Do you have a Windows 7 Media Center HTPC that you are streaming content from to additional Media Center Extender devices (e.g. Xbox 360 somewhere else in the house) and want to find out a way to have the HTPC not turn itself off when you hit the power button if it’s still in-use by [...]
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How to Fix and Replace a KitchenAid Blender Coupling
What you see there is the plastic coupling that sits on the base of a KitchenAid blender that turns the blade inside the blender. Did I mention it is made out of plastic? My wife was making a smoothy this morning and apparently the frozen fruit was too much for our KitchenAid Blender (Model #KSB50B3) [...]
How to Fix Avira AntiVir Update Failing Constantly for OpenDNS Users
If you are an Avira AntiVir user like me and have noticed for the last year or so auto-update fails regularly, you are likely an OpenDNS user like me as well. This drove me crazy for about a year; seeing the update fail with this same cryptic error message over and over again: 11:16:07 [UPDLIB] [ERROR] [...]
How to Fix WordPress PHP Warning “headers already sent”
This morning I noticed our /var/log/apache2 directory had grown to 12GB in size — yea, gigabytes. Dropping into the directory and taking a look I saw that the -error logs themselves were dominating the directory, so I peeked into them and saw millions of the following entries mod_fcgid: stderr: PHP Warning: Cannot modify header information [...]
How to Center WordPress Captioned Images in a WooThemes Theme
We are very happy WooThemes customers; have been for years. About 2 years ago WordPress added support for “captions” with images inserted into posts, they end up getting a nice grayed border with the caption right under the image; it looks nice. Unfortunately for us, 3 of the WooThemes we went through in the last [...]
@Override Compiler Errors in Play! Framework “Must Override a Superclass Method”
If you are working with the Play! Framework and have run into exceptions that read like “The file <MyFile>.java could not be compiled. Error raised is : The method <MethodName> of type <ClassName> must override a superclass method” then you might be wondering if there is a compiler bug in Play! – worry not, it’s [...]
Funny iPhone 4 AT&T Reception Issue Fix
Thanks goes to Chris Hunkele for sending this one in: it’s a fix for the iPhone 4 reception issues due to the antenna design… all better!
How I Met Your Mother Season 4 Disk 1 Blu-ray Won’t Play in 60GB PS3 Fix
Update #2: Success! After continuing to mess with this problem and the workaround below not doing the trick, I kept reading online and finally found a solution that works. I love you misio121! When your disk gets to the “Upgrade your firmware” notice screen on the disk Start randomly pressing R1/R2 and X all together [...]
IntelliJ IDEA Tip: source release 1.6 requires target release 1.6
If you are an IntelliJ IDEA user and you are using Maven in your project, chances are you may some day run into this incredibly cryptic and confusing message: Error: javac: source release 1.6 requires target release 1.6 Googling it digs up a few approaches to solving the problem as well as some IntelliJ IDEA [...]
Git Tip: git push ‘No refs in common and none specified’
Git is a source-control tool used by software developers. I recently switched from Subversion to Git and while things have been mostly smooth, there have been a few “WTF?” moments. I am going to try and blog the few beginner ones I ran into in hopes of helping anyone else. Today I ran a ‘git [...]
How I Fixed the "Subversion Checksum Mismatch" Issue
From where I’m standing SVN seems to bring with it a lot of the issues that CVS had with regards to “too much” changing on your local disk and then that getting you into trouble when you went to check it into the repo. I never figured out why exactly CVS would frequently balk at [...]
XMLStreamReader getAttributeValue Bug Returns Null
I’m documenting this issue (and fix) here for anyone else Googling for an answer. I just did for about an hour and found no answer, but instead stumbled across the solution. If you are using anything from the javax.xml.stream packages in Java 6 or later, you are using the Sun Java Streaming XML Parser (SJSXP) [...]
BioShock 2 Hack Keybinding Bug – FIX/Workaround
Update #6: Reader Jack noticed that this fix doesn’t work for the broken Harvest/Rescue/etc. keybindings, so he did some more digging and found the fix (he is using the Direct2Drive version of BioShock 2). Here is the fix in Jack’s own words: go here: C:/programfiles(x86)/2kgames/bioshock2/SP/Builds/Binaries open the file DefUser_int with notepad click on Edit and [...]
WordPress Image Upload 'Crunching' Not Resizing Images
NOTE: I am posting this information here because I just spent 20 mins Googling for the types of phrases in the title and never got a direct answer and hope anyone else that isn’t a PHP/WordPress guru that needs help with this can find it with this post. I migrated my WordPress sites to a new [...]
Netflix Throttling Instant Video Streaming Performance for Viewers
What’s Going on with Netflix Streaming Performance? I noticed about 3 weeks ago my streaming video performance from Netflix has become unbearably slow. I’m on a 7 mbps Qwest DSL line in Tucson, AZ and my previous experience with Netflix “Watch Instantly” service had generally been excellent, almost never showing the buffering screen for a [...]
Z2K9: 30GB Zunes Everywhere Locking Up for the New Year
It seems that Microsoft’s “iPod Killer” 30GB Zune players are all failing in unison as the New Year approaches across the globe for some reason. On startup, as the device boots, it seems to hang at the last bit of the boot process — the worst part is that the devices all seem to have [...]
PS3 + HDMI = Black Screen
Ok so a few people had this problem and so did I. Essentially you hook the PS3 up to your TV over HDMI, and you get a signal, but it’s a black screen. I had been waiting about a week to get my HDMI cable in the mail from MonoPrice and when it finally got [...]
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