Posted by jpluimers on 2010/04/03
I’m not using Telnet often, but it is a handy feature.
Up until Windows XP, it was installed by default.
From Windows Vista on, it isn’t.
But: it is easy to install, the page Telnet for Windows Vista & Windows 7 – Leateds.com tells you how.
And: it will install on Windows 7, even if you don’t have the original Windows 7 installation media inserted/attached!
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2010/04/02
For those loving both nostalgia and PF: the whole Dark Side of the Moon album, but now rendered in 8-bit NES sound by Sakanakao.
This is the first track, other tracks are linked from there.
Source: The Lounge – CodeProject.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2010/03/27
Somehow, the accelerator “feature” in IE 8 always gets in the way when selecting text: as soon as the accelerator button becomes visible, I often cannot select more text, especially when running on RDP sessions.
Disabling it turned out to be easy: Completely disable accelerators feature in IE 8.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2010/03/26
It seems yesterday and today somebody tried to use the non-existing labourable account on my BeSharp.net domain to perform a SPAM run.
For any recipients: Sorry for that, but there is not much I can do about it.
My BeSharp.net inbox was full of administrative “return to sender” mails.
I wonder: what do you do with those false “return to sender” mails?
Normally I delete them, because I hardly get any really follow up, and they interfere with my normal mail processing.
But: if a follow up occurs, it usually is a lot later than the SPAM run, and then it is easy to have those “return to sender” mails as a reference.
So: what do you do?
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2010/03/17
Sometimes you wish there was some universal translation table to get the English error messages.
Just got this at a client:
Project Foo.exe raised exception class EOleException with message ‘De bewerking moet worden uitgevoerd op een query die kan worden bijgewerkt‘.
The English translation of the error message is “Operation must use an updateable query” (which is also wrong: the query is indeed updateable).
But not knowing that English translation beforehand, how do you find out the cause?
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Posted by jpluimers on 2010/03/16
I’m always fighting with numbering and formatting headings in Word. Legal documents, manuals, etc, all benefit when the headings are numbered and formatted right.
In Word, I love styles, so the best thing to get this right is to modify the styles of your headings.
Shauna Kelley wrote a great reference titled Microsoft Word Help FAQ. How to create heading numbering and outline numbering in Microsoft Word on this topic.
No need to add anything to that :-)
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2010/03/15
In some environments having the “http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc773013(WS.10).aspx” service (W32Time) running is not desirable.
Circumstances where you might want to disable W32Time include:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2010/03/09
Starting 20100713, these products are no longer supported by Microsoft:
For XP: Upgrade to SP3.
For Vista: Upgrade to SP1 or SP2.
More details: End of Support for Windows 2000, Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista RTM – Windows Vista Team Blog – The Windows Blog.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2010/03/09
When I downloaded TomTom HOME 2 from their site, this was the actual link that got downloaded:
This should be version 2.7.3.1894, and when installed, it calls itself “TomTom HOME 2” (while on the site it is advertised as “TomTom HOME”).
After installation, TomTom HOME 2 did not recognize my HTC x7500 PDA.
The reason was that this PDA still had TomTom Navigator 6 on it in ste x7500.
The TomTom download site has TomTom HOME in large print, which in fact is version 2.
In small print, the site tells you that in order to connect to TomTom Navigator 6 on your device, you need TomTom Home 1.6, which then downloads this file:
http://download.tomtom.com/sweet/application/latest/TomTomHOMEwinlatest.exe
This in fact is version 1.5.106.0 (not 1.6!), which on Windows XP used to recognized my HTC x7500 fine.
Well, version 1.5.106.0 installes fine on Windows 7 x64 (which I did not expect it to, since version 1.5.106.0 is from 2007).
Bad thing: at first on Windows 7, it does not recognize my HTC x7500 as a valid TomTom 6 device.
Goog thing: fiddling with the settings on my HTC x7500 (disable the USB-to-PC “advanced network functionality” now causes the x7500 to be recognized in the Windows device manager as “HTC USB Sync” in stead of “Microsoft Windows Mobile Remote Adapter”).
TomTom HOME version 1.5.106.0 understands “HTC USB Sync” and recognizes the x7500 as “HTC-ATHENA” (which is an alias for the x7500), so I’m back in business.
It gets even more odd: this 1.5.106.0 version also started to ask me if I wanted to install the newest version, then suggested to upgrade to the above mentioned version 2.7.3.1894.
This is odd, as version 2.7.3.1894 was already is installed, and is of no use because it does not support the HTC x7500 either.
Even worse: when you run the setup of 2.7.3.1894 again, it suggests to remove the 1.5.106.0.
Go figure…
Then I thought: if this fiddling works for TomTom HOME version 1.5.106.0, lets try version 2.7.3.1894 again.
Surprise: with the disabled the USB-to-PC “advanced networkfunctionality” on the x7500, TomTom HOME version 2.7.3.1894 works too!
It gets even stranger:
TomTom HOME version 1.5.106.0 recognizes free map updates that I should downloads.
TomTom HOME version 2.7.3.1894 suggests I buy new maps.
–jeroen
PS: When I downloaded TomTom HOME 2 from the first download URL above, upon installation, I actually got 2.6.3.1609, which – immediately after installing – asked me if I wanted to upgrade to 2.7.3.1894 (currently the actual latest), which in fact can be downloaded here:
http://download.tomtom.com/sweet/application/releases/v2_7_3_1894_win.exe
So, if that happens to you as well, now you know the direct download path to the currently latest version.
Strange :-)
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Posted by jpluimers on 2010/03/08
Astronaut Soichi Noguchi posts a lot of pictures on Twitter he took at the ISS.
A few of them are from Amsterdam:
Nice!
–jeroen
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