ie woe

Unable to get a div or span to disappear in IE? or to have an effect fade in or what not?  Double check to make sure you are closing all your <div></div>’s and <span></span>’s [the ending one, that it].  Appears IE is less lenient than FF for scruff :)

xp woe

gotntldr not found. press ctrl+alt+delete to restart.To fix: create windows xp [fat32] bootable floppy.Copy ntldr, boot.ini, ntdetect.com from the [now corrupt] C drive onto the new floppy.Boot with that floppy! 

mysql woe

mysql> insert into my_accounts (key) values (‘key’);
ERROR 1064 (42000): You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘key) values (‘key’)’ at line 1
mysql> insert into my_accounts (zip) values (‘key’);
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.39 sec)

mysql> insert into my_accounts (first_name) values (‘key’);
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.26 sec)

mysql> insert into my_accounts (`key`) values (‘key’);
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.11 sec)

with the fix being the backticks.

rmagick on mac os x leopard port

after installing the gem it don’t work? try this :)

Rogers-little-PowerBook:mem roger$ sudo gem install rmagick
Building native extensions.  This could take a while…
Successfully installed rmagick-2.3.0
1 gem installed
Rogers-little-PowerBook:mem roger$ irb -rubygems -r RMagick
/opt/local/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/RMagick.rb:1200:TypeError: superclass mismatch for class ImageList
>> exit
Rogers-little-PowerBook:mem roger$ sudo mv /opt/local/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rmagick.rb /opt/local/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rmagick_bad.rb:
irRogers-little-PowerBook:mem roger$ irb
>> require ‘rmagick’
=> true
>>