Windows 7 has a cool applet called Math Input Panel (http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2009/04/23/ink-input-and-tablet.aspx).
Does anyone know if a version of this is available for Windows XP?
The Setup:
wired D-link (EBR-2310) router connected to my cable modem.
Wireless NetGear N300 (WNR2000v3) router connected to a LAN port on the wired router.
What I'm trying to do:
I'm trying to setup the wireless router to be a separate network, that only accesses the internet through the wired router.
What I've done so far.
I setup the wireless router's WAN port to get an address from ISP (which should be coming from my wired router running DHCP), and the LAN as a subnet (192.168.1). Wired router's LAN is 192.168.0.
The problem:
I'm not able to connect to the internet from the wireless router. At one point my wired router showed that it was handing out an IP to the wireless router, but that is not happening anymore.
The question:
Is what I'm trying to do possible? Am I not thinking about this properly? Do I need to buy a better wired router, with 2 WAN ports? How can I configure these routers to work together?
I would like a method for starting a program when another program starts. Specifically, I’d like a to open a MS Word document and have my citation manager open simultaneously (EndNote supports this function within MS Word preferences, but I recently switched citation managers).
The batch scripts I’ve seen so far, including this one, don’t fit the bill. I’d like to be able to open any existing Word document on my drive and trigger the second program.
Every time I start Outlook 2007 SP2 on my Windows 7 box Outlook will look like its loading fine, then I get this error message:
cannot start microsoft office outlook. cannot open the outlook window
and outlook will close. I was able to get outlook to start by using
outlook.exe /resetnavpane
in the Start-Search box, a nice tip which I got from this social.microsoft.com page. But it didn't fix the problem since outlook is still complaining when it starts after a reboot.
What can I do to get outlook to startup normally?
I'm about to make some system changes and I'd like to have a record of my current happy system state. Is there a convenient way to create a record of this? I'd like to keep track of info like
currently installed packages and their versions
which packages are pinned at what version
which source (as in /etc/apt/sources.list) they were installed from
whether they were installed directly or automatically installed as a dependency of a different package
"unknown unknowns": ie stuff that I don't know that I should be keeping track of but which may be important when trying to figure out why something doesn't work
In short, I'd like to keep as much of the aptitude database as possible. What's the best way to do this? It would be nice if the resulting records were easily readable, though this is not really essential. It would be extra nice if it were readily versionable through an SCM tool like git.
There is a superuser question that partially answers this, but it only provides the list of currently installed packages.
I have a DI-524UP router that shares internet to two notebooks at home via wireless and a desktop via wired collection. It will become barely available/pingable via wireless when I download torrents on a desktop computer. Even when I limit download speed to 20% or less of available bandwidth - it must be something else, not the speed that causes the issue. I've tried limiting number of active connections and stuff but it will still not cure.
Is there anything I can do about this?
I need to compare/diff/merge files in an easy way. In windows I would use WinMerge. What alternatives for this are available in Ubuntu?
The things I must be able to do:
See 2 files line by line next to each
other, with the differences
highlighted
Have an option for merging this files together
If you add a custom toolbar in the Windows 7 taksbar and set the toolbar view to Large Icons (and the icons in the toolbar are not set to Use small icons), the height of the taskbar unexpectedly increases by around 5 pixels, which makes a rather stupid gap at the bottom of the screen. If the option Use small icons is used for the taskbar appearance, the height of the taskbar is normal.
It appears that the programmers at Microsoft were not very meticulous while designing the Windows 7 UI; it is obviously a bug. I was wondering if there is a registry hack to fix this or if anyone knows any solution to the problem, except for the obvious one: "use the small icons"? Thanks.
I found a similar question here but I still don't get it.
You see, I live in a small town and every time I check my IP location via online services or speed test websites, my location appears to be my ISP server location (which in my case is 250 miles away). But when I tried Google latitude, it pinpointed my exact location within less than 100 meters!
I use Windows Vista, Google Chrome, and when I got the message that "Google is trying to locate you", I agreed just to check what the result will be. It was scary, very scary!
What I've come up after reading the above link is that Google have a kind of extensive WiFi database locations. That could be understandable with the case of public and open WiFis that are used with a lot of people. Some of them might be using applications that could gather location data and somehow this information ends up in giant Google databases. From those, Google could pinpoint a WiFi location based on its MAC address along with these bits of info that have been gathered via various sources.
The issue here is that my WiFi is private, I don't even broadcast my WiFi name. So how on earth did Google find my exact PC location?
Please break down the answer in layman's terms as possible.
I had recently formatted my system only to find out i have lost the cd key to my original cd.
i had used the option to enter the product key later. Yes, i know its a stupid thing to do but i bought the cd in 2008 from a retail store and i lost the original packaging.
the actual label on the cd is
includes service pack version 2002 .@2004 microsoft corporation
reserved.
There are some numbers on the back side of the cd in the inner ring.
i cant for the life of me figure out how what is the use of the genuine cd i have with me when i cant seem to activate it.
what exactly is the advantage of having the original cd in your possession in situations like this?.
i have tried the unattend.txt and it doesnt contain the correct key. and there does not exist any winnnt.sif file in the cd.
where on the cd or in it can i find the product id information
i stay in india . and my attempts at trying the microsoft support site keeps getting me directed to page which says they had stopped support for windows xp in 2011.
lets say by some miracle i do contact microsoft. what information would i have to provide them? and would they be giving me the product key for my cd key from their database? or a new key?
This shell script is mostly the work of other people. It has gone through several iterations, and I have tweaked it slightly while also trying to fully understand how it works. I think I understand it now, but I don't have confidence to significantly alter it on my own and risk losing data when I run the altered version. So I would appreciate some expert guidance on how to improve this script.
The changes I am seeking are:
make it even more robust to any strange file names, if possible. It currently handles spaces in file names, but not newlines. I can live with that (because I try to find any file names with newlines and get rid of them).
make it more intelligent about which file gets retained as the actual inode content and which file(s) become sym links. I would like to be able to choose to retain the file that is either a) the shortest path, b) the longest path or c) has the filename with the most alpha characters (which will probably be the most descriptive name).
allow it to read the directories to process either from parameters passed in or from a file.
optionally, write a long of all changes and/or all files not processed.
Of all of these, #2 is the most important for me right now. I need to process some files with it and I need to improve the way it chooses which files to turn into symlinks. (I tried using things like the find option -depth without success.)
Here's the current script:
#!/bin/bash
# clean up known problematic files first.
## find /home -type f -wholename '*Icon*
## *' -exec rm '{}' \;
# Configure script environment
# ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
set -o nounset
dir='/SOME/PATH/HERE/'
# For each path which has multiple links
# ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
# (except ones containing newline)
last_inode=
while IFS= read -r path_info
do
#echo "DEBUG: path_info: '$path_info'"
inode=${path_info%%:*}
path=${path_info#*:}
if [[ $last_inode != $inode ]]; then
last_inode=$inode
path_to_keep=$path
else
printf "ln -s\t'$path_to_keep'\t'$path'\n"
rm "$path"
ln -s "$path_to_keep" "$path"
fi
done < <( find "$dir" -type f -links +1 ! -wholename '*
*' -printf '%i:%p\n' | sort --field-separator=: )
# Warn about any excluded files
# ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
buf=$( find "$dir" -type f -links +1 -path '*
*' )
if [[ $buf != '' ]]; then
echo 'Some files not processed because their paths contained newline(s):'$'\n'"$buf"
fi
exit 0
As many of you know, April Fool's Day is tomorrow. :o) I want to use the netsend command to send a message from my machine to another in a local network. My machine is Windows 7 Home Premium, and I want to send a message to a Windows XP Home (SP2) machine. I know that netsend is no longer valid in Windows 7, so what can I use to communicate with XP's netsend?
I have a Dell Inspiron 1501 and I'm trying to use f.lux with ubuntu, but when I start it I get Sorry, we only support 24/32-bit displays right now. How can I change my display to 24 or 32 bit? I'd appreciate any help.
Question here, not sure if it's the correct stack exchange site, sorry if it isn't. I have an After Effects project for school, and I've created a movie using JPEG sequences (10 @ ~100-200mb/each ). I have the output setting on the composition set to 640x480. I resized each JPEG layer via the fit to comp tool, but when I export the movie as a Quicktime movie, it is 1.1 gig for ~35 seconds of movie at 30fps. What am I doing so horribly wrong here?
While doing some cleaning and reinstalling on my machine, I obviously cleaned one too many, and now I'm missing a rc.exe that's supposed to go either in my Visual Studio directory (not sure which one) or in my Microsoft SDKs directory.
The problem is that I don't want to reinstall the whole OS again, and that rc.exe is part of some SDK freely downloadable from Microsoft (apparently 6.0a version). I can't find it nevertheless.
Anyone knows what rc.exe is part of, and what I need to download (and from where) to get it back ?
Hi,
I'm getting a Subtotal method of Range class failed Error when i try to run a macro. Code works GREAT (no errors) when i run it using Excel 2003.
Here's a snippet...
'SubTotal Sheet
Range("A1").Select
Selection.Subtotal GroupBy:=1, Function:=xlSum, TotalList:=Array(3, 4, 5, 6, 7, _
8, 9), Replace:=True, PageBreaks:=False, SummaryBelowData:=True
Any help would be appreciated !!!
I'd like to setup the guest account with easy access to a particular web site, but cannot figure out how to change the default.
In 10.5.8 the parental controls can be used to control the list of bookmarks, but I haven't seen any reference to the home page. And when logged in as Guest, the home page settings are read-only, even if you enter an administrator password.
How can the Safari home page be changed (and be made persistent) for the OSX Guest account?
Hi everybody,
A few days back my Win7 Ultimate started bugging me to install the RAID drivers for my ASUS P6T Delux. Fine, I'm all for having up to date drivers even for stuff I don't use. The problem is that the drivers I download from both ASUS support site here and the ones I get directly from Intel (can't post the second link, since I have less than 10 rep, but it's the first hit for "Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager Driver" on google) say that my system does not meet the minimum system requirements. Impossible, I would think, what with it having the X58 chipset and the Windows version is supported one. Has anyone encountered something like this before? Any clues on how to solve this would be much appreciated.
Thanks!
After watching the absolutely amazing 10/GUI video, I have been dying to try to implement something like this. I can do the software side quite easily, but I don't have the hardware.
The Wacom Bamboo Fun would work, but the Linux drivers don't support the multi-touch features.
Microsoft's "UnMouse Pad" looks like the perfect solution, but it is not commercially available yet.
Are there any similar devices that would work? Alternatively, is there a way to build a DIY version? (It is fairly easy to build a multi-touch display with a webcam and IR LEDs, but it would not be pressure sensitive. Does anyone have any info on how the UnMouse Pad works and if it is possible to build one?)
EDIT: I should clarify that I don't want a multi-touch display. I want the sensor to be separate from the display. If that sounds crazy, watch the 10/GUI video.
Is there a way to burn an MP3 CD when iTunes only contains (unprotected) AAC files purchased from the iTunes store?
There isn't an option directly in iTunes to convert AAC - MP3 like there is for MP3 - AAC, and having to convert the AAC files to MP3 and use an extrnal tool to burn the disk would be time-consuming. Are there any plugins for iTunes that can accomplish this? Or programs which can read an iTunes playlist, convert the tracks to MP3 "on the fly" while burning the CD?
I have tried both IDE and AHCI modes in the BIOS. Also tried many different driver revisions.
I can't seem to hot swap an external SATA drive. I can use the wizard to safely remove it, but reconnecting doesn't do anything unless I reboot. I use a thermaltake dock, and I would like to swap in my backup drive sometimes to do images (they take all day over USB). I can reboot, but I'd like to use hot swap.
The controller is a Jmicron JMB363. I'm using the latest BIOS on my motherboard, as well.
I have main a folder say E:\donuts and there are hundreds of folders inside it. e.g.
E:\donuts\yellow\
E:\donuts\green\
...
E:\donuts\blue\
I want to create a new folder in each subfolder simply using some DOS command.
Something like this.
E:\donuts\yellow\big
E:\donuts\green\big
and so on. How can I achieve this?
Also, would to be possible move the content of each subfolder into the corresponding big folder? For instance all the files and folders in E:\donuts\yellow\ should move to E:\donuts\yellow\big and so on.