Pages Tagged “Crash”
Tech Tips
- @font-face Crashes Firefox on Fedora 11 (Obsolete) Until Fedora updated one of its libraries, Firefox on Fedora 11 would crash on any website that uses an embedded font.
- Android App Crashing on Start? Clear the Cache An app was crashing every time I tried to launch it. Clearing the cache fixed it without having to uninstall and reinstall, or clear the (extensive) data.
- Chkdsk Fail (Obsolete) If chkdsk gives you a ‘cannot open volume for direct access’ error on Windows XP, try running msconfig and selecting a Diagnostic startup.
Blog Posts
- Striking the Crowd
Today I found myself thinking of Terminator 3, specifically the plotline in which all kinds of random computer crashes are spreading across the internet. For obvious reasons. In today’s real world incident, it’s a bug in an auto-pushed update for widely-used security software by CrowdStrike, ironically used to protect mission-critical systems. In the two-decade-old movie […]
- Auto-Update Overload! (Or, Google Drive-ing me Crazy!)
Two hot takes (so to speak): Auto-updaters shouldn’t run when the system is really busy. And installers that check to see the whether the same or newer version is “already installed” should either be really thorough about what they’re checking, or offer to do a repair install anyway. Overheat! I’d fired up a game of […]
- SDCC Ticket Meltdown
Comic-Con 2011 ticket sales crashed under heavy load shortly after going online. I think weâre seeing another shift in the process of getting to Comic-Con. It used to be that, as long as you were aware of the onsale dates and could both plan your trip and pay for your tickets far enough ahead of […]
- Putting the Post in Post Office
A few weeks ago, I stopped at the post office on the way to work. As I walked to the door, my eye was immediately drawn to the big hole in the wall where, apparently, a car had crashed into the building while trying to park. Whatever vehicle had done the damage was long gone, […]
- Cut it out, Ned!
I put the Pushing Daisies soundtrack CD in my computer and it rebooted. Fortunately it took less than a minute…. Of course I tried it again to see if it was a fluke. Same thing. Then I decided to try with another CD. Apparently any audio CD crashes it. Shows how often I use CDs […]
- Manic Monday
First, some linkblogging… The Spam Primer has been “completely revamped.” Mars Express Orbiter catches video of moons Phobos and Deimos. And then the “fun” started. Me: I’m going to focus on project X today! Computer needed for project X: I’m going to lock up today! Me: Argh! Someone thought it would be a good idea […]
- Improving Browser Reliability
The IEBlog recently posted about their efforts to improve reliability in Internet Explorer 8, particularly the idea of “loosely-coupled IE” (or LCIE). The short explanation is that each tab runs in its own process, so if a web page causes the browser to crash, only that tab crashes — not the whole thing. (It is […]
- Fragile Tech
I got into work this morning to find my desk’s keyboard and KVM switch non-responsive. The only way to reset the switch was to turn it off and back on, which meant disconnecting all the keyboard and mouse cables. (A KVM switch doesn’t need much power, so many of them just draw power from the […]
- Disconectiva
For several months I’ve been providing installable RPM packages for the Dillo web browser. Since many different distributions use RPM packages, I’ve been getting requests to add various Linux distributions. I started out just installing to extra partitions, but then I started building virtual systems with User-Mode Linux. Well, people have been requesting RPMs for […]