I just tried to install a fresh GAOSP Public Beta 3 (Android 2.2 Froyo) on my Samsung Galaxy i7500 and came across this error:

Finding update package…
Opening update package…
Verifying update package…
Installing update…
Formating SYSTEM…
Copying files…
Copying files…

E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 (no such device)
E:Can't mount INTERNAL:
E:Failure at line 328:
copy_dir PACKAGE:dev_data INTERNAL:
Sync data…
.Installation failed

After that my old ROM was broken and the installation process failed again and again.

Solution:

This error can by solved by fixing the permissions. You can simply do that using your recovery system. Boot again into recovery (press Volume Down + Start Call + End Call) and select Fix packages permissions.

See:

(close to the bottom)

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This is a result of a photo editing exercise which was part of my studies:

…a combination of Dr. Evil (Austin Powers) and Kim Jong-Il (President of North Korea)

Hope you like it! Feel free to comment…

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I’ll show you how to get the monthly active users of your Facebook application via FQL with the help of PHP…

Ehh wait, what’s FQL?

“Facebook Query Language, or FQL, enables you to use a SQL-style interface to query the data exposed by the Graph API. It provides for some advanced features not available in the Graph API, including batching multiple queries into a single call.”

More information: Facebook FQL reference

At first you need to download the latest Facebook PHP SDK and include the facebook.php into your script.

require "facebook.php";

We are using the application table to get the information via FQL. The query is very similar to SQL and looks like this:

SELECT monthly_active_users FROM application WHERE app_id=000000000

It also possible to grab other values like daily_active_users, weekly_active_users, daily_active_users, name, description etc. Simply edit the FQL query…

Before we are allowed to get values of an application we need to authenticate with facebook. Go to facebook.com/developers/ and grad your unique application ID and application secret.

Here is the final php script:

<?php
// Facebook PHP-SDK
require "facebook.php";
 
define("APP_ID",      "00000000000");
define("APP_SECRET" , "abc123425abc123425abc123425");
 
$facebook = new Facebook(array(
  "appId"  => APP_ID, // app id
  "secret" => APP_SECRET, // secret hash
  "cookie" => true, // cookie support (optional)
));
try {
  // FQL Query
  $fql = $facebook->api(array(
                        "method"  => "fql.query",
                         "query"   => "SELECT monthly_active_users
						FROM application 
						WHERE app_id='".APP_ID."'"
					));
 
  echo $fql[0]['monthly_active_users'];
 
} catch (FacebookApiException $e) {
  // return errors
  print $e;
}
?>

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These minimal movie posters were part of my application for my communication design studies. I tried to reduce each movie to one single object… Have fun. Feel free to comment!

All posters are ©Grischa Stanjek

Feel free to reblog this (with reference to this post) Thanks! Comment if you are interested in a movie poster print.

Update

I’ve set up a small shop were you can buy prints for a reasonable price (with 30 day money back guarantee). You can buy the prints here: Alternative Movie Poster

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Have you ever tried to download a great track (mp3) from soundcloud.com? There are several ways to download a track from SoundCloud… I’ll show you how it works.

Please check out first if there is small tiny “download” button at the top of the soundcloud player:

If yes, simply click download and wait. That’s it. The track is now on your hard drive.

If there is no such “download” button, you have to use a simple tool called JDownloader. It’s a great download manager written in Java. You can download it here for Windows, Linux, Mac or at jdownloader.org (~ 15MB) . Choose your Operating System (OS) and click on one of the links. You probably have to wait around ten seconds before you can download the file because the files are hosted on file hosters which offer premium accounts for users who don’t want to wait.

NOTE: you don’t have to buy or sign up on any of these sites. Simply wait a few seconds and click on “Free Download” and download the installer without any registration process…
After that, click through the installation process. If everything is installed correctly, launch the JDownloader. Now go tou soundclod.com and copy the URL of the track you want to download. If the JDownloader does not open automatically after a few seconds, open it manually and click the tab “Linkgrabber” and then “Add URL(s)”. Paste the URL and click on “Parse URL(s)”. Finally you have to click on the play Button at the top to start the download.

The mp3 file is now downloaded to “C:/Program Files/JDownloader/downloads/” (if you are using Windows).

Make sure that you also have installed the latest version of Java if you have problems running the JDownloader. You get the latest version on java.com.

NOTE: The downloaded file is only the preview file (up to 128 kbps). It’s not the best quality available. For a better quality you have to buy the track and support the artist…

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The Internet Explorer (IE) is acting strange when it comes to transparency, for instance transparent iframes like the retweet button from tweetmeme. I’m using the great Tweetmeme Plugin for WordPress, but the problem with the transparency appears no matter which way of implementation you are using.

In IE 6, 7 and 8 it looks like this (ugly white background):

But is should look like this (transparent > black background):

Here is the workaround: Go to “Appearance > Editor > Header (header.php)” and paste this snippet before the </head> tag and click on “Update File” to save the changes:

<!--[if IE]>
<script type="text/javascript">
onload = function()
{
	var theframes = document.getElementsByTagName('iframe');
	for(var i = 0; i < theframes.length; i++)
	{
		theframes[i].setAttribute("allowTransparency","true");
	}
}
</script>
<![endif]-->

Thanks to the _Aerospace_Eng_ who posted this snippet here.

This will add transparency to all iframes in the Internet Explorer (IE) and removes the white section between both parts. That’s it… Did you succeeded? Let me know!

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This error appeared every time I wanted to install a theme automatically, even in the current version (2.9.1) of WordPress:

Downloading install package from http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/download/sample-theme.zip.
Unpacking the package.
Installing the theme.
Could not create directory. /var/www/html/web999/blog/wp-content/themes/sample-theme/
Theme Install Failed.

This is caused by an error when running the php function mkdir() under safe_mode on certain versions of PHP (I’m using PHP Version 5.2.5). The bug is already tracked and probably will be fixed in the next version of WordPress…

There are two solutions to fix this by your own

1. Solution – Edit class-wp-filesystem-direct.php
   Add the marked lines in your wp-admin/includes/class-wp-filesystem-direct.php (Line 281):
   

   function mkdir($path, $chmod = false, $chown = false, $chgrp = false) {
      // safe mode fails with a trailing slash under certain PHP versions.
      $path = untrailingslashit($path);
      if ( empty($path) )
         $path = '/';
   
      if ( ! $chmod )
         $chmod = FS_CHMOD_DIR;

OR

2. Solution – Turn safe_mode off
   I do not recommend this solution! But you can use it e.g. temporarily if you want to install a few themes in a row and turn safe_mode on again afterwards. If you are using Confixx you can edit these settings easily. Otherwise you have to edit your php.ini manually. How to do this? Check that: Customizing PHP Safe Mode

Now your Theme installation process should give you a response like this:

Downloading install package from http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/download/theme.zip.
Unpacking the package.
Installing the theme.
Successfully installed the theme Sample Theme.

Did this work for you? Tell me!

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1. WordPress: Could not create directory – Plugin Install Failed

This error appeared every time I wanted to install a plugin automatically, even in the current version (2.9.1) of WordPress:

Downloading install package from http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/sample-plugin.zip.
Unpacking the package.
Installing the plugin.
Could not create directory. /var/www/html/web999/blog/wp-content/plugins/sample-plugin/
Plugin Install Failed.

This is caused by an error when running the php function mkdir() under safe_mode on certain versions of PHP (I’m using PHP Version 5.2.5). The bug is already tracked and probably will be fixed in the next version of WordPress…

There are two solutions to fix this by your own

1. Solution – Edit class-wp-filesystem-direct.php
   Add the marked lines in your wp-admin/includes/class-wp-filesystem-direct.php (Line 281):
   

   function mkdir($path, $chmod = false, $chown = false, $chgrp = false) {
      // safe mode fails with a trailing slash under certain PHP versions.
      $path = untrailingslashit($path);
      if ( empty($path) )
         $path = '/';
   
      if ( ! $chmod )
         $chmod = FS_CHMOD_DIR;

OR

2. Solution – Turn safe_mode off
   I do not recommend this solution! But you can use it e.g. temporarily if you want to install a few plugins in a row and turn safe_mode on again afterwards. If you are using Confixx you can edit these settings easily. Otherwise you have to edit your php.ini manually. How to do this? Check that: Customizing PHP Safe Mode

Now your Plugin installation process should give a response like this:

Downloading install package from http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/sample-plugin.zip
Unpacking the package.
Installing the plugin.
Successfully installed the plugin Sample Plugin.

If you still have problems with the installation of a wordpress plugin, read this.

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WordPress is converting two dashes, called double dash, (“–”) into a en dash (“–”) automatically. It’s possible to hack the formatting.php to prevent this, but this is much more easy:

Simply use the html code -- …this is the HTML escape sequence (twice) for a dash or hyphen or minus sign and creates two dashes (double dash) like intended.

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It’s not possible to create a backup from a MySQL database with phpMyAdmin which is bigger than 2 MB. If you are running MySQL on a Linux based system, try this:

1. Login to your web server with Putty (Windows) or any other SSH client
2. Type in your console:
   

   mysqldump -uYOURUSERNAME -pYOURPASSWORD DATABASE-NAME > dump.sql

   (Note: there is no space between “-u”/”-p” and the MySQL username/password.)

   You can create simply all database at once by using –all-databases insted of database_name

3. Copy the newly created backup (dump.sql) to a safe place via SCP or FTP

That’s it!

More information:

• mysqldump reference manual

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