If you need to add a local DNS entry to your Windows Vista PC you will first need to know the location of the “hosts” file which is where you should add the local entries. It might be necessary to add local entries if you want to direct traffic from the Vista PC to a…
I was recently on a trip and trying to update Twitterrific on my iPod Touch device. When I would attempt to update the tweets for numerous users I kept getting an error that said it was unable to connect to Twitter because of a YAJL error. The exact error is displayed below. Error: The connection…
Recently my wife let me know that her Macbook would only work for about five minutes. Now in knowing that her technical knowledge is limited I asked specifically what that meant and she explained that she could visit web pages for a couple minutes and then her browser no longer worked. The computer was still…
You may get the below phpMyAdmin error for a couple different reasons which could be related to upgrading PHP or possibly on a new installation of phpMyAdmin. The issue can be resolved easily by installing or upgrading mcrypt on your server. Error:Cannot load mcrypt extension. Please check your PHP configuration.
When attempting to import a gzip sql file into MySQL via phpMyAdmin I continued to get the error below. There are a couple ways to get around this issue which depend on if you have access to the server or not. Below I will describe two ways to resolve the error if you have access…
During initial installation of a subversion repository server you may run into issues with authentication methods. This issue is probably related to not having a package installed that needs to be for your authentication to function properly. Error Received in TortoiseSVN: Could not obtain a list of SASL mechanisms
Recently I had to import some files via phpMyAdmin because the web host of my client didn’t allow SSH access to the server or direct access to the MySQL command line. The need was to create a database and restore a previous backup from another database into MySQL. I noticed that on the Import screen…
The below describes creating a SVN repository from a CentOS Linux shell followed by importing a SVN repository dump into the newly created repository. This can be useful for many reasons including moving servers or even just moving the location of an SVN repo. If you don’t have subversion installed go ahead and do so…
If you have an Microsoft Excel workbook with multiple worksheets that contain similar type data it may save you a lot of time to auto populate the other worksheets with the similar data. In my scenario I had a form used to obtain information about customers which needed to be in a certain format but…
I wasn’t able to find much information about the BQ25 online so I figured I would post what I was able to come up with in case anyone else is looking.