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Re: Gmail: Storage quota exceeded. Why this happens

Si Dawson — Mon, 04 May 2015 13:14:51 -0000

In this case, I can only think that there is something ELSE broken with gmail/storage. Sorry I can't help more. I don't actually work at Google, so can't check the internals. I only know what I've gleaned from debugging the outside.

Re: Gmail: Storage quota exceeded. Why this happens

Graham Spiers — Mon, 04 May 2015 08:04:21 -0000

My gmail account is at only at .13% and I still get the message "storage quota exceeded"I am having trouble where to login into Google apps free.

Like Robin I don't think I have a specific google Apps account

Re: OSX MySql DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH libmysqlclient.18.dylib – fix

Si Dawson — Sat, 18 Apr 2015 20:03:15 -0000

Ahh, I know EXACTLY what you mean (hence the post). Super glad it helped!

Re: OSX MySql DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH libmysqlclient.18.dylib – fix

Paul James — Sat, 18 Apr 2015 18:28:15 -0000

You saved my life! ...well, my sanity at least :)

Re: How to Fix Multiple GoogleVoiceAndVideoAccelSetup_5.38.5.0 ‘s Mounted

Si Dawson — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 14:36:14 -0000

Huh. That's VERY interesting.

I'd be most interested to hear if it does sort your Google hangout issues.

Might require a restart before it gets itself untied though.

Re: How to Fix Multiple GoogleVoiceAndVideoAccelSetup_5.38.5.0 ‘s Mounted

Cognitive Body — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 14:27:21 -0000

Hi, thanks for writing this up and sharing. After noticing an unexpected and poorly named Installer.DMG on my desktop, I started investigating, which brought me to /private/tmp and the discovery of all these Google plug-in files. I'm hoping this cleanup will have the added benefit of fixing the periodic problems I experience with Google Hangout (in both Firefox and Chrome on Mac OS X).

Re: Gmail: Storage quota exceeded. Why this happens

Si Dawson — Tue, 23 Sep 2014 16:13:48 -0000

So - just to be clear, your Gmail % used is less than 100%, but you're still getting "storage quota exceeded" errors?

Re: Gmail: Storage quota exceeded. Why this happens

Robin — Tue, 23 Sep 2014 15:38:52 -0000

I'm having this problem but I don't think I have a specific google Apps account?

Re: How to make iOS Auto Correct suck slightly less

Si Dawson — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 19:22:19 -0000

Ha ha, thanks man.

Re: How to make iOS Auto Correct suck slightly less

RockKicker — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 15:52:53 -0000

This was great. Thanks for the post.

Re: How to automatically position PuTTY terminal

Si Dawson — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 10:17:36 -0000

True.

But what would signing do? Primarily prove identification.

I (or Brad) could sign an exe stacked with malware.

Given that it was a "scratch your itch" type of project for him, I doubt it's worth the effort/cost of going through 3rd party authentication/signing (and even those aren't foolproof, as evidenced by several high profile root cert failures of recent years).

My suggestion would be to diff mine against his. If they're the same, that means minimal risk of them both containing attack vectors.

Ultimately, of course, run your own checks. Or simply don't use it. You're responsible for the security of your machine, after all.

Re: How to automatically position PuTTY terminal

garrilla — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 09:50:12 -0000

This is neat but it's an unsigned .exe - that's a bit risky...

Re: OSX MySql DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH libmysqlclient.18.dylib – fix

Si Dawson — Tue, 28 Jan 2014 18:58:15 -0000

*nod* cool. I've been around (Linux mostly) for about the same length of time - but only really adminning as little as I possibly could to to get my coding work done :)

Thanks for your feedback Gary - that's super helpful. I've updated the post to reflect your advice.

Re: OSX MySql DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH libmysqlclient.18.dylib – fix

Gary Allen Vollink — Tue, 28 Jan 2014 16:58:29 -0000

Honestly, I'm happy to see someone willing to talk about it (as opposed to 6 year old abandoned posts) and have readable comments, because even down here it helps people find and decide the best answer for themselves (which is really what we all want - information enough to decide for ourselves). [ so maybe just point folks down here to the comments? ]

I have 20 years of UNIX development and admin experience, but I'm VERY new to Mac (which has it's odd points), and I always try to leave any place in better shape than I found it.

Re: OSX MySql DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH libmysqlclient.18.dylib – fix

Si Dawson — Tue, 28 Jan 2014 02:59:06 -0000

So it'd be better to do the above soft link into /usr/local/lib, rather than /usr/lib ?

If so, I'll update the above post.

I admit I'm at the edge of my knowledge re how the insides of these libraries and systems all interface. Mostly the above solution is "this worked without anything apparently breaking" rather than based on any deep technical understanding.

Re: OSX MySql DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH libmysqlclient.18.dylib – fix

Gary Allen Vollink — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 21:04:23 -0000

I /ALSO/ got around to testing (as from man dyld) that /usr/local/lib is ALSO a default fallback, and works as expected, so doing the softlink to that location is more "upgrade safe" than the links straight into /usr/lib.

Next on /my/ list is figuring out if there's a way to make 'mac ports' project install directly to /usr/local instead of /opt/local.

Re: OSX MySql DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH libmysqlclient.18.dylib – fix

Si Dawson — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 04:58:42 -0000

Ahh, excellent suggestions. Thank you so much.

There's definitely a world of subtlety around this stuff.

I'm surprised with the huge amount of searching I did that I didn't find the DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH suggestion. Very surprised. Still, it's here now, so I have it on record (in case I need it again) - and for that I thank you.

Re: OSX MySql DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH libmysqlclient.18.dylib – fix

Gary Allen Vollink — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 15:29:02 -0000

Notes: 1) DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH is the "standard recommendation" for many reasons. Check man dyld for info. I wouldn't want anybody to think that shortcutting this without _FALLBACK is a good thing. 2) For anybody who DOES mess with either DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY PATH _OR_ DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH, if you later decide to do the soft-link variation (which has many advantages), it will ONLY work if DYLD**PATH has never been set in your shell. Even they are not set, if they are explicitly UNSET, the behavior will not include any defaults. (Clean your .bash_profile, .bashrc, etc -- log out -- log back in).

Re: OSX MySql DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH libmysqlclient.18.dylib – fix

Si Dawson — Wed, 13 Nov 2013 05:56:04 -0000

Ahh brilliant. Yeah, that was a massive pain in the ass until I figured that out.

Re: OSX MySql DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH libmysqlclient.18.dylib – fix

Amir Boziev — Wed, 13 Nov 2013 05:09:28 -0000

Worked for me. Thank you so much!

Re: How to automatically position PuTTY terminal

Si Dawson — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 05:50:32 -0000

Sorry, crappy css on my part (I don't know what I was thinking). There are a coupla links in the third para that are now blindingly obvious. You can get putty-bkg from either of them.

Re: How to automatically position PuTTY terminal

Gene — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 00:18:01 -0000

where can I find putty-bkg.exe ? It did not come with the installation.
Thanks

Re: WordPress 2.8.5 dashboard not working in Firefox

Si Dawson — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:48:28 -0000

The above solution is only for 2.8.5 wordpress.

However, I can tell you straight off - 503 means "webserver not available" (due to high load, or temporary maintenance on the server). So, that's nothing to do with wordpress, that's right at the bottom of the stack, not near the top.

If you're not using a litespeed webserver then it probably means you're linking to something on someone else's site, and their server is broken.

Re: WordPress 2.8.5 dashboard not working in Firefox

Prashanth S — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:28:10 -0000

i corrected it as you said and my view source gives correct urls, still i cant get the styles. when i clicked the style links (from inspect element) to open it in another page and it shows,

503 Service Unavailable
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how could I correct it?? i use wordpress 3.2.1 version

Re: Twitter OAuth Invalid Signature on friendships/create

Ryan Triggs — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 13:39:57 -0000

You saved me hours! Thanks for the post. The same problem exists for /friendships/destroy.