd-hpa

RUN_DAEMON="yes"

OPTIONS="-l -s /var/lib/tftpboot"

Configure inetutils-inetd

Edit inetd.conf

sudo vim /etc/inetd.conf

The contents of the file should be:

tftp    dgram   udp4     wait root  /usr/sbin/in.tftpd /usr/sbin/in.tftpd -s /var/lib/tftpboot

The third parameter must be udp4! This is what was messing up my setup before. Apparently, Ubuntu versions starting with Hardy need udp4. Older versions can get away with udp.

Restart DHCP server and TFTP server

sudo /etc/init.d/dhcp3-server restart; sudo /etc/init.d/inetutils-inetd restart

If your servers didn’t fail to start, you can move on to the next step.
Check the syslog to help you pinpoint any problems.

tail /var/log/syslog

Installation time

Make sure your server and client are connected to the LAN. Boot up your client and change the BIOS settings. You should put PXE, Broadcom, or whatever network sounding think to the top.

If everything is working, it should be up like an install disc. Be sure to change the BIOS settings on the client after install.

Still having issues?

• Is port 69 blocked?