Internet explorer support for file URIs

The URI file://bender-xp/C$/ works in an anchor tag in IE8 to open the \\bender-xp\C$ file share on my network. In this case bender-xp was the name of my local machine but it works for remote file shares too (I tested it to a Samba share on another box).

Unfortunately my version of Firefox (version 9.0.1) doesn’t support this.

File upload error – unable to create a temporary file in Unknown on line 0

I was working with phpMyAdmin and I got the following error:

 File upload error - unable to create a temporary file in Unknown on line 0

The problem was that the upload_tmp_dir setting in my php.ini file was specified twice. Once up the top of the file where I was editing it, and then later in the file where I didn’t see it. So the setting I wanted wasn’t being applied. If you get this error double check you’ve only got one setting for upload_tmp_dir.