Morgan

Thursday 15 July

After patching Drupal to 6.17 we found that we could no longer log in. Removing $cookie_domain in settings.php fixed the issue, however that broke other things that relied on it, like the upload features of filemanager in FCKEditor.

To resolve the issue, you'll need to set both the $cookie_domain and $base_url variables in settings.php.

$cookie_domain = 'example.com.au';
$base_url = 'http://www.example.com.au';

A couple of things to note:

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A digital agency without a website

Monday 17 May

We've decided to take down our standard brochure site to have something a little more fitting for Morgan, reflecting how we've changed over the last year to become a much more simplified agency; echoing our mantra of keeping it simple.

Our old website kept me up at night. The content was stale and we are heavily focused on getting work done for exsting clients that updating our website after each project just wasn't practical.

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Morgan Sponsors Spanish Film Festival

Monday 3 May

Morgan are proud to announce that we're lucky enough to be supporting the 13th annual Spanish Film Festival. We've created a Drupal website for the festival that features the films, actors and directors.

For more information visit http://www.spanishfilmfestival.com

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Save a hard disk gone RAW

Wednesday 17 March

I was reviving a Blue Screen Of Death plagued computer of a friend of mine earlier this week, and after reinstalling Windows XP, I reconnected his secondary 200GB drive and went to go looksie.

The drive showed up under "My Computer", however displayed the following message if you tried to access it:

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Engage your users properly

Friday 27 November

When communicating to your audience with true engagement and marketing methods, the least reasonable is to try faux-interactivity by using web flash presenters and automatically jamming your message down the throat of a potential marketing target.

Further to my article on destroying your reputation with flash and web presenters I would like to reiterate that autoplay flash video—especially web presenters—are the devil.

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Creating your own YouTube competition

Tuesday 29 September

Competitions are a great way to drum up popularity for something and have been used in this way for decades. However instead of competition entrants writing in, phoning in or emailing in, it’s now becoming popular to leverage social media to power it.

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Recover lost, trashed or formatted files easily

Tuesday 2 December

If you spend any time around computers, chances are you’ve seen or experienced some form of data loss at some point. These days there are companies that will do an amazing job of recovering your files, for an equally amazingly large amount of money. So before you go breaking open your piggy bank, try flexing some free data recovery muscles yourself first.

For the impatient

Check out the appropriately named Recuva, a sweet and simple no mess application that will search out files on the drive the OS is no longer showing.

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Securing user logins on your Linux server

Sunday 3 August

If you host mail, web content or other services on your Linux server for others, you will probably find yourself adding users to your system. However, you may not want to give them shell access. Here are two effective ways you can secure your server by ensuring shell access is restricted to only the users you want.

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