The Referral Sources module allows you to ask your users “Where did you hear about us?” anywhere on your site, and track that data in a central location. It provides a admin interface for creating referral sources that users can select from a list, and a page where you can view statistics on referral source selections. Referral source submissions are stored in a single table, no matter where they came from, making it easy to track submissions and create reports based on that data.

I’ve been using Mac OS X since version 10.0, but I’ve never been able to come up with the cash to lay down for a decent, powerful Mac. It’s always been old hand me downs, nothing more powerful than a G3. I’ve loved OS X since the first time played with it, but Macs are expensive, and hardware choices are limited. Some of their designs are cool, but none of them follow a standard form factor. You can’t just keep your case and drives and upgrade just your core components, like you can with a PC. You’ve got to buy a whole damn computer every time you want to upgrade. I love their operating system, but for the money Apple’s hardware just doesn’t do it for me. Naturally I was super psyched when Apple announced they would be switching over to Intel hardware. I knew the day would come when I would by running OS X on my own custom PC, and it did.

Recently I started building some sites with Drupal, one of which is an online store using Ubercart. Everything worked great at first, but after upgrading a couple of modules some images in the catalog were not being displayed properly. After upgrading imagecache (5.x-1.7 to 5.x-2.3) and imagefield (5.x-2.1 to 5.x-2.4), taxonomy images stopped appearing in the catalog categories and the smaller thumbnails stopped appearing in the product pages.

For whatever reason, Microsoft has decided that driver signing is now REQUIRED in Windows Vista x64 (and I hear this also applied to Windows 2008). There used to be a couple of different ways you could disable this requirement, but as of Vista SP1 neither of these methods work anymore. There are also individual pre-SP1 hotfixes that “fix” Windows so you can’t disable the driver signing requirement. This is a big issue for anyone who wants to use tweaked video drivers, or for anyone who wants to use VMWare Server. Read on for the solution.

At a company I work for we recently had to downgrade from the 64 bit version of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 back to the 32 bit version (long story ). After removing the 64 bit version of SQL Server and installing the 32 bit version and then recreating the master db and setting up all of the databases again, Optimum no longer worked correctly. I could log in fine, but whenever I tried to open up Employees, or just about anything else, I got a big nasty error message saying “you must declare the scalar variable @USERID”. Read on for the solution to the problem.