In addition to packing and identification stickers, you can identify an external modem by installing as a ’standard modem’, running the diagnostics and reading the responses for AT13 and AT16.
When synchronizing offline files, some files give an error:
“Unable to make ‘Filename.ext’ available offline on \\Server\Share\Folder. Incorrect function.”
Solution found here
Error message:
“Warnings occurred while Windows was synchronizing your data. Results: Offline files. Unable to make file name available offline. Files of this type cannot be made available offline.”
To suppress error message for specific file types:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\NetCache\ExclusionErrorSuppressionList]
“*.pst”=dword:00000000
“*.mdb”=dword:00000000
“*.db?”=dword:00000000
“*.ldb”=dword:00000000
“*.mde”=dword:00000000
“*.mdw”=dword:00000000
“*.slm”=dword:00000000
To change the error message display for all types: (from here)
To change this default behavior, use Registry Editor (Regedt32.exe) to locate the following key in the registry:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Syncmgr]Add the following registry value:
Value Name: KeepProgressLevel
Data Type: REG_DWORD
Value: 1 (hexadecimal)You can add the following values and then quit Registry Editor:
1 – Pause on errors.
2 – Pause on warnings.
3 – Pause on errors and warnings.
4 – Pause and display INFO.
I have been struggling to see the point of Twitter.com to be honest, but here’s something that does make it a little useful – Tom Morris has written a script that updates Twitter accounts with the current status
To install additional software required to support various types of multimedia:
xine into the search box at the top.This is much quicker as long as you know the names of the packages you want to install.
sudo apt-get install sox vorbis-tools flac lame mpg321 faad faac
sudo apt-get install totem-xine
The version of Flash in Ubuntu 6.10 is v7 which is quite old. Lots of websites now require version 9, which is easy to install in Firefox:
To enable the ability to float images left or right, add the following code to the CSS stylesheet.
Obviously this works for any web page, I just happen to be doing it for this blog on WordPress.
A pastebin is a website that allows you to paste text in order to share it with someone else on the web. They are useful for troubleshooting all sorts of programming and configuration issues.
Pastebin.com appears to be the original, and it allows a wide variety of syntax highlighting and also the creation of private Pastebins (private in the sense that only your content should be on there, but still available to anyone who knows the URL)
www.pastebin.ca doesn’t appear to be working properly at the moment so I can’t say much about it.
Ubuntu is based on Debian, so I followed the instructions on the Slim Devices website here and it worked fine. It basically involves adding the Slim Devices repository to Synaptic Package Manager (Settings/Repository->Third Party) and then installing using apt-get.
The next thing to do is mount the network share so it can be accessed by SlimServer.
There’s a very useful Getting Started document over at UbuntuGuide which describes lots of basic configuration tasks.
In the Ubuntu 6.10 official documentation there seem to be references to a utility in System->Administration->Disks but apparently the Disks utility was removed in v6.10. It’s not difficult to edit the /etc/fstab file as on any other Linux. There are instructions in the Ubuntu documentation and also here