1. Click: [Start] >> [Administrative Tools] >> [Local Security Policy]
2. Navigate to: Security Settings>>Local Policies>>User Right Assignment>>Debug Programs
3. Add the user doing the install to the list.
4. Once you have made this change, cold boot your computer and check that the change was successful.

If you already loaded SQL Server Express or any other version of SQL Server 2008, and this check reveals that ADMIN is the only entry with the permission, you must completely un-install SQL Server Express 2008 and any other related SQL services installed along with it from control panel, by using the Add/Remove Programs, then cold boot your computer and make sure no services are left in place.

You may then re-install SQL Server with the correct  permissions.

While working with a PHP application running on Apache that uses client certificates, I ran into the following error:

Undefined index: SSL_CLIENT_CERT

The fix was simple.  Make sure you have the following in your apache ssl configuration file:

<VirtualHost _default_:443>
...

SSLOptions +FakeBasicAuth +ExportCertData +StrictRequire

...
</VirtualHost>

It might be commented out.

I just discovered an addon to Microsoft Windows to make it really easy to type in Arabic. Install Microsoft Maren and you can type Arabic using roman characters. So for example, the words “Saba7 el 7’eir” will map to “الخير صباح” meaning good morning in Arabic. There are other alternatives such as Yamli and Google ta3reeb, but they only work in web based applications. Maren works in a number of applications, including Word.

Today I was updating my Quickbooks file with my downloaded statement from Bank of America.  In the past this has worked fine, but today I got the following error:

There are no new transactions available.  Please check again tomorrow.

I looked at the stmt.qbo file from the bank and I could see the new transactions in there, so I knew they were there.  After looking online for an answer, I finally looked at the settings for the affected account.  To solve the problem,

1. go to Lists -> Chart of Accounts, then right click on the affected account and select edit account.
2. Select the “Online Services” tab and select the option to “Deactivate All Online Services”.
3. Once you do this, then import the stmt.qbo file by going to File -> Utilities -> Import -> Web Connect Files…
4. You may need to associate the file with an existing account.  After doing this, you should see new transactions.

tag_collection.push_with_attributes(tag_record, attributes) unless tagged_with?(name)

to:

tag_collection << tag_record unless tagged_with?(name)

Since I am not using attributes, it seems to work.  I am not sure if it breaks anything else.

lvcreate failed for volHome

The problem was that I was trying to install to a 10GB machine, whereas the image needed a larger HD.  Changing the hard disk size in the VM fixed the problem.

Caught exception: A database error has occurred Query:
INSERT INTO `user`
(user_id,user_name,user_password,user_newpassword,user_newpass_time,user_email,user_email_authenticated,user_real_name,user_options,user_token,user_registration,user_editcount)
VALUES
(NULL,'john.smith','','','20090310212536','',NULL,'','quickbar=1\nunderline=2\ncols=80\nrows=25\nsearchlimit=20\ncontextlines=5\ncontextchars=50\ndisablesuggest=0\nskin=\nmath=1\nusenewrc=0\nrcdays=7\nrclimit=50\nwllimit=250\nhideminor=0\nhighlightbroken=1\nstubthreshold=0\npreviewontop=1\npreviewonfirst=0\neditsection=1\neditsectiononrightclick=0\neditondblclick=0\neditwidth=0\nshowtoc=1\nshowtoolbar=1\nminordefault=0\ndate=default\nimagesize=2\nthumbsize=2\nrememberpassword=0\nnocache=0\ndiffonly=0\nshowhiddencats=0\nnorollbackdiff=0\nenotifwatchlistpages=0\nenotifusertalkpages=1\nenotifminoredits=0\nenotifrevealaddr=0\nshownumberswatching=1\nfancysig=0\nexternaleditor=0\nexternaldiff=0\nforceeditsummary=0\nshowjumplinks=1\njustify=0\nnumberheadings=0\nuselivepreview=0\nwatchlistdays=3\nextendwatchlist=0\nwatchlisthideminor=0\nwatchlisthidebots=0\nwatchlisthideown=0\nwatchlisthideanons=0\nwatchlisthideliu=0\nwatchcreations=0\nwatchdefault=0\nwatchmoves=0\nwatchdeletion=0\nnoconvertlink=0\nvariant=en\nlanguage=en\nsearchNs0=1','8f168c4d8ed2afa12c3b223d001e1cd7','20090310212536','0')
Function: User::addToDatabase Error: 1062 Duplicate entry
'john.smith' for key 2 (localhost)

Mediawiki is set up to create a user using the information in the certificate if the user does not exist. It turns out that if the field from the certificate used to create the username starts with a lowercase letter, then Mediawiki will think the user does not exist, but MySQL complains that the user already exists. Mediawiki is looking for a username that starts with a capital letter. The issue was solved by issuing another certificate to the user with the first letter of the username capitalized.

no such file to load -- htree (MissingSourceFile)

The problem was resolved by installing htree.