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Tag Archives: troubleshooting

Sudden voltage drop on MAX756

I got the MAX756 that I was waiting for from Futurlec. The idea was to implement the very same circuit that comes in the MAX756 datasheet. In my first try I got very strange results which I posted to lladyada forum hoping to get some advice on how to solve. Eventually I set up the [...]

Firefox detecting wrong Java Plugin version on Windows.

First read this Mozillazine page
In my case the problem was that some program overwrote the registry entry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/JavaSoft/Java Runtime Environment/BrowserJavaVersion with the old value 1.6.0_01. When I set it back to 1.6.0_06 everything worked fine again.

Now the addons window looks like

before it showed Java Platform SE 6 U1 instead

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dropbox not syncing files

Today I fixed my dropbox installation on mac os x . It was not updating (sending) files from the Mac to the Dropbox servers. In fact it was sending new files to dropbox servers but some old files that were supposed to be on dropbox account were not synchonized and I couldn’t get Dropbox to [...]

Netbeans Paint Application

My first try with the Netbeans Paint Application tutorial didn´t work as expected. For some reasong I got this stack trace when I tried to run it:

java.lang.IllegalStateException: Module was supposed to be OK: StandardModule:org.netbeans.modules.projectuiapi jarFile: C:\Program Files\NetBeans 6.0\ide8\modules\org-netbeans-modules-projectuiapi.jar
at org.netbeans.ModuleManager.maybeAddToEnableList(ModuleManager.java:1087)
at org.netbeans.ModuleManager.maybeAddToEnableList(ModuleManager.java:1104)
[...]

bash: clear: command not found

If your are getting “bash: clear: command not found” on you first install of cygwin you have to make sure that you include ncurses packages in your cygwin installation. clear.exe doesn´t come in the standard installation. You must include ncurses to get clear.exe in your system. If you are using bash you can use Ctrl-L [...]

avahi and .local domain troubleshooting

I got the “avahi-daemon disabled because there is a unicast .local domain” but I have no .local domain so I was a little bit confused.

~$ sudo /etc/init.d/avahi-daemon restart
* Restarting Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Daemon: avahi-daemon [...]

Subversion error: 503 Service unavailable

If you faced the following subversion message in windows:
svn: PROPFIND request failed on ‘/repos/demosystemeic’
svn: PROPFIND of ‘/repos/demosystemeic’: 503 Service Unavailable (http://x.x.x.x)

Probably the problem is caused because you are proxying your request via a proxy that doesn’t support HTTP methods like PROPFIND, etc.
If you don’t really need the proxy to access the repository edit the [...]