http://www.ishidatech.com The personal and professional home of Brad Ishida Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:22:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I recently switched to ViaTalk for my home phone. ViaTalk has somewhat of a reputation for not being user friendly, but if you're a typical do-it-yourselfer, it's a pretty good deal. I'm paying less than half of what I paid with Vonage and the ability to blacklist phone numbers over ... http://www.ishidatech.com/2010/02/17/x-lite-voip-softphone-working-in-mac-osx-snow-leopard-finally/ While trying to install the latest update to Parallels Desktop 5, I ran into an installation road block because the installer claimed 10 different Parallels applications were running and needed to be closed. Clearly, this was not the case. My first thought was to blame Parallels, but then an Adobe ... http://www.ishidatech.com/2010/02/13/parallels-desktop-5-will-not-install-due-to-conflicting-applications/ I set up a single box to dual boot Windows 7 32 bit and Windows 7 64 bit. When booting up, the boot manager asks me which OS I want to start. The problem is that both the 32 bit and 64 bit versions have "Windows 7" as the description. ... http://www.ishidatech.com/2010/01/05/how-to-edit-the-boot-menu-in-windows-7-using-bcdedit/ My plans to install Windows 7 on an empty partition hit a snag when I got this error. I have a Promise RAID card and had just finished installing the drivers for it in order to proceed with the Windows 7 installation. This 0x80300001 error wouldn't let me select ANY ... http://www.ishidatech.com/2009/12/10/windows-is-unable-to-install-to-the-selected-location-error-0x80300001/ Recently, nearly every page on the web was crashing both Firefox and Safari. It turns out the Flash plugin was the culprit--actually some bad permissions on the Flash plugin files. You can fix this problem by repairing the permissions on your hard drive using the Mac OSX disk utility. I'll ... http://www.ishidatech.com/2009/10/05/flash-plugin-killing-every-browser-in-mac-osx/ I was doing some Access 2007 debugging for a client today and a search using a form was taking close to 10 minutes. Even with a half million records, this seemed horribly slow for Access. Changing the query from (year = 2007 or year = 2008 or year = 2009) ... http://www.ishidatech.com/2009/08/31/equality-operation-very-expensive-in-ms-access-2007/ All is back to normal now, but on my first boot up after installing Mac OS X Snow Leopard, the screen of my Mac Book Pro was black. For some reason, the upgrade set my screen brightness all the way to zero and then the screen brightness keys (F1 and ... http://www.ishidatech.com/2009/08/28/momentary-panic-with-black-screen-after-snow-leopard-upgrade/ If you want to set the Return-Path value in your mail header in a message sent using the Mail Mailer Perl module, here is one way to do it: Declare your mailer object with the -t and -ba flags. #!/usr/bin/perl use Mail::Mailer; my $mailer = Mail::Mailer->new('sendmail', ('-t','-ba')); The Return-Path value will become the address you ... http://www.ishidatech.com/2009/06/26/set-return-path-with-perl-mailmailer/ I recently upgraded to iTunes 8 and all my music videos stopped playing in iTunes. Some files would produce a message "This computer is not authorized to play 'song'. Would you like to authorize it?" Authorizing the computer does not help--it just asks you to authorize over and over. Some ... http://www.ishidatech.com/2009/04/13/apple-itunes-8-wont-play-video/ Unless you've gone out of your way to prevent information about your server being shared in HTTP headers, it's probably there. Here is a quick way to see what all those evil-doers out there can see about you. telnet yourserver.com 80 GET / HTTP/1.1 [press ENTER key once] Host: yourserver.com [press ENTER key ... http://www.ishidatech.com/2009/03/12/view-http-header-information-using-telnet/