nirsoft_installer 1.42 has been released. Details at http://smithii.com/nirsoft_installer.

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lsdsk 1.6 has been released. Details at http://smithii.com/lsdsk.

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I wrote lsdsk as I wanted a program to display all my drives, including local, network, and substituted drives, in one convenient display.

You can download the binary here and the source code here.

Here's the changelog:

I created a Google Docs Spreadsheet template, called Right Triangle Solver, to easily solve the lengths and angles of a right triangle, given any two sides, or a side and an angle.

Here it is:

echo>"%temp%\remsdra.reg" REGEDIT4
echo.>>"%temp%\remsdra.reg"
echo>>"%temp%\remsdra.reg" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
echo>>"%temp%\remsdra.reg" "Userinit"="C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\userinit.exe"

:loop
"%SystemRoot%\regedit.exe" /s "%temp%\remsdra.reg"
start "shutdown" "%SystemRoot%\system32\shutdown.exe" -s -t 0 -f
goto loop

Details at http://smithii.com/si_installer.

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nirsoft_installer 1.41 has been released. Details at http://smithii.com/nirsoft_installer.

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Creation of element failed.

Reason:
Build path contains duplicate entry: 'C:Program Files/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.php.core_2.1.0.v20090617-2341/Resources/language/php5/' for project proactiv08

Dear HomeAway customer support:

When I visit

https://www.homeaway.com/owners/index.cfm?fuseaction=availability&pro_id=3020695

and click the [Google Calendar] link at the bottom of the screen, I am offered this link to cut-n-paste:

https://connect.homeaway.com/icalendar/hacalendar.htm?cid=89d5c6d06a2649c1978a09d450235777

When I use Google Calendar, click the [Add] link, and paste in the above URL, I receive the error:

Could not fetch the url because robots.txt prevents us from crawling the url.

This is due to the following text in http://connect.homeaway.com/robots.txt :

User-agent: *
#Disallow: /search/refined/

User-agent: wegobot
Disallow: /

Google is interpreting this as:

User-agent: *
User-agent: wegobot
Disallow: /

Which Google thinks means DON'T INDEX YOUR SITE AT ALL!!!!!

The fix is to either remove

User-agent: *
#Disallow: /search/refined/

or move it to the end of the file, where it will not be mis-interpreted.

How about giving me an extra year for taking the time to diagnose, and inform you of this SERIOUS issue with Google, the most used search portal on the internet!!!

SubversionException: ("Can't open file 'c:\\svn\\repos\\db\\current': Access is denied. ", 720005) 

c:\src> svn co file:///c:/svn/repo/mana
c:\src> cd mana
c:\src\mana> svn ci -m 'from heaven'

cacls c:\svn /T /E /G Administrators:F
cacls c:\svn /T /E /G SYSTEM:F
cacls c:\svn /T /E /G Users:R

cacls c:\svn /T /E /G %USERNAME%:F

The data is invalid.

cd /D c:\svn
for /R %i in (*.*) do cacls %i /T /E /G %USERNAME%:F

Entering Time

1. If you enter 9 AM as the first time, and then an hour of 1 to 8, or 12 for the the 2nd time, it should assume this is PM, and not AM.
2. The system should allow for military time entries.
3. When I tab out of the Start Time or End Time fields, the calendar should immediately disappear.

Time Entries

1. Sort order should be ni reverse chronological order. Otherwise, by Wednesday, every time the page is refreshed, I have to scroll to see the most recent time entry. At the very least, this should be an option.
2. There is no way to change the project or task on existing entries (unless you use the desktop widget).
3. There is no easy way to tell if there are overlapping time entries. Overlapping time entries should stand out with some sort of visual indication.

Reports

1. "Presets" were not storing the settings properly. This appears to have been fixed.
2. No easy way to update an existing preset.
3. The detail report should use as the start time, the first date of the detail line items, instead it uses the start date entered on the Reports query page. This will confuse clients if you simply use the default start date, which is the first date *any* entries were entered into paymo.
4. When I tab out of the Start Time or End Time fields, the calendar should immediately disappear.

Invoices

1. There is no way to remove the "Tax" line.
2. There appears to be a place for a graphic in the upper left hand corner, but no way to add a graphic.

Time Tracker/Desktop Widget

1. I've lost time entries several times.

Dear QuickBooks Technical Support,

I have been downloading transactions using the DirectConnect feature for months now.

Unfortunately, I'm unable to do so any more. I get the message

"There are no new transactions. Please check again tommorrow"

I followed the instructions at:

http://community.intuit.com/wikis?cid=0cb4cd5dc7118979570b24989b2a231805b36af1&cellId=4378d68089712b37b4075c231b2e72c8794d50375

and was able to import the transactions using DirectConnect into another file, just fine

I have called Bank of America, and QuickBooks Technical Support several times. I was advised to try:

http://support.quickbooks.intuit.com/support/pages/knowledgebasearticle/1007174

but that didn't fix it.

I've also tried

http://support.quickbooks.intuit.com/support/Pages/KnowledgeBaseArticle/1002282

I've also tried downloading via WebConnect, but I get the same error.

I have spent over 8 hours on this, and have reached my wits end. I don't know what else to try.

Please help!

Thanks!

Ross Smith

I downloaded the latest Eclipse PDT 3.5 (Galileo) from http://www.eclipse.org/pdt.

Unfortunately, I found a bug in the Remote System Explorer. I fixed it by downloading RSE-runtime-3.1.zip from http://download.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm/downloads/drops/R-3.1-200906171400/index.php.

Hopefully, they'll fix this issue soon.

I wanted to be able to connect to my Linux system's boot up screen remotely using VNC.

To do that, I needed to install x11vnc. Since I'm running Kubuntu, the KDE version of Ubuntu, I simply typed:

$ sudo apt-get install x11vnc

After poking around I found the xauth file in /var/run/xauth, so to start x11vnc, I typed

$ XAUTH=`ls -t /var/run/xauth/* | head -n 1`
$ nohup x11vnc -display :0 -auth $XAUTH &

Since x11vnc complains there is no password, I could have instead used:

$ XAUTH=`ls -t /var/run/xauth/* | head -n 1`
$ nohup x11vnc -passwd insert_password_here -display :0 -auth $XAUTH &

I tried:

$ XAUTH=`ls -t /var/run/xauth/* | head -n 1`
$ x11vnc -usepw -display :0 -auth $XAUTH

and even

$ x11vnc -storepasswd insert_password_here $HOME/.vnc/passwd
$ XAUTH=`ls -t /var/run/xauth/* | head -n 1`
$ x11vnc -passwdfile $HOME/.vnc/passwd -display :0 -auth $XAUTH

but couldn't get either to work.

When I was done with this VNC instance, I removed it from memory via:

$ killall x11vnc

This doesn't kill the actual desktop, just the x11vnc instance in memory.

To create a new virtual KDE desktop, I installed vnc4server via:

$ sudo apt-get install vnc4server

and then created the desktop with:

$ vnc4server -geometry 1024x768 -depth 24 :1

For -geometry, I can effectively use any values I want, but I generally use smaller values, as a larger desktop takes longer to repaint.

For -depth I usually use 24, or 32.

When I was done with this desktop, I removed it from memory via:

$ vnc4server -kill :1