Archive for posts tagged ‘troubleshooting’

Autonegotiation

Some notes on the commonly misunderstood subject of network autonegotiation, with an emphasis on duplex mismatches caused by differences in configurations of two partners to a connection.

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A common sense workaround for installing SetPoint in a VMware virtual machine

A workaround to installing Logitech’s SetPoint utility in order to map mouse buttons on a Windows XP virtual machine running in VMWare Workstation 7.

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GoDaddy phpMyAdmin error #1045 – Access denied for user

How GoDaddy’s new MySQL database form accepts mixed case characters as a username, then converts the username to lowercase without alerting you, potentially causing login problems down the road.

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Configuring FileZilla FTP to use active mode to resolve “425 Can’t open data connection” errors

How to configure the FileZilla FTP client to use active mode in order to resolve “425 Can’t open data connection” errors, and why they occur.

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Native Windows compressed folders utility fails, asks for 5.99 PB free space

Extracting certain large zip files using Windows’ native compression utility fails with a pretty neat error: You need an additional 5.99 PB to copy these files.

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Fixed: XAMPP Component Status Check failure [3].

A simple fix for the XAMPP Component Status Check failure [3]. error when launching the XAMPP 1.7.4 Control Panel.

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How to fix the “PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_header()” error in WordPress

Fix the “PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_header()” error in WordPress.

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W3C Link Checker fails with an Error: 406 Not Acceptable

Attempting to run the W3C Link Checker against http://www.ardamis.com/ returns a 406 error message.

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Nullsoft NetMon mirror

This page is a mirror of http://www.nullsoft.com/free/netmon/, with the link to the NetMon04.exe application changed to point to the file hosted at ardamis.com.

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How to remove the GRUB bootloader from Windows XP

How to replace the boot sector and MBR of Windows XP to remove the GRUB bootloader.

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