Solving technology problems, one at a time
I used to use Directory Utility occasionally, and was surprised not to be able to find it anymore in the Utilities folder in Snow Leopard. It turns out it’s been moved to the SystemLibraryCore Services folder, but the best way to access it is now through System Preferences.
Continue readingI use several large external drives with my iMac to manage photos and multiple systems. Lately I’ve had a frequent problem with Finder crashes. Using Force Quit to “Relaunch” the finder does cause it to quit, but it never restarts.
Continue readingIf your iphone starts flashing the error message “This accessory is not made to work with the iphone” whenever you plug it in to try to sync it with iTunes, try plugging it directly into the computer, with no hub or dock in between.
Continue readingWhen installing PHP on IIS, I ran into this: in general, php files worked, but phpinfo.php files were not. They were blank when browsed.
Continue readingIf you install phpMyAdmin on IIS and get the error:
PROBLEM: cannot load mcrypt extension. please check your php configuration
This could be due to the extension being missing or that it is not listed correctly in php.ini file. Listed below are the instructions from around the web that I followed to get this working:
Continue readingFor the Mandelbulb 3D enthusiasts out there, I’m putting up some of my best images along with their formulas. Click here to see the complete list.
If you have change the IP address that an IIS website is pointing to, then find that when you try to restart IIS services you get the error:
The network location cannot be reached.
…you may need to use a utility called httpcfg to tell IIS to listen specifically to the new IP.
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Informal learning is particularly useful where learners are not novices in a subject area and have some background, but are trying to add skills or need additional support for the details of unfamiliar tasks. Training people to find the information they need when they need it may work as well as training them to remember all the information they need, especially if they will not be putting the new skills to use frequently enough to keep it all memorized.
A couple of weeks ago, I was working on a custom HTML wrapper for Captivate quizzes that would behave one way if a score were already stored for that quiz, and another if the score were non-existent or zero.
So, how best to test for the existence of a score? Usually I test for the existence of a value with
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if (typeof foo != "undefined"){do something}