I was attempting to save a file at 16 color 4 bit depth using Photoshop 4 on a Windows XP laptop. After creating or modifying the image and attempting to save the file as a bitmap (.bmp) the bitmap options would popup though I was unable to choose 4 bit under the depth option. I…
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You may get the following error when attempting to restore a postgreSQL database. The issue will be that you are attemping to restore a dump of a database using PostgreSQL version 8.4 and anove into a PostgreSQL database that is version 8.3 or below. ERROR: syntax error at or near “COLLATE” To resolve this issue manually edit…
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Windows XP and Vista both include a L2TP IPSEC capable VPN client. These clients are natively able to transverse client side Network Address Translation. However when the VPN server is also behind NAT these clients will not work without a registry change.
Recently I was troubleshooting an issue with a Peprl script that is used to backup and then restore a PostgreSQL database every night. The script creates a database, moves the current database, and then moves the new database it created into the place of the first database. I noticed that the restore database was not…
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ruby #check for column ActiveRecord::Base.connection.tables.include?(name) #check for table Model.columns_hash.has_key("column_name")?
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You will receive the below dialogue if the SSH key for the server you are connecting from is configured incorrectly or does not exist at all. bash [web@server git-temp]$ git clone git@github.com:user/project.git Initialized empty Git repository in /home/web/gittemp/.git/ Permission denied (publickey). fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly fetch-pack from ‘git@github.com:user/project.git’ failed. [web@server git-temp]$ So…
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In attempting to get the current system configuration, via the Dell website, for my Dell D420 laptop I continued to run into issues. I originally thought that it must be an Internet Explorer cache problem, then went on to believe that it was a Internet Explorer add-on issue, then I thought it might be IE…
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I was upgrading the video driver for the graphics card in my Dell D420 laptop and ran into the below errors numerous times. The driver that was being upgraded was the Mobile Intel 945GM Express Chipset Family which is the driver for the onboard video controller in the Dell Latitude D420. Error: “The class installer has denied…
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Recently I was installing some applications on a friends iMac computer and noticed his address bar was missing from the Safari web browser. I had never seen this before as I rarely use Safari though I imagine it was easy to resolve. To add the address bar back into the browser you can either restore…
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