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Software Doesn’t Work – How Not To Resize An Image

Software Doesn’t Work – WordPress

Out of the box WordPress install.  Downloaded, unzipped it and uploaded to my server and then started moving over my existing posts from BlogEngine.NET.  But I couldn’t add an image to the post!  Pretty sure I wasn’t doing anything abnormal though figured I wasn’t understanding how to upload and insert images into posts.

Fine, read the documentation – http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Image_and_File_Attachments

Complete Usage Instructions

These instructions assume you are in the Admin back end of your WordPress site.

1) To create a new blog entry, click “Write.” To edit an existing post, click “Manage” and click “Edit” next to the desired post.

2) Beneath the text-editor window you should see a section with “Upload” as its heading. If the file/image you wish to attach to the blog entry has already been uploaded in a previous posting and you just wish to use it again, then you should see a tab next to “Upload” which is labelled “Browse All.” Click this tab and then skip to step 10.

Step 2 and I’m stuck – I don’t have an “Upload” section beneath the text-editor window.

Back to the drawing board.  Now I have 2 ways it seems to add images – a button on the toolbar of the text-editor to insert an image based on a url and an Add an Image button under the Add media area (for lack of a better term).

The Add an Image button seemed like it would work though I would have to know where wordpress uploaded the image to when I attempted to use the Add an Image button.  And the issue I was having was if I used the Add an Image button, I would get a pop-up window where I could upload an image and I confirmed the image was uploaded and it would appear that there was a new image under the Gallery but I couldn’t actually insert the image into the post – which felt broken and I also noticed there was a javascript error when I would use the Add an Image button. 

So with a bit of searching, there is a fix and to prove it wasn’t me – http://wordpress.org/support/topic/163902 (go all the way to the bottom).

And sure enough, applying the patch (found here) and now everything works.

Software Doesn’t Work

I was using BlogEngine.NET (http://www.dotnetblogengine.net/) which had a glaring bug – you had to have at least one post otherwise it would throw an exception rendering it useless.

So to keep with tradition, I’m starting my new wordpress site with the same post.

Red Ring of Death – Part 2 – Initial Contact

Well after much research, I have come to the conclusion that things may not hopeless after all.  From what I can tell is that a some people have been able to get their modded xboxes through microsoft’s repair without issue while others have simply just had theirs returned without being repaired.  So I figured what is the worst that can happen…

So xbox.com, Support and bingo a FAQ: entry for Three flashing red lights on the Ring of Light.  Double checked everything in the KB article which was fairly simplistic (though I have heard of people going through the repair process if they have 4 flashing red lights instead of 3) and still RRoD.  Now the KB article clearly states:

“If your console continues to display the three flashing red lights, your console may have to be repaired. For information about how to start the repair process online, please visit http://www.xbox.com/support (http://www.xbox.com/support), and then click Console Repair? in the upper-right section of the Web page.”

Excellent, except for one small detail.  There is no Console Repair? anywhere on the page let alone in the upper-right section.

So now before someone points out that, the next line in the KB article does say that the online repair service in not available in all countries or regions.  But not in Canada?!  So just to mess around some more, I changed my location to United States and suddenly there is a Repair Agent on the support page (not Console Repair? as I was told and not in the upper-right hand corner).

Now the Repair Agent wasn’t much help either,

I am seriously wondering at this point how anything on their xbox product line works at all.  As the last resort, 1-800-4MY-XBOX, which I was pleasently suprised by a) a 5 min wait time which really isn’t that bad to speak to the support person (I have been in support queue hell for just over 8 hours) and b) their voice activated menu system which had no problems even though I had a cold.  Provided my details which again took about 5 minutes and now have a box being sent to my door in 2 to 5 business days.

The wait beings…