Archive for the “Solutions” category

Скрипт для замены основного шрифта сайта

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

Я написал небольшой скрипт для файрфоксовского плагина GreaseMonkey, заменяющий основной шрифт сайта на Helvetica Neue. Это имеет смысл в тех случаях, когда дизайнер сайта использовал шрифт, отсутствующий на вашей Mac OS X, а предлагаемая им же замена выглядит намного хуже оригинала.

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Inability to upload files using any browser on Windows

Sunday, January 17th, 2010

One my friend who runs Windows XP encountered a strange problem: she couldn’t upload any large (more than ≈100 KB) files using upload forms on websites under any browser. We tried Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome with no result, although Flash uploaders were still working. The solution was to change the MTU value in the registry.

Slow startup and sleep problems on MacBook Pro 2,2

Sunday, January 17th, 2010

Once I noticed that it has been taking up to 5–7 minutes for my MacBook Pro 2,2 to boot (the longest phase of the startup process was the blue screen which usually appears right before the desktop) and additionally, sleep (hibernate) mode stopped working. Both problems appeared simultaneously, so right from the start it was clear that they’re related.

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“Building boot caches” error when changing startup disk

Friday, December 11th, 2009

Once I tried to change the default startup disk on my Mac running Snow Leopard and the following error appeared: “you can’t change the startup disk to the selected disk. Building boot caches on boot helper partition failed”.
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“Failed to expand the files” error

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

Getting “failed to expand the files” while installing Canon camera software, such as ZoomBrowser Ex? Just turn off your antivirus.

BBEdit preview shows raw PHP code

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

If your BBEdit preview shows raw PHP code, go to “Preferences” and configure a “HTML web-site” with “Use local preview server” ticked.