Tag Archives: fix

HowTo: Fix “Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute.”

Posted on July 7, 2010 by Alex

After installing an update to WordPress I received the error: “Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute.” I was unsure if this was down to my hosts servers being temporarily down, going down during the update or … Continue reading →

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GIMP (2.6.8) Crashing On Some Toolbox Icons – Lucid

Posted on July 4, 2010 by Alex

:~$ gimp gimp: fatal error: Failed to register GObject with DBusConnection (script-fu:3100): LibGimpBase-WARNING **: script-fu: gimp_wire_read(): error I fixed this error by removing opening Synaptic Package Manager and searching for appmenu-gtk, right click and mark for removal, once this has … Continue reading →

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HowTo: Make WordPress 3.0 Default Theme (Twenty Ten) Single Column Full Width

Posted on June 20, 2010 by Alex

The new WordPress default theme, Twenty Ten, is awesome but one thing that annoys me about it was the fact it’s single column template isn’t full width but instead just removing the sidebar and centering the content. It’s really easy … Continue reading →

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HowTo: Fix Can’t Click on Flash in Ubuntu (64bit)

Posted on June 18, 2010 by Alex

There is a pretty quick fix for not being able to click flash on websites such as YouTube, just simply add the line below into the following file and restart your web browser and all should be fine: sudo gedit … Continue reading →

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HowTo Fix: The file ‘/path/file.exe’ is not marked as executable.

Posted on May 31, 2010 by Alex

The file ‘/path/file.exe’ is not marked as executable.  If this was downloaded or copied form an untrusted source, it may be dangerous to run.  For more details, read about the executable bit. While re-installing Spotify on my Desktop I came … Continue reading →

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HowTo Fix: “There is a problem with your sound card. Spotify can’t play music.” (Wine)

Posted on May 21, 2010 by Alex

Quite a few times I have encountered this problem, which I think is caused when the soundcard was recently used by another program and might still be busy but it means Spotify can’t play music, so a quick fix for … Continue reading →

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HowTo: Fix “An error occurred while mounting” – Ubuntu Lucid (10.04)

Posted on May 3, 2010 by Alex

An error occurred while mounting /dev/bus/usb (and/or) An error occurred while mounting /proc/bus/usb Press S to skip mounting or M for manual recovery If you are seeing this error on boot an easy way to get rid: sudo gedit /etc/fstab … Continue reading →

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HowTo: Fix Jumping/Skipping Sound in Spotify under Wine – Ubuntu Karmic (9.10)

Posted on April 30, 2010 by Alex

The sound in Spotify was jumping or skipping much like a scratched disk would. After a little investigation I found a couple of ways to fix it with people saying one worked but the other didn’t for them. (Solution 2 … Continue reading →

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Howto fix: “error while loading shared libraries”

Posted on February 2, 2010 by Alex

While installing opencv on an older version of debian for work I kept getting an error while loading shared libraries which turned out to be a pretty easy fix, just finding the libraries and adding them to the dynamic linker. … Continue reading →

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