Category Archives: Workaround

Case-Sensitive GNU sort

Posted on May 18, 2012 by Walt Stoneburner

GNU sort appears to be producing case-insenstive output all the time, no matter what you use for the case-insenstive switch. Turns out there’s a little more going on behind the scenes you need to know. Continue reading →

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Installing Hadoop on OS X

Posted on May 1, 2012 by Walt Stoneburner

Fix the “Unable to load realm info from SCDynamicStore” error on OS Lion when using Hadoop. 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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Where’s my JDK?

Posted on December 24, 2010 by Walt Stoneburner

Caught in the Java depreciation battle under OS 10.6 and can’t find where the Java Development Kit (JDK) now resides? Here’s a command that will tell you, allowing you to still use InteliJ and other IDEs on OS X. Continue reading →

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Updates, please don’t do that…

Posted on December 12, 2010 by Walt Stoneburner

Using a MySQL DOT-Net Conncetor and getting these error messages? Shared Memory Provider: No Process is on the other end of the pipe. Error 0. Unable to find the request .NET Framework Data Provider. It may not be installed. Or your login not working, but your password is right? Try this solution. Continue reading →

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Uninstalling Intego Software

Posted on December 11, 2010 by Walt Stoneburner

I’d rather eat an orange then brush my teeth with peppermint toothpaste than deal with cleaning up my system after using Intego’s software. If anything can bring the Windows reboot experience, coupled with the leaving of software cruft, to the Mac platform, this software does it in my opinion. Here’s how I finally got rid of it all. I hope. Continue reading →

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Camera is in use by another application

Posted on November 20, 2010 by Walt Stoneburner

Trying to video conference with Skype and getting a message saying the camera is in use by another application with no video feed sent out? Try this. 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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Reactive Framework conflict (SOLVED)

Posted on October 14, 2010 by Walt Stoneburner

The type ‘System.IObservable exists in both ‘c:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.0\mscorlib.dll’ and ‘c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Reactive Extensions\Redist\DesktopV2\System.Observable.dll’ (SOLVED) Continue reading →

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Defined in Multiple Assemblies

Posted on October 14, 2010 by Walt Stoneburner

The predefined type ‘System.Func’ is defined in multiple assemblies in the global alias … mscorlib.dll and System.Core.dll. SOLVED! Continue reading →

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