Problem: I was developing using PHPMyAdmin when I added a new root user (with a host value of %), and removed the rights of the default root user. When you do that, you’ll get a gut-wrenching feel that you just made a huge boo-boo, find that suddenly everything will not work, and kick yourself in the [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 15, 2009
For a video conversion tool that’s so powerful and easy-to-use, ffmpegX is something that throws up occasional errors that just frustrate you to no end until you discover what it means. One such error that I get is when I convert video files to Flash video (FLV). Here’s the error: Codec type mismatch for mapping [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 10, 2009
My friend’s computer had the error message that said: “This application has failed to start because MFC71.DLL was not found.” whenever she tried to start Photoshop CS3, and this affected the way plug-ins ran (in some cases, they wouldn’t run or display at all). To solve this, just grab the MFC71.DLL at http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-files.shtml?mfc71 and put this [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, May 24, 2009
The extremely buggy way that Internet Explorer renders CSS annoyed me again, this time because of the different way it displays elements with z-indexes. I spent a couple of hours trying to fix the bug, failed, and decided to go about it another way. The problem lay in a CSS/Javascript rotating banner gallery ,so I used [...]
Continue reading...Monday, May 11, 2009
I was trying to reinstall iTunes on Windows, so I uninstalled my current version of iTunes, and ran the new iTunes installation file. It didn’t get me very far, because after just a couple of seconds, it stopped and showed this message: “Congratulations. iTunes has been successfully installed on your computer.” I definitely knew that iTunes [...]
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
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