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2009
- July
  - Drupal: The directory sites/default/files is not writable
    07/29/09
    If the usual permission change doesn't work you can try the following:
    
    # /usr/bin/chcon -R -t httpd_user_content_t ./files
    # chown apache:apache ./files/
    # chmod g+w files
2008
- August
  - Filling Acrobat 8 PDF Form With PDFTK Leaves Fields Empty
    08/07/08
    Fields are empty because field names in the FDF file are probably specified incorrectly.
    
    Just run the following:
    
    # pdftk your_form.pdf dump_data_fields > form.pdf.fields
    
    Look in the form.pdf.fields and the names might show up as: topmostSubform[0].Page1[0].my_f
- May
  - DokuWiki: Delete a Namespace
    05/09/08
    In a generic case once all pages removed from a namespace it will be automatically deleted.
    
    However, if you still see it in the list just run this cleanup script and it will take care of the problem:
    
    #!/bin/sh
    
    # set the path to your DokuWiki installation here
    D
- April
  - Netgear SC101 Review - Bad, Bad.... Such Waste Of Money
    04/28/08
    Netgear SC101 is easily the worst thing I ever bought. First, it broke right out of the box. Netgear replaced it. Unfortunately it hardly made it more usable. The utility that connects the device to Windows constantly fails. The thing is hot as an iron. It crossed my mind to sell it on ebay but I de
  - Drupal 5x :: Sort Node Attachments Alphabetically
    04/15/08
    You need to patch the upload module:
    
    modules/upload/upload.module
    
    Line 848
    
    (old): $result = db_query('SELECT * FROM {files} f INNER JOIN {file_revisions} r ON f.fid = r.fid WHERE r.vid = %d ORDER BY f.fid', $node->vid);
    
    (new): $result
2007
- October
  - MySQL :: #1075 - Incorrect table definition; There can only be one auto column and it must be defined as a key
    10/15/07
    When you get a message like that it might mean you have no primary key defined. As in my case I created a table as SELECT from another table and tried to set auto increment on its id column.
    
    Just run the following:
    
    ALTER your_table DROP PRIMARY KEY, ADD PRIMARY KEY ('some_
- August
  - "STOP: 0x00000024". How I Recovered Data from My Corrupted Laptop Hard Drive.
    08/27/07
    I am still not that sure what caused persistent crashes of my Dell notebook.
    Files were getting randomly corrupted. Sometimes they were recovered by check disk utility, sometimes they we gone for good.
    
    One sunny day it went pretty bad and all that appeared was a blue screen on boot.<
- July
  - "Run a DLL as an App has encountered a problem and needs to close"
    07/15/07
    This is a problem that is caused by some sort of issues in Windows registry. My guess that is can be caused by some missing DLLs after applications uninstalled or deleted.
    
    In my case the problem was fixed after I cleaned up Startup programs with Autoruns utility from Sysinternals.
  - MS Money doesn't recognize password
    07/14/07
    It happened to me number of times... I start Microsoft Money as usual and it informs me that my password is incorrect. Several times I followed my natural reaction and used "Forgot Password" feature. However, my password was right and I actually knew I didn't change it.
    
    The
- April
  - Free Fonts
    04/27/07
    Here is a good site that can help your search for popular Web 2.0 fonts.
    
    Update:
    
    One more site with free quiality fonts.
  - Great Free App For Extracting Content Of .BIN Files
    04/24/07
    Here is a great little Windows utility that can extract your .bin files as well as zip, rar, iso, bin, img, ima, imz, 7z, ace, jar, gz, lzh, lha, tar, sit.
    
    It is very quick, simple, and has no ads.
    
    Visit the developer's page for complete list of features and downlo
  - Installing ATI Video Driver On Linux (Fedora 6 Core) w/ Xorg
    04/19/07
    
    I had to fix one Linux box that was having an issue with its video driver after a performed system update. I don't know the exact pre-history of what happened to it but here is my solution that I compiled after going through newsgroups and pocking into things myself.
    
    1.
  - Microsoft Money Crashes, ntdll.dll Problem
    04/17/07
    Suddendly my MSMoney started to crash on the application start up.
    
    Who could guess but that turned out that it was my new Logitech Mouse that caused it.
    
    I just bought a new cordless laser mouse VX Revolution. Windows installed default drives and everything seemed to be working
- March
  - Export / Import IIS Web Site Settings
    02/24/07
    I am not exactly a MS/IIS person. The content of this post is not based on any kind of deep experience. I just had to figure out something when I needed to export/import the IIS configuration... Feel free to leave comments if you disagree with anything bellow.
    
    Export:
    
    C:\WI
  - Server object error 'ASP 0177 : 800401f3' - Solution
    02/20/07
    It is another generic problem with a simple solution.
    
    The error appears as the following:
    
    Server object error 'ASP 0177 : 800401f3'
    Server.CreateObject Failed
    /index.asp, line 1284
    800401f3
    
    You need to register your COM Wrapper DLL(s) with T
  - 404 Error in IIS 6 when loading .aspx pages
    02/19/07
    It is an old and common problem.
    
    Here is a quick recap on how to solve it:
    
    1. Make sure .NET is installed on your machine
    
    2. If IIS was installed before .Net run 'aspnet_regiis -i' from your Microsoft.NET\Framework\vXXX directory
    
    3. In "I
  - Robo Skater, where is my Christmas wish list?
    02/09/07
    The Latest Red Herring magazine mentioned this new robotic toy from Japan called Robo Skater.
    
    As most of the geeky nation I love toys like that and as a part of daily dose of procrastination decided to google around for more info.
    
    Check out the Gallery section on th
  - DMV Test Questions... Huh?
    02/07/07
    It may seem as a strange topic for my technology related blog. However, the reason for posting it is exclusively experimental. The subject of the experiment is Google ads, traffic, and is it easy to make a few bucks by using ads on your site. I will write about results, of course.
    
    Here we
  - Simple PHP Blog vs WordPress
    02/05/07
    I am using SimplePHPBlog since a while. It is an Open Source very alive project that is progressing really well.
    
    There are very many options for the blogging software. WordPress is one of popular.
    
    I installed it to find out some possible benefits of using it.
    
    I found
  - Gadgetmania - Staples MAILMATE™ Junk Mail Shredder
    02/04/07
    Aren't you tired of big shredders? I realize that it is not a huge problem of the human kind (yet!) but I am glad to stumble across this neat smallish kind of paper destroying tool.
    
    Staples MAILMATE™ Junk Mail Shredder
    
    It works great and looks good. To shred a
  - How To Save Paper, Money On Ink, And A Lot Of Time
    02/03/07
    1. Get a cheap laser printer.
    
    Here is mine: HL-2070N
    
    You can get a cheaper version that doesn't have a network card.
    
    Pros:
    
    - Never dries out
    - Fast enough
    - Cartridge lasts forever**
    
    ** Well, of course, it may be less "forev
  - Best Open Source PHP Search Engine
    02/01/07
    I was looking for a good PHP search engine since a while ago. I had a few but well defined requirements.
    
    1. Open Source, source code available
    2. Easy to build in the existing pages/design
    3. Possible to use on ISP hosted sites with no root access
    3. Customizable indexing w
- January
  - Remove Windows Application When msi Fle Is Missing
    01/26/07
    Here is a good tool from Microsoft that can help to clean up a Windows application if its .msi file happened to be missing:
    
    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301
    
    "With the Windows Installer CleanUp Utility, you can remove a program's Windows Installer configuration
  - Overstock.com Product Ratings... Tailored Fake
    01/22/07
    I buy quite a few things from Overstock.com.
    Generally I am pretty satisfied but this one time I submitted a negative review for a pretty expensive thing I ordered from them.
    
    Guess what... It never appeared. It makes me to doubt the value of reviews on that site.
  - Good PHP Search Engine
    01/20/07
    I needed a PHP/MySql search engine for a relatively small site.
    After some searching and even looking at some cheap commercial solutions I found GNU licensed product called Sphider (http://www.cs.ioc.ee/~ando/sphider/index.php)
    
    These guys did a great job. It has very convenient keywo
  - Internet Explorer causes images appear pixelated on high resolution screens.
    01/09/07
    I noticed this very annoying problem after I upgraded IE to version 7.
    New Explorer wasn't crashing anymore but rendering images and fonts was rather strange.
    
    There is "Clear-Type" option that has to be disabled from the advanced options to fix fonts appearance.
2006
- August
  - All This Is.... :)
    08/25/06
    "...Graphomania is not a mania to write letters, personal diaries, or family chronicles (to write for oneself or one's close relations) but a mania to write books (to have a public of unknown readers). ... Graphomania (a mania for writing books) inevitably takes on epidemic proportions whe
  - MS Internet Explorer 7
    08/25/06
    During last few months I had a persistent problem with IE on Windows.
    It was dying constantly. One of my guesses is that it had a problem with Sun's JVM. I even remember Microsof issued a patch for a similar problem. It didn't help me. What is interesting two of my Windows machines di
  - Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP
    08/24/06
    I know the set of extra utilities like that existed from early days of Windows. Just found the updated list. (See Related Link)
    
    I am using the RAW viewer since a while ago but other small things like ALT+TAB replacement tool is pretty good.
    
    I totally love the Virtual Desktop Ma
  - Windows and Open Source. Squid Proxy.
    08/16/06
    This new project I have started out as development on Linux. It usually makes me pretty happy since I always considered it being much easier than dealing with Windows. However, life managed to "deep" me into working with Windows. It is sort of anti-ideology thing but the world is changing.
- May
  - How to improve Windows performance and solve some of virtual memory issues
    05/24/06
    After cleaning, defragmenting, and all usual things didn't do much I found PageDefrag freeware tool which did miracles in combination with extending size for the pagefile.sys
  - How to setup The Object Type Translator (OTT) on Windows
    05/23/06
    Location: ...\Oracle\instantclient_10_2\sdk\ott.bat
    
    Add to Path:
    
    C:\...\jdk\bin and C:\...\Oracle\Instant_client_10_1
    
    (Yes, strangely enough, the OTT works only when linked to the directory with that version of the InstantClient...)
    
    Add to CLASSPATH:
  - Free wi-fi directory
    05/17/06
    http://anchorfree.com/ has a good free wi-fi spots search. Unfortunately, there are not that many around where I live now....
  - How to make Oracle OCCI work with MS Visual Studio 7
    05/17/06
    ...took me some time with all that variety of OCCI libraries available from Oracle site.
    
    - Download the following from Oracle site:
    
    instantclient-sdk-win32-10.2.0.1-20050930.zip
    
    instantclient-basic-win32-10.2.0.1-20050930.zip
    
    You can find them at h