Prasanth's blog

The overlib.js fail to work in IE 10. The error that is usually thrown in the console is "SCRIPT5007: Unable to get property '1' of undefined or null reference " I investigated and found that the code simply considers the browser version to be only 1 digit. So, when we use IE 10, this does not match. There is a simple solution though.

Selecting multiple items using touch pad often makes us to repeat the same procedure from the beginning when we inadverently click outside the selection which deselects all the previously selected items. It is more difficult when you have a large number of items and you need to scroll the page which most probably deselects the items. In Windows 7, you have a provision to display checkboxes to all the items such that you can use to select individual items.

Internet Information Services (IIS) fail to start webserver - HRESULT : 0x80070020 (Reason: Skype update) Recently when trying to start the website using Inetmgr I am getting error that "The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070020)". Everything was working fine a day before. I checked the log and found that Skype was the only application that was updated the previous day. On checking the settings of the Skype I found that it is configured to use the port 80 which is the default port used by the webserver. I changed the port and the webserver started working. Steps to change the setting in Skype Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> Connection and un-check 'Use port 80 and 443 as alternatives for incoming connections'.  Restart Skype.

*** UPDATE : Adobe had since provided support for Windows 8 with Coldfusion 10. In my case I had to reinstall windows 8 to remove the Coldfusion 9 installation. *** Adobe Coldfusion 9 is having installation issues on Windows 8. I upgraded my PC with Windows 7 having Coldfusion version 9.0.2 to Windows 8. When I tried to run the Coldfusion application I got errors in IIS so I tried to uninstall Coldfusion. Here is the error that I received. I again tried to install Coldfusion (ColdFusion_9_WWEJ_win64.exe), but it too failed with the following messages. Hope Adobe will roll out updated installers and uninstallers for existing installation.

The jquery.wysiwyg.js plugin is working fine in FireFox. But when it is loaded in Internet Explorer, we are not able to set a link for the image. It shows an error " SCRIPT5007: Unable to get value of the property 'length': object is null or undefined jquery.wysiwyg.js, line 1 character 3646 ".

I do not intent to say that Facebook is not a good application. It is indeed a good application, but the usage pattern of people that I feel wrong. Again, this is solely based on my experience with Facebook. Yes, I too am in Facebook and I still log in to it once or twice daily. Is Facebook doing any good to our life or is it making the already spoilt life that is addicted to computer and internet where we have automatic spell-checking, don't need to remember anything, can *undo* anything and made our life an open book? Well, I am not going into the level of spoiling the new technology done to our lives, but only concentrating on the Facebook and on the effects that I feel it made to the youth especially in my home state.

Youtube videos are everywhere over the net. Anybody can embed the videos to their sites. We can go to the site, click 'Play' and view the video. There are chances that after a few seconds of viewing you find that you did not like the video and click 'Stop'. This will stop playing video, but will continue to buffer the data in the background adding to your data charges. The best practice is to RIGHT CLICK anywhere inside the video and choose 'Stop download'. This will immediately stop buffering the rest of the video.