After a recent power cut my Amstrad Sky + box’s fan would not turn off making it very noisy.

I tried a number of fixes including rebooting and leaving off for a few minutes however after rebooting the fan would just stay on again.

To fix it I left the Sky Plus box off for a full 12 hours. After rebooting it then worked.

In IDE’s such as Eclipse and KDevelop when clicking on an opening Brace ( { ) it will automatically show you the closing brace ( } ).

This does not happen in Dreamweaver however you can get it to select everything in between the braces by using CTRL + apostrophe ( ‘ ).

The drop down menus in Magento admin stop working.

Fix: Check the permissions on the js folder and js/index.php – set them to 755.

To enable a HTTP expire header to your website modify the .htaccess file and add the following lines:

<ifmodule mod_expires.c>
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 month"
</ifmodule>

(Tested on Magento but should work on other CMS including Drupal and Wordpress)

Simple solution to this one, Use a different DVD Drive. No combination of cabling, slave master or cable select would by pass this issue for me.

Plugged in a different DVD drive and the same disk booted without a problem.

When preparing your hard drive for an OS X 86 install you will generally need to create an active partition with an id=af using the commands below.

list disk
select disk x [x is the number of the disk where you want to install your leopard on it]
list partition [Now diskpart should tell you there's no partition on the disk, if it show up a partition go ahead and type delete partition]
create partition primary id=af
active
exit

Unfortunately sometimes when you reach the line “create partition primary id=af” you may hit a snag when diskpart brings up an error message stating “the arguements specified for this command are not valid”.

To fix this, you need to go the disk management facility in windows (right click my computer – manage) then storage. Select the disk and right click it, it should now offer you an option to “Convert to MBR disk”. This is instead of GPT. Select this and retry the create partition command. The partition should now successfully create!

When trying to connect to a computer over RDP (remote desktop) you get the following message

“Because of an error in data encryption, this session will end. Please try connecting to the remote computer again.”

Solution:

On the computer that is giving the error:
1. Click start > run type ‘regedit’.
2. Navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\TermService\Parameters
3. Under this registry subkey, delete the following values:
* Certificate
* X509 Certificate
* X509 Certificate ID
4. Quit Registry Editor, and then restart the computer.

More on: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=323497