Edventures in Normalcy

Have you ever have one of those days where you just wake up with a smile on your face for no reason at all and are simply happy? I swear I have had a week of mornings like this. I am not a morning person, but something has definitely changed me. I feel very happy lately, and I like it.

Have you ever had one of those dreams where you experience a feeling/sensation that you had all but forgotten had existed.   I did.  Just this morning I hit a point of the most heartfelt happiness.  Like a long lost love and joy.  For that moment, I felt happy and whole.  After turning around in the dream to help pack, I am pulled out by the phone ringing.  As I awake, I can still feel the happiness from the dream, but as time goes on, the emotion changes . I feel angry for losing the feeling, then sad, and finally complacent and hopeful to feel it again in my life and not in a dream.  It is this hope that keeps me motivated in my personal life.  I need to remember not to be easily discouraged and to continue to try for things that are indeed worth it.  Also, the image above, is what fell off my shelf and I awoke with it next to my hand this morning.   Random indeed.

and a random image from some search engine that hit my site a lot today:

Common example errors:

Unable to authorize payment: The certificate chain did not validate, no local certificate found, Cert Path = c:\pfpcerts\, Working Directory = c:\windows\system32\inetsrv

or

Result Code: -31
Response Message: The certificate chain did not validate, no local certificate found, Cert Path = c:\pfprocerts, Working Directory = c:\windows\system32\inetsrv
Transaction ID:
Auth. Code:

or

I’m Sorry, there was a problem with your transaction.

Transaction Result:
The certificate chain did not validate, no local certificate found, Cert Path = certs, Working directory = c:\winnt\system32\inetsrv

Well, as of January 4, 2010, your Payflow Pro SDK expires permanently and your payment processing will stop if you are using an outdated SDK. You can see this on their website here:
https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&content_ID=developer/gateway_update_FAQ

Depending on the method or scripting language you are using this can be an easy or difficult thing to get around. As I am Miva Merchant savvy, If you are using Miva Merchant 5, run your updates. If you are running Miva Merchant 4, you can get an updated version of the Payment Module and instructions for instillation at https://support.mivamerchant.com/supportsuite/index.php?_m=downloads&_a=viewdownload&downloaditemid=46&nav=0,12. Zen Cart forums make reference to this change here http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?p=823250#post823250. Anyway, if you have a hand coded cart, visit the top link I supplied for more information. If you find specific articles or information for specific carts, please comment. I will gladly update this post.

I’m not one to be picky, I’m just saying, she does not seem to the technical type. Oh stock images, you silly creature. Although, it would be awesome if she was super tech’y.

This can be accomplished with the ch_admin_passwd binary.

./ch_admin_passwd: Utility to set Plesk adminstrator’s password

Gets password from the environment variable PSA_PASSWORD

Password should be from 5 to 16 symbols and should not contain login name,

whitespace, quotes or national characters

Usage: ./ch_admin_passwd

-h, —help

display this help and exit

We must export the variable before running the binary. We will unset the variable when we are done.

This echos out: newpass

This echos out: newpass