#83: Finding postgis_restore.pl
Solved!on January 24, 2010, 01:38 AM UTC — from 
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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 ?
#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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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 Vlaue, 8-Bit for web development, for example). In Leopard, your preferred color space...
#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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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...
#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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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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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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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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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...
#68: Modding Rome: Total War descr_regions.txt has no effect
Solved!on October 21, 2009, 06:29 AM UTC — from yliu
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After making some changes to descr_region.txt in the $RTW/world/maps/campaign/base directory, I started a new Imperial Campaign to see my changes. I did not see any of my changes reflected in the new campaign.
#67: Unknown password when importing a client certificate in Firefox
Solved!on October 06, 2009, 12:52 AM UTC — from yliu
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When installing a StartCom client certificate for Firefox, a box pops up with "Please enter the password that was used to encrypt this certificate backup". I tried my root password, admin password, a blank password, and Firefox Master Password to no effect...
#65: Default password for X509Anchors on OS X Leopard
Solved!on October 01, 2009, 11:43 AM UTC — from yliu
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The System keychain X509Anchors (in /System/Library/Keychains) is locked by a password. This password is not the system-level administrator password. I need to unlock it.
#61: MacBook Pro network access slow on battery in 10.5.8
Solved!on August 08, 2009, 10:30 PM UTC — from yliu
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After upgrading to Mac OS X 10.5.8 on the MacBook Pro 15 in (early 2008), my wireless network speed plunges when on battery power, compared with adapter power. Ping to the nearest network router on AirPort Extreme should be ~1ms (and is when on adapter power...
#59: getFatBlock error when upgrading Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 firmware
Solved!on July 07, 2009, 11:43 AM UTC — from yliu
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When trying to upgrade firmware on a Seagate Barracuda 7400.11 from version SD15 to SD1A, the FreeDOS boot CD reports a number of " error reading partition table drive 01 sector 0 " errors. This is followed by " get Fatblock failed:0x000000e8 " or some variant...
#51: Broken shell command substitution in crontab
on June 04, 2009, 11:05 AM UTC — from yliu
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In a cronjob, I want to execute a date sub-command and substitute the results in place into the overall shell command. Something like:
1 5 * * * bash -c 'cp /foo/bar /foo/bar.$(date +%Y%m%d).sql'
Unfortunately, this breaks with an error at runtime:
/bin...
#49: Subversion 1.6.2 explodes on first network access
Solved!on May 28, 2009, 06:05 AM UTC — from yliu
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After compiling Subversion 1.6.2 from source on OS X 10.5 Leopard, the compilation is apparently successful, but svn dies when it tries to connect to the network for the first time. Crash log reports that symbols are missing from libneon.dylib.
Crash report...
#48: Rails to Blogger, Wordpress integration
on May 26, 2009, 08:06 AM UTC — from yliu
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Looking for a reasonable library or wrapper around the Blogger API and Wordpress AtomPub/XML-RPC APIs, so that I can syndicate content to various blog engines, or just post content to user-specified blogs in general.
#46: JEPController:checkBundle couldn't find libawt.jnilib
Solved!on May 20, 2009, 06:50 PM UTC — from yliu
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At some point, my Firefox 3.0.x on OS X 10.5 stopped opening Java applets. The failure occurs silently -- the applet simply doesn't run, with no apparent error message in the browser.
In the Console log, the output is
5/20/09 11:43:02 AM [0x0-0x104104].org...
#42: HTML or XHTML Parser for iPhone SDK 2.x
Solved!on May 07, 2009, 01:03 PM UTC — from yliu
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A couple of my iPhone projects require a decent HTML/XHTML parser. On OS X, Cocoa ships with NSXMLDocument, which includes dirty HTML parsing functionality from libtidy. Unfortunately, NSXMLDocument is not part of the actual iPhone 2.2 SDK (though it is part...
#39: Reversing PDB files to PML
Solved!on April 26, 2009, 02:40 PM UTC — from yliu
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PDB-format eBooks are typically generated via PML (Palm Markup Language) files. I would like to reverse the process - extract the original PML document from a PDB file. Tools such as DropBook only go one-way.
#38: Migrate an SVN repository
on April 18, 2009, 08:14 AM UTC — from yliu
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I need to move an SVN repository from http://svn.foo.com to http://svn.bar.com . I also have a working copy, checked out from foo.com, that has changes. I have a svndump of the last revision at foo.com. However, I no longer have commit access to foo.com...
#32: MenuMeters Memory Meter reports negative page faults
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on April 15, 2009, 04:25 AM UTC — from yliu
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The latest build of MenuMeters (1.3 as of this posting) can report negative values for its VM Statistics. For example, the page faults value can roll over INT_MAX to report -1,800,000 page faults, when I've ran the same OS X session for ~18 days. While it...