Category: fixes
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Firefox Stops Loading Pages – Fix
Firefox stops loading pages after several hours or days of continuous use.The problem often starts with only some page loading errors: stylesheets not being applied (ugly white pages with no images), buttons not working, forms not submitting, etc., then quickly gets worse until Firefox is completely unusable and often cannot be restarted. Sound familiar? The…
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iPod Touch Wifi Password
Our brand new iPod Touch 16GB version 2 arrived today.ย First problem: can’t connect to wifi router (Wanadoo/Orange). Our wireless password was not accepted.ย After entering the wifi password multiple times we discovered that the wireless password on the iPod is case sensitive (capital letters vs. small letters makes a difference). Entering the WEP/WPA wireless…
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Firefox 3 Question Mark Diamond
On web pages with accented characters, such as on French language websites, Firefox 3 may show a diamond question mark symbol instead of the accented character. To fix this character set display problem in Firefox 3, change the Character Encoding under the Menu -> View -> Character Encoding from Unicode to Western ISO-8859-1 if you’re…
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Not allowed to connect to this MySQL server
When connecting to a remote mysql server, the login/user must have rights to connect to the mysql server from outside of the local server, i.e. localhost. You need to edit the user record within the mysql.user table or add a new record for this user, giving it access to connect to the mysql server from…
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Can’t connect to mysql server on remote server
By default mysql does not allow connects to itself from any host besides localhost, for security reasons. When you get an error “Can’t connect to mysql server on [remote server]” when trying to connect to the remote SQL server via the mysql command line tool, log into the server running the mysql server and edit…
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Firefox 3 Keyword Tag Search with OpenDNS Not Working
Using keyword tag searching in Firefox 3 is broken and not working with OpenDNS.ย Keyword tag searching, i.e. typing the letter G for Google in the address bar, then typing the search words or terms, then hitting enter, should do a google search.ย If you’re using OpenDNS, Firefox 3’s keyword tag searching in the address…
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Deleting Locked Files in Leopard OS X
Can’t empty the trash bin because some files are locked? “Operation not permitted” when moving files? Try unlocking the files first in Finder. Open Finder. Highlight the files in question. Right click on the files and select Get Info. Uncheck the Locked checkbox. Continue deleting or moving the files as you please.
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AirPort wireless connection Drops on Leopard 10.5.2
Symptoms AirPort wireless connection randomly stops working, even though signal strength to base station is good. Wireless connection strength drops, clicking on AirPort starts scanning, wireless strength returns to full, but Internet connection is lost. Can’t create wireless connection to DLink DIR-625 wireless router after upgrading to 10.5.2. Possible Causes AirPort attempts to connect to…
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Slow Internet with Leopard
How to fix Slow Web Browsing and Slow Internet in Leopard (10.5.x) Symptoms Web pages load slowly in Safari or Firefox in Leopard. Web sites won’t load, only load partially, stop loading after a few hours. Slow DNS (domain name) lookup in Leopard. First load of web site is slow with “looking up domain” in…
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1.0.0.127.dnsbugtest. 1.0.0.127.in-addr-arpa
Update: Stuart kindly dropped me a note regarding Apple’s fix for this.ย See the end of the article for his response. This evening while randomly working on articles for Installing Cats, I was watching DNS requests from tcpdump running in a terminal window and noticed something quite odd: a DNS request every three seconds for…