When windows update fail after installing Windows XP SP3

Posted On July 19, 2008

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command prompt

# net stop wuauserv
# regsvr32.exe %windir%\system32\wups2.dll
# net start wuauserv

Firefox3 and Orbit downloader integration

Posted On July 19, 2008

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remove the orbit addon of firefox3

Open “install.rdf” file, C:\Program Files\Orbitdownloader\addons\orbitff

replace

<em:maxVersion>3.0</em:maxVersion>

to

<em:maxVersion>3.0.1</em:maxVersion>

then check Firefox integration of orbit preferences.

memo; apply Windows XP SP3 Visual Styles

Posted On July 13, 2008

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UXTheme Patcher

It seems there are some variations of patches and some patches doesn’t work.

Until Windows recognize msstyles file, search and try other versions of the patch.

emacs muse color-theme

Posted On July 9, 2008

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some settings of muse-mode prevents M-x color-theme-select.

Ubuntu sound recognition

Posted On July 3, 2008

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*Check whether Ubuntu recognize sound hardware

#cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#* | grep Codec

If Ubuntu couldn’t recognize audio hardware, nothing would be output.

If you get something output ( for example, Realtek ALC880 ),

edit “alsa-base” according to this post.

HDA ATI SB / INTEL Sound card problem [SOLUTION!] - Ubuntu Forums

Ubuntu; fix Openoffice frequently crash

Posted On June 27, 2008

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sudo apt-get remove openoffice.org-gtk

Though OOo gets poor appearance, it becomes stable.

Ubuntu; fix hibernation error

Posted On June 27, 2008

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Sometimes hibernation would fail, with black screen.

Ctrl-Alt-F2

login

sudo gdm

memo: cairo-dock download page

Posted On June 26, 2008

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Avant window manager setting

Posted On June 24, 2008

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AWM needs less memory than cairo-dock.

Some options haven’t been ready for .

add synaptic repository ;
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/awn-testing/ubuntu hardy main

$ sudo apt-get install awn-manager-trunk awn-extras-applets-trunk

citation(JP, comment);
http://linuxsalad.blogspot.com/2007/08/awn.html

speedbar; emacs directory tree

Posted On June 22, 2008

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boot speedbar; M-x speedbar

exit speedbar ; q

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