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HTTP request failure
 
400: Bad Request
 
HTTP Transports available:
 
    1. WP_Http_Fsockopen

Apparently, I’m not the only one who has encountered this issue, but I did discover a workaround. Just change all the ampersands in your feed URL to the HTML entity equivalent. Example:

http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/users/whatever/uploads?orderby=published&safeSearch=none

Becomes…

http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/users/whatever/uploads?orderby=published&safeSearch=none

K3b Ripped files pattern

%A/%T/%a - %n - %t

LAME command
Advice taken from Hydrogenaudio’s recommended encoder settings:

lame -V0 --tt %t --ta %a --tl %m --ty %y --tc %c --tn %n - %f

K3b external audio encoder settings for LAME
On my machine, LAME will not encode properly unless I enable this option:

• Write Wave Header

I just wish WordPress would start shipping with an officially supported “blank” or “reset” theme by default, because I can’t stand any of the themes I’ve come across so far.  Just look at the header on this one.  That thing takes up 1/3 of my screen for a page title and a menu.  What a waste.  I could easily fit that information into something 15px high!  See, this is what I mean by nobody having any taste.  It’s as if all the web designers out there are designing for wide screen plasma TVs lately.

Anyway, here’s a list of some new “parent” or “framework” themes I came across today, just in case I decide to make a new minimalist theme for my website:

• Hybrid
• Thematic
• WP Framework

PS: The website will be down this weekend, because I’m moving.

I am such an elitist. Hehe…

If anyone out there is thinking of making the switch, be aware that you will need to be available for a DSL tech to come on site to finish the installation. Apparently AT&T will disconnect your current phone service and put the new dry loop on a separate twisted pair that gets sent to your house, but is not actually hooked up to anything on the customer end. This information came directly from the tech that helped me. He said I was the 4th or 5th dry loop installation he fixed, and it was the same problem every time. The twisted pair with the DSL service is just hanging there inside the demarc. I had a friend switch to naked DSL a few weeks later, and she had the same problem, so watch out.

fixup protocol pptp 1723

But did did you know the PIX has its own built-in PPTP server? Here’s how you configure it:

First you need to permit incoming PPTP traffic:

sysopt connection permit-pptp

Create a new IP pool. PPTP clients will be assigned IP addresses from this pool:

ip local pool <pool name> 192.168.180.100-192.168.180.125

Now you need to create your PPTP users.

vpdn username <username> password <password>

Create a PPTP group. The group is what holds all the PPTP settings that clients need in order to connect:

vpdn group <group name> accept dialin pptp
vpdn group <group name> client configuration address local <pool name>
vpdn group <group name> ppp authentication mschap
vpdn group <group name> ppp encryption mppe 128 required
vpdn group <group name> pptp echo 60
vpdn group <group name> client authentication local
vpdn group <group name> client configuration dns <dns server address>
vpdn enable outside

Finally, ensure that PPTP clients are not NAT’ed:

access-list inside_outbound_nat0_acl permit ip LAN 255.255.255.0 LAN 255.255.255.0
nat (inside) 0 access-list inside_outbound_nat0_acl