FATAL: Module off not found. - Solution

October 16th, 2008 Postgresql command line interface psql presents a stumbling block to any mysql users. Try running psql on command line and you will get a nice and unfriendly error message: FATAL:  database "root" does not exist Most MySQL users face this problem initially with Postgresql because Postgresql works differently.

June 1st, 2006 The common symptom of the problem is that Apache web server suddenly fails to load as a service (on windows) or even from command line. The error message from log is as follows: FATAL: emalloc(): Unable to allocate -2103443420 bytes [Thu Jun 01 23:57:21 2006] [crit] master_main: create child process failed.

July 10th, 2006 I faced a hair-tearing problem. mod_rewrite was loaded and yet it was not working in .htaccess files (and httpd.conf initially).

September 18th, 2005 I posted earlier about my inability to use Sysdeo Tomcat Plugin with Eclipse 3.1. I found the solution.

November 16th, 2005 SimpleXML is PHP 5.x way to handle XML. It is simpler than DOMXML (which incidentally is very poorly documented in manual or elsewhere) which is available on PHP 4.x and much simpler than SAX solutions.

April 11th, 2007 Today while setting up and trying new application I found that one of the Gnome panels containing Applications, Places and System menu (taskbar for Windows users) wasn't displaying. After restarting the Gnome session I found an error message along the lines of: Error panel already running will exit panel.

January 29th, 2008 When you declare a function in your plugin code which has already been declared previously in either WordPress code or in one of the plugins. To prevent this you should declare your functions like this: if(!function_exists('your_function_name')) { function your_function_name() { //....

October 29th, 2005 A Simple Programming Question for Beginners

January 24th, 2004 The problem I was trying to solve was to resize applets when the browser changes size, so as to always fill the total displayed area of the browser. Googling I found an article from javaworld - Resize applets within browser frames.

June 12th, 2005 I was unable to send trackbacks and pingbacks after I tested with WordPress 1.5.1.2. I found the solution yesterday.

April 5th, 2008 On running ./configure in dansguardian (web content filter for Linux), I got the following error - configure: error: pcre-config not found!configure: WARNING: Cache variable ac_cv_prog_PCRE contains a newline.. The solution, as usual, is simple: Install pcre-devel.

May 26th, 2007 After the recent yum update, named failed to load. I tried searching Google without much help.

April 11th, 2007 Anaconda has a well documented defect where it installs i586 based kernel in i686 machines. It causes problems with several drivers including nvidia drivers.

July 18th, 2006 If you are into office warfare then surely you must have heard about USB missile launcher's. I found that now you can control your Marks and Spencer USB Missile Launcher on Linux and potentially other platforms that support python and libusb.

October 8th, 2007 PmWiki is a popular wiki software which uses the file system to store wiki pages. We use for our intranet and to document our processes and systems.