Saffron: I'll die. Mal: Well, as a courtesy, you might start getting busy on that, 'cause all this chatter ain't doin' me any kindness.

'Trash'


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Jon B. - Dec 26, 2005 12:01:15 pm PST #6171 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

I can vouch for tommyrot's answer. I just did a fresh install of Windows on my PC. After installing iTunes, opening it and shutting it down, I copied my backed-up My Music directory into my new My Music directory. When I reopened iTunes, all my old music and playlists were there.


Cass - Dec 26, 2005 12:05:34 pm PST #6172 of 10003
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

Excellent! It's a Kprinkle Miracle. Or, you know, just good troubleshooting. They are often pretty interchangable.


tommyrot - Dec 27, 2005 4:49:57 am PST #6173 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Quick IIS Server question - if you change global.asa, do you have to do anything to force IIS to use the new version (like, say, a reboot, but that's not really an option at the moment)?

eta: This concerns a setting in the Session_onstart section, which applies to a specific user the first time he hits a page on the site.


Jessica - Dec 27, 2005 6:29:57 am PST #6174 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

DH and I are both getting this error message when trying to update his film review site. I haven't changed anything recently, so I'm baffled:

Warning: Unknown(/home/nycfil77/public_html/process_movie.php): failed to open stream: Permission denied in Unknown on line 0

Warning: Unknown(/home/nycfil77/public_html/process_movie.php): failed to open stream: Permission denied in Unknown on line 0

Warning: (null)(): Failed opening '/home/nycfil77/public_html/process_movie.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in Unknown on line 0

Any ideas? The "unknown" and "line 0" are what's got me stumped -- how can I figure out where the actual problem is if it won't tell me what file and/or line is giving it trouble?

[eta that every other part of the site seems to be able to access the database just fine -- reading still works, just not writing.]


tommyrot - Dec 27, 2005 6:31:32 am PST #6175 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

This appears to be a problem with the server, not on your end.

eta:

reading still works, just not writing.

Maybe a permissions problem on the server database. Write permission is different (and often more restrictive) than read permission


Jessica - Dec 27, 2005 6:39:41 am PST #6176 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

This appears to be a problem with the server, not on your end.

I suppose that's kind of good. (In that I didn't break it.)

The baffling part is that I haven't changed any permissions recently, and all the files involved in posting to the database have both "write" and "execute" permissions. Maybe I missed one.


Sophia Brooks - Dec 27, 2005 6:43:37 am PST #6177 of 10003
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Does anyone know if the TV shows downloaded through iTunes have closed captioning, and if so, how to turn it on? I am watching Lost while stuffin envelopes, and wish I didn't have to turn it up so loud!


Tom Scola - Dec 27, 2005 7:04:34 am PST #6178 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

all the files involved in posting to the database have both "write" and "execute" permissions. Maybe I missed one.

"read" permission, perhaps?


Jessica - Dec 27, 2005 7:12:50 am PST #6179 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Yes, they have that too. :)

Anyhoo, they're all 774 now (they were 700 earlier, or maybe 744, I can't remember), and the problem has gone away.


tommyrot - Dec 27, 2005 12:44:58 pm PST #6180 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Anyone know offhand what Comcast's outgoing mail server is?