Severn Suzuki gives a speech for E.C.O. (Environmental Children’s Origination)
1992 UN Earth Summit Speech by Severn Suzuki
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severn_Cullis-Suzuki
How To – Sovle Tar: Removing Leading ‘/’ from member names
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Background Knowledge
When working with “tar” one may come across the message of “tar: Removing leading ‘/’ from member names” while using tar. I wondered why this was happening and how I could stop it. I will first start off by explaining why this is happening and then some possible solutions that one may consider taking.
Why “tar: Removing leading ‘/’ from member names”?
How To – Clear/Disable/Edit Auto-Complete Email Suggestions in Outlook 2010
Background Knowledge
Every time one types an email address or name in the message window fields of “To”, “Cc” and “Bcc” of Microsoft Outlook 2003/2007/2010, a list will appear offering suggestions of users and email addresses that one can choose from to save on typing. This feature is known as “Auto-Complete” and Outlook automatically builds the list of suggestions according to the a given users activity and saves it into a file with a “NK2″ extension.
The “Auto-Complete” suggestions can be cleared, edited, or disabled by using one of the follow solutions below.
Solution – Clear Auto-Complete Suggestions
- Open Outlook.
- Click on the menu “File” -> “Options”.
- Click on “Mail” at the top left side of the “Outlook Options” dialog.
- Then scroll down to where you see a heading of “Send messages”.
- Click on “Empty Auto-Complete List”.
- Click on the “OK” button.
Solution – Edit Auto-Complete Suggestions
Please follow the instructions and information provided at the author’s web site when using NirSoft’s NK2Edit.
Solution – Disable Auto-Complete Suggestions
- Open Outlook.
- Click on the menu “File” -> “Options”.
- Click on “Mail” at the top left side of the “Outlook Options” dialog.
- Then scroll down to where you see a heading of “Send messages”.
- Uncheck “Use Auto-Complete List to suggest names when typing in the To, Cc and Bcc lines”.
- Click on the “OK” button.
How To – Resolve “The specified file is not a registry script”
Background Knowledge
I will explain how to resolve the following error message when trying to merge/import a Windows registry file.
“Cannot import C:\foobar.reg. The specified file is not a registry script. You can only import binary registry files from within the registry editor.”
Solution
- Open the registry file in a text editor.
- Change the encoding to “ANSI”.
- Save the file.
Note: If you are not aware how to change the encoding, the simplest solution is to open the registry file within Microsoft Windows’ Notepad and then save it.
Source: “The specified file is not a registry script” – How encoding can ruin your morning
TaskFreak! v0.6.2 – Customizing Status
Background Knowledge
The progress of a task in TaskFreak! is shown as a percentage value and is not exactly visually appealing to quickly spot the progress. With a few minor alterations we can show the percentage completed bar that fills as the task progresses and a gradient bar indicating the progress along with the percentage value.
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