There is an annoying bug on Windows Phone 8 that causes the songs on your phone to be duplicated multiple times in the playlists. I managed to fix this by only putting the songs on the phone memory and leaving the SD card for photos and video. That way my Nokia 520 does not have … Read more
The failed checksum from server error is very annoying on FreeBSD 10. I fixed this by using the following command. pkg update -fpkg update -f This updated the package repositories information for FreeBSD 10 and allowed me to install the packages I required. This is a good command to run from time to time that … Read more
The new Apple SSL vulnerability is a concerning bug in the Apple Macintosh iOS and desktop operating systems. This allows SSL spoofing as it will allow a faked SSL vulnerability to pass as a real one. Apparently it uses ports 1266 & 1267, if you block these with your firewall, this should alleviate this threat … Read more
I ran yum-update on my Fedora 19 installation today and I got this error. root@neo homer# yum update Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks, refresh-packagekit Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * rpmfusion-free: rpmfusion.mirror.uber.com.au * rpmfusion-free-debuginfo: rpmfusion.mirror.uber.com.au * rpmfusion-free-source: rpmfusion.mirror.uber.com.au * rpmfusion-free-updates: rpmfusion.mirror.uber.com.au * rpmfusion-free-updates-debuginfo: rpmfusion.mirror.uber.com.au * rpmfusion-free-updates-source: rpmfusion.mirror.uber.com.au * rpmfusion-nonfree: rpmfusion.mirror.uber.com.au * rpmfusion-nonfree-debuginfo: rpmfusion.mirror.uber.com.au * rpmfusion-nonfree-source: … Read more
The OpenSUSE 12.3 distribution is a Linux desktop solution that is working very well on my laptop. I decided to install it on that instead of on my desktop and everything is working a treat. I had problems getting this distribution working with ATI hardware, so I wanted it on my laptop. It had an … Read more
I was trying to install the Google Earth 64bit *.deb package on Linux Mint 14 and I had some dependency errors. john@adeptus-mechanicus ~/Downloads $ sudo dpkg -i google-earth-stable_current_amd64.deb [sudo] password for john: Selecting previously unselected package google-earth-stable. (Reading database … 282027 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking google-earth-stable (from google-earth-stable_current_amd64.deb) … dpkg: dependency problems prevent … Read more
The me-tv software for Linux Mint 13 Maya was not working for me, but I found out that if you download this tarball: https://launchpad.net/debian/+archive/primary/+files/me-tv_1.3.7.orig.tar.gz and install it by running the commands below. ./autogen.sh make make install./autogen.sh make make install Then the software will work. The new version 2.00 release is broken, the client-server model does … Read more