Read the rest of this entry »I’m not sure if I’m the only one who noticed (I hope not!), but recently, the Gmail spam filter started marking as spam a lot of messages that were NOT spam.
Here’s the ones I found, while looking at only the first two pages of my Spam folder (about two days worth of spams)
Archive for the ‘Technical Problems’ Category
Has Gmail spam filter become too aggressive?
Thursday, April 7th, 2011Allowing programs run by regular users to open ports below 1024
Friday, May 14th, 2010Read the rest of this entry »Normally, only the root user is allowed to open ports below 1024.
That’s why, if you try running an application as a normal (non-root) user, and that application tries to open a port below 1024, you’ll get an error (access denied most likely).If you’re running Fedora (and that would probably work on other distros too), there’s a command you can run, as root, that will allow such programs to open any of those ports, even if they’re run by a regular user.
Fix a suddenly very slow SATA hard drive problem
Thursday, November 26th, 2009Read the rest of this entry »So, I was happily copying files around on my Windows Home Server, when I noticed that the speed of the transfers were now at 1.5MB/s… Uncool, when copying similar files from the same directories was at 50-80MB/s minutes earlier. […] I finally found a solution. Disconnecting the SATA data cable from the first SATA port on the motherboard (where it was always connected), and connecting that same cable into the last SATA port.
TV Forecast widget not working? Here’s how to fix it.
Thursday, March 5th, 2009Read the rest of this entry »TV Forecast is a nice widget that Matt Comi created. You tell it what TV shows you watch, and it will keep track of the upcoming episodes for those shows.
The only down side to that widget is that it data-scrape TV.com to get its data.
Not only is this illegal, but it also tends to break the widget every time TV.com change their layout in any way.Getting tired of that, I decided to open the widget’s code, and change the data source to something more stable: TheTVDB.com
How to fix non-working Folder Action on an external hard disk
Wednesday, June 20th, 2007Read the rest of this entry »I had a problem with Folder Actions: they always stopped working after a while! Quite annoying.
FrontRow Enabler for 10.4.8
Sunday, June 17th, 2007Read the rest of this entry »Ok. So I wanted to install FrontRow 1.3 on my old PowerMac G5… Downloaded FrontRow Enabler 1.3, followed instructions, rebooted… And bam, no more login screen. How fun. Checking the comments on Andrew Escobar’s page, I realized 10.4.8 wasn’t supported just yet.
Here’s how I fixed it.
