Binary Expressions

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1. Start Menu -> Control Panel -> System (keyboard shortcut: Windows Key-Pause/Break).
2. On the left hand side click on “System Protection”.
3. Now at the System Properties dialog under System Protection remove all check marks on available disks. Click “Turn System Restore Off” if prompted.
4. Click on “OK”.

Note: If you disable System Restore you will no longer be able to recover system in this manner.
Note: To reverse these steps to enable System Restore, place check marks on available drives you wish to choose. In most cases the C drive is all that is wanted.

This affect is not new but using two iPhones I think is pretty cool.

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