#102: proxychains/proxyresolv DNS failure on OS X 10.6
Solved!on August 22, 2010, 05:57 PM UTC — from 
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I managed to get a version of proxychains running on OS X 10.6, after fixing all of its weird library load errors (due to hard-coded library paths in proxychains/proxyresolv's wrapper scripts). Unfortunately, though it correctly connects to an external DNS...
#99: Trac reports "Insufficient permissions" when using fine-grained permissions
Solved!on July 13, 2010, 03:18 AM UTC — from yliu
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I have a Ubuntu-based Trac installation covering two SVN repositories. Having to share a single Subversion repository with different teams, who shouldn't have access to the other team's code, I had to activate fine-grained permissions using htpasswd and mod_authz_svn...
#98: "Pattern colors are not supported" when compiling iPhone app
Solved!on June 22, 2010, 07:35 AM UTC — from yliu
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When compiling an iPhone app project, a controller XIB file reports an error "Pattern colors are not supported by the iPhone SDK for iPhone OS versions prior to 3.0". The Xcode Project deployment target is set to compile for iPhone OS 3.x or 4.x, so this really...
#97: RoTK XI movies show black screen
Solved!on June 12, 2010, 05:29 AM UTC — from yliu
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When playing Romance of the Three Kingdoms XI on my Windows 7 laptop on full screen, maximum resolution, the introductory movies and FMV cutscenes play as black screens. The audio still works, and the cursor is normal, but no video is shown.
The movies display...
#94: Zotero error line.replace is not a function
Solved!on May 15, 2010, 05:57 AM UTC — from yliu
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When attempting to load JSTOR, SpringerLink, or Informaworld citations using the address bar button in Zotero 2.03, the citation is not added. Checking the JavaScript error console reports an error of "line.replace is not a function" from the relevant site...
#92: zip command exclude .svn directories
Solved!on April 25, 2010, 09:49 PM UTC — from yliu
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I am looking for the command line incantation for zip to package up a .zip file but exclude any .svn metadata directories and files. I used --exclude=.svn/* but it doesn't seem to work.
#90: 5Ghz mode with Ralink RT2870 and AirPort Express
Solved!on April 06, 2010, 01:20 AM UTC — from yliu
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I purchased a SparkLAN WUBR-505N dual band USB WiFi adapter, which claimed to do 802.11 a/b/g/n, for my Powerbook G4. This card is using the Ralink RT 2870, which is a dual band chipset with fairly nice Mac OS X drivers provided by Ralink. I plugged it in...
#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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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.