If you are on a 64bit system, you might sometimes stumple upon 32bit programs which need several libraries of which are no lib32-packages. A good example is the Amazon MP3 Downloader. You can now either search the missing libraries at packages.ubuntu.com or use a tool which does this for you: getlibs. You run it with… Read More »
If your flashplugin only recognizes the very first mouse click and then seems to ignore the mouse completely, just click somewhere outside the area where the flash script is (e.g. on the webpage background) and then flash will recognize the next click. Some more promising solutions are these: Flash Preferences unusable If your clicks onto… Read More »
One huge problem in a standard Ubuntu install is that not all programs are actually using the PulseAudio daemon but instead still use ALSA. This is especially true with the flashplugin. Since PulseAudio and ALSA can’t use the hardware device at the same time, they block each other which leads to hangs and maybe even… Read More »
Java crashes with EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (0xc00000005) The AirVideo Server for iPhone runs only under Mac and Windows and needs Bonjour and JRE. Java always crashed with After some poking around, I found a thread at nabble.com. Disabling the d3d9.dll was the solution: That was it. Now, Java should run smoothly.
The default soundcard to be used with ALSA is that with the index 0 in /proc/asound/cards. Usually this is the first found sound device. If you want to change this order, you have to find out the name of the kernel module used for that card and then add the desired index to it in… Read More »
To get access to a Windows PC as an Administrator user, there is a very brute security hole which you can use. The only thing is: You need physical access to the machine. The procedure is as follows:
Schweizerdeutsch ist ein Dialekt (obwohl sich die Schweizer wünschen, es wäre eine eigenständige Sprache) bzw. ein Sammelbegriff für alle alemannischen Dialekte, die in der Schweiz gesprochen werden. Als ich gerade etwas gestöbert habe, ist mir aufgefallen, dass die Schweizer ihren Dialekt teilweise sehr engstirnig verteidigen. Es wird ständig versucht, die gesprochenen Wörter in Schriftform zu… Read More »
Homepage: http://wxnet.sf.net/ wx.NET is a wxWidgets-wrapper for Mono. The compilation is not really straight-forward as one is used to.
I recently found some of my manuals to remove BIOS passwords in a very familiar design on a totally foreign site: This page is from 2006. Now take a look at my old homepage: I have SVN logs going back till December 2004 where I have started working on these pages. Also all pages behind… Read More »
PSP-S110 Pandora Battery The original shipped battery of type PSP-S110 can be made a Pandora-battery which enables developer features on the PSP. Opening the battery The housing of the battery is glued together around the side. DO NOT TRY TO OPEN IT WITH A SCREWDRIVER as you can easily produce shorts which may even make… Read More »