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Oakley Sunglasses get a new lease on life

2007-06-13T14:17:00.001-04:00

If your Oakley sunglass handles happen to break, don't fear, a couple of wood nails and some swim goggle straps can render them useful again. I cut the ends off the nails with a wire cutter and sanded off the sharp edges. Aside from that, the fit was just snug enough to not require anything to hold the nails in place. They kind of look like they belong in the Chronicles of Riddick!

Bridging two WRT54G routers

2007-05-27T11:06:00.000-04:00

I put the info in a pdf click here

Visual C++ 6.0 setup won't run in XP / crashes with "Setup has encountered an error and needs to close" modname: appname: offset: blah blah blah

2007-04-26T16:21:00.000-04:00

steps to resolve this issue:

1) create a shortcut to the setup program on your desktop
2) right click the shortcut and select properties
3) goto the compatibility tab
4) select "run in compatibility mode for": "Windows 98 / Windows ME"

took me hours to figure this out so hopefully it will save somebody else from hours of frustration

Google Sitemap Control

2007-03-20T15:52:00.000-04:00

Use this to generate google-understandable sitemaps for submission into Google webmaster tools:

http://www.gotdotnet.com/codegallery/codegallery.aspx?id=237330e0-65c5-4ebb-b62b-e486dd598604

The Longest Journey (1) Music/Audio Extractor

2007-03-19T01:51:00.000-04:00

I wrote a utility to extract stereo audio files from TLJ resource files (.iss & .xarc)... have fun!

http://www.alithiatec.com/downloads/TLJExtractor.exe

Dolci Desideri

2006-09-24T12:55:00.000-04:00

Tasty cookies if you can find them!

http://w2000.webelife.com/mangiami/asp/schedabiscotti.asp?id_pasta=94

Disable native XP CD burning feature

2006-09-07T14:08:00.000-04:00

http://network.mpei.ac.ru/lang/rus/faqw2kxp/jsifaq/rh5404.htm

Disable recent documents list in XP

2006-09-07T13:58:00.000-04:00

http://www.windowsutilities.net/regfiles/NoRecentDocsHistory.reg

restore username@password behavior in IE

2006-09-06T21:10:00.000-04:00

make a regedit file with the following:

-----------------------------------start
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_HTTP_USERNAME_PASSWORD_DISABLE]
"iexplore.exe"=dword:00000000
"explorer.exe"=dword:00000000
-----------------------------------end

DV to DVD

2006-09-06T01:10:00.000-04:00

DV to AVI use DVIO

AVI to M2V use TMPGENC:
My settings were: NTSC
audio doesn't matter
video type: camcorder=interlaced, usually bottom field first, 4:3 NTSC aspect
choose bitrate to result in desired size 2-pass is good if less than 8000 kbps constant bitrate for 8000 kbps

AVI to AC3:
virtual dub to WAV (FILE->save wave)
use BeLight for PCM WAV to AC3

M2V and AC3 to DVD VOB FILES:
Use DVD Lab Pro

Burn the files using the burner of your choice (nero is good)

ogm to avi to rm

2006-06-27T22:56:00.000-04:00

at divx digest

Feelin' the burn

2006-06-27T09:15:00.000-04:00

If you want to make sure your DVD backups are as error-free as possible this program can come in handy:

http://www.cdrlabs.com/kprobe/

Prevent Outlook from blocking inbound attachments

2006-06-24T23:49:00.000-04:00

stick this in a .reg file:

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Security]"
Level1Remove"="ADE;MDB;ADP;MDE;BAS;MSC;BAT;MSI;CHM;MSP;CMD;MST;COM;
PCD;CPL;PIF;CRT;REG;EXE;SCR;HLP;SCT;HTA;SHS;INF;URL;INS;VB;ISP;VBE;
JS;VBS;JSE;WSC;LNK;WSF;WSH"

Change how Visual Studio handles file extensions and create your own

2006-06-18T11:35:00.000-04:00

open the registry editor and navigate to

\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\X.X\Languages\File Extensions

where X.X corresponds to the version of VS you have (8.0 is VS 2005)

in my case I wanted to add another html extension called rhtml so:

- create a new 'key' named ".rhtml"
- create a new 'string value' named "(Default)" with a value of the GUID that corresponds to the editor you wish to use (in my case the HTML editor GUID found in the .html key: {58E975A0-F8FE-11D2-A6AE-00104BCC7269})
-create a new 'string value' named "Name" and the value should be a description of the file (in my case "Ruby HTML"

that's it!

Solid workout with no weights

2006-06-17T01:31:00.000-04:00

This workout program seems rather decent and something one can get hooked on:

http://www.mattfurey.com/conditioning_book.html

It requires no weights and really gets the blood flowing!

Ruby on Rails

2006-06-16T15:43:00.000-04:00

I just stumbled across a new rapid web development tool that seems to be cool:

http://www.rubyonrails.org/

gonna check this out and see where it leads

here are some useful links:

Sympatico.ca DNS Servers

2005-11-30T11:55:00.000-05:00

In case sympatico's DNS servers fail these alternates will keep one surfing:

CIRA: 192.228.22.70 / 192.228.22.71
Level3 Communications: 4.2.2.1 / 4.2.2.2
209.244.0.3 = resolver1.level3.net
209.244.0.4 = resolver2.level3.net
Bell Canada (not Sympatico): 198.235.216.130 / 198.235.216.131 / 198.235.216.134

IIS Lockdown

2005-11-10T13:01:00.000-05:00

If you're using XP's built in IIS webserver, this tool plugs your security holes:

here

MBSA

2005-11-10T12:46:00.000-05:00

Want to see how secure your XP is? Try this tool out:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/tools/mbsa2/default.mspx

It's the MS Baseline security analyzer that gives you a security analysis of your PC and instructions on how to fix the diagnosis. Pretty useful...

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2005-09-13T15:47:00.000-04:00

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