running Tomato in client bridge mode

Log into the tomato interface and navigate to Basic > Network

Change the client routers IP address to a value within the primary router’s subnet. In my case I set it to 192.168.1.50 (the primary routers subnet was 192.168.1.2 to 192.168.1.51

Hit the save button.

Now, enable wireless and change the wireless mode to wireless ethernet bridge.

Type in the ssid of the primary router and match the security logins.

Hit save.

Disable and re-enable the client computers ethernet adaptor. In windows 7 I did this manually by clicking control panel > system > device manager > network adaptors > (my ethernet adaptor) disabling it, then re-enabling it

Installing XBMC on Acer Aspire Revo 3700 (Part 2)

This tutorial follows on from an earlier tutorial that can be found HERE.
To get Wifi working, follow this procedure:

Once XBMC has been installed, boot in and switch to the terminal by pressing CNTRL ALT F2

Install wpasupplicant by typing:
sudo apt-get install wireless-tools wpasupplicant

Install the driver for the RT3090:
sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:markus-tisoft/rt3090
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install rt3090-dkms

Install wicd-curses (This will manage your newtork connections)
sudo apt-get install wicd-curses

Reboot by typing sudo su the reboot now. Once the computer has booted, type wicd-curses

You will notice that during the installation you will get an error: starting network connection manager wicd failed.

Now encrypt your network passkey with the following:
wpa_passphrase your_essid your_ascii_key

* replace the information with your own login details. For instance, my network (or essid) is called homenet, and my wpa passkey is monkey. So I would have typed in the following:

wpa_passphrase homenet monkey

The result should be something similar to the following:

network={
ssid="homenet"
#psk="monkey"
psk=ffe1b80746215def132a6afa2f192c90f5bed672b5793f17362086a7624ebe9d
}

Notice the last line. This is your passkey displayed in a hex value. You will need to write this down.

Now we have the network and key encrypted we can start adding this information to the interfaces configuration file:
sudo pico /etc/network/interfaces

Add the following lines of code, the wpa-psk line should match the result from wpa_passphrase:
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wpa-ssid Wireless Home
wpa-ap-scan 1
wpa-proto WPA #RSN
wpa-pairwise TKIP #CCMP
wpa-group TKIP #CCMP
wpa-key-mgmt WPA-PSK
wpa-psk ffe1b80746215def132a6afa2f192c90f5bed672b5793f17362086a7624ebe9d
Hit CNTRL X to save this information.

Now we should restart the networking services:
sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

By typing ifconfig we can validate that we’re connected to the network.

Handy terminal commands

sudo su
Exectues commands as super user.
reboot now
Reboots the computer
iwconfig
Detects network extensions
sudo iwlist scan
Scans for networks

Installing XBMC on Acer Aspire Revo 3700 (Part 1)

Here are the steps I have used to install XBMClive. At the time of writing, all these steps have worked for me.

Download the latest build of XBMC. I have used the standard Dharma version 10.0 which can be found here.

Because the Revo 3700 doesn’t have a CD rom drive, To install XBMC we need to create a bootable thumb drive. While many people use Unetbootin for this, it is unsuitable for the Revo as during the installation Unitbootin will ask for a CD-Rom. So instead, we will use Linux Live USB Creator. At the time of writing this, I used the 2.7 Beta which has support for XBMC, and installed XBMC without any problems.

Plug your tumb drive in, Install and run Linux Live USB Creator, selecting XBMCLive as the source. This will take a little while.

Now plug your thumb drive into the Revo, and boot it up. The revo will automatically start the install procedure for XBMC. At one stage it will ask for you to set a user name and password – This is required later when we need to configure the Revo’s Wi-fi connection through the terminal. So make a note of that password!

The installation is a fairly easy procedure. Once it has finished, remove the thumb drive and restart the revo. It will require you to enter that password on your first boot – But don’t worry, it won’t require it again unless you wish to access the terminal.

All done! The next tutorial (Which I am still yet to write) will explain how to get your wi-fi connection up and running.

In part 2, we will connect the Revo to a wifi network.

VIRTUEMART: Replace “update” & “delete” buttons in shopping cart

To replace the images used for “Update” and “Delete” with a text button:

Find the file: administrator/components/com_virtuemart/html/basket.php

Look for the line:
_('PHPSHOP_CART_UPDATE') .'" src="'. VM_THEMEURL .'images/update_quantity_cart.png" border="0" alt="'. $VM_LANG->_('PHPSHOP_UPDATE') .'" align="absmiddle" />
and replace with:
_('PHPSHOP_CART_UPDATE') .'" />

.htaccess redirecting to a new domain

Redirect Old domain to New domain (htaccess redirect)

Create a .htaccess file with the below code, it will ensure that all your directories and pages of your old domain will get correctly redirected to your new domain.
The .htaccess file needs to be placed in the root directory of your old website (i.e the same directory where your index file is placed)

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.newdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Please REPLACE www.newdomain.com in the above code with your actual domain name.

In addition to the redirect I would suggest that you contact every backlinking site to modify their backlink to point to your new website.

Note* This .htaccess method of redirection works ONLY on Linux servers having the Apache Mod-Rewrite moduled enabled.

VIRTUEMART: Modifying the Quantity options on product flypages.

To change things such as the text “Qantity” to “Qty”:

Options for the variable pricing drop down menu can be found at:

components/com_virtuemart/themes/default/template/productdetails/includes/addtocart_advanced_attribute.tpl.php

Options for the quantity / Add to cart button can be found at

components/com_virtuemart/themes/default/template/productdetails/includes/quantity_box_general.tpl.php

Centering a horizontal un-ordered list

This is a great example of how to center a horizontally displayed list without using tables. It’s a great way to do footer menu’s.
In this example, the UL is contained in a div container with the class “footerMenu”

.footerMenu {
float:left;
width:100%;
overflow:hidden;
position:relative;
}
.footerMenu ul {
clear:left;
float:left;
list-style:none;
margin:0;
padding:0;
position:relative;
left:50%;
text-align:center;
}
.footerMenu li {
border-left:#FFF 1px solid;
float:left;
list-style:none;
position:relative;
right:50%;
padding: 0 10px;
}
.footerMenu li a {
color:#fff;
text-decoration:none;
}
.footerMenu li a:hover, .footerMenu li a:active, .footerMenu li a:focus {
color: #fff;
text-decoration:underline;
}
.footerMenu ul :first-child {
border-left: 0;
padding-left: 0;
}

IE Reset CSS

/* Reset CSS */
html, body, div, span, applet, object, iframe, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, blockquote, pre, a, abbr, acronym, address, big, cite, code, del, dfn, em, font, img, ins, kbd, q, s, samp, small, strike, strong, sub, sup, tt, var, b, u, i, center, dl, dt, dd, ol, ul, li, fieldset, form, label, legend, table, caption, tbody, tfoot, thead, tr, th, td {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border: 0;
outline: 0;
font-size: 100%;
vertical-align: baseline;
background: transparent;
}
ol, ul {
list-style: none;
}
blockquote, q {
quotes: none;
}
blockquote:before, blockquote:after, q:before, q:after {
content: ”;
content: none;
}
:focus {
outline: 0;
}
ins {
text-decoration: none;
}
del {
text-decoration: line-through;
}
.clear {
clear: both;
line-height: 0;
font-size: 0;
}

Conditional Statements

With this example for Joomla, I want to have a condition for every page except the front page:

To make this apply for Search results (for instance, you might not want a module position displayed when the search results are displayed), just modify the code so: (‘view’)!=’search’

also – make sure to add style=”xhtml” – this ensure that module headings are wrapped in a h3 tag.

With this example for WordPress, I want to give the frontpage it’s own unique body class: