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Rotate screen on Windows [Intel® 945G Express Chipset]

I just found out on that if you have a Intel® 945 or any modern Intel card and you monitor/display/screen appears rotated 90 degrees or upside down, etc you can restore it to it’s original position by pressing Ctrl-Alt-↓
Via: http://www.labnol.org/software/turn-computer-screen-upside-down/6097/

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STaX: OutOfMemoryError when parsing big files

Java 6 includes STaX , when I tried to parse a Evernote backup file with it, I got a “OOME” error.

java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.XMLStringBuffer.append(XMLStringBuffer.java:205)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.refresh(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:1520)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLEntityScanner.invokeListeners(XMLEntityScanner.java:2070)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLEntityScanner.peekChar(XMLEntityScanner.java:486)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDriver.next(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:2679)
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Adding C++ virtual methods in Visio

Amazing how difficult is to get C++ virtual methods in Visio .

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Google Chrome : The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000005) « me & PHP

If you are getting (like me) the “The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000005)” error when trying to start Google chrome try to use -no-sandbox option as pointed out in Google Chrome : The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000005) « me & PHP.

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Microsoft Visio has stopped working after exiting Visio

It seems that Visio has some kind of incompability with Bluetooth drivers.
http://www.tech-archive.net/Archive/Visio/microsoft.public.visio.general/2008-06/msg00239.html.
I notice this problem when editing Visio objects embedded into Microsoft Word documents. In my case after I enabled Bluetooth (via my Compaq nw8440 special keyboard button) this problem went away.

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Cygwin/X: disappering mouse pointer

Remember to start the X system using startxwin.bat not startx. With startx I lose the mouse cursor/pointer when I´m over a X window.

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cygwin: setup.exe crashes when upgrading packages

I´ve run into a very strange problem.
Every time I run setup.exe and try to upgrade bash package

setup.exe crashes with the familiar “setup.exe has generated errors and will be close by windows. you will need to restart the program. An error log is being created”. The solution I found is for bash package but [...]

bash: clear: command not found

If your are getting “bash: clear: command not found” on you first install of cygwin you have to make sure that you include ncurses packages in your cygwin installation. clear.exe doesn´t come in the standard installation. You must include ncurses to get clear.exe in your system. If you are using bash you can use Ctrl-L [...]

Sony Ericsson K750 USB charging

If you’re frustated trying to charge your K750 from USB with no luck. Try to install the drivers first, it actually makes a difference. The K750 wont recharge the battery if the drivers are not installed. At least that worked for me in Windows 2000.

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Scrolling fast with the mousewheel triggers history back and forth

I’m observing an strange firefox behavior when I scroll the page using the mouse wheel. It goes back and forth through search history. So I googled a little bit and found that the KVM switch that I’m using it’s producing bogus key press event that firefox misinterprets. If you are running Linux [...]