Tag Archives: troubleshoot

A Bit of Thermal Paste

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Hey, learn something new every day. I’ve at last fixed the problem of the intermittent shut downs of that desktop machine I bought from Matrix Warehouse a year or two ago! :) Shortly after I purchased it and loaded up … Continue reading

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When Your Zend Framework Project returns Page Not Found Errors but Everything is Configured Correctly

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It can be pretty frustrating. Your Zend Framework project is configured 100% correctly. Mod Rewrite is enabled and working on your server, the .htaccess file is configured correctly and working, all your controllers are correctly created and specified, all with the necessary index actions, your modules are healthy, in short everything is looking 100% like all the examples taught you. Yet for some reason when you try and browse your site, you keep getting Page Not Found, Controller not specified error messages!
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IPCop: Troubleshoot No Internet when All other Network Activity Works

What’s the best way to try and troubleshoot the scenario when we have network connections to everything else but the Internet (i.e. external mail, MySQL, and FTP) works, on our IPCop run network? (And note in this case the IPCop run network usually runs perfectly fine, meaning we not delving into a setup that never worked before.)
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Failed Flash & Missing Backups

But losing a faithful flash drive was not the worst part of this ordeal. No, the worst part was that I, a software technician of all people, had failed myself in that I didn’t keep any backups of the important data on the drive. Not a single backup whatsoever. Important personal documents, desktop application projects in mid development, databases built up over years, all gone because I was too lazy to keep up a decent backup programme. Continue reading

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Fix a snom 300 VoIP Phone NR Error

The error that it was coming up with was NR and every number that you tried to dial would result in a ‘forbidden’ error message showing up on the phone. Continue reading

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