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

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

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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 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

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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 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.

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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 other” and chose /usr/bin/xdg-open.

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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 settings.


name = feup-wifi
author = Ricardo Teixeira
version = 1
require = identity *Identity password *Password ca_cert *Path_to_CA_Cert
-----
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
network={
priority=1
ssid="eduroam"
scan_ssid=1
key_mgmt=WPA-EAP
proto=WPA
pairwise=CCMP TKIP
group=TKIP
eap=TTLS
phase2="auth=PAP"
ca_cert="$_CA_CERT"
identity="$_IDENTITY"
password="$_PASSWORD"
phase2="auth=PAP"
}

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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 bugs que isto tem. O meu preferido – não conseguir conectar-me à eduroam da faculdade porque isto não gosta de ligações WPA PEAP, ou seja, tenho um pda que não consegue fazer a principal função para o qual foi comprado. O problema maior é que a HP simplesmente não lança updates de firmware, o que é algo impensável nos dias de hoje em que até a minha calculadora já viu várias versões de software.
Resta-me esperar que alguém, que não a HP, lance uma cooked ROM para isto para corrigir os erros que faltam. Até lá pouco mais tenho que um GPS de 200 e tal euros.

Resumindo: HP nunca mais!

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