Yearly Archives: 2015


Mac hosed from installing new mac os

New mac os available.  You try to install but you run out of space.  It will fail and your mac will be hosed.  You could press command + R while booting and get into OS Utilities, but it doesn’t allow you to free up space and delete files individually.   Solution: boot into live usb […]


# yum install hfsplus-tools Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora. Please verify its path and try again

In fedora, if you try to yum install and get:   # yum install hfsplus-tools Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora. Please verify its path and try again   Change https to http in files in /etc/yum.repos.d/*, e.g.:   sed -i ‘s/https/http/g’ /etc/yum.repos.d/*


Convert ROM to Game Doctor format

See http://gamedoctor-sf6.blogspot.com/   Download one of the bin datas of the UCon64 website: uCON64 bin data for Windows Then you have to download a GUI: uCON64 GUI:uf-FOX Additional you can download a Super Nes dat file, which makes the options easier to use for you: uCON64 Super Nintendo dat file   Then open the front end’s […]


Gray disabled sound icon on mac

Fix WITHOUT reboot:   chown -R _coreaudiod:admin /Library/Preferences/Audio # Fix the dynamic linkers using the following command sudo update_dyld_shared_cache -force # Restart the coreaudio service sudo killall coreaudiod


apache unresponsive

apache2 hangs.  Check logs, see: [error] could not make child process 16190 exit, attempting to continue anyway check your php files (such as drupal’s includes/common.inc and sites/all/modules/advagg/advagg.missing.inc ) for: ignore_user_abort Try to comment all out, and restart apache.