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@font-face Crashes Firefox on Fedora 11 Until 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 SiteInfo Amazon.com’s search site, A9, has scaled back drastically. The rewards program is gone, as are bookmarks and history. They’ve even discontinued the A9 toolbar.
Airport Extreme vs. Linux Broadcom 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! Android’s web browser stores several types of data: cache, history, cookies and passwords…and Gears, which might use more memory than you’d expect!
Bunny’s Technorati Tags and WordPress 2.0 To make Bunny’s Technorati Tags fully compatible with WordPress 2.0 you need to change two lines in the add_tags_textinput() function.
Can’t Log into Feedly or Pinterest on Firefox 40? Check Ghostery! After upgrading to Firefox 40, logging into Feedly with Google or Pinterest with a Facebook account failed. It turned out to be Ghostery.
Chkdsk Fail If chkdsk gives you a ‘cannot open volume for direct access’ error on Windows XP, try running msconfig and selecting a Diagnostic startup.
Eleventy data cascade not picking up front matter on layouts Fixed in 1.0.1: Eleventy normally combines the front matter in layouts along with the templates, data files, etc…unless the layout is set globally.
Facebook Page Flagged for… domain_placeholder.com? Probably not! Facebook sent out a suspension notice with placeholder names by mistake.
Fedora 7 Problems With Glint Video Driver Grab 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.
Find the missing Windows 8.1 update on a Dell If the 8.1 update is missing from the Windows Store, you need to uninstall a minor update and then reinstall it manually.
First Stab at WordPress/MySQL Tuning My job sent me to a class on scaling, optimizing and troubleshooting MySQL this week.
Fixing Feed Problems with WordPress 2.0.6 and PHP 5.2 Feeds are broken on WordPress 2.0.6 with most, but not all, browsers because of an HTTP header problem. Here’s how to fix it.
Fixing Flash in Fedora Core 5 Flash hard-codes the paths where it looks for fonts, instead of letting the X server tell it where to look.
Fixing Twhirl Just delete the entire ~/.appdata/Adobe/AIR/ELS/ folder and start from the ground up.
Flash 10 and WordPress File Upload Problems WordPress 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 WordPress If you can’t post to your self/third-party-hosted WordPress blog through a program other than the website, and you use ModSecurity - check those settings.
Focus! — Login Form Fail If you’re going to set the initial focus in a form field, don’t use onload(). Chances are you’ll end up moving the cursor while power users are already typing.
Forgetting Out-of-Range WiFi Networks on a Samsung Galaxy Phone The tedious solution: Rename your own hotspot, remove it from the phone, then rename it back.
G1 Sync and Texts Blocked? Check Your Apps! Lack of space can prevewnt Android from doing basic things like syncing and sending/receiving messages.
Getting Flash to work on Google Chrome for 64-bit Linux Flash works on the Google Chrome beta for Linux, but may need an extra symlink for the 64-bit Chrome to use the 32-bit Flash.
Google Toolbar AutoFill is Weird This form had name and e-mail fields, but AutoFill only recognized e-mail. I figured, OK, people might be using this, let’s see if I can adjust the page and make it compatible.
How Thunderbird’s 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.
How to Get Rid of Windows Live Messenger Start to uninstall Windows Live Essentials, then choose which pieces you want to get rid of. And WLM will go away.
iPod vs. Ogg Apple has no motivation to add Ogg support to the iPod. They’ve paid the MP3 tax, and so has software their target audience is likely to be using.
Jetpack Related Posts Missing on an SSL WordPress Site? If you can’t get Jetpack’s related posts to load on self-hosted WordPress running HTTPS, check your SSL settings to see if you need to disable RC4.
Nepomuk is Not Running KMail kept tossing errors on launch because an old config was trying to load the wrong Nepomuk backend.
No Man’s Sky: Disappearing Freighter Base Before the Fractal update, No Man’s Sky had a bug where if you completely empty your old freighter before buying a new one, the base doesn’t transfer.
NVIDIA on Fedora 27: Bad Resolution and Painful Mouse Lag (Fixed) As of 2017, Wayland didn’t work with the binary NVIDIA drivers, and the system would lag painfully. If you tell GDM not to use Wayland, it will fall back to the older display system.
PHP 5.2.2 vs. WordPress XMLRPC A bug in PHP 5.2.2 breaks WordPress’ XMLRPC interface, which breaks stats and other clients.
PHP5 and WP Cache 2 Finding and fixing errors with WordPress’ WP Cache plugin and PHP5.
Quick Fix: WordPress Social Homes and LinkedIn Icon If your WordPress blog shows a blank icon for LinkedIn, this simple change will fix it.
Resolving SELinux audit errors on boot in Fedora Core 4 Rebuild the initrd so it can label the boot filesystem with the new policy.
Setting up a Wireless Network on Linux 2.6: Ralink 3062 and Network Manager Wifi on Linux can still be a pain to get working. Here’s how I set up a Zonet ZEW1642 on Fedora 13 using the Ralink 3062 drivers.
Simple Browser Categorization Sometimes 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 engine’s quirks you need to cater to.
Toolbars That Phone Home I installed the Firefox versions of four toolbars and used netstat to see when they connected.
Using WP-CLI with WordPress 4.6 on DreamHost To 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 Microsummaries Both 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 user’s public activity. What can you do with that?
When digiKam Failed to Connect File permissions. Always check the file permissions.
When Tags Vanish: WordPress 2.1 A 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.
Why Google Buzz Won’t Run on Your Android Phone (Yet) Buzz relies on several HTML5 features which were added to the browser with Android 2.0. Older versions support Gears instead, which may be the way to solve it.
WordPress Broken on PHP 5.2 Again WordPress 2.1.1 should have fixed the PHP 5.2 problems, but not if you’re also using the internal cache.
Workaround for Gmail being blocked by “Temporary Error” in Firefox on Fedora In this case it was a Fedora-specific issue, but it could be worked around by holding down shift and hitting reload.