@font-face Crashes Firefox on Fedora 11Until Fedora updated one of its libraries, Firefox on Fedora 11 would crash on any website that uses an embedded font.
A9 and the demise of SiteInfoAmazon.comâs search site, A9, has scaled back drastically. The rewards program is gone, as are bookmarks and history. Theyâve even discontinued the A9 toolbar.
Airport Extreme vs. LinuxBroadcom refused to release drivers or specs for the chipset, so for years no one could even write their own.
Android Browser Using Extra Space? Check Gears!Androidâs web browser stores several types of data: cache, history, cookies and passwordsâŠand Gears, which might use more memory than youâd expect!
Bunnyâs Technorati Tags and WordPress 2.0To make Bunnyâs Technorati Tags fully compatible with WordPress 2.0 you need to change two lines in the add_tags_textinput() function.
Chkdsk FailIf chkdsk gives you a âcannot open volume for direct accessâ error on Windows XP, try running msconfig and selecting a Diagnostic startup.
Fedora 7 Problems With Glint Video DriverGrab the Live CD first and make sure that all your hardware works properly. If not, see if the fix is available before you actually upgrade.
Fixing Flash in Fedora Core 5Flash hard-codes the paths where it looks for fonts, instead of letting the X server tell it where to look.
Fixing TwhirlJust delete the entire ~/.appdata/Adobe/AIR/ELS/ folder and start from the ground up.
Flash 10 and WordPress File Upload ProblemsWordPress use(d) SWFUploader for uploading images, but Flash 10 broke it. Fixed in WP 2.7. Obsolete now that Flash is discontinued and HTML+JS can handle nicer uploads.
Flock and self-hosted WordPressIf you canât post to your self/third-party-hosted WordPress blog through a program other than the website, and you use ModSecurity - check those settings.
Focus! â Login Form FailIf youâre going to set the initial focus in a form field, donât use onload(). Chances are youâll end up moving the cursor while power users are already typing.
Google Toolbar AutoFill is WeirdThis form had name and e-mail fields, but AutoFill only recognized e-mail. I figured, OK, people might be using this, letâs see if I can adjust the page and make it compatible.
How Thunderbirdâs Scam Detection Works (2005)Tracking down what causes Mozilla Thunderbird to label a message as suspicious, as well as how to train it to ignore emails that you know are legit.
iPod vs. OggApple has no motivation to add Ogg support to the iPod. Theyâve paid the MP3 tax, and so has software their target audience is likely to be using.
Nepomuk is Not RunningKMail kept tossing errors on launch because an old config was trying to load the wrong Nepomuk backend.
No Manâs Sky: Disappearing Freighter BaseBefore the Fractal update, No Manâs Sky had a bug where if you completely empty your old freighter before buying a new one, the base doesnât transfer.
Simple Browser CategorizationSometimes you want to know exactly what software people (or bots) are using to view your website. Sometimes all you want to know is which rendering engineâs quirks you need to cater to.
Toolbars That Phone HomeI installed the Firefox versions of four toolbars and used netstat to see when they connected.
Using WP-CLI with WordPress 4.6 on DreamHostTo use wp-cli with WordPress 4.6, you need to use a newer version than the one installed, and to do that, you need to enable PHAR in PHP.
Webslices and MicrosummariesBoth features have since been removed, but they offered and interesting way to let visitors know when a site had been updated.
What Can You Build With the Google+ API So Far?Google Plus has released the beginnings of its API for third-party apps. All you can do so far is read a userâs public activity. What can you do with that?
When Tags Vanish: WordPress 2.1A change in plugin hooks in WordPress 2.1 caused older plugins to fire when a post got new comments, causing some weird behavior like losing custom fields.