Author: geekworker
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How to Convert FAT drives to NTFS
Turns out you can convert FAT filesystems into NTFS (but not NTFS to FAT). How? Microsoft has a guide online.
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Subversion: Insufficient NODES rows Error
Trying to upgrade an svn repository, I got the the error: vn: E155016: Insufficient NODES rows for followed by the path to a file. This can be solved by deleting a certain file type: Find them: find . -name dir-prop-revert To delete them: find . -name dir-prop-revert -exec rm {} ; If you’d like to […]
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How to use TESS to search for US Trademarks
Ever wondered who owns a trademark, or if something you want to use is trademarked? Well finding out is a REALLY simple process, as I demonstrate here using World of Warcraft as a sample (hey, I am a geek after all). URL: TESS
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iPhone not recognized by iTunes – Can’t Sync
For a while now I’ve had the issue that, sometimes, my iPhone would not be recognized by iTunes and wouldn’t sync. Sometimes there was an error message; sometimes not. Most recently, I would just get the Windows’ sound you get when you connect a USB device twice in a row. The iPhone then charged, but […]
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Show Hidden Devices in Windows Device Manager
If you ever need to display hidden devices in your devide manager, run the following from a Command Line window, or create a short script (show_hidden_devices.cmd) with the following content: set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1start devmgmt.msc
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Negative Time Values In Excel
I was trying to set up a simple time sheet in Excel. I know that ready-made ones exist, but it’s more fun and educating to make your own, right? And I came across a nasty problem: Excel doesn’t like to display negative time: Turns out there’s a simple solution for this: Enable the 1904 dating […]
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WordPress Error “please fill the required fields (name, email).”
I have been having a problem with one of my WordPress blogs that had me stumped: Whenever I would comment on it, being logged in as my WordPress user, I would get the error message: “please fill the required fields (name, email).” This started happening out of nowhere, without any connection to an update as […]
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Summing up times in Excel
It’s the small things, sometimes – something I never needed to do in my old jobs is calculating with time. One very simple task is to just add up a set of times – Excel will “wrap around” at 24h: There’s a simple solutions for this problem. Just surround your hours with square brackets when […]
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WordPress Image Scaling Incorrect
I just noticed that WordPress is not resizing images correctly: It would appear correct in the blog itself, but the IMG SRC tag would link to the original, unscaled image: This meant that the image was downloaded at the maximum size and scaled on the client side. I never really noticed this because modern PC’s […]
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NFS: “bad superblock”
If you’re getting a “bad superblock” error message when attempting to mount an NFS volume, make sure that you have portmapper installed and running.