What is it? If you are unfamiliar with Amazon Web Services (AWS) or their Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) service, ELB is a load-balancing service that you can use to spread incoming traffic across many different EC2 server instances. ELB, like all things in the AWS cloud, is a dynamic service that scales up and down [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
iPhone 3G iOS 4 Jailbreak and Carrier Unlock Guide
IMPORTANT: Due to changes in iTunes 9.2+ iOS verification model, you have to backup your “SHSH blob” first before continuing. Fortunately we have a dead-easy step-by-step guide for you guys. Once you are done, come back and continue. Welcome to the world’s first iPhone iOS 4 Jailbreak and Carrier unlock guide. Let’s just dig right [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Trying to Work Around T-Mobile G1-Specific Data Plans May Backfire
We recently posted how to use the T-Mobile $20/mo EDGE data plan with your G1 (instead of the more expensive $24.99/mo T-Mobile G1 data plan), but it looks like this may not be all roses and flowers. As it turns out, there is another workaround similar to this using the T-Mobile “Total Internet” data plan [...]
How to Use T-Mobile $20 BlackBerry EDGE Data Plan with Android G1 Phone
Update #2:As a heads up to anyone wanting to try this out, please read this post first before continuing. As you may know the new T-Mobile G1 Android phone is out, and requires some potentially expensive-ass data plans to function fully ($24.99 for unlimited “data”, but 400 messages including “SMS, IM and email” or $34.99 [...]
Working Around Gmail Contact Importing: Oops. An unknown error occured while importing your contacts.
If you are like me and trying to get your contacts all organized in Gmail, you may likely be running into the god-forsaken phrase: Oops. An unknown error occured while importing your contacts. … over and over again; no matter what you do. I was trying to import some CSVs from Windows Vista Contacts (exported [...]
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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