Category Archives: Googled

Error running dcpromo.exe, “The remote procedure call failed”

By Cohen | Published: March 24, 2010
Its not something I do very often, but I had to replace a windows 2k3 server with a new 2008 one today. When running dcpromo I kept getting the same error, something along the lines of “Failed installing active diretory service binaries, failed with error: the remote procedure call failed.”. There was nothing in the logs [...]
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phpMyDiff – Compare mysql database schema and data

By Cohen | Published: February 23, 2010
At work I’ve been maintaining a number of development areas and needed a way to compare database changes so that I didn’t overwrite a clients changes with my new/updated data from developing a new feature. There seemed to be many ways of comparing the schema of two databases, but nothing to compare the changes in data [...]
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Change volume key step size in Ubuntu

By Cohen | Published: February 19, 2010
At work we often listen to music off of my computer, so when the phone rings I have to quickly adjust the volume. Using the volume keys on my keyboard I could have the music either really loud or too quiet. So, to change the effect the volume keys have: Press Alt+F2 to bring up the “Run” [...]
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Ubuntu 9.10 Rhythmbox requires GStreamer element autoaudiosink to play mp3’s

By Cohen | Published: November 24, 2009
I recently upgraded my work PC to Ubuntu 9.10 and in doing so lost the ability to play mp3s in Rhythmbox. When trying to play an mp3, rhythmbox would ask for a new plugin, but after looking, say it couldn’t find “GStreamer element autoaudiosink”. After reinstalling gstreamer and rhythmbox a few times I turned to the [...]
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jQuery plugin to disable text selection on elements

By Cohen | Published: July 17, 2009
It took my a while to find a bit of script that worked cross browser, but the jquery plugin at http://code.jdempster.com/jQuery.DisableTextSelect/ does the job! When working on the UI of a web application text would often get selected by the browser incorrectly, for example while dragging an element, or clicking on an element with an onclick [...]
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