Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Monday, September 24, 2012
Alternative to the meta key
Microsoft Security Essentials
Friday, June 15, 2012
Enable telnet client in Windows 7
- Click Start, and then click Control Panel.
- On the Control Panel Home page, click Programs.
- In the Programs and Features section, click Turn Windows features on or off. If the User Account Control dialog box appears, confirm that the action it displays is what you want, and then click Continue.
- In the Windows Features list, select Telnet Client, and then click OK
Friday, June 8, 2012
VirtualBox NIC Compatible with Server 2012 RC?
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Remove editing restrictions in Word 2010 with 7zip
- Make a copy of the original document and rename it to have the .zip extension.
- Extract .zip file and in the contents find word\settings.xml
- Edit settings.xml to remove the XML element beginning with w:documentprotection. Remove everything including < and >
- Copy the word directory to the same location as your document.zip file.
- Rename your file to word.zip
- Right click word directory and choose 7zip -> Add to "word.zip"
- Rename word.zip to yourformname.docx
- Do a little dance and be happy that this episode of your life is now over.
That's all there is to it: easy as pi!
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Where does Virtualbox store VMs in Windows XP?
C:\Documents and Settings\username\Virtualbox VMs\
I'm sure this is configurable, but this appears to be the default directory under an XP host. Happy virtualizing!
Monday, April 30, 2012
Unauthorized Modifications
Friday, April 27, 2012
Boogie Board RIP Initial Impressions
Hi Josh,
Sorry to hear you are having trouble with your current RIP, I believe that it may in fact be a stylus issue. Can you send me your address and I will have a replacement stylus sent at no charge?
Thank you!
Amber Osborne Customer Service Representative Improv Electronics a Kent Displays Company 343 Portage Blvd., Kent, OH 44240 Phone: 330-673-8784 Ext. 163
Now that's what I call GREAT customer service! Thanks Amber!
I take a lot of notes at work. I've got stacks of notebooks with details covering just about everything I do. Most of those notes are totally unimportant but once in a while I have to dig through these stacks of notebooks (which are in no particular order) to find that one invaluable piece of information. Then along came the Boogie Board a writing tablet with a novel extremely low power LCD display whose slogan "Say goodbye to paper!" sounded almost too good to be true.
I bought one of the original versions from Staples and found the writing experience to be acceptable, but the original had no option to save any data so it was more like a digital chalkboard than notebook. After persistent requests the manufacturer Improv Electronics came out with a new and improved version called the Boogie Board RIP (which stands for Record. Image. Preserve). This catch here is that they weren't able to directly capture the image from their novel LCD design, but rather overlaid the LCD with a digitizer like those found in Wacom graphics tablets.
The biggest downside to this approach is that the stylus is no longer any pointy device but now must be the kind designed for this style of digitizer. I haven't tested it but I suspect any Wacom or aftermarket stylus designed for this type of device should work with the BBRIP. Actually to be fair any someone pointy object will make an image appear on the tablet, but won't activate the digitizer thus your image can't be saved. Of course you won't know that this has happened until you've connected your BB to the computer via USB to sync the PDF files.
The other major problem I've had is that the digitizer seems to be far less sensitive than the display. A note which is perfectly legible on the device only captures about half of my pen strokes! This is, in fact, completely unacceptable as it makes this device no more useful than it's OG cousin which cost a third of the price. A ray of hope, however, is that this issue could be related to manufacturing artifacts that will work themselves out over time. I'm currently overwriting the screen completely in an attempt to work out these kinks achieve adequate performance.
Another cool feature of the device is called Virtual Desktop Companion. This nifty piece of software available as a free download from the support section of Improv's site creates a mirror image of the tablet display on your computer screen which updates in real time. Draw on the BB, see it on the screen at which point you can save or email directly. Though the website says "Compatible with Windows OS" my testing on two different XP SP3 machines indicates it is in fact NOT compatible with XP. It works well in 7-pro x64. I haven't tested Vista.
The Improv website also has a section for developers so hopefully we'll see some additional drivers for the digitizer in this device so that it could be used as a full fledged input tablet. If that ability were introduced this would be a far more useful and feature rich version of a bamboo type tablet!
So, I just opened the box yesterday and those are my initial impressions. I'll write up another review after spending some time with it (unless it gets returned first.
Monday, April 9, 2012
Stop the presses: Wingdings has a use!
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Create .iso in Windows with free software
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Check mailbox size and usage in OWA
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
General Failure. The parameter is incorrect.
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Great Android App: AdAway
Monday, March 5, 2012
Office chair
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
View and convert Visual Foxpro .fpt files
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Netgear GS108v2: The Immortal Switch
Pro am tip of the day
If you walk in to the workplace someone asks you "Are you here to fix the internet?" the correct answer is simply "Yes".
Avería: The average font
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Writing a .iso to a USB drive in Linux
After failing in my first attempt I decided to try some advice I found here: simply umount /dev/sdc1 (or whatever) then cat diskimage.iso > /dev/sdc1. While this did appear to create a good disk, I was unable to boot it at all.
Then after reading the bootable USB creation instructions on the Ubuntu page I decided to try the Mac methodology since I've used dd for this purpose before and I see no reason why this wouldn't work on Linux. Strangely though, it did not.
The eventual solution I found was to rename the .iso to .img and use usb-imagewriter from the ubuntu repositories. *shrugs*
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Laptop S-video in Black & White
One of my media computers is connected to one of our TVs via s-video -> RCA. This has proven to be a right fine solution and even though it's a rather old machine (P4, 512Mb RAM) it's proven sufficiently powerful to play 720p content over the network. Unfortunately for some reason outside my control it recently began only displaying video in black and white on the s-video port. I did some preliminary research on Google and found all kinds of weird and incorrect answers.
In the end it turns out the video output had been set for PAL color instead of NTSC. The actual fix for this will vary by graphics chipset so I won't go into much detail here, but just in case someone else is wondering why their s-video output switches to black and white: check the color encoding!
Friday, January 20, 2012
HTML5 Benchmarks
This last one in the list is particularly interesting as it not only provides a direct comparison of these different animation techniques but also has configurable CGI parameters to change many of the variables involved. Fun!
Thursday, January 19, 2012
SVG in Android Browser
I learned to my disappointment today that my favorite android browser Dolphin HD doesn't support Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). Luckily Firefox does! I'm currently giving the beta version a try for checking the bandwidth usage monitor in DD-WRT, but it seems quite quick for general browsing as well.
Setting up SPAN for packet sniffing on a Cisco Catalyst
1) enable
2) configure terminal
3) no monitor session all
4) monitor session 1 source interface fastEthernet0/1 both
5) monitor session 1 destination interface fast/Ethernet0/10
6) end
Command 3 clears any existing SPAN sessions. You can change the port number at the end of command 4 to the port of the uplink on the switch to monitor all traffic. Alternately you can specify a range of ports. Change the port number at the end of command 5 to the port on which you intend to set up your sniffer. In order to turn the SPAN off then rerun the first three commands. That's basically all there is to it. Now plug in a laptop to the monitor port and run dumpcap on the ethernet interface.
Friday, January 6, 2012
CPU & RAM Info in Linux
Thursday, January 5, 2012
jQuery quickSearch Dynamic Row Count
Results: <p id="count"></p>
And the addition of this argument to the quickSearch function directly after the "loader:" argument:
onAfter: function() {
document.getElementById("count").innerHTML=($('tr:visible').length-1);
}
Now, if one's quickSearch use were doing something other than simply setting rows to hidden then this example may not work exactly as shown, but this may be useful for other applications as well.
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Android FOSS Market
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Pro-Am Tip of the Day
Always carry a spare Internet.