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iTunes movie/video error FAQ: As I continue to explore the process of creating digital movie files I can play on my iPhone (or iPod), I keep running into an iTunes error message when I try to sync my movie file to my iPhone through iTunes.  Every time I try to sync my movie, iTunes gives me the following error message:

[Your movie] was not copied to the iPhone "Alvin Alexander's iPhone" because it cannot be played on this iPhone.

This iTunes movie sync error message is shown in the following figure:

Two MySQL error messages

Earlier this week I ran into a problem with a website that I tracked down to a MySQL error message that looked like this:

can't create/write to file /var/lib/mysql/foo.bar.baz
Errcode: 23

(The actual file referenced in that error message doesn't matter, as it will be different on most systems, but the "can't create/write to file" is important.) After digging through my log files even more, I also found this error message related to MySQL:

Problem: In a Java program, you want to determine whether a String contains a pattern, you want your search to be case-insensitive, and you want to use String matches method than use the Pattern and Matcher classes.

I just ran into a crazy error related to Tomcat and DBCP connection pooling. The error message I got after trying to use the Tomcat DBCP connection pooling in my Java web application was:

I was installing PHP on a CentOS (Linux) server yesterday (using the configure script), and ran into an error related to my libxml2 installation. Here's the complete error message that shows up at the end of the configure script output: