Ok Verizon has been driving me crazy by pushing OTA updates to my phone. After dealing with "Install later" for 3 weeks, I finally managed to disable OTA updates using a trick I found on a forum. First, make sure you have adb installed & that it can…
Tags:- Android, OTA Updates
This one really drove me insane. I recently discovered JavaScript MooTools library & it's UI component, MochaUI. MochaUI provides a powerful & easy-to-use library for developing rich internet applications (RIAs). My issue began after finding that the…
Tags:- MochaUI, MooTools, JavaScript
A client recently struggled when his XP workstation's left pane disappeared. This pane contains commons tasks such as emailing files. A simple registry modficiaton was needed to remediate the issue: After applying the fix, I killed the explorer.exe…
Tags:- Windows XP, Explorer, Left pane
Tired of trying to use compiz to have wallpaper span both screens, only to find your desktop icons disappear? A few months ago I embarked on a relentless search through mountains of RGBA patches, custom versions of nautilus, and failed attempts at…
Tags:- Wallpaper span, Compiz Fusion, Gnome, Dual monitors
I recently got back into trying to teach myself C++, mostly through YouTube tutorials (this guy's are pretty good). I only went to IRC for an answer at one point, but would like to share something I found & wasn't able to Google on. Everyone should…
Tags:- C++, Pointers, Ampersand operator, Pass by reference
As a network tech, I should always follow the golden rule of backup up data. I recently attempted resizing a partition (after neglecting this pinnacle of IT) & completed destroyed a PHP web application I had been working on. The PHP web application…
Tags:- VirtualBox, VDI, Data recovery, Plaintext
When booting a VM recently, I received the error message below regarding I/O writecaching & virtual hard disk corruption: After Googling for a bit, I found that the first thing to check with this error is whether I/O write caching is enabled on the…
Tags:- Linux, EXT4, VirtualBox, Disk write cache
If you're getting frustrated by Outlook 2007 clients receiving error 0x80070422 when trying to Send/Receive the Offline Address Book, the first thing to check is your Exchange 2007 service URL's. The quickest way to test this from the client end…
Tags:- Exchange 2007, Offline Address Book, 0x80070422
Just had an issue where I could not mount my USB drive at boot time I was getting an error along the lines of UUID=blah not found ...I previously had performed the standard sudo blkid and received the following output: corte@ashbox ~ $ sudo blkid…
Tags:- Linux, Arch Linux, UUID, Removable drives
Had some trouble with something I'd had earlier trouble with in the past. When using the locate command (even after running updatedb), I was unable to search my removable USB drives. The solution was to modify the /etc/updatedb.conf file, and…
Tags:- Linux, Search, Prune paths