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Windows XP Language Bar Empty / Missing

2009-06-30T14:23:00.003-05:00

If you are missing your Language Bar there are two main things to check:

First, do you have the Language Bar option in the ToolBars section ( right click on the Windows task bar ). If it's not there you can try adding the following to your registry ( this can be saved in a .reg file such as LangBar.ref then running it ):

REGEDIT4

;Restore Language Bar
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{540D8A8B-1C3F-4E32-8132-530F6A502090}]
@="Language bar"
"MenuTextPUI"="@%SystemRoot%\\System32\\msutb.dll,-325"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{540D8A8B-1C3F-4E32-8132-530F6A502090}\Implemented Categories]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{540D8A8B-1C3F-4E32-8132-530F6A502090}\Implemented Categories\{00021492-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{540D8A8B-1C3F-4E32-8132-530F6A502090}\InProcServer32]
@="C:\\WINDOWS\\System32\\msutb.dll"
"ThreadingModel"="Apartment"

If this is done and an empty Language Bar shows up, then you don't have ctfmon.exe running. Try running the program ( should be in C:\Windows\System32\ ). You need to then set this to run on startup. An excellent way to do this is Mike Lin's Startup Control Panel<.

Django and Django-Template Syntax Highlighting for Coda

2009-06-27T19:32:00.000-05:00

Cool Django plugins for Coda.

Big Nerd Ranch Weblog � Django and Django-Template Syntax Highlighting for Coda

Changind Directory Colors in Terminal

2009-06-27T15:15:00.000-05:00

The default directory colors blue can be vary hard to read with a dark terminal background. Under Linux changing this color typically involves setting the LS_COLORS environment variable.

Sample ~/.bashrc file:

alias ls='ls --color'
LS_COLORS='di=1:fi=0:ln=31:pi=5:so=5:bd=5:cd=5:or=31:mi=0:ex=35:*.rpm=90'
export LS_COLORS

Bartman has the following information on the various options:

di = directory
fi = file
ln = symbolic link
pi = fifo file
so = socket file
bd = block (buffered) special file
cd = character (unbuffered) special file
or = symbolic link pointing to a non-existent file (orphan)
mi = non-existent file pointed to by a symbolic link (visible when you type ls -l)
ex = file which is executable (ie. has 'x' set in permissions).

0 = default colour
1 = bold
4 = underlined
5 = flashing text
7 = reverse field
31 = red
32 = green
33 = orange
34 = blue
35 = purple
36 = cyan
37 = grey
40 = black background
41 = red background
42 = green background
43 = orange background
44 = blue background
45 = purple background
46 = cyan background
47 = grey background
90 = dark grey
91 = light red
92 = light green
93 = yellow
94 = light blue
95 = light purple
96 = turquoise
100 = dark grey background
101 = light red background
102 = light green background
103 = yellow background
104 = light blue background
105 = light purple background
106 = turquoise background

However, under OS X Leopard the method is different. The directories colors are set through the LSCOLORS environment variable instead. They options for LSCOLORS are listed in the ls man page:

LSCOLORS The value of this variable describes what color to use for
which attribute when colors are enabled with CLICOLOR. This
string is a concatenation of pairs of the format fb, where f
is the foreground color and b is the background color.

The color designators are as follows:

a black
b red
c green
d brown
e blue
f magenta
g cyan
h light grey
A bold black, usually shows up as dark grey
B bold red
C bold green
D bold brown, usually shows up as yellow
E bold blue
F bold magenta
G bold cyan
H bold light grey; looks like bright white
x default foreground or background

Note that the above are standard ANSI colors. The actual
display may differ depending on the color capabilities of
the terminal in use.

The order of the attributes are as follows:

1. directory
2. symbolic link
3. socket
4. pipe
5. executable
6. block special
7. character special
8. executable with setuid bit set
9. executable with setgid bit set
10. directory writable to others, with sticky bit
11. directory writable to others, without sticky bit

The default is "exfxcxdxbxegedabagacad", i.e. blue fore-
ground and default background for regular directories, black
foreground and red background for setuid executables, etc.

I use the following in my ~/.profile :

export LSCOLORS='gxfxcxdxbxegedabagacad'

COLORS Lscolors - Linux StepByStep

Dvorak in 2007: Apple Should Pull the Plug on the iPhone

2009-06-23T02:02:00.000-05:00

Haha... idiot.

Daring Fireball Linked List: Dvorak in 2007: Apple Should Pull the Plug on the iPhone

Belkin Powerline HD Gigabit Ethernet

2009-06-22T12:16:00.000-05:00

Awesome! No need to pull ethernet cables through the house anymore :)

Gizmodo - Belkin Powerline HD First to Reach Gigabit Ethernet Speeds - Belkin powerline hd

Get 35% Off The iPhone 3GS If You Use Bing - iphone 3gs

2009-06-19T18:41:00.000-05:00

Haha... nice :)

Gizmodo - Get 35% Off The iPhone 3GS If You Use Bing - iphone 3gs: "Get 35% Off The iPhone 3GS If You Use Bing"

How to reduce your PSD files size using Photoshop Idle Together

2009-06-13T00:25:00.000-05:00

Quite an interesting hack... add something to make your file smaller...

How to reduce your PSD files size using Photoshop Idle Together

Boot your new MacBook from an SD card? Back up to it too? | 9 to 5 Mac

2009-06-11T00:21:00.000-05:00

Are SD cards the new floppy disks? SD cards are definitely much more portable than USB drives, and they're already in use in a huge number of devices.

Boot your new MacBook from an SD card? Back up to it too? | 9 to 5 Mac

WiMAX初體驗北市網路密度跑第一-Yahoo!奇摩新聞

2009-06-06T18:24:00.000-05:00

Taipei, Taiwan just turned on it's full city WiMAX deployment June 2nd. The WiMAX base stations are deployed along 10.5 Km of Taipei's high rise mass transit line.

About 90% of the world's WiMAX equipment is produced by Taiwan companies. Hopefully more WiMAX enable devices will come to market soon.

WiMAX初體驗北市網路密度跑第一-Yahoo!奇摩新聞

First hands-on with the Pixel Qi LCD/e-paper screen

2009-06-02T15:14:00.000-05:00

Just awesome! Exactly what I need to work from the beach :)

First hands-on with the Pixel Qi LCD/e-paper screen

Mac OS X Java Vulnerabilities

2009-05-19T11:53:00.000-05:00

Ack...

Landon Fuller

Email'n Walk

2009-05-16T14:08:00.000-05:00

Cool idea :) Wish I thought of it.

9 to 5 Mac | Apple Intelligence

Latest Get A Mac Ad

2009-05-16T00:24:00.000-05:00

touché

Introduction to Wolfram|Alpha by Stephen Wolfram

2009-05-15T09:09:00.000-05:00

Absolutely amazing!

I wish I had this when I was in school...

Introduction to Wolfram|Alpha by Stephen Wolfram

Shopify — Hosted e-commerce with style, in less than 2 minutes

2009-05-14T15:24:00.000-05:00

Cool all-in-one shopping cart solution, built with Ruby on Rails.

Shopify — Hosted e-commerce with style, in less than 2 minutes

How to restore the system/boot drive letter in Windows

2009-05-08T17:36:00.000-05:00

If you've backed up / cloned / swapped System drives, your new system may not boot correctly. In my case it booted to a blank Windows login screen ( with no users showing up ) and hung.

This may be caused by incorrect drive letter assignments in the Windows Registry. My original system drive was drive C:, and I cloned it to drive D:. Drive D: booted fine, but I tried to swap the drive letters, this caused the new drive to hang on boot.

The solution was to boot into the old working drive and use REGEDT32 to load the registry file from the new drive. Then following this MS Knowledge Base Article 223188 to swap the drive letters of the two drives.

It essentially involves renaming the "\DosDevices\C:" registry keys located at [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices]

How to restore the system/boot drive letter in Windows

Load registry hive for offline registry editing | Troubleshoot | Smallvoid.com

2009-05-08T17:24:00.000-05:00

**Editing the registry can and will DESTROY your system if you mess up. So always have a BACKUP and fully understand what you're about to do!**

To edit Windows Registry hives from an offline system, such as an external hard drive that contains a Windows installation you need to run REGEDT32 from the command prompt.

The Windows registry is stored in 4 separate hives, located at %windir%/system32/config:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \SYSTEM] (%windir%/system32/config/system)
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \SOFTWARE] (%windir%/system32/config/software)
[HKEY_USERS \.Default] (%windir%/system32/config/default)
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER] (%userprofile%/ntuser.dat)

To access these hives start REGEDT32 from the command prompt:

1) Select the the base hive you want to edit.
2) Click File > Load Hive ( this option is disabled if no hive is selected )
3) Navigate to and select the offline hive you want to edit
4) Give a temporary name to the newly loaded hive ( this will show up under the current hive selected )
5) Any edits in the offline hive are saved immediately

5a) You can also Import/Export Registry entries:

To export a single key(with subkeys) into a file: Select the wanted key and in the menu "Registry" use "Save Key".
To import a single key or tree from a file: Select the location where the key should be imported and in the menu "Registry" use "Restore". Be very careful to select the same location from which is was exported as the restore will erase everything below the import location and replace with the contents of the file.

6) When you're done editing, select the offline hive loaded and click File > Unload Hive

Load registry hive for offline registry editing | Troubleshoot | Smallvoid.com

Resolved Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe Motherboard Won't Detect 1Tb Drive {updated BIOS}

2009-05-06T19:22:00.000-05:00

I've been using my trusty Asus A7N8XE Deluxe for many years. It has a Silicon Image 3112A SataRAID chipset onboard to support RAID 0 / 1 for Sata drives. However, the firmware is too old and does not support newer Sata drives larger than 1 TB.

The solution is to get the latest SI 3112A firmware, merge it with the latest A7N8XE firmware and flash the motherboard BIOS.

Files needed:

C18E1013.zip (A7N8X-E Deluxe Latest BIOS, from Asus)
AWDFLASH (Also from Asus)
Silicon Image SATARAID BIOS (from Silicon Image)
CBROM 2.15

Detailed instructions can be found at TechNutopia under the "Success!" post.
Resolved Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe Motherboard Won't Detect 1Tb Drive {updated BIOS} - TechNutopia

Lifehacker - Five Best Free Data Recovery Tools - Data Recovery

2009-05-03T15:27:00.000-05:00

Lifehacker - Five Best Free Data Recovery Tools - Data Recovery

Blue Screen of Death Survival Guide: Every Error Explained - Page 1 | Maximum PC

2009-05-01T17:05:00.000-05:00

Windows BSOD explained...

Blue Screen of Death Survival Guide: Every Error Explained - Page 1 | Maximum PC

MSXML 4.0 Service Pack 2 (Microsoft XML Core Services)

2009-04-26T17:46:00.001-05:00

Quick way to convert XML files to CSV files in Windows:

msxsl C:/filename.xml C:/filename.xsl -o C:/output.csv

Command Line Transformation Utility (msxsl.exe)

briancarper.net :: Vim regexes are awesome

2009-04-19T12:54:00.000-05:00

briancarper.net :: Vim regexes are awesome

First Mac Botnet Activated, Engages in DDoS Attacks

2009-04-18T06:53:00.000-05:00

Not good.

First Mac Botnet Activated, Engages in DDoS Attacks

Bulk Rename Script

2009-04-18T04:59:00.000-05:00

Awesome little script to do bulk rename of files posted on MandrivaUsers.org by Steve Scrimpshire.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# rename - Larry's filename fixer
$op = shift or die "Usage: rename expr [files]\n";
chomp(@ARGV = ) unless @ARGV;
for (@ARGV) {
$was = $_;
eval $op;
die $@ if $@;
rename($was,$_) unless $was eq $_;
}

Create a new file in /usr/bin rename.pl with the above contents.

chmod +x /usr/bin/rename.pl

Now you can do something like this to bulk rename files:

rename.pl 's/[0-9]+-//g' *

This requires some knowledge of Regular Expressions.

bulk rename bash script - MandrivaUsers.org

Htaccess, Apache, And Rewrites! Oh, My!

2009-04-15T00:24:00.000-05:00

Quick and concise list of common uses of the .htaccess file:

Crucial Web Hosting - Blog - Htaccess, Apache, And Rewrites! Oh, My!:

Jambo Journal

Windows XP Language Bar Empty / Missing

Django and Django-Template Syntax Highlighting for Coda

Changind Directory Colors in Terminal

Dvorak in 2007: Apple Should Pull the Plug on the iPhone

Belkin Powerline HD Gigabit Ethernet

Get 35% Off The iPhone 3GS If You Use Bing - iphone 3gs

How to reduce your PSD files size using Photoshop Idle Together

Boot your new MacBook from an SD card? Back up to it too? | 9 to 5 Mac

WiMAX初體驗 北市網路密度跑第一-Yahoo!奇摩新聞

First hands-on with the Pixel Qi LCD/e-paper screen

Mac OS X Java Vulnerabilities

Email'n Walk

Latest Get A Mac Ad

Introduction to Wolfram|Alpha by Stephen Wolfram

Shopify — Hosted e-commerce with style, in less than 2 minutes

How to restore the system/boot drive letter in Windows

Load registry hive for offline registry editing | Troubleshoot | Smallvoid.com

Resolved Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe Motherboard Won't Detect 1Tb Drive {updated BIOS}

Lifehacker - Five Best Free Data Recovery Tools - Data Recovery

Blue Screen of Death Survival Guide: Every Error Explained - Page 1 | Maximum PC

MSXML 4.0 Service Pack 2 (Microsoft XML Core Services)

briancarper.net :: Vim regexes are awesome

First Mac Botnet Activated, Engages in DDoS Attacks

Bulk Rename Script

Htaccess, Apache, And Rewrites! Oh, My!

WiMAX初體驗北市網路密度跑第一-Yahoo!奇摩新聞