Category Archives: Peeves

Napster web service won’t steam some songs

If you’re using the napster web service and find that random songs stop streaming properly, interrupting your (awesome) playlist, there may be a simple fix: 1. Clear your browser cache If unsure how to do this, please google “clear [browser name] cache”, where browser name is either “Internet Explorer”, “Firefox”, “Chrome”, etc. 2. Clear your flash cache I didn’t [...]
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Creative extigy on Mac OS X doesn’t support 5.1 surround sound

I ordered a few cables to get both my PC and powerbook hooked up to my old creative extigy sound card, hoping I could then listen to either through my 5.1 speaker set. I’d used the extigy on the mac before, and it certainly does detect it and play sound. Unfortunately I hadn’t paid much attention [...]
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Online small claims application form: technical error

For the last few days we’ve been trying to file a small claim online but everytime we get to the submission stage, we get a technical error and are asked to try again later or file the claim the old-fashioned way! With the error not dissapearing, I gave them a ring. The first question they asked [...]
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Paypal IPN from the sandbox not working

I spent two hours today trying to figure out why paypal wasn’t sending any instant payment notifications (IPN) to one of our new projects. Everything seemed right, I had notify_url in the form, the script could be accessed remotely, I had logging on for http and the script itself. After processing a payment I had [...]
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Magnets + macbook pro = bad

It may seem obvious to most, in fact, its obvious to me… but, don’t leave a magnet resting on your laptop (above the hard drive) while you go to lunch! I came back from lunch today and the guys in the office were looking at me worriedly. I asked why and they went on to explain [...]
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