#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 
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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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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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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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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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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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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.