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My Windows 7 install got compromised with a root-kit or something, the symptom being that I couldn’t access Windows Update. No Anti-Malware/Virus was capable of correcting it so I had to format and re-install Windows. Doing that is a PITA and I leave here a list of the stuff I install and do after a fresh Windows installation.

Connosco desde 2003.

Morreu a 26 de Junho de 2010.

Watch out for this bug when configuring samba using the old fashion smb.conf in ubuntu 10.4.

By default, the samba password is reset to the system password of that user every time you login.

I noticed that although it does this you still need to add the users with smbpasswd -a so they work in samba.

I use this in a .bat to switch the Windows 7 Aero theme On / Off.

@echo off
sc interrogate uxsms | find "1062"
if %errorlevel%==0 goto :sc_start
sc stop uxsms
exit

:sc_start
sc start uxsms
exit

Testing my new e-mail posting service from posterous.com.

You can add all the POIs in a map created by you in Google Maps to your Nokia Landmarks. To do it you’ll only need GPSBabel to convert a KML file to the format understood by Nokia Landmarks/Nokia Maps – .lmx (Landmarks Exchange Format). Use the GUI in GPSBabel to do the conversion. It’s straightforward.
The only problem is getting the KML out of Google Maps, for that you have to right click “View in Google Earth” and copy the link to the clipboard, then paste that into the address bar but change the “output=nl” to “output=kml”, press enter, then save the KML file.
Sometimes the “View in Google Earth” option doesn’t show up when we’re just looking at the map, but I can’t say exactly why that happens. All I know is that if I edit the map, it appears. Then it’s just a matter of transferring the file to the phone and opening it with the phone’s file manager.

Credits: GMaps TIPS

For those having problems with flash plugin in firefox on arch linux, more properly, not being able to click the controls in a video in youtube, one of this actons solved it (I don’t know which one because I applied both of them):

adding

export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1

to /etc/profile.d/mozilla-common.sh
in http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=666490#p666490

installing gstreamer plugins

pacman -S gstreamer0.10-plugins

in http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=669238#p669238

Tried to use this site’s URL with phpMyID – A standalone, single user, OpenID Identity Provider from CJ Niemira – but it’s not OpenID 2.0 compatible so now I’m using delegation to MyOpenID. It works great and the setup was pretty easy: some html lines in the frontpage header. Nat Sakimura from OpenID Foundation had already told me about this option at Cloudviews 2009. You can check the tutorial here.

In Ubuntu 9.04 some how Firefox 3.5 was using acroread to open the containing folder of the downloads.
To solve this I just went to Edit > Preferences >Aplications and for the content type file I chose the action “Use other” and chose /usr/bin/xdg-open.