August, 2008

If you're used to typing on a full-size keyboard, you'll find that the right Shift key is next to the / key. But on the Eee PC, the right Shift key is located one key further to the right. Because the Up key is located on the Eee PC where you'd expect to find the Shift key, you may find as you are typing that any time you go to capitalize a letter that you type with your left hand (e.g. an A), instead of capitalising the A, you instead move your cursor up a line and end up inserting an 'a' in the middle of some other word. Frustrating! You may decide you'd like your layout to be more like your full-size laptop. Here's how to do it.

This took me a little bit of poking around to figure out, so here's a quick tip in case others are attempting to do the same thing.

For some CCK select options, you want it to both be required and to also not default on the first answer because a user might click through without changing the default without meaning to. There is the Default value options you can play with, but the easiest way I've found is in your Allowed values list you can simply enter this as your first choice:

|-Please Choose-

This will give you the -Please Choose- as a default, but if the user doesn't switch it, an error will come up. The reason for this is it's expecting you to have your answer in a format such as 1|Option 1, with the "machine" or "key" name first, followed by a pipe, and then the name of the option a user will see. If you don't give it a machine name it simply isn't valid.

While tiny in size and decent in quality, FLVs do have their run of problems. These problems are typically due to poor (or no) meta data within the FLV file, that gives your video player the necessary information it needs to run the video from beginning to end. Here are typical problems that you most likely will encounter, during your FLV journeys: