Category Archives: Software

Everything related to the non-physical digital world.

eZPublish templates in Eclipse

Syntax-highlighting and Code-completion With the Smile eZ Publish-plugin for Eclipse, there is syntax highlighting and code-completion for eZ Publish-templates. But this only works if you open the .tpl-files out of a project. If not already set, at the configuration page Window → Preferences… → General → Editors → File Associations → *.tpl select Open With…… Read More: eZPublish templates in Eclipse »

Dr. Kaiser PcConsole

Homepage: http://www.dr-kaiser.eu/ To make locking the workstation impossible, kill PdsLspSv.exe in Task Manager. HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\PdsLsp\Flags This value controls locking Internet upon bootup (only, if the LehrerConsole isn’t working).

Swing apps show garbled backgrounds

This may have to do with a damaged OpenGL pipeline. Play around with the following parameters: If you found the correct combination, set it as environment variable _JAVA_OPTIONS.

Device Manager Hacks

To show a ‘Details’ tab in device’s properties, add the system environment variable DevMgr_Show_Details and set itto “1”. To also show non-active devices, add DevMgr_Show_NonPresent_Devices and also set it to “1”.

SrvAny vs. WinServ

SrvAny.exe doesn’t recognize when the launched application exits. Windows still thinks that the service (SrvAny.exe)is running and so error handling (restart app, restart windows, etc.) doesn’t occur. Winserv doesn’t have this problem. Get it from http://sw4me.com/wiki/Winserv?v=qw0.