Prasanth's blog

Disclaimer: This is not a post from an Economic or Financial expert. I am just scribbling my view on something that I feel may happen . We are dependent on the price of Crude Oil and the US Dollars. The price of our day to day items depends on this. Recently when the Dollar appreciated, the price of Crude Oil went down. The OPEC announced they will reduce the output of Crude Oil soon.  Okay, everyone wants money. Fine. So what does that mean.  Let us think that the price of Crude Oil is not going to appreciate (fracking and utilizing other green techs) and the Dollar also stays same. Then the OPEC reduce the output to increase the price, but the prices does not change.  They OPEC need money for their day to day affairs as us. When they reduce the output their profit will decline. They cannot go on for ever with reducing the output to appreciate the price.  They will have to increase the supply, which will reduce the price further. So they need to produc...

We can create a calendar file in iCalendar format and this file can be used by compatible applications like Google Calendar, MS Outlook and Apple devices for synchronizing the events automatically. The process is simple. We need to create the calendar file (with extension .ics) in a publicly accessible URL and add the URL to the applications. The applications will check the URL at preset intervals and update the events as per the .ics file. Google Calendar have their own interval settings, so the event synchronization may be a bit delayed.

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 ".