Archive for the ‘ Fixit ’ Category
After upgrading to 10.6 my beloved Quicksilver had grown some new bad habits. If I wasn’t in the first space (#1 / top left), Quicksilver would bring me back there every time I invoked it. So if I was trying to open an app or run a command in Space #2, running a Quicksilver command [ READ MORE ]
I use iDisk Sync (via MobileMe) to keep my desktop and my laptop in sync so I don’t have to remember to copy files back and forth every time I grab one or the other. This worked great until my upgrade to 10.6 – ever since then the iDisk status bar would say “Checking items” [ READ MORE ]
This is an issue that has plagued me for months and months, and I finally found a way around this VERY strange bug. For some reason, exporting a database from phpMyAdmin inserts garbage after EVERY LINK in the database content. So if you have a database row with <a href="mylink"> in the data, it will end [ READ MORE ]
Today, out of nowhere, we started receiving reports that HTML email the gdiapers.com site was sending were showing up as just that: HTML code and not much else. Running a few tests confirmed these reports… but only in my gmail account. We went back and checked the reports and sure enough – they were all [ READ MORE ]
Tiger has introduced a new super-confusion level to the stock configuration of Apache. In addition to the httpd.conf file in the /etc/httpd directory, there’s now a new users directory as well. That directory holds unique config files for each user of the machine. So, if you were to enable mod_rewrite or AllowOverrides in httpd.conf, you [ READ MORE ]