Binary Expressions

Source: TED | Talks | Johnny Lee: Wii Remote Hacks
Source: Johnny Lee - Human Computer Interactive Research

The title of this news article by Jon B. Eisenberg and its contents pretty much sums it all up without any further explanation. The out come of this legal case will be interesting.

Source: Suing George W. Bush: A bizarre and troubling tale

Background Knowledge

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By default Windows Vista will not connect to a Samba share if you are running Samba version less then version 3. The reason for this is because Samba did not add support for NTLMv2 authentication until Samba version 3.0.

Solution

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1. Go to Start Menu -> Settings -> Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Local Security Policy.
2. Local Policies -> Security Options.
3. Double click “Network Security: LAN Manager authentication level”.
4. Change the authentication to “LM and NTLM – use NTLMV2 session security if negotiated” (default authentication is “NTVLM2 responses only”).
5. Left mouse click on “Ok”.
6. Close “Local Security Policy”.

Note: The best solution is to upgrade Samba to version 3.0 or greater.

Source: Get Vista and Samba to work

Background Knowledge

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If you go to signup.Live.com you will notice that you are required to create an email address either with live.com or hotmail.com. It appears for some reason that Microsoft has hidden the ability to sign up without creating an email address or create a limited account via live.com. Here is your options and how to do it.

Note: MSN Messenger is now called Windows Live Messenger.

Note: Signing up for an account provides a Windows Live ID that allows you to use all Windows Live services such as Windows Live Messenger.

Signup Options

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Sign up using your own email address

Use an existing email address from any email provider of your choice (ie. example@somedomain.com). Using this method does not create a email address at hotmail.com or live.com.

Sign up creating a email address at hotmail.com

Creates a new email address using the MSN Hotmail.com service. This new email address will be used for your Windows Live ID.

Sign up creating a email address at live.com

Signs you up and creates an email address using live.com service.

Sign up with a limited account

A limited account allows you to use Windows Live services without having/creating an email address. The limited account creates a email address through passport.com, however the difference is you can not send or receive email messages with this email address nor can you retrieve your password if its forgotten.

Source: Windows Live ID
Source: Creating Msn Account Without A Hotmail Account

If you would like to remove the list of user accounts and force users to login using their username and password, change the following settings:

1. Go to Start Menu -> Settings -> Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Local Security Policy.
2. Local Policies -> Security Options.
3. Double click the entry titled: “Interactive Login: Do not display last user name”.
4. Place a check mark in the “Enabled” check box.
5. Click OK and close “Local Security Policy” window.

Source: Make users to login with a user name and password

Error Message

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Encapsulated PostScript image Message

Error starting Ghostscript. Make sure that Ghostscript is installed and if necessary - use the environment variable GS_PROG to tell GIMP about its location. (Failed to execute child process (No such file or directory))

Encapsulated PostScript image message

Could not interpret ‘image_example.eps’

GIMP Message

Opening ‘image_example.eps’ failed: Enscapsulated PostScript image plug-In could not open image

Screenshot - GIMP v2.4.6 on Windows Vista SP1

Solution

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Instructions for Windows Vista

Requirements: Ghostscript installed

1. If GIMP is running, close the application.
2. Press Windows-Key+Pause/Break keys (Control Panel -> System).
3. Left mouse click on “Advanced system settings” (system properties).
4. Left mouse click on “Environment Variables..”.
5. Left mouse click on “New…”.
6. Enter the following information (without double quotes) for Variable Name: “GS_PROG” and Variable value: “C:\Program Files\Utilities\gs\gs8.61\bin\gswin32.exe”. Replace the path and file name with your location and current version of Ghostscript installed.
7. Left mouse click on “Ok”.
8. Left mouse click on “Ok”.
9. Left mouse click on “Ok”.
10. Load GIMP and open EPS files.

Source: GIMP Plugin Registry: Problem opening .eps files
Source: Download Ghostscript

Here is the latest revisions made to “The Kid’s Bookmarks” web site, http://www.adamsdesk.com/kidsbookmarks/. If you have any comments or suggestions feel free to comment.

Removed Links

• Electric Track Racing
• Zoobies

Recently I had the wonderful experience of noticing that my dryer was marked up inside from crayons. Yes the crayons were melted on to the drum of the dryer and each time clothes were dried it would cover the clothes in crayon marks as well. Here is how I removed the crayon marks on the dryer drum.

1. Use Vim with bleach. Take a little bit onto a cloth and start scrubbing.
2. Rinse off with warm water using another cloth.
3. Take a towel and dry off.

Repeat this process until the entire dryer is clean.

I tried many other methods but this was the most successful for me. One I would highly not recommend doing is using WD40 to remove the crayon marks. The WD40 made more of a mess and was a hassle to remove the WD40 itself so you would not get any on your clothes.

Source: Crayola Stain Removal Tips
Source: Crayon off Clothing
Source: How To Clean Crayon Stains From A Clothes Dryer Drum

Background Knowledge

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The installation of Swish-e v2.4.5 is being installed on a system with OpenBSD v3.7 i386 and Perl v5.8.6 using BASH as the command prompt interrupter.

What is Swish-e?

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As quotes by Swish-e.org…

“Swish-e is a fast, flexible, and free open source system for indexing collections of Web pages or other files. Swish-e is ideally suited for collections of a million documents or smaller. Using the GNOME™ libxml2 parser and a collection of filters, Swish-e can index plain text, e-mail, PDF, HTML, XML, Microsoft® Word/PowerPoint/Excel and just about any file that can be converted to XML or HTML text. Swish-e is also often used to supplement databases like the MySQL® DBMS for very fast full-text searching. Check out the full list of features.”

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I began play with Visual Studio 2005 and discovered that Internet Explorer is used for debugging. In the past one could change the default browser before going to the file menu then to “Browse With” in Visual Studio however this seems to have changed. Here is a couple solutions I found out how to change your default browser in Visual Studio 2005.

Solution One

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1. Go to File menu > New > Web Site.
2. Go to File menu > Browse With.
3. The “Browse With” dialog will appear, click on Add and then select your preferred browser.
4. Click on your preferred browser in the list and click on “Set as Default”.
5. Click on “Browse” or “Cancel”.

Solution Two

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1. Left click on a aspx file in the “Solution Browser” and click “Browse With”.
2. The “Browse With” dialog will appear, click on Add and then select your preferred browser.
3. Click on your preferred browser in the list and click on “Set as Default”.
4. Click on “Browse” or “Cancel”.

Source: Changing your debug browser to Fire Fox in Visual Studio 2005

The title of this post says it all. This video has been pasted around for some time now and is a must see. Apparently the video clip is taken from the TV Show called Reno 911. Either way its great!

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source: Snotr
source: IMDB - Reno 911

Here is the latest revisions made to “The Kid’s Bookmarks” web site, http://www.adamsdesk.com/kidsbookmarks/. If you have any comments or suggestions feel free to comment.

Removed Links

• My Little Pony
• Mr. Potatohead
• Tonka
• Toboggan Jump
• Breakout

Corrected Broken Links / Updated Thumbnails

• Franklin
• Online Etch A Sketch
• Rubik’s Cube
• Pac-man
• Frogger

Newly Added Links

• Hasbro Monkeybar TV
• Treehouse TV
• Space Invaders
• Sonic the Hedgehog