Category Archives: Peeves

Creative extigy on Mac OS X doesn’t support 5.1 surround sound

By Cohen | Published: April 16, 2009
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

By Cohen | Published: March 23, 2009
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

By Cohen | Published: September 18, 2008
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

By Cohen | Published: September 18, 2008
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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Http spam?!

By Cohen | Published: September 8, 2008
Over the last few days I’ve had thousands of requests from a small number of IP addresses. My bandwidth usage had doubled and when I logged on to find out why, I was dissapointed to find it wasn’t a huge surge in new visitors! :p I’ve since blocked the IP’s in question but, is this common? [...]
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