Author Archives: Ricardo

Switch Windows 7 Aero On / Off

Posted on 17/05/2010 by Ricardo

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

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w32tm – Check if your clock is accurate

Posted on 27/04/2010 by Ricardo

My system is having clock drift problems and I discover this Windows command to check the difference between your system clock and a time server: w32tm /stripchart /computer:0.pool.ntp.org /dataonly /samples:10

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Posterous

Posted on 26/03/2010 by Ricardo

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

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Google My Maps to Nokia Landmarks

Posted on 01/02/2010 by Ricardo

How to save a personal Google My Map POIs to Nokia Landmarks. Continue reading →

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Arch Linux: Flash plugin focus in firefox

Posted on 11/12/2009 by Ricardo

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 … Continue reading →

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OpenID

Posted on 07/11/2009 by Ricardo

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 … Continue reading →

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Firefox & "Open containing folder"

Posted on 21/07/2009 by Ricardo

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 … Continue reading →

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Eclipse, Java and Ubuntu 9.04

Posted on 09/06/2009 by Ricardo

If eclipse is always throwing a nullpointerexception when trying to edit a Visual Class in Visual Editor, remember to set the default JRE to java-6-sun.

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wicd on eduroam

Posted on 25/05/2009 by Ricardo

With two ESSIDs on one AP wicd didn’t connect automatically to the hidden network using WPA-EAP with TTLS. I managed to get it working by hardcoding the ESSID in the template I built for this in /etc/wicd/encryption/templates. Here are the … Continue reading →

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HP iPAQ 214

Posted on 05/03/2009 by Ricardo

… é uma bosta. A HP conseguiu criar um PDA com hardware excelente (ecrã VGA, processador rápido, etc) mas sem o devido software para o acompanhar. Parece que estou a testar uma versão alpha do WM 6.0 há quantidade de … Continue reading →

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