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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/11/23
If you have a MYSHARE share on SERVER having an IPv6 of 2001:db8:85a3:8d3:1319:8a2e:370:7348, but your WINS fails, then you can use it in an UNC path like this:
\\2001-db8-85a3-8d3-1319-8a2e-370-7348.ipv6-literal.net\MYSHARE
Literal IPv6 addresses in UNC path names
In Microsoft Windows operating systems, IPv4 addresses are valid location identifiers in Uniform Naming Convention (UNC) path names. However, the colon is an illegal character in a UNC path name. Thus, the use of IPv6 addresses is also illegal in UNC names. For this reason, Microsoft implemented a transcription algorithm to represent an IPv6 address in form of a domain name that can be used in UNC paths. For this purpose, Microsoft registered and reserved the second-level domain ipv6-literal.net on the Internet. IPv6 addresses are transcribed as a hostname or subdomain name within this name space, in the following fashion:
2001:db8:85a3:8d3:1319:8a2e:370:7348
is written as
2001-db8-85a3-8d3-1319-8a2e-370-7348.ipv6-literal.net
This notation is automatically resolved by Microsoft software without any queries to DNS name servers. If the IPv6 address contains a zone index, it is appended to the address portion after an ‘s’ character:
fe80--1s4.ipv6-literal.net
–jeroen
via: IPv6 address – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/11/09
Thanks to Matthijs ter Woord who pointed me to these.
They require a single Intel®, Nvidia®, or AMD® primary WDDM driver. That driver does the actual rendering, the USB device then gets the rendered parts over USB to the monitor.
The really cool thing is: they work on a PC with Windows XP and higher, and on Mac with OS X Tiger or better.
The chipsets are based on DisplayLink technology; they have their own USB devices as well.
USB2.0 to DVI-I Graphics
CSV-2000D – SenseVision USB Graphics – USB2.0 to DVI-I
USB2.0 to DVI-I graphics devices let you easily add an additional monitor to your notebook PC, desktop and MacBook®. The Club 3D SenseVision USB2.0 to DVI-I Graphics allows you to extend your desktop display beyond 1080p HD resolution displays. … View Details
USB2.0 to HDMI Graphics
CSV-2000H – SenseVision USB Graphics – USB2.0 to HDMI
USB2.0 to HDMI graphics devices let you easily add an additional monitor to your notebook PC, desktop and MacBook®. The Club 3D SenseVision USB2.0 to HDMI Graphics allows you to extend your desktop display beyond 1080p HD resolution displays. … View Details
–jeroen
via: USB Graphics – Graphic solutions GeForce & Radeon.
Posted in Apple, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, MacBook, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/29
When managing entities in more than one Active Directory, it is very nice to know that the Active Directory Manager Snap-in supports command line parameters select the domain (and if you want the domain controller).
(Further tweaking needs to be done using scripts like this one)
From the HOW TO: Change the Default Selection in the Active Directory Manager Snap-in. documentation:
Specify the Domain Controller Before Starting the Snap-in
To specify the domain controller to be used before starting the Active Directory Users and Computers snap-in, use the “/SERVER=” switch as a parameter to the MMC saved console (.msc) file. In the process of connecting to the server, the domain of which the controller is a member is automatically detected. For example, either from a command prompt or in the Open box, type:
dsa.msc /server=dc-01.domain.com
Specify the Domain Before Starting the Snap-in
To specify the domain to be used before starting the snap-in, use the “/DOMAIN=” switch as a parameter to the MMC saved console (.msc) file. A domain controller for the domain specified is located automatically and used as the default domain controller. For example, either from a command prompt or in the Open box, type:
dsa.msc /domain=childdomain.domain.com
–jeroen
via: HOW TO: Change the Default Selection in the Active Directory Manager Snap-in.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/26
Some links I need to research to find a duplicate file finder that fits my needs:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/22
LPG is Liquefied Petroleum Gas. CNG is Compressed Natural Gas. Both are good fuels for cars. I favour LPG, for two reasons. First, it often can be obtained as a rest-product of cracking crude oil, second it has a much higher energy density than CNG.
For each country, you should
- download the POI files (preferably in the OV2 format)
- download the icon bitmap file
- make sure the name portion of the files are the same
- copy those files to your device using the something like the MyPOI manager or the instructions at TomTom POI updates in TomTom forum – GPS POI.
Germany, Austria & Switzerland
Note: In Switzerland, there are relatively few LPG stations, but many CNG stations.
Download section for getting LPG and CNG stations in Germany, Switzerland and Austria: LPG & CNG Tankstellen (download).
For TomTom devices, just download the LPG or CNG files for POI and Icon:
Italy and other countries
Start your downloads at LPG Autogas in Italy – Petrol GPS POI data directory for TomTom, Garmin, Navman, SmartPhones and other GPS devices. – GPS POI Data.
Then press the Download POI File button to download the OV2 and BMP file.
–jeroen
Posted in Power User, Windows | Tagged: autogas, bmp file, cng stations, compressed natural gas, energy density, forum gps, gadgets, germany austria, germany switzerland, gps devices, liquefied petroleum gas, technology, transportation | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/15
I needed to make backups of a couple of maintenance USB drives.
It turned out to be pretty easy: How To Backup Bootable USB Drive describes how to do that based on a small USB Image Tool developed in .NET.
One of the things you can do with this is backup bootable Windows installation media.
Note it is a simple tool, so it backups only same size to same size. For more advanced copy purposes, use something like the professional tools from Acronis.
–jeroen
Posted in .NET, Development, Hardware Interfacing, Power User, Software Development, USB, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/12
psexec to the rescue again:
psexec \\%rsys% -u DOMAIN\%user% mmc.exe lusrmgr.msc
note: both the current and remote computer must be trusting the AD belonging to DOMAIN, otherwise you will get an access denied message.
–jeroen
via: LUSRMGR von Remote aufrufen – Windows – Administrator.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/08
Most console applications return 0 (zero) as success.
But sometimes there are multiple success result codes, and the success depends on what you want to do with them.
One example is RoboCopy.
The zero result code means that nothing happened: no error occurred and nothing was copied, because there was no need to.
But for most RoboCopy scenario’s result code 1 (one) is also success. It means that no error occurred and that one ore more files were copied.
In fact the RoboCopy result codes form a bitmap explained on ss64.com.
Most RoboCopy use cases will have [0,1] as the set off success result codes.
–jeroen
via: Robocopy Exit Codes.
Posted in Batch-Files, Development, Power User, RoboCopy, Scripting, Software Development, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP | 3 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/06
While fooling around with Microsoft Surface, you are astonished with the number of fingers it supports: 10 is no problem on the Samsung SUR40 which can also do full HD resolution (more specs here).
Not so with the standard Windows 7 touch support: that has only 2.
As I want to increase that to better mimic the development environment to the actual environment a few notes:
–jeroen
Posted in .NET, Development, Microsoft Surface, Microsoft Surface on Windows 7, Software Development, Windows 7, Windows 8 | Tagged: 3m, computing hardware, development environment, fingers, gadgets, hd, microsoft, microsoft surface, pc hardware, real world, samsung, stack overflow, technology | 1 Comment »
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