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If you’re using Sublime Text on Windows to edit files on a network drive powered by Samba, and then run a Haskell program on the system running Samba (not the machine running Sublime Text), you might see:

openBinaryFile: resource exhausted (Resource temporarily unavailable)

or

openFile: resource exhausted (Resource temporarily unavailable)

This problem is caused by Samba grabbing oplocks (opportunistic locks) on the files being edited. Sublime Text makes system calls that result in the oplocks being grabbed, while most other editors (including Wordpad) do not. You can work around the problem by adding oplocks = no in the configuration for your share in smb.conf. Using Samba has some reading on oplocks.

If you use Blizzard Downloader, you might see:

“There was a problem authenticating your download. Please go to http://www.blizzard.com/account to start a new download”

One of the reasons you might see this is this (see others): when you download the downloader, Blizzard embeds your IP address into the executable, and only lets you start the download from the same IP. This is terrible software design, and completely unnecessary to stop bandwidth leeches: just embed a unique key into the executable, and ignore the IP address.

You can subscribe to any Google Group with your non-gmail email. If you try to subscribe through the web interface, you’re typically forced to use a gmail account. The solution is quite simple, but few people know about it.

For a Google Groups group, send an email to groupname+subscribe@googlegroups.com.

For a Google Apps group, send an email to groupname+subscribe@domain, for example, chromium-dev+subscribe@chromium.org.

You’ll receive a reply if you’ve successfully subscribed. Note: when I did this, my first email to a +subscribe@ address was delayed by ~10 minutes.

Reference: How do I subscribe to a group?