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After doing a user import via csv into a new Drupal site, some new users could no longer register. When I attempted to create the users manually, I got this error: user error: Duplicate entry
Continue readingA rare but irritating problem I’ve had with Safari for a couple of years now is its habit of suddenly no longer responding to mouse clicks. It simply stops dead: you can’t click links, type
Continue readingI just walked in on a Monday morning to find the Power Mac G5 off. Pressing the power button did nothing, although the power light was on. Pulling the plug for a moment did nothing
Continue readingI pulled my iPhone out of its cradle to make a call today, but my hands were damp. As you probably know the iPhone’s touch screen won’t respond if you are wearing gloves, have damp
Continue readingWhen viewing items in column view, you have the option to display a Preview column, where a preview image of your image or movie will be displayed, along with some file info. Sometimes, viewing that
Continue readingSetting up Red5 on a box which also contains a web server can be a challenge if you are restricted to using specific ports because of a firewall. Here is how we set up Red5 on a Windows 2003 server which also contains a production IIS server.
Our firewall only allows traffic on ports 80 and 443. This is non-negotiable, so we needed to work around the requirement.
The folks – in particular Walter Tak – on the Red5 mailing list pointed me in the right direction: Make another IP (or two) for Red 5 to run under.
IIS was already using ports 80 and 443, so the system administrator made two additional IPs for Red5 to use, one for rtmp and one for http. He then changed the settings in the Default Website Properties in IIS Manager: In Web Site Identification: IP Address, instead of (All Unassigned), he selected the single IP which we wanted IIS to listen on. We did not want IIS to interfere with port 80 on the IPs used by Red5.
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My iPhone started displaying a “No Service” message a few days ago. When it didn’t go away, I called the ATT Wireless people. Here are the easy steps to cure the problem:
Continue readingAfter a recent update to Firefox, all my precious debugging extensions disappeared. The Add-on’s window showed nothing installed. This post on the MozillaZine Forums explained how to force Firefox to rescan your addons and get
Continue readingWhen I hooked up my iPhone to iTunes the first time, I got “Can’t connect to iTunes” with an error code of 0xE8000025. After a quick browse of the forums and web, I tried several
Continue readingSometimes, when attempting to empty the trash in OS X, you will get an error “This operation could not be completed because you do not have sufficient privileges for some of the items.” The best
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