Google Chrome pale blue screen – SOLVED

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In my case, the issue was caused after I installed the Hangouts extension from the Chrome Web Store.  It seems the Hangouts extension was causing the pale blue screen.  To solve, I simply closed the Hangouts app from the taskbar and re-launched Chrome. Matt DuffSocial media junkie, blogger, and E-Nerd. I love Grand Rapids, running, my… Read more »

Outlook 2010 – The Operation Failed [SOLVED]

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When sending an email from Outlook 2010, I received the error “The Operation Failed“.     For me, this ended up simply being an issue with the email address autocomplete feature. Solution: I typed the first few letters of the recipient’s email address, pressed the down arrow on my keyboard, then pressed the Delete key…. Read more »

“Documents.library-ms” is no longer working. – Windows 7/8 [SOLVED]

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After I upgraded to Windows 8, I began receiving this lovely vague little error message when navigating to any of my Documents, Pictures, or Videos libraries through the left navigation panel in Windows Explorer. Here’s the fix: Open a Windows Explorer window Right click the offending Library Click Delete Right click on Libraries Click Restore… Read more »

[SOLVED] No device drivers were found – Windows 7 install from external hard drive

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When attempting to reformat a Lenovo ultrabook via USB external hard drive, I received the following error: No device drivers were found. Make sure that the installation media contains the correct drivers, and then click OK The solution was as simple as switching the external hard drive from a USB 3.0 port to a USB… Read more »

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… Read more »

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… Read more »

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… Read more »

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… Read more »

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… Read more »