Solving - “A pseudo attribute name is expected” Error in JAXP

July 26th, 2006 I have seen myriad errors when executing java task. For example I have seen: javax.xml.parsers.FactoryConfigurationError?: Provider org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderFactoryImpl? not found when executing the java task in jdk1.5.0 The problems with debugging the errors is that the commandline used by java task is not visible, even in verbose mode.

July 31st, 2007 This is a sporadic error that I have seen in Firefox browsers while using the Ext JS components. It is not harmful in any way but is annoying.

July 3rd, 2007 My blog had this vexing problem where it used to render ugly, really ugly, as the stylesheet wasn't being loaded on Firefox. However after a refresh everything was fine.

April 5th, 2008 A common error while configuring (running ./configure) software in Linux systems is - error: C++ compiler cannot create executables. The solution, not surprisingly is simple: Install the package which adds C++ support to the GNU Compiler Collection - gcc-c++.

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.

September 28th, 2007 I faced a vexing problem with the otherwise excellent Mozilla Thunderbird email client. I was unable to forward emails to another account using the rules in Message Filters.

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

March 22nd, 2008 Have you seen the error while installing a package using yum / yumex? Error: vlc conflicts with faad2 >= 2.5 Error: Missing Dependency: faad2 < 2.5 is needed by package ffmpeg-libs The error is because of using freshrpms repository or other repository to install recent version of faad2. Now let's see how you can solve it.

January 15th, 2007 Most modern hard disks have S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) technology built in which, if enabled, allows you to query the hard drive about it's health and performance.

April 21st, 2009 Windows Vista creates problems and comes out with failures every ten minute you use. Anything above normal and you can expect Windows Explorer in Vista to hang up invariably.

April 30th, 2007 Today when I was trying to install createrepo and repoview, I repeatedly got this weird error: Error: Missing Dependency: python(abi) = 2.4. The problem is strange at first sight because yum is designed to include missing dependencies.

November 16th, 2007 When you try MySQL master-master replication with two (or more) servers you may often find that in the process of configuring the original master to also act as a slave server (start slave), it fails with the following error: mysql> start slave; ERROR 1200 (HY000): The server is not configured as slave; fix in config file or with CHANGE MASTER TO To rectify it locate and delete the master.info file and restart the mysql server. Now try to start slave and it should work.

June 27th, 2007 Translator Plugin Pro & Gold tries through all the available engines for a language combination to translate the page. This ensures much higher reliability than single engine translations.

September 12th, 2008 I was doing something very simple - connecting to my own machine (with ssh) without using password. That should be simple right? I dutifully appended my id_dsa.pub to authorized_keys and expected that it would work.

September 15th, 2005 In PHP, unlike Java or C++, $this has to be explicitly used to refer to variables within a class. The value of $this is determined by the context in which it is called.