G2Image in Drupal using TinyMCE with WYSIWYG API

UPDATE: This post is quite old now and wont work with the latest version of WYSIWYG API, will try to update this soon.

Gallery2 is one of the best galleries available which could be integrated with Drupal easily you would have read my post on integrating it earlier, after you have integrated it the bigger question is how get those images into your content or nodes so this posts answers it, after reading this post you would be able to integrate Gallery2 with your WYSIWYG (TinyMCE) Editor.

Prerequisites

Indic Touch to Drupal 6

Typing and display of any language other then English is always tough on the Internet to ease this we had various plugins coming in, i had also written a blog for akindic plugin for Drupal 5 last year, but what about the later and better versions of drupal, Gamabhana provides indic typing support but does not works with WYSIWYG API so this blog presents you a solution to type in Indic on Drupal using WYSIWYG API with TinyMCE

Prerequisites

Restoring GRUB after a reinstall

You had just did a weekly install of some OS which did not detected Linux, Follow the steps mentioned below to get GRUB working again. Please note this would erase the current bootloader and install a new one for you if you are unsure of what you are doing do not try this

  1. Boot from a Linux Live CD ( ex ubuntu or knopix, i use Ubuntu)
  2. Open the terminal
  3. Follow the commands mentioned below
  • sudo grub

if sudo doesnot works switch to root user and use grub drectly, Find the ROOT device you will get the values for X & Y which will be used later.

  • grub> find /boot/grub/stage1

Set the root device from the information achieved from the above command

  • grub> root (hdX,Y)

Install GRUB

  • grub> setup (hd0)

Exit GRUB

User / Group Disk Quotas A three Step Guide

A disk quota is a limit set by a system administrator that restricts certain aspects of file system usage on modern operating systems. "Wikipedia"

Requirements : Quota Package

Where to get it : Quota package is generally available in majority of Linux Distros but still if your distro doesn't provide you with Quota compile it from http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxquota/ :)

Step 1) Installation :

a) openSUSE : yast -i quota

b) Ubuntu : sudo apt-get install quota

c) Fedora : yum install quota

d) Others : Use rpm or compile if not available

 

Step 2) Enable Disk Quota

Disk quota is generally applied on a user or a set of users to its recommended to enable Disk Quota on your Home partition dont enable quota on the root partition unless you are under the expert category

SMTP Authentication Support for your Drupal Sites

Drupal uses the php mail() function to send emails by default.
 
Here is a module which adds SMTP functionality to Drupal. More specifically, the ability for your site to send mail using an SMTP server that requires authentication.
 
Link to Module http://drupal.org/project/smtp
This module is currently in Beta stage for Drupal 6.x, i just tried it works fine and you can use this too. remember to read INSTALL.txt before installing this module as there are certain dependencies which are needed to have this module working.
 
This module uses the smtp and mail class’s from PHPMailer. http://phpmailer.sourceforge.net