http://thedesignspace.net/ My daily explorations, troubleshooting, solutions and discoveries. en-us ellen@thedesignspace.net Sat, 07 Jan 2012 18:27:54 -0500 http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000960.html Lately it seems that apps tend to crash a lot on my first-generation iPad. Safari is one of the biggest offenders, and it appears the problem is at least partly from lack of free memory. If Safari starts crashing everytime you open it, it sometimes helps to close all apps in the multitasking bar.... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000950.html iCloud looks great on paper, but the effects of choices you must make to enable it are not obvious, so, as a busy person with more than enough troubleshooting to do, I am shutting it off for now. No replacement for iDisk yet. I'm probably one of the few people that use iDisk, but I do use it. I store... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000949.html In a .NET application used to deliver quizzes, attempting to import a large quiz from another server resulted in this error: "The request filtering module is configured to deny a request that exceeds the request content length." A second message stated: "Request filtering is configured on the Web server to deny the request because the content length exceeds the configured... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000948.html There have been several times when I've discovered that settings changes I make in Captivate Preferences or Properties are not being honored - my changes can be seen in the Preferences or Properties panels after closing and reopening the Preferences or properties, but they are not being used.... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000946.html If Windows Journal starts crashing every time you try to open it, these instructions might just fix it (thanks to David Bradley):... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000943.html The other day a Captivate author showed me a new problem: on one slide, resource links she had put into a slide imported from Powerpoint were not working.... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000940.html Flash Firebug is a great tool for debugging Actionscript 3 SWF files, similar to the way regular Firebug helps debug Javascript and CSS when using Firefox.... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000939.html Since the last update of Safari, I've been seeing way too much of this error: "Webpages are not responding. To visit the selected webpage, all webpages in other tabs and windows must be force reloaded. Do you want to visit this page?" Once this error shows up, usually several windows will start reloading on their own. The error seems to... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000937.html Internet Explorer's propensity to drop floated elements adds time to site development, and sometimes causes a page to appear blank if the floated content drops below the window "fold". Ignoring the problem and designing only for standards-adhering browsers is not always possible, particularly in enterprise environments where IE (and not always the latest version) is the only officially supported standard.... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000935.html If you try to connect to an Oracle Database using the Test Connection button in the Data Sources (ODBC) Control Panel, and get the error [Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Driver's SQLAllocHandle on SQL_HANDLE_ENV failed, try the following suggestions:... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000934.html After I added some new commenting features to this blog, this error started to appear when comments were submitted: Comment Submission Error Your comment submission failed for the following reasons: Text entered was wrong. Try again."... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000933.html By default, Spotlight indexes local drives. However it is possible to force it to index networked AFP (Apple File Protocol) volumes as well.... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000931.html Trying to set up php on a Windows server running IIS from scratch can be a challenge. I would recommend first trying out the Microsoft's Web Platform Installer because it is so easy to use, but sometimes that doesn't set things up correctly. In my experience it usually works, but occasionally the installation fails to create a working environment. In... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000930.html I used to use Directory Utility occasionally, and was surprised not to be able to find it anymore in the Utilities folder in Snow Leopard. It turns out it's been moved to the \System\Library\Core Services\ folder, but the best way to access it is now through System Preferences.... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000929.html I use several large external drives with my iMac to manage photos and multiple systems. Lately I've had a frequent problem with Finder crashes. Using Force Quit to "Relaunch" the finder does cause it to quit, but it never restarts....