Rambling Ross

Flatpress Theme Used On RamblingRoss

Mon, 13 May 2013 18:22:08 -0600

Following a request by Elena the theme used on this site had been made available.

The theme is based on the standard leggero theme shipped with FlatPress.

Simply unzip the file into the fp-interface/themes folder and select it from the Themes menu in the Administration area.

Dell XPS M1530 - Bluetooth 355 and Windows 7

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 06:56:52 -0700

I have recently been trying to get a bh200 head set working with a new installation of Windows 7 on an old XPS M1530.

After trying various Widcomm drivers without success I stumbled on a post on the Dell support forums which seems to solve the problem with the following steps:

1.You need to force Windows 7 to detect the bluetooth module, so download the Dell patch: R159805

2.At this time, the bluetooth module should be detected and installed by Windows 7

3.Go to Dell support and download the latest driver for the bluetooth module (for Dell XPS 1530): R140135

4.Install the driver. It will update the module’s firmware

Cookie Statements

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 18:33:35 -0600

Phil has recently contacted me regarding a cookie statement to associate with his use of cPrompt.

As I am not a lawyer I can’t provide definitive answers on what cookie statements should contain, but guidance is available from the Information Commissioners Office and the Government Digital Service.

reCAPTCHA and nms FormMail - sample perl script

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 20:35:54 -0600

David has recently been in touch regarding problems he has had with problems he is experiencing with integrating reCapatcha and nms FormMail.

As part of the debugging process it is useful to compare with a working copy of the script. Before using the script on your own site it is necessary to change the following entries to contain value suitable for your own site:

$postmaster = ‘postmaster email address’;
@referers = qw(sites referring to this formmail);
@allow_mail_to = qw(email address to send to);
%recipient_alias = (’destn’ => ‘email address to send to’,);
privatekey => ‘place your key here’,

EU Cookie Directive Plugin

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 08:19:13 -0600

To comply with the e-Privacy directive it is necessary for sites to obtain consent prior to delivering cookies.

There are many scripts available to present site visitors with a prompt prior to cookie delivery.

The cPrompt plugin wrappers the cPrompt script. Simply install into Flatpress and enable the Plugin.

Once installed the cPrompt object can be used to enable / disable cookie related functionality within the site.

Full instructions on the use of cPrompt library can be found on Michael Wright’s site. Using these instructions the GoogleSearchBox plugin can be made compliant with the directve with the following change to plugin.googlesearchbox.php:

...
'<script>

    if (typeof(cPrompt) == "undefined"  
        || cPrompt.checkCookie() == 1 
        || cPrompt.checkCookie() == 2) {
        document.getElementById("googleSearch").style.display="inline";
    }

</script>';
...