Images in Posts in Drupal Tutorial

This guide walks the reader through the steps of configuring a Drupal installation to allow Drupal users not only have images displayed within posts but also to configure the position and size of the images. First download all the required modules to your webserver, these modules are: Image module Image Assist module Views module Untar all three tar.gz files, and move the resulting directories into drupal_install/sites/all/modules with drupal_install being the path to your drupal installation. While you are logged into your server, if you do not already have the ImageMagick (or corresponding package) installed, you probably should do so now,...

Android, Three Weeks In

Although it has been a relatively short time since I announced my new Android phone, the reality is that today marks the third week since I got it. As you might expect, going from no phone at all to a smart phone was quite a surprising experience. To be able to pack the power of a netbook into such a small device and have it still be able to function as a computer is no small feat. As things stand right now, I quite like the little phone. It really is convenient to have an Internet device with me almost...

Drupal Editor Android App

One of the nicest aspects of having a smart phone is the easy access to the Internet that it can provide for you almost anywhere you go. No more hoping that a coffee shop has WiFi or having to wait to look up the answer to that nagging question up until you get home. That being said, the screen is tiny. Due to the scale of the device, many web applications that you normally would access through a browser simple are unusable on the phone’s browser, making applications that access the web application’s API neccessary, like the Gchat application. One...

Inline Images in Drupal

One of the rare struggles that i have had with Drupal so far is correctly positioning images within the body of a post. By default you can’t do anything more than upload the image so that it can be downloaded by readers. The Image module allows you to attach an image in a manner that allows the readers to preview the image as a thumbnail, a thumbnail that you cannot specify the position of within the post. In an attempt to place the images within a specific location, I installed the Inline module. However, aside from the requirement that you...

Dealing alsa defaults and a second sound card on Gentoo

My motherboard has an onboard sound card using the AC97 chipset, which not only has crappy sound quality, but also has often proven to be rather unstable on my system. As a result, I ended up installing a (very) old Sound Blaster Audigy 2 card onto my system. Unfortunately alsa, and various other applications (especially gnome-volume-control) tend to prefer to work with card 0, which in my case turns out to be the onboard audio. In-so-much as alsa is concerned, I did some research and discovered that a file called .asoundrc could be written whuch would allow me to reassign...