Submitted by Richard Sheppard on October 21, 2012 - 9:28am
Remember this post? Well maybe not, as it's not like there are loads of people clinging to my every word. The comments on PHP's shuffle() function which question whether the alternative functions supplied in some of the other reader supplied comments are truly random has annoyed me for years. I still use this page to generate my lottery number pick and sometimes the numbers DO look as if they were stuck together too closely.
Submitted by Richard Sheppard on July 17, 2011 - 9:47am
I wanted to try out the hangout feature of Google+ which requires the Google Voice and Video Plugin, but when attempting to install the plugin using the downloaded rpm in Fedora 15, there was a worrying number of dependencies. This is how I fixed it.
Submitted by Richard Sheppard on December 27, 2010 - 2:20pm
Just prior to Christmas, I received my new Sony Vaio. I messed about with the Windows 7 installation and borked it when trying to add Maverick to it. I then ran Maverick on it's own for a bit and then decided it might be useful to fix the dual boot thing working again. Second time lucky.
A few niggling bits and pieces were overcome, such as getting the trackpad to function. While looking through the syslog, I spotted this message:
intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
Submitted by Richard Sheppard on June 1, 2008 - 12:49pm
Some regular readers of this site may have noticed that some content has started to disappear. It's not actually. I'm in the process of making dividing the content amongst four other sites so that each site is more coherent.
To determine where the content is to be placed, this is my rule of thumb:
Submitted by Richard Sheppard on February 20, 2007 - 1:00pm
Note: this issue disappeared for the author, after upgrading to Adobe Reader 8.1.
I was being driven around the bend trying to resolve a problem with Acrobat Reader 8 in that it kept crashing within 15 seconds of launching (scroll down to read more).
Eventually, in the Adobe forums, I found that others were having the same problem and it was due to the update plug-in. Most likely some sort of privileges problem, according to another poster in the forum.
The solution given by people in the forum was to choose to remove the Update plug-in by removing it from the application's package. However, I found that there was an extra pane in the Get Info dialog that allows you to add, remove, enable or disable plug-ins. I think it's a more sophisticated way to deal with it.
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