TimeSnapper funny note when register with a Mailinator address

That made my day ^_^ Easy amused I guess.

To mirror a folder from one folder to another I put the following to a bat file (all on one row):

robocopy "D:\Pictures"
"\\MyOtherComputer\Backup\Pictures" /MIR

I did some different bat files for all folders I wanted to backup. At last I created one bat file that calls all the other. It looks like:

call BackupPictures.bat
call BackupCode.bat

Look into the robocopy help for more configuration options.

I created a button that you can add to Picasa that opens the selected images in ICE. It’s available for automatic installation or manual installation. If you choose manual installation copy the file to <your user folder>\AppData\Local\Google\Picasa2\buttons. If you want to remove it from Picasa you can delete the file from that directory. The pbz file contains two zipped files; one XML-file and one icon file. See Picasa Button API for more information about Picasa Buttons.

Prerequisites:

• Picasa Installed. I used the version 3 beta.
• Microsoft ICE installed. Note! It must be installed to the following folder: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Research\Image Composite Editor

Issues / TODOs:

• There are a hard coded path for the ICE executable. I tried to find a registry key for ICE but I found none so you must install Microsoft ICE to the following folder: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Research\Image Composite Editor
• The icon and text on the button doesn’t look quite alright. It works but looks a bit lame.
• Try to send a path where ICE should save the stitched image so it defaults to the same location as the unstitched.

I’ll try to fix the above issues. See my post in ICEs forum.

If you are using Flickr you might also want to check out picasa2flickr and if your are using Gimp the Gimp Picasa Button!

Don’t miss the Alt.NET “unconference” this Saturday!

My first thought was to create a new rescue CD that I could restore to my new drive. But that didn’t seem like the easiest solution so I looked up a tool called Clonezilla. I started out by setting up similar partitions using GParted and boy am I glad I did? It turned out that you can use GParted to copy one partition to another. It took some minutes, I rebooted and it didn’t work.

I was a bit clueless until I remembered that you need to write a Master Boot Record (MBR) to the disk before it’s possible to boot from it. I booted up from an old DOS cd and wrote fdisk /mbr. Rebooted and still no luck so I fired up GParted again and saw that I had forgotten to set the bootable flag on the drive. I rebooted and everything went fine.

When knowing about MBR and the boot flag it’s a no brainer and I can’t recomend it enough! At least if you aren’t on a mac where Carbon Copy Cloner is available!

Ubuntu Hardy Heron (V 8.04) is now available on the official release servers!

As the last time; roll up your sleeves and help seeding the files! Don’t forget to configure that Quality of Service in your router! I attached the torrent files for Hardy Heron if the servers become unavailable.

Enjoy!

I added Little Gamers to my comics list. Since the feed from Little Gamers doesn’t contain the images I had to put the following information in the XML-file for the script.

http://www.little-gamers.com/rss.xml
    &lt; ![CDATA[<img src="(http://www.little-gamers.com/comics/.+?\.gif)" alt="" />
    Hot swedish love

Thanks a lot to BigBellyBilly (the author of the Comics script) for helping me out on this!

If you havn’t Xbox Media Center on you Xbox read: Geek To Live: Transfor Your Classic Xbox into a Killer Media Center.

Close Visual Studio. Add a string value to the Windows registry called Guides with the value RGB(153,153,153) 79 for a gray (#999) guideline at column 80 to any of the following locations.

Visual Studio 2005: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER]\Software\Microsoft\
VisualStudio\8.0\Text Editor

Visual Studio Express 2005: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER]\Software\Microsoft\
VCExpress\8.0\Text Editor

Visual Studio Express 2008: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER]\Software\Microsoft\
VCExpress\9.0\Text Editor

It would of course be nice to have the setting in Visual Studio but for now this is good enough!

Since I mostly use a Swedish variant of Dvorak (Svorak-A1) I had some problems finding the built in shortcuts for selecting different settings on the layout (the shortcuts mentioned in the manual doesn’t work the same way on a Swedish layout as on a En/Us layout).

On a Swedish version of the Advantage, use the following shortcuts instead

Turn on and off audible tones (sounds for Caps Lock / Num Lock)

• Program + (?+\)

Turn on and off key clicks

• Program + (*’)

Instant Configuration

• (´`) + (w) for “Windows mode”
• (´`) + (p) for “non Windows mode” (use this for international Windows layout and in Linux)
• (´`) + (m) for “Macintosh mode”

Reset (there are several different resets, see the manual for more info) the keyboard:

• Program + Shift + F10

Kinesis On-Board Dvorak Layout (on a Swedish computer)

• Program + Shift + F5

If you are using a Swedish layout and switch to the on-board Dvorak layout your layout will look a bit different than the layout presented in the manual. The attached image shows how my layout works or download the SVG of the layout.

Screenshot of the Touchpad section from my Xorg.conf

If you want more options. See the Gento Wiki about Synaptics Touchpad.