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If you get a web page with "Advert blocked" on it, it's not very descriptive, but basically it's dansguardian (a web filter) stomping on an Advertisement: To find out more about the problem I changed the dansguardian report setting "reportinglevel = 3" to...

Problem: Running wupdmgr on a Windows XP Pro SP3 Box throws "[Error number: 0x800A01B6]." in Internet Explorer Trying wupdmgr on several Windows XP Pro Boxes and the error is duplicated. Cause: Cisco ASA firewall configured to do ActiveX Filtering blocking the Windows...

Just attempted to run qcad and got an error as follows [me@mypc qcad-2.2.2.0-1-prof.linux.x86]$ ./qcad ./qcad: error while loading shared libraries: libXrandr.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Found that my 64 bit version of libXrandr on...

I just had the following experience: I sat down in front of my desktop computer which isn't connected to the internet at the moment. My HTC Desire Android based phone told me it needed a recharge so I plugged it in to my computer for a bit using it's USB cable. It...

I'm playing with upgrading a Ubuntu 9.04 installation and ran into the "An upgrade from 'jaunty' to 'lucid' is not supported with this tool." and I had no idea what version `lucid' was. To find the version of the currently running Linux box use lsb_release -a...