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Facebook “Like” Button Proxy Error

Michael Robinson — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 12:22:29 +0000

While attempting to embed the Facebook “Like” button in this blog, I ran into the following error: uncaught exception: Error: Permission denied for to get property Proxy.InstallTrigger This was due to my failure to include meta information regarding the Facebook administrators of this site. For me, the simplest way was to insert this meta tag [...] No related posts.

Error Configuring db46 – MacPorts

Michael Robinson — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 01:26:33 +0000

After running into problems installing flood with Macports, specifically: Error: db46 requires the Java for Mac OS X development headers. Error: Download the Java Developer Package from: <https://connect.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/MemberSite.woa/wa/getSoftware?bundleID=20719> Error: Target org.macports.configure returned: missing Java headers I had already installed this! The solution was to create a symbolic link to the installed files, so Macports could [...]

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Float:Right Nuke for IE6

Michael Robinson — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 23:01:54 +0000

Lately I’ve been spending a lot of time debugging browser issues in our site ( ECPod – Blog to a Wider Audience ). I’m not going to kid with you here: it isn’t fun. On the scale of hate, 10 being most hated, my browser table would be something like this: IE 8 – 4 [...]

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Triple Boot XP BSOD

Michael Robinson — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 00:55:50 +0000

After installing Ubuntu yesterday I found I was no longer able to boot into Windows. After the XP splash screen it would BSOD then restart. Not wanting to waste time reinstalling XP, I had to fix it. It turns out that Windows doesn’t like having its partition’s position changed – prior to installing Ubuntu, there [...]

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Java: repaint() Waking Nightmare

Michael Robinson — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:04:53 +0000

I wanted the little app I'm making to display a green tick or a red cross depending on whether the user had entered valid credentials. Simple? Yeah. Everything went really well, I extended a JPanel to handle the tick/cross display area (tickCross), got the POST code going, strung together the rest of the GUI elements. The problem was that tickCross.repaint() wasn't reliably repainting. about 30% of the time the image wouldn't be painted. The method was being called, but nothing was happening. I tried Google, re-read the related Sun Java docs and was reminded that: "repaint() does not actually paint. It calls the peer repaint which enqueues a request in some platform-dependent way inside the native GUI for a repaint." - MindProd. Great. My OS was deciding when I was allowed to draw. No related posts.

Find and Replace Text Within Multiple Files in Linux – Avoid RSI

Michael Robinson — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:02:15 +0000

After updating 100+ pages manually, I realized that I had neglected to add "index.php" to the end of certain links. Usually this would be fine, but the links in question are opened in Shadowbox, which will fail on pretty, "index.php"-less links.

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Rescuing Settings From Broken JDownloader Installation in Ubuntu

Michael Robinson — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:40:45 +0000

Somehow I broke my JDownloader installation, by meddling with the network settings. As I had quite a lot of download packages queued, I wanted to rescue them and use them with the latest version of JDownloader. I managed to do this successfully, here's how:

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jQuery Error: ‘g is undefined’

Michael Robinson — Wed, 20 May 2009 05:59:11 +0000

Discovered the cause of this annoying (but seemingly impotent) error in a response by Karl Swedberg on Nabble. The error was caused by my passing only one function to jQuery.hover(), eg: jQuery(".blog-entry-date").hover(function(){ jQuery(this).animate({color: genHex()},100); }); Hover takes two functions. Instead ‘mouseenter’ should be used: jQuery(".blog-entry-date").bind('mouseenter',function(){ jQuery(this).animate({color: genHex()},100); }); The error didn’t seem to have any [...]

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No Sound in Ubuntu Jaunty With Intel HDA VT1708B

Michael Robinson — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:28:29 +0000

After becoming terminally annoyed with a my broken Intrepid installation, I decided to install Jaunty. While I was enjoying the new growl-esque notification system, I noticed a flaw – no program would make any. Not a peep. Headphones plugged in, check. Volume sliders in gnome-sound-properties all the way up, check. Hmm… Restart. Same. Uh… Reinstall. [...]

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Shadowbox rel=’shadowbox’ Doesn’t Work? Here’s a Workaround

Michael Robinson — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 03:00:12 +0000

Yesterday I was trying to implement a Shadowbox contact form in the Bay of Islands SPCA site, but I just couldn't get it to work.

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