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  • Issue ListView context menu pop-up doesn’t work properly in Android 7.0 and 7.1 Nougat (API 24 and API 25). Instead of the full menu appearing in the middle of the screen, it now appears collapsed to a single item and…

  • Issue Windows Temp directory (C:\Windows\Temp) gets filled-up with cab_xxx_x files until C: drive runs out of space. Deleting the files doesn’t help as thousands of new cab_ files get generated every day.

  • Issue Some of the VMs hosted on VMware ESXi 5.5 (DELL PowerEdge T310 host) occasionally become unresponsive.All attempts to login to the host via VMware vSphere Client fails with following error: Could Not ConnectvSphere Client could not connect to “10.5.5.25”. An unknown…

  • I have a Media PC that needs to ignore power on/off commands sent by Logitech Harmony remote (Media Centre profile) when the PC is switched on. The idea behind it is that when the PC on, sending IR power command…

  • Issue Trying to manually run Joomla Smart Search Indexer immediately fails with following error: Indexer Runningundefinednull

  • Tar archive files generated by Plesk web server backups generate following errors when trying to open them with 7-ZIP (v7.90): Error opening .tar archive – There are data after end of archive.

  • XCloner Joomla and WordPress backup notification emails are not beng delivered. Postfix Mail logs (/var/log/maillog) shows that email was bounced by Google because of sender’s domain noreply.com Feb 20 21:41:50 localhost postfix/smtp[48976]: DCE8DE03ED13: to=<recipient@gmail.com>, relay=gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[74.125.71.26]:25, delay=0.51, delays=0.03/0.01/0.2/0.28, dsn=5.7.1, status=bounced (host gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[74.125.71.26]…

  • Gradle build fails with error “The number of method references in a .dex file cannot exceed 64k “ As the error suggests you cannot have more than 64k methods in one classes.dex file. One way around this is to use enable MultiDex…

  • Issue After moving PHP application to 1&1 CentOS 7 VPS server PHP function apache_request_headers() stopped working. With PHP display_errors set to On, following error is displayed: Call to undefined function apache_request_headers() With display_errors set to Off, it simply throws: 500 Internal Server Error

  • Google Chrome has its own internal DNS caching. To clear it: Enter chrome://net-internals/#dns in the Google Chrome address bar and click Clear host cache button. In some instances you may also need flush socket pools. This can be done at: chrome://net-internals/#sockets

  • After upgrading Google Play services library from 9.4.0 to 10.2.0 Gradle build fails with following error: Information: Gradle tasks [:app:assembleDebug]Error: UNEXPECTED TOP-LEVEL ERROR:Error: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit exceededError: Execution failed for task ‘:app:transformClassesWithDexForDebug’.> com.android.build.api.transform.TransformException: com.android.ide.common.process.ProcessException: java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: java.lang.UnsupportedOperationExceptionInformation:BUILD FAILED

  • Issue Microsoft Outlook 2016 Send/Receive throws following error: Task ‘Internet Calendar Subscriptions’ reported error (0x80004005) : The operation failed.’