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IE6/IE7 PNG gAMA bug makes PNGs appear darker
The link PNGs appear darker, except for Email A Friend, which has the gAMA chunk removed. In setting up the new vehicle details page for DDC, I noticed that the background color for the 24-bit PNGs...
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Resize script in Paint Shop Pro X2
I batch-process-resized some photos in PSP X2, & realized too late (after I had emailed 90 photos off to various relatives) that everyone appeared a little taller & thinner than they normally...
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Thunderbird ignores Windows’ default printer setting
I bought a new printer, a Canon MX860. As all-in-one printers go, it’s fantastic. Soon it was knighted as my new Windows’ default printer. Everything was happy in Printerland until I tried to print an...
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Continuous Beeping from a Trojan UV Max C4
Our Trojan UVMax C4 water purifier started beeping continuously. The install date was April 2009, so it’s been a year — according to the manual, time to replace the UV bulb! I dutifully ordered a new...
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Scanning legal-size documents with the Canon MX860 ADF is needlessly complicated
Pound the Canon MX860 repeatedly with a gavel. You’d think in this day & age of all-in-one printers, you could put a legal-size document in the document feeder (ADF) & scan away. Not so with...
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Apache httpd.conf changes ignored in Windows 7
Feature? Hack? Or hugely misguided mistake? Imagine this: You are a web developer. You buy a brand new computer running Windows 7. You install Apache using all the default installation options. You...
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HP Pavillion Laptop Fan Cycles On & Off & On & Off & On…
How I fixed my HP Pavillion dv6t CPU fan I recently bought a HP Pavillion dv6t laptop, only to return it after a few days — I’d press the power button to turn it on & it would cycle off & on...
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Streaming Video To iPhone/iPad App Review
I have a Drobo FS. It’s a great backup solution, but not the most media-streamable NAS out there. I needed something that could stream video, starting out in various Apple-unfriendly formats up to...
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Fake Domain Offers from Cloe Harris
Watch out for domain offers from Cloe Harris, like this one (see below) … it’s fake. If you write back, chances are you’ll start receiving far more spam emails in your inbox rather than serious offers....
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Workaround For MediaTemple’s Lame Gridserver Cron Job Limitation
MediaTemple limits their GridServer (GS) customers to only 5 cron jobs. Some restrictions make sense … some don’t! This makes absolutely no sense. MediaTemple allows cron jobs to run as often as every...
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Replace Your Noisy Drobo5N (or 5D) Fan
PLEASE NOTE: Although I initially wrote this post about the Drobo 5N, several commenters have pointed out that the Drobo 5N & 5D use the same chassis & so this is equally helpful for fixing...
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Migrating MediaTemple’s GridServer (GS) to Dedicated Virtual (DV) VPS
I recently moved lots of websites off MediaTemple’s GridServer (gs) platform to their Dedicated Virtual (dv) platform. I’ve kind of abused Grid Server for the past 12 years, but finally the overage...
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Plesk Apache 404 error: File does not exist: /var/www/vhosts/default/htdocs/
You’ve no doubt discovered massive amounts of 404 errors in your main Apache error log that go something like: File does not exist: /var/www/vhosts/default/htdocs/.... The requests may appear to be...
View ArticleDJI Mavic Air vs Mavic Pro vs Spark Specs Comparison
It’s been a whole entire day since the Mavic Air was unveiled & the internet hasn’t put together a specs comparison of DJI’s newest drone with their other lower-end models. To make things worse,...
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