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.

May 31, 2007

Firefox and file:// Windows UNC paths

The correct way to write a link to a Windows UNC path in HTML is to use this syntax: file://///servername/share/file.txt. But if you try this using Firefox you will quickly find that this type of link only works when using a local html file. If you put the html file in a web server an click on the link there, firefox will silently refuse to load the link. If you open the JavaScript Console (Tools->Error Console) you will find an entry like Security Error: Content at http://... may not load or link to file://... ...

April 20, 2007

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 the solution is simple as you can modify the X server configuration to ignore those events. But I cannot find a suitable solution for Windows. ...

April 20, 2007

How to select all tables in a Microsoft Word Document

It seems it’s impossible to do it from the user interface. But I found here that it could be done using a VB Macro: Sub ChangeAllTablesToNormal() Dim myTable As Table For Each myTable In ActiveDocument.Tables myTable.Select Selection.Style = ActiveDocument.Styles("Normal") Next myTable ActiveDocument.Repaginate End Sub You may try to change ActiveDocument.Styles("Normal") to ActiveDocument.Styles("Tables Normal") as suggested by Abhishek if it doesn’t work for you.

March 17, 2007

Subversion error: 503 Service unavailable

If you faced the following subversion message in windows: svn: PROPFIND request failed on '/repos/demosystemeic' svn: PROPFIND of '/repos/demosystemeic': 503 Service Unavailable (http://x.x.x.x) Probably the problem is caused because you are proxying your request via a proxy that doesn’t support HTTP methods like PROPFIND, etc. If you don’t really need the proxy to access the repository edit the file c:\Documents and Settings_username_\Application Data\Subversion\servers (Note: Subversion directory is hidden) and comment out the following items ...

March 7, 2007

Vista memory management

Interesting link about Vista aggresive memory management (aka SuperFetch) Coding Horror: Why Does Vista Use All My Memory?

February 28, 2007

Hard disk odyssey!

Wow! Today is a great day I thought I missed my iTunes library and outlook email but I managed to recover it. I’m not really sure how it happened. All began when I moved my old 60GB hard disk to another PC as an extra disk (not boot disk). The other PC had Windows XP installed in its main 250Gb hard disk. I didn’t notice at first but the BIOS didn’t recognized the 60GB disk correctly (wrong size, wrong id) and when I started the Disk Administrator in Windows, it warned me that the disk had’nt a signature and asked me to write a new one. I clicked OK and I think that screwed up the whole disk. As I found later, it ended up with a corrupted MBR and NTFS bootsector. I decided to reboot to see BIOS messages about the disk and now I noticed that size was wrong, etc. I changed the IDE cable (weird cabling problem), rebooted and now the size was ok but I couldn’t mount it in Windows, it didn’t recognized it as a NTFS volume. ...

February 20, 2007

Diskeeper vs. PerfectDisk

Diskeeper and PerfectDisk are main leading Windows defragmenting tools in the market. The hard disk in my Windows XP machine is heavily fragmented and the MS built-in defragmenter doesn’t help very much so I decide to take a look into the commercial defragmenter tools out there. First I tried Diskeeper because I found that the Windows built-in defragmentation tool contains code licensed from Executive Software (the makers of Diskeeper). I thought that being licensed by Microsoft was a good sign but… Diskeeper like the built-in tool is a multi-pass defragmenter. That means that if you run it one time (or two or three for that matter) the hard drive will not end fully defragmented. You need to execute it periodically over a long term to end up with a fully defragmented drive. And it doesn’t consolidates free space. Diskeeper says that those two things are not important because drive performance is not affected. Doing it that way they consume less resources which is good but I found very frustrating to execute a defragmenter and end up with a slightly less fragmented disk I want a full defragmentation now!. ...

January 18, 2007

Add Command Prompt Here Shortcut to Windows Explorer

Add Command Prompt Here Shortcut to Windows Explorer Very useful. It adds a “Command Prompt” to the right-click menu in windows to open cmd.exe in the selected folder.

September 4, 2006

Cygwin problem: Can't access /cygdrive/c

I’ve lost my ability to see my c: drive from cygwin. when I do $ cd c: or $ cd /cygdrive/c all goes ok. But if I do $ ls then it complains ecerulm@rlm-ecb4fe6cda1 /cygdrive/c $ ls ls: reading directory .: No such file or directory I found something at this forum and also here So it seems that I screwed up permission (maybe it related to some automatic windows update). So after checking my username and group are the right on with ...

September 4, 2006