How to fix “The current input timing is not supported by the monitor display.”

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“The current input timing is not supported by the monitor display. Please change your input timing to 1920×1080@60hz or any other monitor listed timing as per the monitor specifications.”

For me this occurred when I swapped my larger, older monitor that had gone bad with a newer, smaller Dell monitor.

This error appears to be Dell monitor specific.  From what I’ve read, which matches my scenario, it seems to happen when you’re outputting a certain resolution from your PC, then switch to a monitor that only supports a maximum resolution lower than your previous monitor.

The fix is relatively simple… Read more »

iMessage Public Beta download now available for OSX Lion

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Details have been surfacing today regarding Apple’s new release: OSX Mountain Lion, slated for a summer 2012 release.  Included in this update are iMessage and Airplay Mirroring functionality.  Woohoo!

For those of you with iPads and iPhones, you’ll likely be familiar with iMessage.  It’s the same iMessage used on your other mobile iDevices.  Consequently, you’ll now be able to have synchronized messages between your iPhone, iPad, AND Macbook/iMac when sending to iMessage-enabled users.

So far, the public beta is only available for those of us running the latest Apple operating system, OSX Lion (full patched).  So everyone else with older versions will likely have to wait a while to get their hands on iMessage.

It looks like Apple may be running into some trouble, as their link to download the iMessage for Lion beta appears to be down.  However, feel free to grab iMessage from my mirror here:

Download: iMessage for OSX Lion [Beta]

No SIM Card Installed – iPhone 4 [SOLVED]

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Symptoms:

  • Error popup in center of screen that says “No SIM Card Installed”
  • Phone still connects to wireless, but unable to connect to cell data.
  • Sometimes switching Airplane Mode on and off will reconnect the phone to the cell towers, sometimes the error will appear again.
  • Sometimes the phone will reconnect to cell data after a reboot (or several), sometimes not.
  • This can happen as often as once every few minutes, to once per day.  Very annoying!

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Running executable in Linux “no such file or directory”.

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I was installing Eclipse’s Orion on a web server, and attempting to run the Orion server executable yielded the following error message:

“No such file or directory”

It turned out that I had downloaded an executable for the wrong architecture – in my case I’d downloaded the 32bit version instead of the 64bit version.

Hopefully this helps you quickly identify a similar problem.

SSRS Report fails to load in iframe – can’t connect

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I was experiencing an issue with connecting to an SSRS report when some report request form data was changed. Larger reports would fail, leading me to believe there was a timeout associated with this. I adjusted the ReceiveTimeout entry in the following reg key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings

to 60000 (decimal).

This resolved the issue for me.

Syncing Scheduled Tasks with Powershell

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The following script will allow you to sync scheduled tasks to a local server from a remote one.  You can modify the source and target folders, and that’s good because this script will wipe out the target folder (the one on the local host) every time it’s run.  Of course you could change that behavior easily.  I keep this scheduled task running in the root of scheduled tasks and it’s never removed.  You could choose to sync the root folder, and use a where clause to make sure you protect certain tasks.

This script also imports the scheduled tasks as disabled.  I’m using this for a failover server, so I want them off.  you can fix that by removing the .replace(“str”,”newstr”) chunk.

Enjoy!

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Multiple Static IP Addresses in Arch on a Single Interface

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I’m running HAProxy on ArchLinux and I need a few IPs on the load balancers.  In this case, I’m specifically using an IP for the stats page with the following configuration:

listen stats 192.168.99.99
mode http
stats uri /
stats auth admin:password
stats realm Internal\ LB1\ Stats

In Arch you either use the network daemon or the net-profiles daemon.  Neither of those supports multiple IPs on a single interface too easily, and the easiest method I’ve found is to simply append the command for adding an IP to an interface to the end of the rc.conf file.

ip addr add 192.168.99.99/24 dev eth0

iPhone WiFi sync button grayed out [FIXED]

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Itching to use one of the best new features of iOS 5 – WiFi Sync?  I don’t blame you – it’s great to be free of the required USB connection to your computer every time you want to backup/sync your iPhone/iPad.

However, you may encounter a situation where the “Sync Now” button is grayed out on your iPhone/iPad in the Settings ->  General -> iTunes Wi-Fi Sync menu.  Do not fear.  This is likely caused by one of three simple causes.

 

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Download Media from iCloud on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod

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In order to wirelessly download all those purchased music, books, and vides from iTunes to your iPad/iPhone/iPod, launch iTunes then open the iTunes Store and click on the new Purchased link on the right side under Quick Links. You will see an icon to the right of your media that looks like a cloud with a down arrow.

You can click that for any media you want to download or choose to download all below that.

After your media has been downloaded to the iCloud, launch iTunes on your iPad/iPhone/iPod. Click on Purchased at the bottom right of iTunes. Download all the media you want and then it will be available in its respective locations on your device.