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How to file a bug report

Since I waste lot of time on interpreting bug reports, I'd like to give a little guidance on how to file it correctly. I would claim that I spend at least 10% of my time on guessing and asking the reporter what the bug

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e-mu 0404 usb control panel won't display on windows 7 and the default 48KHz issue.

Since a few months I had the very strange issue that the default samplerate is 48KHz which caused me to set it manualy each time I wanted to play "normal" encoded audio. When I upgraded to windows 7 the control panel stopped

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if your svn is obstructed

try to run a cleanup and remove all obstructed files from your local copy. Or better said: copy them to a save place! Now remove all .svn dirs from your copy and run an update on your local project and copy back the »obstructed«

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Permission denied in Unknown on line 0

if you install apache/php and get the following error: Warning: Unknown: failed to open stream: Permission denied in Unknown on line 0 Then consider to check the permissions. What user/group has the apache? ps -ef | grep apache Who owns the files in

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no fun with server

At work we've ordered a new server and I've installed and configured apache, mysql, php5 and lighty + some tools, when spontaneously 'less' died and also 'vim' broke. Then mysql didn't start, because 'There's not enough space in /var/lib/mysql/' and the eth0

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got new server

bigger, better, faster. (AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+ Dual Core / 4 GB DDR2 / 2 x 400 GB SATA II / Debian) Well ok - bigger, and better than the current one ;)

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tech-stuff-bla-bla-and-then-some

I've installed today a new svn, trac and a websvn at work on a ubuntu machine with plesk on it. Actually it's really easy but there seems to be no instant-setup guide, so I had to google quite extensive. Well I haven't configuered it

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family affairs declassified

A few days ago I got a private message via meinvz.net and a girl, possibly with japanese ancestory asked me a few thing that only a very few people could possibly know about and if we could meet soon. That sounded strange and

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new usb stick

I needed a little backup devide and bought this one: I've got the 32gig model for 60 Euro - which is quite ok. The speed is ok - not that super fast but storrage space is more important for me than speed (atm). update

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twitted

ok, i'll give it a try! ;) http://twitter.com/biophonc

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daily madness

I got up to late today and my ticket list is ways to long plus I need to finish some work for a client. However - the weather is fine today and I don't feel stressed or something like that. I bought the new

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Stupid New Media

A Project manager recently emailed me about a non working link but without to mention which link he was taking about, so I replied: «What kind of link, in what situation - how can I reproduce it?» - After a short while he sent

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ACR

There are some things I really dislike and one of that are «anonymous calls» and because of that I've installed iCall Manager on my Blackberry and tada - it works. All incoming anonymous calls gets now rejected. Good bye whoeveryouare! ;-)

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Pass Phrazr

Passwords are sometimes hard to remember, or at least hard to read, because good passwords are cryptic. That’s a fact and I am still fine with it, because I pay attention to obvious security flaws or risks. However, there are some situations when

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Up to date with something

It was time to get a new mobile phone so I've choosen the BlackBerry Bold 9000 for 89,- EUR and hope it will be delivered until tomorrow. I guess I will not use all the fancy features it claims to provide but it's

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urgent update

I had to update WP, because someone managed to exploit a security hole in my blog. I guess it was the draft exploit - but I am not sure. Also I've decided to use the open_base_dir restrictions, because the guys who tryed

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new/old ipod

My Flatmate bought a couple of weeks a video ipod because his 3rd gen ipod's battery has died. He told me it will be expensive to get it fix, so I've googled for a cheaper solution and found somewhere a nice howto. Tuesday I've

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php5.2.4 + MySQL 5.1.22-rc-community on xp = apache crash

Today I've tried to setup PHP with MySQL but for somehow the Apache crashed, when trying to query something. Funnily the SHOW command worked fine, ie: SHOW DATABASES;. The module was loaded correctly and appeared in the phpinfo(). So I've double checked all config

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fight spam

Just installed SpamAssassin and modified the mx server, to hopefully stop some spam. I've found this tutorial and it has helped me a bit to configure everything. 100+ Spam mails/Day are definetely too much, so if everything works fine, it will reduce all

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just a note

In 93 my philosophy teacher asked us, if we can imagine buying or selling things over the internet and how it would affect the society and individual beings. I thought it would be a great thing and people could be more connected. Do you

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most webdeveloper should better grow weeds than...

... writing bad and unforgivable code. There are lot of good looking sites out there and a lot of good looking (w)CMS front and backends but most of the so called cool CMS sucks. WP ist cool - I like it - it's a

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nightmare osCommerce + php5

Why: do people code in medieval style? do people ignore the signs of the time? I guess I need to find a quick and easy solution to make osCommerce work on php5. phew -- 10 minutes later -- here's some quick stuff which seems

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text for websites

I've met a lot of people during the time and I have NEVER ever met anyone who was able to give me a good structured text document for a website. So-called professionals work sometimes like bloody beginners. First of all: THINK STRUCTURED - because

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Joomla

It looks good. Which means it has a nice UI but for somehow some things seems to me me irrational or not logic and besides that I am disappointed by the amount of table layout stuff. Hello Joomla developer: We are in the mid

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time for a change pt2

STFU and get serious! It's easy to chill, hang out with friends, do party and all those lovely things but seriously - sometimes you need to get serious. Unplug the Phone, shut down the messenger and do not complain about your work - stfu