Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Moving pictures or images in Word

This tutorial covers documents that are already made with pictures and assumes you would like to replace an image with another image.

  1. Click on the image you are replacing and delete it.
  2. Go to the menu and.. Insert>Picture>From File...
  3. Select your new picture and insert it.
  4. Once the new picture lands on the page, resize it if you like. Make sure you don't deselect the image by accident. If you do then you will probably have to do these steps again.
  5. Go to the menu and.. Format>Picture... then select the 'layout' tab.
  6. Select the 'tight' option and click on the 'advanced...' button.
  7. Deselect all checkboxes under the 'Options' section and click ok.
  8. You should now be able to move the picture to anywhere on the page.

Monday, November 20, 2006

My new and improved XBox


Not sure exactly what was wrong with it, but something funny was going on with the power. I'd plug it in and it would go on and off in a sort of timed fashion. Could see the fans go, the led's light up, but the drives weren't getting any power. So I removed everything from the case, laid it out flat and connected it all together and it works. So since it's nearly impossible to reassemble it back into the xbox case, I just laid it out in cardboard box. A cut here and there and some tape and I Macgyvered it back to life.

Friday, November 3, 2006

Firefox doesn't know how to communicate with server

Problem:
Unexpected response from server
Firefox doesn't know how to communicate with server
  • Check to make sure your system has Personal Security Manager installed.
  • This might be due to a non-standard configuration on the server.
Why?
When you upgrade Firefox from an older version to version 1.5.0.7 this might happen.

How to fix it?
Open up a terminal and ...
$ yum update nss
$ yum remove firefox
$ yum -y install firefox