Author Archives: Adam Oliver

About Adam Oliver

Adam Oliver has been working in the IT field for over 10 years. Currently he is employed by triCerat, Inc. solving printing and profile management issues for a variety of clients.

What can drive Apple’s methods?

Posted on July 29, 2010 by Adam Oliver

I have to say I found the antenna fiasco quite amusing mainly because I thought it would not become much.  However, I always believed that the iPhone market had the potential to drive a change at Apple.  I have read … Continue reading →

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xe-edit-bootloader, Found 2 for VM, but only 1 is allowed.

Posted on May 12, 2010 by Adam Oliver

This may come up following my two ubuntu on XenServer guides.  I figured I would explain what is happening and how to fix the error “Found 2 for VM, but only 1 is allowed” error from xe-edit-bootloader.

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Adobe crash in Vista/2008

Posted on April 29, 2010 by Adam Oliver

Recently I ran into an annoying little Adobe Reader 9.3 crash while doing product testing.  My first thought was that the product being tested was causing the problem, but I first started with a Google search to make sure it … Continue reading →

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ubuntu 10.04 beta server DomU on XenServer 5.6 beta

Posted on April 21, 2010 by Adam Oliver

I’m one that always likes to test out the latest and greatest.  As frustrating as it can sometimes be, I do enjoy it.  So once I had ubuntu 9.10 server up on XenServer, I wanted to try ubuntu 10.04 server … Continue reading →

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ubuntu 9.10 server DomU on XenServer 5.6 beta

Posted on April 21, 2010 by Adam Oliver

I’ve been trying to get ubuntu up an running as a DomU in PV mode under XenServer for a while.  The Citrix blog article is horribly old and some info is no longer accurate.  There are a few key things … Continue reading →

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Xen Desktop on ESX backend

Posted on May 20, 2008 by Adam Oliver

Getting Xen Desktop 2.0 Beta up and running on a VMWare ESX backend.

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Joomla Tooltips

Posted on May 15, 2008 by Adam Oliver

In my porting of Zoom Media Gallery to Joomla 1.5 I had to figure out how to recode the tooltips. Here you’ll find the most basic way to fully customizing your tip.

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Joomla popup button

Posted on May 5, 2008 by Adam Oliver

Joomla 1.5 has a nice pop up button class. This will dim the webpage and popup a smaller page over it. I found that it doesn’t work quite right outside a toolbar, so here’s how to manually do it.

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Playing with the Joomla WYSIWYG editor

Posted on May 5, 2008 by Adam Oliver

One thing I had to figure out was how to set the editor’s contents via JavaScript and get its contents in my controller. It turns out that Joomla 1.5′s API provides a way to do so without knowing what editor … Continue reading →

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