My Dell Dimension E520′s DVD-RW drive (TSSTcorp TS-H653A) used to sometimes randomly disappear from “My Computer” and the device manager. If I were to reboot the computer, the drive would reappear and I could then read CDs and burn DVDs successfully.
My first thought was that perhaps either the data or power cable from the drive to the motherboard had come loose, so I opened the case and ensured that both cables were secure. Even after doing so, the problem continued.
I was recently helping a friend who was unable to view YouTube videos in Internet Explorer 7 on Windows XP. Whenever she tried to view a YouTube video the following error message would appear:
“You either have JavaScript turned off or an old version of Adobe’s Flash Player”
She had already re-installed Adobe Flash player several times before calling me for help. Obviously the problem wasn’t that she had an old version of Flash. I confirmed that she had the latest version by having her access Adobe’s Site .
Sometimes this problem can be caused by misconfigured security settings in Internet Explorer.
To restore IE’s security settings to their default, access “Internet Options” from the control panel.
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There are two techniques, that I know of, used to cause this behavior. One is to encrypt the contents of footer.php, and the other is to insert scrambled code into functions.php. In my case, there were two blocks of code in the functions.php file that started like this:
eval(str_rot13(‘shapgvba purpx_sbbgre()…
I was able to simply delete these two blocks of code, save functions.php, and then edit the contents of footer.php without having the blog disabled. I would, however, recommend that you keep a backup copy of both functions.php and footer.php in case your attempt doesn’t go as smoothly as mine. You could then upload both files, via FTP, in case something goes wrong.
On morality, I do believe that the authors of the theme should be given credit, however, they were inserting links (advertisements) in the footer that had nothing to do with the theme’s author. For this reason, I decided to remove the links.
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You may have attempted to modify the footer.php file of your WordPress theme and the following error message appeared:
“This theme is released under creative commons licence, all links in the footer should remain intact”
Resulting error after modifying the footer.php file
The message appears whether you try to access your blog or the back-end administrative interface.
The reason for this is that the footer contains links to the author of the WordPress theme. The theme has been programmed to lock you out of the blog if these links are removed or altered.
One solution to this problem is to find a backup copy of the footer.php file and re-upload it to the appropriate theme folder via FTP. Your web hosting provider should provide an FTP tool that you can use to do this.
