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Windows 7 and Lenovo T60

Posted on April 20, 2010 by

Kenneth Posted in Windows 7 — No Comments ↓

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

Hosting iTunes as a Windows Service

Posted on April 14, 2010 by

Kenneth Posted in Tools — No Comments ↓

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).

Extract files from a .msi install file

Posted on April 14, 2010 by

Kenneth Posted in Tools — No Comments ↓

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

Syntax highlighting for VDM

Posted on February 7, 2010 by

Kenneth Posted in Tools, Ubuntu — No Comments ↓

Here are language files for VDM:

VDM-SL
VDM-PP
VDM-RT

They should be placed in: share\gtksourceview-2.0\language-specs

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)

DebugView

Posted on February 5, 2010 by

Kenneth Posted in C#, Tools, Windows Vista — No Comments ↓

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

Firefox plug-in for text encoding and decoding

Posted on January 8, 2010 by

Kenneth Posted in Tools — No Comments ↓

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

Lidt sne billeder fra december 2009

Posted on January 4, 2010 by

Kenneth Posted in Personlig — No Comments ↓

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

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

Og lidt sne i indkørslen er der da os.

Men der er dog rydet så busserne kan køre.

Enable Japanese characters in Windows and Eclipse

Posted on December 17, 2009 by

Kenneth Posted in Eclipse, Windows Vista — No Comments ↓

To enable the Japanese characters (Shift-JIS) the operation system needs to install the fonts.

This is how to do it in Windows Xp:

Install the fonts. This is done in the Regional Options under languages
Select the Install files for East Asian languages. The windows cd is needed.
After this a restart is needed.
In Eclipse select properties of the file which contains Japanese characters and select Test file encoding.
Chose: UTF-8 and click ok.
Now you can open the file with any editor in Eclipse and it should show the file correctly.