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I changed out my keyboard last night. The new keyboard is a Logitech with multimedia controls. On my last computer all these controls worked great. But on this computer the volume controls are not quite right. They worked - but they changed the PC Speaker volume, whereas I use headphones. So tonight I had to track down how to make this work right.

In tech circles it is well known there is a "levy" (aka a tax) when we buy blank media like CDs and DVDs. The purpose of this tax is to compensate the music industry for the mere potential that this mere potential that the purchaser MAY use that media to hold a copy of music or video files. Now comes new that Canada will add a similar levy to iPods. (http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/07/07/19/2038231.shtml)

I have a few problems with this:

We held the Drupal workshop yesterday, and it went well. After a few technical issues we got started a little late. Luckily the crowd was technically competent, and grasped the ideas very quickly.

For those who would like to see what was covered, here is the PDF file/handout I prepared for the workshop. This copy of the file has had one minor modification - the database creation commands have been changed so they can simply be cut and paste (responding to a comment from John).

UPDATED - see below

I'll be leading a workshop on installing and using Drupal on 15 Jul 2007, at the local DeVry facilities (room 216). This workshop will be between 9:00 am and 5:00 pm. The agenda for the workshop and more details are provided below.

The workshop is free and open to the public. A donation to CLUG is encouraged if you are not a member, but not mandatory.

I've made some needed changes to the new theme. The administrative pages are now working better. Not that they weren't working, just that they needed some styles applied to fix up their visual aspects. In addition to these changes though, I've also turned on user accounts.