Fan Noise after upgrading to OS X 10.4.7
Every so often, I show up in the office to see that my year-old G5 tower has decided to emulate a jet engine. Overnight, the fans rev up to the maximum, and stay that way
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Dreamweaver Crashes on Tiger when expanding files panel
Since installing Dreamweaver 8, expanding the files panel to show both remote and local sites caused freezes. The application would become unresponsive, and a few seconds later “not responding” would show up by Dreamweaver’s title
Continue readingWacom tablet stops functioning
On my Windows 2000 workstation, occasionally, the tablet just stops working. It seems that this usually happens when the mouse (which is also still connected) has been moved accidentally. However sometimes it seems to just
Continue readingTroubleshooting Coursebuilder installation in Dreamweaver MX 2004
Coursebuilder is a Dreamweaver extension that creates learning interactions, like quiz questions. When I installed the extension in Dreamweaver MX 2004, it seemed to work fine, until I got to the point of using the
Continue readingTroubleshooting Questionmark Perception database connections
We’ve had just about every sort of database connection issue with our two Questionmark Perception servers, so in the interest of saving someone else the kind of struggles we’ve gone through, here are some things to look for.
- tnsnames.ora issues:
There is a file that lives in a subdirectory of the Oracle folder – this directory may be called Oracle_Home, Oracle9 etc, and is often but not always in the root directory of the server.A typical path to the tnsnames.ora file on a server is
E:\Oracle_HomenetworkAdmintnsnames.oraThere are a variety of things that could be incorrect in this file.
- Hidden control characters brought in during copy and paste:
If you copy and paste the settings from some email programs into this file, you may be adding hidden control characters to the tnsnames.ora file. You won’t be able to see them but they’re there, and they’re screwing things up. Continue reading
- Hidden control characters brought in during copy and paste:
Fatal Error on upgrading to Drupal 4.5.1 resolved
Thanks to TDobes note on the Drupal forums, I got past a fatal error after upgrading to Drupal 4.5.1 from 4.3. “Fatal error: Class theme_example: Cannot inherit from undefined class basetheme…” It turns out I
Continue readingWindows Media Player not responding to Player.controls.stop command
onclick windows media player properties player.controls.stop() doesn’t work doesn’t respond to stop command
Continue readingProducer presentations start in the middle instead of the beginning
Producer has a bookmarking feature that makes it start up wherever you last left off. Unfortunately, this behavior simply confuses many of our users, who barely notice the Table of Contents. It turns out you
Continue readingFinal Cut: Color Corrector causes color inversion and posterization on Freeze Frames
In Final Cut Pro, using the Color Corrector filter over the Cross Dissolve transition when applied to Freeze Frames sometimes causes a color inversion and posterization effect. I’ve found two ways around this: 1. Use
Continue readingThe Wacom Tablet and Fireworks MX 2004
Macromedia vector applications- Fireworks and Freehand – all seem to share problems with the Wacom tablets and have for quite a while. It used to be that the problems with Freehand and Fireworks could be
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