How do I get the IBM Host on Demand client to work with Internet Explorer 8?
Or do I have to get a newer version (and where) which is compatible with IE8?
Hi,
My hard drive is really corrupted and I would like to completely wipe out everything and create a new partition...How can I do this?
I have windows 7 bootable disk
Thanks
I have somewhat of an odd setup for a VPN server with OS X Mountain Lion. It's essentially being used as a bridge to bypass my company's firewall to our extranet connection - certain things our team needs to do require unfettered access to the outside, and changing IT policies to allow traffic through the main firewall is just not an option.
The extranet connection is provided through a Wireless-N router (let's call it Wi-Fi X). My Mac Mini server is configured with the connection to this router as the primary connection, thus unfettered access to the internet via the router. Connections to this device on the immediate subnet are possible through the LAN port, but outside the subnet things are less reliable.
I was able to configure the VPN server to provide IP addresses to clients in the 192.168.11.150-192.168.11.200 range using both PPTP and L2TP, and I'm able to connect to the extranet through the VPN using the standard Mac OS X VPN client in System Preferences, however unsurprisingly, a local address (let's call it internal.company.com) returns nothing.
I tried to bypass the limitation of the VPN Server by setting up Routes in the VPN settings. Our company uses 13.x.x.x for all internal traffic, instead of 10.x.x.x, so the routing table looked something like this:
IP Address ---------- Subnet Mask ---------- Configuration
0.0.0.0 248.0.0.0 Private
8.0.0.0 252.0.0.0 Private
12.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 Private
13.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 Public
14.0.0.0 254.0.0.0 Private
16.0.0.0 240.0.0.0 Private
32.0.0.0 224.0.0.0 Private
64.0.0.0 192.0.0.0 Private
128.0.0.0 128.0.0.0 Private
I was under the impression that if nothing was entered here, all traffic was routed through the VPN. With something entered, only traffic specifically marked to go through the VPN would go through the VPN, and all other traffic would be up to the client to access using its own default connection. This is why I had to specifically mark every subnet except 13.x.x.x as Private.
My suspicion is that since I can't reach the VPN server from outside the local subnet, it's not making a connection to the main DNS server and thus can't be reached on the larger network. I'm thinking that entering hostnames like internal.company.com aren't kicked back to the client to resolve, because the server has no idea that the IP address falls in the public range, since I suspect (probably should ping test it but don't have access to it right now) that it can't reach the DNS server to find out anything about that hostname.
It seems to me that all my options for resolving this all boil down to the same type of solution:
Figure out how to reach the DNS with the secondary connection on the server. I'm thinking that if I'm able to do [something] to get my server to recognize that it should also check my local gateway (let's say Server IP == 13.100.100.50 and Gateway IP == 13.100.100.1). From there Gateway IP can tell me to go find DNS Server at 13.1.1.1 and give me information about my internal network. I'm very confused about this path -- really not sure if I'm even making sense.
I thought about trying to do this client side, but that doesn't make sense either, since that would add time to each and every client side setup. Plus, it just seems more logical to solve it on the server - I could either get rid of my routing table altogether or keep it - I think the only difference would be that internal traffic would also go through the server - probably an unnecessary burden on it.
Any help out there? Or am I in over my head? Forward proxy or transparent proxy is also an option for me, although I have no idea how to set either of those up. (I know, Google is my friend.)
I've read a lot about the new Windows OS, but would like to run it first hand. I've got several Macs with Mountain Lion (10.8) and presume I can use this evaluation license to test the OS for my consulting company.
What else do I need to run Windows 8 in virtualization (as I'd rather not mess with BootCamp for several reasons)? Any other gotchas from someone who has gone down this path would be appreciated as well.
I have seen https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LiveUsbPendrivePersistent but it's a mess.
What methods support persistent drivers as well as files and settings and don't screw up lifespan of the flash drive?
I'd like to see your personal recommendations on say, Portable Linux, USB Creator, Remastersys + Unetbootin, etc
Backstory:
I have a Inspiron 1525 that's hard drive has been slowly dying.
I want to switch to a live USB/CD/DVD system until I can get it repaired but my laptops internal wifi device requires a network connection by another means for Xubuntu to let it work, and then I have to enter my Wifi key again, and THEN I have to reinstall Skype etc...
I'd be damned every time I have to shut the laptop down.
I'm ok with making a shell script for installing apps and copying settings as required but a good persistent install should make this old hat and slow and it doesn't take care of drivers.
The last time I tried making an ISO with Remastersys it didn't seem to copy all the required settings.
Edit: Summary
Apparently the intended character to display in this case is an "en-dash".
This page has a table half way down that shows that for the –, some software will convert the correct hex code of 2013 to 0096. (look at the first row in the table).
This answer on Stackoverflow explains that somehow this is a mixup between Windows-1252 and UTF-8
This blog article enforces this:
Character 150 (0x96) is the unicode
character "START OF GUARDED AREA" in
the non-displayed C1 control character
range, but in the Windows-1252
encoding it's mapped to to the
displayable character 0x2013 "en-dash"
(a short dash).
Others have struggled with this when producing content, as this answer on Stackoverflow shows how to replace 0x0096 with 0x2013.
Google must realize this, because as stated in my original question below, Google's cached version of the Amazon page has – so it seems they are automatically correcting these mistakes on pages they cache.
I have tried setting my encoding to Windows-1252 but that does not help.
So now I guess my question is, how can I tell Firefox to ignore unprintable characters like these?
Original content below:
(Firefox 3.6.13 on Windows XP)
Every once in a while I notice an odd character on certain web pages when browsing the web. It is a outline of a box with a 4-digit number inside.
And example of a page that has these characters is:
http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/#highlights
After each section heading (Elastic, Completely Controlled, ...) I see a box with the number "0096" inside. I looked at the cached version on Google, and google has – in it's place, so I'm guessing I should be seeing a dash there instead of the box with the numbers in it.
I have tried changing the character encoding in Firefox but haven't been able to find one that shows these characters correctly.
Is there a way to allow Firefox to view these characters?
Thanks in advance!
Edit - adding a screen shot of the "special" characters:
Edit #2 - tried in Ubuntu - new screenshots
I logged into my Ubuntu desktop and browsed to the amazon page in Chrome and Firefox. Chrome completely ignores character, even if I inspect or view page source. Firefox in Unbutu displays the character exactly like Firefox on my Windows XP box. I copied the character and played around with it at the command line - here is a screenshot of the results:
It looks like I can paste the character into this post as well: ``
It is definitely not isolated to Windows XP. I tried setting the character encoding for my terminal to Windows 1252 (from Dennis' comment below), but then it just displays this character as a question mark.
I pulled the webpage down with wget and with curl, and both outputs show this characters as: <96>
It makes me wonder if this character renders correctly for anyone? It appears webkit just ignores it, my IE6 ignores it, Firefox displays the box with the numbers in it. I would have to imagine the design team at Amazon can see it correctly?
It's not a huge deal to get these characters displaying correctly, but it would be nice to know if there is a solution to this.
I wanted to install adobe reader on my ubuntu 10.10(Maverick Meerkat).I have downloaded the file and copied it on my desktop.I had then browsed to the desktop directory through command line terminal.
I had tried all the possible combinations of the commands but still i get a "file or directory does not exist error"
roger@ubuntu:~/Desktop$ chmod a+x AdbeRdr9.4-1_i486linux_enu.bin
roger@ubuntu:~/Desktop$ sudo ./AdbeRdr9.4-1_i486linux_enu.bin
sudo: unable to execute ./AdbeRdr9.4-1_i486linux_enu.bin: No such file or directory
I tried without the sudo and this is what i get
roger@ubuntu:~/Desktop$ chmod a+x AdbeRdr9.4-1_i486linux_enu.bin
roger@ubuntu:~/Desktop$ ./AdbeRdr9.4-1_i486linux_enu.bin
bash: ./AdbeRdr9.4-1_i486linux_enu.bin: No such file or directory
The file is present in the desktop.Where am i going wrong?
P.S:This is not a duplicate of the question Cannot install .bin package on Ubuntu
Today, looking for the technical explanations about MPEG4, I saw that it can implement the VRML rendering for a 3D video. This makes me wondering about the "software" requirements to make or to see a 3D video. I mean, assuming that I have all the "hardware" requirements(3D monitor, VGA, 3D-camera, etc), what should I need to make and see 3D videos looking over the "software" side? Must I need to make it on MPEG4 instead MPEG1 or MPEG2 because of the VRML support? May I need a specifc 3D codec to open and see 3D videos?? Until today, I believed that a 3D video was just a regular/ordinary video composed of 2 "overlapping layers".
PS: This is the first time I'm researching about technical explanations/references about MPEG standards and 3D videos, any help or basic explanations will help.
I have made an error in the rd_local file which, Linux is having problem starting up because of this. Is there any way I can edit this file without starting up or am I screwed?
I have been using the command:
reset
to clear my terminal. Although I am pretty sure this is not what I should be doing. Reset, as the name suggests resets your entire terminal (changes lots of stuff). Here is what I want:
I basically want to use the command clear. However if you clear and then scowl up you still get tones of stuff from before. In general this is not a problem however I am looking at gross logs that are long and I want to make sure that I am just viewing the most recent one. I know that I could use more or something like that but I prefer this approach.
I wish to convert (print) my MS Word files to pdf on the fly ! I am on Ubuntu 9.10 and using Wine 1.1.40. Can someone help ? I have heard that pdf printer can be installed using Wine Cups !
Thanks !
My computer will not come out out of standby. It has had this issue ever since I bought it ~4 years ago. When I purchased it, It came with Vista, I have since upgraded it to 7 and now 8 Pro, each time hoping that it would fix the problem, each time finding that it did not. My computer is an HP Pavilion Model #: m9500y.
The computer goes into standby, but does not come out of it properly. If Hybrid sleep in on, it does not respond at all. If Hybrid sleep is off, It comes out and I can see the desktop for a bit, but then the screen goes black again and I have to reboot.
I have tried Running a sfc, and a chkdsk in case it's a corrupted file, but it hasn't helped. This isn't too serious an issue because I can just shutdown my computer and turn it on the old fashioned way, but it is annoying and I would appreciate some advice going forward as I'm currently stumped.
I'm trying to determine how big a cloned Git repository is from a local file system. It creates hard links for some but not all files. How can I determine the disk usage of it? The best I can come up with is "du -a" right now with the original and again with the clone to determine the difference, since each hard linked file will be counted only once. Ideally, I would just run du on the clone and count each hard linked file zero times.
I'm currently running a single Dell 24" (2408WFP) screen, but am considering adding a second. The problem I've got is that I'm currently using the DVI connector to the on board graphics, so will need to purchase a new graphics card.
The 2408WFP also has HDMI and DisplayPort inputs, so I was wondering if DisplayPort is worth considering at present over DVI? On the same subject, does anyone actually manufacture reasonably priced DisplayPort cards - all I've managed to find seem to very expensive workstation cards aimed at financial/design/simulation markets.
My home network is serviced by an ADSL line. The modem is in bridged mode. The router performs the PPPoE.
Three computers are connected to the router: two wired Windows 7 boxes and a Ubuntu Linux box over wifi.
The computers are hosting various forms of services including FTP and HTTP. The router has port forwarding mapped from the relevant ports to the reserved IP addresses for the computers.
If I attempt to connect to a server inside the network, such as ftp://67.xx.xxx.xxx from inside the network, the request times out. However if I connect using the internally mapped address, such as ftp://192.168.0.100, all is well.
This is a nuisance for setting up software, especially on the laptop which needs to be able to phone home from anywhere, and I just don't have enough expertise with networking to know why this is occurring to even have a clue whether it can be solved or not.
edit: It should be noted that the servers can be accessible outside the network - say, at the starbucks across the street - perfectly fine, using the ISP provided address and the appropriate port.
I need to run the latest version of Node and NPM on Windows. I installed Node 0.5.8 and downloaded the sources of NPM from GitHub. The steps I followed to install NPM were listed on its GitHub site but I have a problem running the following command:
node cli.js install npm -gf
but it fails with the following error message:
Error: connect UNKNOWN
at errnoException (net_uv.js:566:11)
at Object.afterConnect [as oncomplete] (net_uv.js:557:18)
System Windows_NT 5.1.2600
command "...\\Node\\bin\\node.exe" "...\\npm\\cli.js" "install" "npm" "-gf"
cwd ...\npm
node -v v0.5.8
npm -v 1.0.94
code UNKNOWN
I think that this is a problem because I need authentication at my proxy to connect to the Internet. But I found no way to tell the installer to use my credentials for login. Is there a possibility to provide my proxy IP and login information to npm installation maybe via command-line arguments?
I can provide the full log (but seems to have no more relevant information) using pastebin if needed.
I want to stream data from my Laptop PC to my Android phone using TCP or UDP by creating sockets in both the phone and the laptop, but it has to be done wirelessly. How do I connect them to stream the data ?
I thought creating an ad-hoc wireless network from my laptop and connecting to it using my Android would work. But my Android is not detecting the ad-hoc network.
Is there any other way how I can connect the two ? I downloaded this software called 'connectify' and created a wifi hotspot on my laptop, and successfully connected the two. But will I be able to stream data to my device using this connection ?
Can simple direct Bluetooth connection help me in creating sockets in both phone and laptop and stream the data ?
I have two problems -
When doing a Skype video call, I can't see the other person. Skype says both my input and output are fast/good.
I need a good recording program that will save both sides at once in a podcast.
I've been playing around with Vodburner, but it seems to be very temperamental. I can't get anything longer than 30 seconds to save and even when if it does save, the file isn't compatible with Windows Live Movie Maker, even when I change the extension to .MP4 or .WMV. I tried to downlowd the format changer http://www.mediacoderhq.com/ that Vodburner suggests, but only got errors.
I'm using Windows 7 with 62 GB free.
I'm trying to work out a problem in Word that I thought was simply a glitch from 2003 until we upgraded to 2010 and the problem persisted.
For our corporate letterhead, we set up the template with placeholder text, highlight the text, and then make the document read-only with the exception of the selected text. The editable text turns yellow and gains these brackets around them:
Once these brackets appear, they'll always show on the screen. That I can handle, though I'd like to learn how to hide them on-screen if that's possible. When the document is printed while protected, it works fine.
When the document is printed while NOT protected, part of the bracket shows up on the paper!
I guess the ultimate question is, how can I get rid of the brackets altogether? I can see why they exist but in my use case they create more problems than they solve. I'd like someone to be able to read the doc without seeing brackets, and I'd like other people in my department to be able to print without having to re-restrict it first.
I tried to turn off bookmarks because that's what seemed to come up when I searched around, but that didn't do anything.
I'm an avid gamer and I like to record my gameplay. Usually I've been using Fraps to do it, however I'm thinking of switching to Dxtory as it allows to write on multiple HDDs at once.
Say I have 3 HDDs with the following write speeds: HDD1 with 50 mb/s, HDD2 with 22 mb/s and HDD3 with 45 mb/s. Combined write speed would be: 117 mb/s.
Dxtory allows you to utilize all 3 HDD's at once while recording your gameplay.
Using this formula:
RGB24 YUV24: Width x Height x 3 x fps = bitrate (byte/sec)
YUV420: Width x Height x 3 / 2 x fps = bitrate (byte/sec)
YUV410: Width x Height x 9 / 8 x fps = bitrate (byte/sec)
And recording in YUV420 colorspace at 1920x1080 with 30 fps I'd need about 95 mb/s write speed. Dxtory is good because it allows me to play with constant 60 fps while recording in 30 fps. Fraps does not (even though they say it does), once you start recording with Fraps, the game's fps drops.
So I'm looking for a codec that doesn't need a very high write speed (bitrate) yet records in good (lossless) quality.
Dxtory comes with its own codec, the Dxtory codec. Which allows me some experimentation. Fraps has it's own codec which I can use in Dxtory to expirement around.
I also came across http://lags.leetcode.net/codec.html .
Are there more lossless codecs out there (besides Fraps' and Dxtory's) which are good for what I want to do?
Edit:
To clarify, yes, I'm aware a lossless codec always has "good" quality. But that's not what I'm looking for.
Let me take the Fraps codec and Dxtory codec to clarify what I'm looking for.
When I record with the Dxtory codec in RGB colorspace at 1920x1080 with targeted 30 fps, I can play the game at 60 fps, BUT I'm recording with 10-15 fps, that's because RGB with Dxtory needs much, much more write speed than my hdd can handle.
When recording with Dxtory codec in YUV410 colorspace at 1920x1080 with targeted 30 fps, I can play at 60 fps and record at 30 fps, again, that's because YUV410 in Dxtory's codec takes much, much less write speed than RGB
When recording with Fraps codec in ??? (I dunno the color space Fraps records in, I guess YUV420), I can play with 60 fps and record with 30 fps.
What I'm looking for is a lossless codec that can record in YUV420 (or even RGB??) which does not exceed a write speed (or bitrate if you will) of 100 mb/s in 1920x1080 or in other words, which will allow me to record in constant 30fps.
Obviously the best solution would be to buy an SDD, but that's not what I'm after.
Windows 7 requires the following specifications:
1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver
Will it work at all on my old toshiba Satellite A100 PSAA8C-SK400E
Intel® Core™ Solo processor T1350 (1.86GHz, 533MHz FSB, L1 Cache 32KB/32KB, L2 Cache 2MB)
Standard Memory: 2x512 MB DDR2
Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 950 with 8MB-128MB.
The main problem I can see is that the graphics is not up to it.