I spent close to an hour this morning trying to understand the watermarking features of the Gallery2 module, but ended up finding a bug in the modules ability to process .PNG images.  I also found the related thread on their forums: http://gallery.menalto.com/node/84808.

This may not actually be a bug in the Gallery2 module and could possibly be the way my hosting server addresses the .PNG file itself. I don’t suspect that however, and believe it to be the module’s handling of the file. I followed the thread and modified the SQL values, which did allow me to modify the placement of the watermark and apply it to images. Once I set the watermark to be the default for all uploaded images, I noticed that any new images I added were now showing up as broken photos, and I quickly became disinterested in worrying about fixing someone else’s software.

To work around the issue I used a .GIF with transparency instead. I am losing some of the nicer features I had with the PNG, like the drop shadow and embossing. I am however gaining the ability to move along with the project. I am not entirely sure why I am redoing the watermarking process, and moving away from Irfanview, but I suspect it has a lot to do with knowing that if I don’t do it now, it is only going to become one more thing I want to do later.

After a planned restart this morning, a few (NOT ALL) users were experiencing trouble sending out from their Blackberry’s, and were unable to do name lookups from their handhelds.

In the application log on the BES were multiple event ID 20482

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Event Type: Warning
Event Source: BlackBerry Messaging Agent ZYKLON Agent 1
Event Category: None
Event ID: 20482
Date: 1/14/2009
Time: 2:19:26 PM
User: N/A
Computer: CEY
Description:
ResolveNamesMAPI ResolveName(1) succeeded, but list does not contain EntryID for all items

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A quick search of the MAGT logs for the BES showed the following errors

[40210] (01/14 07:58:02.862):{0x1278} Failed to Resolve Name in ScanGAL. user: (USERNAME), hResult: <8004010f>

It seemed reasonable that all of these errors related to all users that were reporting problems.

A quick search of google led me to the Blackberry Forums:
http://www.blackberryforums.com/bes-admin-corner/102832-some-users-unable-send-due-invalid-addresses.html

And a restart of the server did solve this problem. Issue solved.

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The most likely cause of this from reading the article is due to the way we restarted this morning. We restarted the CAS servers for Exchange in very close to the same window as restarting the BES, thus taking the GAL offline completely while the BES was cycling.

I have decided to let TheBoobieHatch fade away into the distance. I have registered 2 new domains, and plan to discontinue, archive, and otherwise eliminate most of what I have here.

A slow steady dismantling of a webpage at a pace that I feel fit with. Rather quickly anyone who visits these pages will be redirected to a 404, and all activity that is cached in google will go the way of the dodo.

This isn’t to say I’m going to delete everything… I’m just going to begin writing about technology and it’s impact on all things large and small. With luck I will keep posting!

The Boobie Hatch may live on as an attempt at meaningful content regarding the exploration of my own conciousness and it’s equally meaningful documentation on the web. Until then, remember that no one lives forever and it is important to always enjoy everything you can, and that:

“Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms and listening to eight different bosses drone on about about mission statements.” — From Office Space (1999).