Category Archives: Disclosure

Technical Explainations, Tutorials, ShortCuts, and Reveals.

Avoid Awesome Screenshot

Posted on October 25, 2012 by Walt Stoneburner

I was getting some pretty bad web performance, with a little exploration I learned it was a Safari Extension that was doing things I did not like. Continue reading →

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Hidden Preference File

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Walt Stoneburner

Check your ~/Libarary/Preferences directory, do you have this hidden file? Continue reading →

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Files Gone on Drobo FS with OS X Lion? Get ‘em back!

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Walt Stoneburner

Using DroboFS and OSX Lion only to discover that your Drobo shares have no content!? Yikes! But fret not, you merely have a small corruption problem brought on by the firmware, and in moments you can force a rebuild of that database and all your files will be back safe, happy, and sound with no data loss. Here’s how. Continue reading →

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TheFlip: files in the root directory? Come on….

Posted on January 27, 2011 by Walt Stoneburner

Were you aware that the Flip video camera you have is writing stuff to your root directory? Continue reading →

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Caution – the new Mac App Store just bit me

Posted on January 8, 2011 by Walt Stoneburner

Be VERY careful when using the Mac App Store — here’s how it purchased an app without my permission, along with THREE simple things Apple could have done to fix the problem. Continue reading →

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MySQL Cascade Delete Problem

Posted on October 15, 2010 by Walt Stoneburner

MySQL 5.1.51 introduced a nasty little bug that has the potential to really cause some production servers some ill — cascading delete and updates can sometimes fail if you’re dealing with “too much” data at once. Where “too much” is a relatively small amount. You may get bit if you have a one-to-many relationship. Continue reading →

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Error 0×80070057 (SOLVED)

Posted on October 14, 2010 by Walt Stoneburner

Copy File

An unexpected error is keeping you from copying the file. If you continue to receive this error, you can use the error code to search for help with this problem.

Error 0×80070057: The parameter is incorrect.

SOLVED! Continue reading →

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Beyond.com: don’t trust it.

Posted on June 15, 2008 by Walt Stoneburner

Would you trust a service that scrapes dated resumes, creates profiles without your permission, and make it difficult to get rid of them? Didn’t think so. Then in my personal opinion, you wouldn’t trust beyond.com — find out what unsolicited content was waiting in my inbox. Continue reading →

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Loathing Dell, Hating Symantec

Posted on May 1, 2008 by Walt Stoneburner

A password to uninstall Symantec Antivirus…? Continue reading →

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Four Complaints of Leopard

Posted on October 31, 2007 by Walt Stoneburner

OS X 10.5 – sweet, sexy, cool… and four annoying problems that are bound to get fixed soon. Continue reading →

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