PosteRazorMake your own poster!
April 7th, 2012 Alex Posted in diy, windows Comments Off
PosteRazorMake your own poster!
March 18th, 2012 Alex Posted in internet, security, windows Comments Off
c:\netsh firewall set logging droppedpackets = enable
Although the log file doesn’t include the name of the program that is trying to make an outbound connection, the log file can then be found at: %systemroot%\system32\LogFiles\Firewall\pfirewall.log
via Enabling Windows firewall "dropped packets" log – Microsoft Answers.
September 18th, 2011 Alex Posted in windows Comments Off
August 20th, 2011 Alex Posted in electronics, windows Comments Off
| Brand | Asus | Asus | Viewsonic | Viewsonic | MSI | Acer |
| Model | Eee Slate EP121 1A011M | Eee Slate EP121 1A010M | ViewPad 10 VPAD10 AHUS_05 | ViewPad 10 VPAD10 APUS_05 | Windpad 110W 014US | Iconia Tab W500 BZ467 |
| Screen | 12.1” | 12.1” | 10.1” | 10.1” | 10.0” | 10.1” |
| CPU | Intel i5-470UM | Intel i5-470UM | Intel Pine Trail N455 1.66GHz | Intel Pine Trail N455 1.66GHz | AMD Z-Series Z-01(1.0GHz) | AMD Dual-Core C-50(1.0GHz) |
| RAM | 2Gb | 4Gb | 2Gb | 2Gb | 4Gb | 2Gb |
| Storage | 32Gb SSD | 64Gb SSD | 16Gb SSD | 32Gb SSD | 32Gb SSD | 32Gb SSD |
| Resolution | 1280×800 | 1280×800 | 1024×600 | 1024×600 | 1280×800 | 1280×800 |
| USB | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Sensor | G-Sensor | G-Sensor | GPS | |||
| Video Out | Mini-HDMI | Mini-HDMI | VGA | VGA | Mini-HDMI | HDMI |
| Weight (lb) net/gross | 2.56 | 2.56 | 1.93/3.75 | 1.93/3.75 | 3.3 | 2.14 |
| Size (Inches) | 12.28 x 8.16 x 0.67 | 12.28 x 8.16 x 0.67 | 10.8 x 6.7 x 0.57 | 10.8 x 6.7 x 0.57 | 10.66 x 7.20 x 0.61 | 10.83 x 7.48 x 0.63 |
| Rated Charge | 4 hours | 4 hours | 4 hours | 4 hours | 4-6 hours | |
| Card Reader | SD, MMC | SD, MMC | SD | SD | SD | SD, MMC |
| Video Card | Intel HD | Intel HD | AMD Radeon HD 6250 | AMD Radeon HD 6250 | ||
| Bluetooth | V3.0 | V3.0 | V2.1 | V2.1 | V3.0 +HDR | V3.0 +HS |
| Wifi | BGN | BGN | BGN | BGN | BGN | BGN |
| Webcam | 2MP | 2MP | 1.3MP | 1.3MP | 2x 1.3MP | 2x 1.3MP |
| OS | Win7 Home Premium | Win7 Home Premium | Win7 Home Premium + Android 1.6 | Win7 Pro + Android 1.6 | Win7 Home Premium | Win7 Home Premium |
| Link | Amazon | Amazon | Amazon | Amazon | Amazon | Amazon |
| Models not yet release: Viliv X70, Lenovo IdeaPad P1 | ||||||
February 9th, 2011 Alex Posted in windows Comments Off
Classic application to disable autoruns and more: HijackThis.
Another option would be Autoruns from Sysinternals by Microsoft: Autoruns
February 9th, 2011 Alex Posted in windows Comments Off
Windows: Uninstall an Application from the Command Line
Contributor Icon Contributed by shamanstears Date Icon July 23, 2008
Tag Icon Tagged: Windows
By using the Windows Instrumentation command-line interface (WMIC), you can easily uninstall an application without having to use the GUI. Once you become familiar with the steps, it will be much faster than having to access the Add/Remove Programs applet in the Control Panel. This Tech-Recipe applies to Windows XP Professional, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008.
1. Open a command prompt and input WMIC
wmic
2. You will see a prompt that looks like this:
wmic:root\cli>
3. At the new prompt, execute the following command:
product get name
This will generate a list of installed applications.
4. At the prompt, execute the following command:
product where name="" call uninstall
where application name is the name of the program you wish to uninstall (use the exact name provided by the previously generated list).
For example, if I were wanting to uninstall Adobe Reader 9, my command would look like this:
product where name="Adobe Reader 9" call uninstall
5. When prompted, input y to confirm that you wish to uninstall the application and press Return.
via Windows: Uninstall an Application from the Command Line | Windows | Tech-Recipes.
September 5th, 2010 Alex Posted in free, internet, windows Comments Off
Spiceworks: complete network management software, helpdesk, PC inventory tools & IT reporting solution (for free).
July 1st, 2010 Alex Posted in excel, perl, programming, windows Comments Off
If you want Excel to keep a field’s leading zeros when opening a CSV file using Excel, you can change it to =”value”.
For example, if you have a row with 4 values that looks like this:
test,00016102,test,test
Just change it to:
test,="00016102",test,test
February 8th, 2010 Alex Posted in linux, windows Comments Off
To avoid getting the error “Your operating system does not meet system requirements”, I had to use User Agent Switcher to download the spreadsheet at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/TC300022771033.aspx for electric meter logging for energy efficiency. Then I used cabextract to extract the .cab file and used Open Office to view the 30002277.xltx file. Here it is saved using Open Office’s ODS format: electricity_tracking.
July 20th, 2009 Alex Posted in linux, programming, windows Comments Off
I was getting this error:
[Mon Jul 20 12:32:05 2009] [error] [client 192.168.241.233] Premature end of script headers: elite_inventory.pl
[Mon Jul 20 12:32:05 2009] [error] [client 192.168.241.233] DBI connect('my_database','my_user',...) failed: [INTERSOLV][ODBC Informix driver][Informix]Unable to load locale categories. (SQL-HY000) at C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/htdocs/script.pl line 37
The fix involved modifying Apache’s environment variables using SetEnv in httpd.conf:
SetEnv INFORMIXDIR "C:/informix32"
SetEnv INFORMIXSERVER "isaac_net"
SetEnv DELIMIDENT n
SetEnv DBANSIWARN n
SetEnv CLIENT_LOCAL "en_US.CP1252"
SetEnv DB_LOCAL "en_US.CP1252"
This is because even if the variables are set in the registries in Windows (they are environment variables in Linux), the web server doesn’t use them.
Reference #1 and Reference #2.
You might need to use a different locale under Linux or Unix.
February 18th, 2009 Alex Posted in productivity, windows Comments Off
If you need to select the whole data region (it might included some empty cells) in Excel without selecting all cells (<CTRL>+<A>), click on any cell inside that group and then type: <CTRL>+<SHIFT>+<8>. It is very useful for large data sets.
You should then get something like this:

Try http://www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/groups/public/documents/publicwebsite/public_rnib003503.hcsp for more keyboard shortcuts.
December 6th, 2008 Alex Posted in electronics, hardware, linux, windows Comments Off
GLOBALSAT BU353 Waterproof USB GPS Receiver
GARMIN 010-00321-00 GPS 18 Deluxe USB SensorThe Globalsat BU-353 would be my first choice, it has very good reviews and it is waterproof.
December 5th, 2008 Alex Posted in linux, web, windows Comments Off
There are only 2 files you need to backup:
You can find those in your Firefox profile:
~/.mozilla/firefox/xxxxxxxx.default/
You can then copy those file to another computer in your Firefox profile to use them.
August 6th, 2008 Alex Posted in cad, windows Comments Off
Autocad plot pdf text as text with PDFCreator (instead of images of text):
File – Page Setup Manager – Manage Page Setups – Page Setup Manager – Modify – Printer/Plotter, PDFCreator.pc3, Properties – Graphics – True Type Text – True Type Text as Text
August 6th, 2008 Alex Posted in linux, productivity, windows Comments Off
For example, you have 2 sheets, Sheet1 and Sheet2: they both have a list of part numbers in column A and a list of prices in column B. You want to compare the prices for the same part numbers in each sheets. One way to do this is to copy the prices from Sheet1 to Sheet2 in a third column and then use conditional formatting to highlight the different prices:
Copy this formula in cell C2 of Sheet2 (and then drag it down to the cells below):
=INDEX($Sheet1.A$2:B$3001;MATCH(A2;$Sheet1.A$2:A$3001;0);2)
This formula assumes that there is a maximum of 3000 different products in Sheet1 (starting at cell A2).
Sample file:compare_four_columns.ods
July 17th, 2008 Alex Posted in linux, perl, programming, windows Comments Off
The following perl scripts index *.txt in the current folder and search for “TEST”. The first one is using Perl’s KinoSearch module and the other one is using Plucene. KinoSearch is alot faster then Plucene and also gives better results.
(right click to download)
May 28th, 2008 Alex Posted in productivity, windows Comments Off
Batch renaming made easy with Renamer
“ReNamer is a very powerful and flexible file renaming tool, which offers all the standard renaming procedures, including prefixes, suffixes, replacements, case changes, as well as removing contents of brackets, adding number sequences, changing file extensions, etc. For advanced users, there is a PascalScript rule, which let users program their very own renaming rule. Program allows you to combine multiple renaming actions as a rule set, applying each action in a logical sequence, which can be saved, loaded, and managed within the program. In addition, it has an ability to rename folders, process regular expressions, Unicode capable, and supports variety of meta tags, such as: ID3v1, ID3v2, EXIF, OLE, AVI, MD5, CRC32, and SHA1.”
May 27th, 2008 Alex Posted in hardware, linux, windows Comments Off
May 27th, 2008 Alex Posted in pdf, windows Comments Off
Sometimes, when you print to PDF using PDFCreator, you can get the following error on the last page of your PDF output: “ERROR: undefined [...] OFFENDING COMMAND:_ [...] STACK: [....]”
You can fix this problem following these instructions:
First, you must Rollback to PDFCreator 0.9.3 (unless a newer version then 0.9.5 is out).
Find the PDFCreator printer in the Printer and Faxes control panel. Right-click on it and select Properties:
Select the Advanced tab:
and select Print directly to the printer (this prevents spooling the PDF output to the disk twice). Now select the Device Settings tab:
and set Send CTRL-D After Each Job to No. Also change the Wait Timeout to 1 seconds:
Thanks to David Taft, Brent Powers and http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~henrik/GSWriter/GSWriter.html.
PS: If PDFCreator truncates, trims or cuts filenames, make sure the path is not too deep. Try copying your files to the root folder and see if it fixes the problem.
Note: I re-posted this solution with different keywords because I had a hard time finding it because it was specific to GhostScript/Redmon.
September 8th, 2007 Alex Posted in internet, windows Comments Off
First, download and install Audacity.
Then, to be able to record both the microphone input and the sound card output at the same time using Audacity, you have to un-mute the microphone playback in the Volume control.
You should now be able to hear yourself in the speakers or earphone when you talk in the microphone and also be able to record the output (person you called) and the input (you) in Audacity. Select Stereo Mix on Audacity’s Mixer Toolbar and hit Record.
March 22nd, 2007 Alex Posted in linux, security, windows Comments Off
Resources for setting up a motion-detection camera security system controlled from your PC using an analog camera.
Look for a TV Tuner card or USB capture device with composite(RCA) input if you have an analog camera. Get one which uses one of the following chipset (Should be listed in the product’s specifications):
You should be able to find something for about $20 to $30 on the internet.
I couldn’t get it to work with Zone Minder, but it does work pretty well with Motion. I got it from eBay for $15.
You could also use a webcam like the one listed below, which features infrared lights for improved night vision (and it is USB so don’t need any special hardware for composite input).
October 5th, 2006 Alex Posted in linux, slackware, windows Comments Off
So you want to move your Rails project from Windows to Slackware and your are using MySQL database?
Then you can fallow these step-by-step instructions.
Table of contents
c:mysqldump -u root -p Database_name > DB_backup.sql
or to backup all database without the data
c:mysqldump -u root -p --all-database --no-date > DB_backup.sql
Next, copy your project directory and you database backup (DB_backup.sql) to a CD
(or you can mount your windows partition from linux if they are on the same computer)
~$ sudo installpkg ruby-1.8.2-i686-1.tgz
~$ tar zxvf rubygems-0.8.10.tgz
~$ cd gems-0.8.10
~$ sudo ruby setup.rb
~$ sudo gem install rails
or to install latest beta:
~$ sudo gem install rails --source http://gems.rubyonrails.com
~$ sudo gem install mysql --with-mysql-include=/usr/include/mysql
--with-mysql-lib=/usr/lib/mysql
~$ mysqldump -u root --password='Yourpassword'
mysql> create database database_name;
mysql> exit
~$ mysqldump -u root --password='Yourpassword'
database_name > DB_backup.sql
~$ edit ~/yourproject/public/dispatch.*
and change the first line to:
#!/usr/bin/ruby
(or wherever ruby binary is)
You should be all set.