Archive for the ‘Error of the Day’ Category
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
I know. This is quickly becoming "look what Dipps f-ed up" -- my error blog. Maybe after this one, I'll take a break from the errors for a spell.
This one happend when trying to update the free, open source media player Songbird from its first official release (out ...
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Monday, April 20th, 2009
This error grinded my copying to a halt. Namely, copying from an external hard drive connected to Time Capsule to Time Capsule itself. It reads:
The Finder cannot complete the operation because some data in "" could not be read or written. (Error code -36)
I didn't dig into this error as ...
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Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
Ever had the menu bar, or whatever it's called, screw-up on a Mac like this? I have not, until now. I closed Cog, and it went away.
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Monday, January 5th, 2009
I just discovered LiveChannel.com, a site where you can download -- surely enough -- a little program called Live Channel. With it you can watch various live . . . . wait a sec . . . I'm dumb. The site is actually Livestation.com. With the Livestation app you can ...
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Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
The USPS website failing is particularly unusual, but Slashdot confirms it. It must be true.
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Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
Man how I love Blogger. This happened around 2:40 Central Time without a warning and I've got the blog hosted elsewhere. It is time to migrate to WordPress.
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Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
Considering following someone on The Twitter? Check out Follow Cost. This snappy tool asks: "How annoying will it be to follow blank on Twitter?" Blank is where you type in who you are pondering to follow on The Twitter and Follow Cost will then spit out the average updates ...
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
I'm trying to download Open Office 3.0, now native for Mac, this morning, and when I finally get the site to come up, I get the above error that reads:
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /servlets/ContentHelmNoodle on this server.
Anything the reads "Content Helm Noodle" is worth blogging.
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Friday, October 10th, 2008
This is bizarre. I've been hitting the refresh quite frequently on Google Finance lately and the above screengrab popped up. I can't get it to go away in Firefox. No issues in Opera or Safari. Guess I'll have to try clearing my cache.
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Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
So I thought I'd check out C-Span and see what they are serving up today. And lo and behold I had almost forgotten that you need the ever crappy Windows Media Player or the equally crappy Real Player to tune into one of several channels of their content.
Ben Bernanke and ...
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