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I was helping out a friend this evening who had a subscription to a website/service via PayPal. She wanted to cancel this subscription, which you would think would be fairly easy. Not so. The website she was on simply said “Go to PayPal to cancel”, and PayPal’s website does not make it easy to find….
If you try to install Windows XP under VMWare GSX Server, it will not work by default. The Windows install kicks back saying it is unable to detect any hard drives. This is because VMWare emulates SCSI drives which XP doesn’t have drivers for by default. Luckily it is very easy to get around this…
If you happen to be involved in the downloading of videos off the net, you probably have CCCP. If you don’t have it, get it, you’ll thank me later (not technically true, but perhaps you will remember me telling you to get it). The problem at hand today was that while I have a rather…
I run Outlook 2007 on multiple machines, and one of them (my laptop) has been giving me shit about attachments. Every time I try to save one, it pop’s the message “Cannot save the attachment” or “The operation failed” or a similarly useless message. I’ve read a lot of different suggestions including turning off your…
Strangest thing ever, I downloaded and tried to install an OpenType Font (.otf) and when I double clicked to preview the font I got the message “The requested file XXX.otf was not a valid font file”. When I tried to install it, I got “Unable to install the XXX (OpenType) font. The font file may…