cPanel Password SyncingPosted 4 days ago
Turns out that some passwords don't sync properly between services:
Tip of the day: use only alphanumeric characters for cPanel passwords. |
The Unclickable Flash Settings DialogPosted 6 days ago
However, there's a bug in Flash Player which appears to go back to at least version 10 and which Adobe seems not to have fixed, even though the bug is quite widespread: the Adobe Flash Player Settings dialog which sometimes appears is unclickable. (This issue plagues not only OS X, but also Windows and Linux.) The dialog generally appears whenever Flash wants to gain access to your system in some manner -- for example, when the site you are visiting wants to use your camera or microphone or store data in local storage. Since the dialog is unclickable, it obscurs at least a portion of the Flash object and, for me, makes watching some videos impossible. The workarounds often mentioned, which involve managing your Flash Player global settings (either using the Local Settings Manager for Flash 10.3+ or the Online Settings Manager), just aren't satisfactory. There is a better option which may just fix the problem completely for you (it did for me):
Thanks to Katie on the Adobe Forums for posting the answer. |
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While making some server changes and resetting some passwords (making them more secure), I ran across an issue where I couldn't log into phpMyAdmin -- even though I was already logged into cPanel. I kept being asked to log in (instead of being logged in automatically) and my cPanel credentials wouldn't work; instead, I was forced to use a database user and password, which only gave me access to a subset of my databases.
Much as I despise Flash for its crushing memory requirements and its tendency to crash any system I have, I do need to have Flash Player installed to view videos at various times. Usually that's not a problem, since I also use
A big shout out to J. Daniel Smith, who arranged
The Finder has an Always open folders in a new window preference that, as the option suggests, ensures that opening a folder spawns a new window. You might think that disabling this setting would ensure that all folders are opened in the parent window; that is, alas, not the case.
