Month: November 2009

Drupal: set up a draggable card sort view – Part 3

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  1. Once the fields have been selected, each can be configured with display and behavior settings.

    Under Fields, click the blue text "Node: Body" to view the settings for that field. If you wish, enter some text that will be displayed if there is no body text in a node or, alternatively, check "Hide if empty."
    (see below)


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My Creative Commons Images

All my public images on Flickr are licensed under the Creative Commons. You are free to share and remix them as long as you attribute them to me by including a link back to the original flickr page or by including the following link code back to this page:

<a href="http:thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000704.html" target="_blank">Photo by ellenm1</a>

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Acer Aspire One charge light does not light up and battery does not charge

My Linpus Acer Aspire One was laying idle for a few months, then I pulled it out to use it, and was dismayed when it would not charge. The orange battery charging light would flash for a second, then turn off.

Problem 1: The Acer would not power up with the AC adapter.

After scanning the web for a while, it appeared there were several possible reasons for this:

  • Bad battery
  • Bad AC adapter
  • BIOS update needed
  • Loose jack on the motherboard, necessitating service.

The easiest possibility to deal with was to assume that the AC adapter cable had gone bad so I ordered a new one. Fortunately they are inexpensive. I found one through Buy.com for a total of $19.84 including the shipping and handling.

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