#88: "No record of this item" with USPS tracking number with Amazon shipping
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on March 10, 2010, 10:02 PM UTC — from 
yliu
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yliu
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I have a package shipping from Amazon using their SuperSaver shipping method. A USPS tracking number was issued, but using the USPS online package tracking system always reports "There is no record of this item".
It has been several days, and still the Post...
#87: Remove NTW manual watermark
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on March 05, 2010, 12:24 PM UTC — from yliu
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yliu
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The Steam version of Napoleon: Total War ships with a PDF manual. Unfortunately, it has a giant "SEGA" watermark over most of its pages, making the text difficult to read.
Looking for a reasonably easy way to remove the SEGA watermark. From viewing it, it...
#86: Building bsddb.so for Python
Solved!on February 22, 2010, 12:31 AM UTC — from yliu
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yliu
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I want to build the _bsddo.so module for my Python install, and link it to an installation of BerkeleyDB 4.8 on my OS X 10.6 machine. OS X 10.6 comes with Python 2.6 and a stock bsddb module, but does not ship the actual binary _bsddb.so, which makes the entire...
#85: Colons and special characters in Ultrasphinx queries
Solved!on February 19, 2010, 09:59 PM UTC — from yliu
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yliu
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When I use UltraSphinx, the Ruby API to the Sphinx full-text search engine, queries with certain special characters such as colons (:), at signs (@), and other reserved characters throw an Ultrasphinx::UsageError exception in my query interface.
For example...
#84: setuptools 0.6c11 fails to install on Windows 7 64-bit
Solved!on February 11, 2010, 04:54 AM UTC — from yliu
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yliu
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I am attempting to install setuptools for Windows 7 64-bit. Upon downloading the installer msi file for setuptools 0.6c11 for Python 2.6, the installer fails at the second stage with an error message "Python version 2.6 is required, which was not found in...
#83: Finding postgis_restore.pl
Solved!on January 24, 2010, 01:38 AM UTC — from yliu
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yliu
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Upon needing to restore a PostGIS-enabled Postgres database, I am following instructions from the PostGIS website as of Jan 23, 2010. However, I cannot find the postgis_restore.pl script referred to by the documentation. Where is postgis_store.pl ?
#82: Django: "Upload a valid image. The file you uploaded was either not an image or a corrupted image."
Solved!on January 13, 2010, 11:32 AM UTC — from 
hannes
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hannes
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When uploading an image with Django, I get:
"Upload a valid image. The file you uploaded was either not an image or a corrupted image."
#81: associated STI subclasses not loading in dev
Solved!on January 08, 2010, 06:47 PM UTC — from 
kueda
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kueda
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Let's say you have
class Chili < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :beans
end
class Bean < ActiveRecord::Base; end
class Pinto < Bean; end
Now, let's say you have one chili record that's associated with one pinto (it's a sad chili). If you do this...
#80: LUALL.exe hogs CPU
on January 01, 2010, 09:22 PM UTC — from 
k7lim
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k7lim
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At intervals, I'll just get a CPU leak and it's LUALL.exe
#79: DigitalColor Meter RGB color space defaults on Snow Leopard
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on December 26, 2009, 03:29 AM UTC — from yliu
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yliu
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OS X ships with a nifty digital pixel color meter called DigitalColor Meter, which outputs the color of the pixel under your cursor in whichever color space you choose (Hex Value, 8-Bit for web development, for example). In Leopard, your preferred color space...
#78: "can not find script file "c:\windows\jargon.vbs"
on December 25, 2009, 07:13 PM UTC — from k7lim
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k7lim
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When starting my folks' computer, this script error pops up. Running XP Media Center Edition
#77: Wanted: iPhone/Prius integration
on December 24, 2009, 04:48 PM UTC — from k7lim
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k7lim
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I want a physical installation that allows me to use my iPhone safely in my car. 1) GPS Navigation software 2) connect car's AUX audio connection to device 3) charge device using my USB charger
#76: VLC on XP doesn't update itself correctly
Solved!on December 23, 2009, 08:50 AM UTC — from k7lim
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k7lim
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Error occurs on 1.0.1 on XP Media Center Edition.
File chooser pops up and then this error:
Saving file failed
Failed to open "\MY\PATH\" for writing
#75: jsettlers crashing on bot's die roll
on December 21, 2009, 05:32 PM UTC — from k7lim
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k7lim
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i can't get through more than 3-4 rounds on jsettlers (settlers of catan, java version, on jsettlers.com) until the applet just dies.
the crash always happens when one bot finishes its turn and the next bot is to roll.
#74: Building just readline.so for Python on OS X
Solved!on December 20, 2009, 07:40 AM UTC — from yliu
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yliu
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I want to build the readline.so module for my Python install, and link it to an installation of GNU readline. As much as I dislike the entire "what's Free" argument about this nonsense, readline simply works better with packages such as IPython than the crummy...
#73: Chrome fails to load PDF: "cannot use adobe pdf in your browser"
on December 15, 2009, 06:09 PM UTC — from k7lim
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k7lim
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Action:
Click on any PDF link in Chrome
Full text of error:
Adobe Acrobat
"Cannot use Adobe Reader to view PDF in your web browser. Reader will now exit. Please exit your browser and try again."
Background:
I have a version of Adobe Acrobat Pro installed...
#72: Rome: Total War Alexander historical battles do not unlock
Solved!on November 13, 2009, 01:58 AM UTC — from yliu
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yliu
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On Windows Vista and Windows 7, I am unable to unlock all historical battles for Rome: Total War, Alexander. The Battle of Chaeronea is the only one available, and even though I have won it on Medium difficulty, the next battle in the sequence does not unlock...
#71: Dell Studio XPS wireless failure
Solved!on November 08, 2009, 07:41 AM UTC — from yliu
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yliu
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On the Dell Studio XPS laptop, the WiFi / wireless Internet mysteriously deactivates. All drivers report normal, and the trouble diagnostic reports that "wireless capability is turned off on this computer" and "Turn on wireless capability" to restore functionality...
#70: "audit_log_user_command(): Connection refused" when using sudo in CentOS 5
Solved!on November 04, 2009, 01:25 AM UTC — from yliu
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yliu
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On every invocation of sudo in CentOS 5.3, whether successful or not, there is an echo to terminal of:
audit_log_user_command(): Connection refused
This does not appear to affect any serious functionality, but is incredibly annoying.
#69: MemCacheError () failures in Rails 2.3.x
Solved!on November 01, 2009, 09:24 AM UTC — from yliu
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yliu
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While attempting to use Rails.cache.write using MemcachedStore, writes with strings fail consistently with MemCacheError () . Reads occasionally succeed for some odd reason.
Only seems to happen on Ubuntu Intrepid ( production environment ), with memcached...