Windows 7, Windowvs Live Messenger Stopped working

30. July 2010

If you cannot even start Messenger without getting the "Stopped working" message box try to reset the settings in regedit:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MSNMessenger

Delete the value of the keys:

  • AppCompatCanary
  • AppSettings

This should make messenger reset the values and start up normally.

Windows 7

Recover lost Windows password

8. July 2010

I found this tool at a Thinkpad wiki: Windows Password unlocker: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Maintenance#Cleaning_the_Interior

Tools

Windows 7 and Lenovo T60

20. April 2010

To avoid Monitor problems use the following driver:

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-62923

To speed up the different .Net application from Lenovo the online verification can be turned of for the individual applications:

By saving this as the application .config

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<?configuration>
<?runtime>
<?generatePublisherEvidence enabled="false"/>
<?/runtime>
<?/configuration>

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-73758

Windows 7

Hosting iTunes as a Windows Service

14. April 2010

To host iTunes as a Windows Service under a User Account and not a system account this small program can be sued:

http://www.johncleary.net/2009/11/download-jtunes-here/

It enables you to install the service start/stop it and so it can run without a concrete user is logged in and have the program running. (Note: The service must be stopped to allow the GUI to be used, since only one instance of iTunes is allowed).

Tools

Extract files from a .msi install file

14. April 2010

To extract files from a .msi file at the command line, type:

msiexec /a PathToMSIFile /qb TARGETDIR=DirectoryToExtractTo

For example, to extract files from f:\zenworks\zfdagent.msi into c:\zfd701 you would type:

msiexec /a f:\zenworks\zfdagent.msi /qb TARGETDIR=c:\zfd701

The destination directory does not need to exist prior to running this command.

Source 

Tools

Syntax highlighting for VDM

7. February 2010

Here are language files for VDM:

  • VDM-SL
  • VDM-PP
  • VDM-RT

vdm.lang (9.94 kb)

vdmpp.lang (10.15 kb)

vdmrt.lang (10.25 kb)

vdmsl.lang (9.95 kb)

vpp.lang (10.14 kb)

Tools, Ubuntu

DebugView

5. February 2010

DebugView is an application to monitor debug output.

From Microsoft TechNet:

DebugView is an application that lets you monitor debug output on your local system, or any computer on the network that you can reach via TCP/IP. It is capable of displaying both kernel-mode and Win32 debug output, so you don't need a debugger to catch the debug output your applications or device drivers generate, nor do you need to modify your applications or drivers to use non-standard debug output APIs.

Link

Windows Vista, Tools, C#

Welcome to BlogEngine.NET 1.6.0

24. January 2010

If you see this post it means that BlogEngine.NET 1.6.0 is running and the hard part of creating your own blog is done. There is only a few things left to do.

Write Permissions

To be able to log in to the blog and writing posts, you need to enable write permissions on the App_Data folder. If you’re blog is hosted at a hosting provider, you can either log into your account’s admin page or call the support. You need write permissions on the App_Data folder because all posts, comments, and blog attachments are saved as XML files and placed in the App_Data folder. 

If you wish to use a database to to store your blog data, we still encourage you to enable this write access for an images you may wish to store for your blog posts.  If you are interested in using Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, VistaDB, or other databases, please see the BlogEngine wiki to get started.

Security

When you've got write permissions to the App_Data folder, you need to change the username and password. Find the sign-in link located either at the bottom or top of the page depending on your current theme and click it. Now enter "admin" in both the username and password fields and click the button. You will now see an admin menu appear. It has a link to the "Users" admin page. From there you can change the username and password.  Passwords are hashed by default so if you lose your password, please see the BlogEngine wiki for information on recovery.

Configuration and Profile

Now that you have your blog secured, take a look through the settings and give your new blog a title.  BlogEngine.NET 1.4 is set up to take full advantage of of many semantic formats and technologies such as FOAF, SIOC and APML. It means that the content stored in your BlogEngine.NET installation will be fully portable and auto-discoverable.  Be sure to fill in your author profile to take better advantage of this.

Themes and Widgets

One last thing to consider is customizing the look of your blog.  We have a few themes available right out of the box including two fully setup to use our new widget framework.  The widget framework allows drop and drag placement on your side bar as well as editing and configuration right in the widget while you are logged in.  Be sure to check out our home page for more theme choices and downloadable widgets to add to your blog.

On the web

You can find BlogEngine.NET on the official website. Here you'll find tutorials, documentation, tips and tricks and much more. The ongoing development of BlogEngine.NET can be followed at CodePlex where the daily builds will be published for anyone to download.

Good luck and happy writing.

The BlogEngine.NET team

General ,

Firefox plug-in for text encoding and decoding

8. January 2010

Here is a small Firefox plug-in which enables you to do encoding and decoding of text between different encodings.

http://leetkey.mozdev.org/index.html

Tools

Lidt sne billeder fra december 2009

4. January 2010

Ja vi fik lidt sne i løbet af december 2009. Her er lidt aften billeder som det så ud 22. December om aftenen.

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Ja lidt sne i forhaven kan man vel godt kalde det.

driveway

Og lidt sne i indkørslen er der da os.

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Men der er dog rydet så busserne kan køre.

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