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

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

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Solution

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

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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

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

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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 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

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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

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

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Removed Links

• Electric Track Racing
• Zoobies

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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

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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?

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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Solution One

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

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

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source: Snotr
source: IMDB - Reno 911

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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

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I recently noticed at work in my Microsoft Outlook 2003 SP3 the holidays are no longer showing up in my calendar beyond the year 2007. My initial re-action was to just re-install the holidays into the calendar by going into the menu Tools -> Options -> Calendar Options… -> Add Holidays…, selecting United States and Canada then clicking “Ok” three times. However this did not resolve the problem just made it some what worse for the fact that now all my holidays in my calendar for the years 2007 and less was duplicated.

Solution

1. Open your Outlook Calendar
2. Menu, View -> Arrange By -> By Category
3. Select all the listed holidays that is within the “Holiday” category and then delete them by pressing the delete key.
   Be careful not to mark anything you created manually.
4. Now re-install the holidays by going into the menu Tools -> Options -> Calendar Options… -> Add Holidays… and then select the countries you wish to see the holidays for.
5. Click “Ok” three times.

At this stage you should now see the holidays beyond the year 2007 all the way until the year 2012. If you wish for the holidays to go beyond the year 2012 you can manually edit the outlook holidays file with a text editor located at “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office11\1033\Outlook.hol”. If you can’t find it there do a search for “Outlook.hol” or “Outlook.txt”. Outlook 2000 and older has it stored in a file called “Outlook.txt”.

Source: Outlook Tips - Missing Holidays
Holidays File: Outlook 2003 Holidays File with Family Day Included for Saskatchewan

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This case was done on a machine running OpenBSD i386 v3.7 operating system with Perl v5.8.6 built for i386-openbsd using BASH as the command prompt interrupter.

I’ll be honest I have very little knowledge of Perl so if you have anything to comment on or suggest please do so.

Problem

I tried to install a couple Perl modules and received an error message of “Out of Memory!”.

Solution

Just to clarify I have very little knowledge when it comes to Perl, so this solution may or may not work for you.

On Unix machines each user has a ulimit or “user limit” which is basically from what I understand sets the limit for each resource to ensure the system is not over loaded or abused. In this case at least for me, my issue was not having a big enough data seg size. Type at the command prompt without quotes “ulimit -a” to see a list of the set limits. I increased my data seg size from 76800 to 200000. I did this by typing at the command prompt without quotes, “ulimit -d 200000″.

You may need to play with this value for your case or other ulimits. Don’t worry about the changes as none of them are permanent in this case, at least to my knowledge. When you use the ulimit it only changes it for the user you are using and for that given session. If you require more permanent changes look into using ulimit in the login script or better yet change your system configuration settings.

Comments/Thanks

Many thanks to Scott Corley who posted an excellent blog entry entitled “perl Out of memory! (with solution)” on his blog called “Red Mercury Labs”. Without this I was getting know where fast.

If anyone can provide some further knowledge on ulimit it would be much appreciated.

Source: Red Mercury Labs - perl Out of memory! (with solution)

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Source: IBC Research Foundation

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