Manage virtual memory / move pagefile.sys

Windows 7
Computer > Properties
 - or -
Control Panel > System and Security > System

Advanced System Settings > Advanced tab > Settings (under Performance) > Advanced tab > Change (under Virtual memory)

Reboot

Disable hibernation / remove hiberfil.sys

Windows 7
powercfg -H OFF

Computer games bugs and conflicts

Conflicts

• Terraria and Mumble (creative sound card bug?)
• Grand Theft Auto IV and Mumble (same as Terraria?)
• Grand Theft Auto IV and Process Explorer (securom restriction)
• Battlefield 3 and Process Explorer (punkbuster bug)

Bugs

• Singularity has no sound on my Audigy 1. Tried installing OpenAL but didn't help. Works with another sound card.
• Screen in BattleField Bad Company 2 sometimes flashes black frames. Sometimes screen becomes black for several seconds. This is on my GTX 275. Tried several different NVidia drivers versions (even betas) with no success. Very annoying bug.
• I couldn't play Battlefield 3 CO-OP mode unless I forward port 3659 from the router to my computer. I can then host the game and invite another player. I didn't have to make a rule in Windows Firewall. It probably already works if UPnP-style NAT traversal is enabled on your router, but I highly discourage its use due to potential security problems.

Terraria vs Mumble Conflict

There is currently a problem starting Terraria when you also have Mumble running.

Apparently that a lot of people have problems starting the game, but no one seems to be sure of the issue. Some say it's because of the .NET or XNA framework and others say it could be a conflict with creative sound cards.

Of course, you should check if you have the latest .NET and XNA framework installed. Be sure to have the latest Creative drivers for your card (mine installed automagically with Windows Update optional updates). You could try verifying Terraria game cache integrity under Steam.

I was getting a "Terraria stopped working" window with the follwing details:
Problem signature:
  Problem Event Name:    APPCRASH
  Application Name:    Terraria.exe
  Application Version:    1.0.4.0
  Application Timestamp:    4eea0a07
  Fault Module Name:    RTSSHooks.dll
  Fault Module Version:    0.0.0.0
  Fault Module Timestamp:    4d4fb7eb
  Exception Code:    c0000005
  Exception Offset:    0000a5f2
  OS Version:    6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
  Locale ID:    3084
  Additional Information 1:    0a9e
  Additional Information 2:    0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
  Additional Information 3:    0a9e
  Additional Information 4:    0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789

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A workaround is to stop Mumble, start Terraria, then restart Mumble. This conflict could very well happen with something else than Mumble. I have a Creative sound card (good old Audigy 1), but I don't know how to fix this issue so I am unsure if it's related.

What kind of sound card do you have? Did you have the same issue using another sound-related software?

EDIT: Not just Terraria! Grand Theft Auto 4 also crashes on start if Mumble is open.

start programs rapidly

Windows, linux
launchy
enter launches most common item
ctrl-shift-enter launches it elevated
F5 rescans the catalog

linux, BSD and others?
dmenu

hidden scheduled task

When running a batch file or ruby script (even .rbw) or anything that does not have a GUI, a cmd window normally pops up. This is surely unwanted when scheduling a task with those kind of programs. Sadly, I don't see any checkbox to hide the window at runtime in the scheduled task wizard.

The best way I found is posted at http://serverfault.com/questions/9038/run-a-bat-file-in-a-scheduled-task-without-a-window.

Schedule a .vbs script containing something like:

Set WinScriptHost = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
WinScriptHost.Run Chr(34) & "C:\Scheduled Jobs\mybat.bat" & Chr(34), 0
Set WinScriptHost = Nothing

There are other tools like hstart and cmdow that lets you do pretty much the same thing, but I prefer using built-in tools a lot more.

events/

Debian Squeeze on my new (used) T61.

events/1 take 50% cpu for some time every 2 secondes or so.

Seems to be related to Wicd. Doing a "ifconfig eth0 down" solved the problem, but I still don't know the root cause.

T61 specific problem? Lots of posts on forums about this. Lots of people also "fixed" this by removing the battery for a couple of minutes... Pretty strange.

SSHFS on Windows

or secure file sharing, a replacement for samba (windows client, accessing files on *nix server).

DokanInstall_0.6.0.exe Dokan library (http://dokan-dev.net/en)
dokan-sshfs-0201226.zip for installer and explorer context menu
dokan-sshfs-0.6.0.zip take DokanNet.dll and DokanSSHFS.exe and replace in 0201226.

Advantages secure, read/write, easy to install.
Drawback easily bottlenecks at a few MBps on slow CPU. Not multi-core. Shows bad size information. Unstable?

oocrap

Once again, I used oocalc for 15 minutes and then became angry. I could not delete a graph I juste made from a 5-column 30 lines dataset. Pressing delete gave me a stupid error without any solution. So wtf? I have to start a new workbook?

Also, I probably won't be able to control oocalc from OLE (or something else), comparing to Excel.

aptitude settings

It is important to have a valid and updated sources.list to be able to search in the repos.

delete service in windows 7 / 2008

To remove an entry from the list of services in windows 7 / 2008 (and maybe others), first get the full name of the service (win+r, services.msc).

Then, in a command prompt (win+r, cmd, run as administrator), type
sc delete servicename
where servicename is the full name of the service. If it contains spaces, put double quotes around it.

It may be necessary to reboot for the service to be completely removed from the list.

cygwin packages and binairies search

For example, searching for strings utility:
cygcheck -p strings.exe

Best to add .exe if you know it's an executable --- it will narrow the search.

ref: http://www.trueblade.com/knowledge/finding-which-cygwin-package-contains-a-particular-file

samsung CLP-350 IP setup

Goto samsung printers website
support
downloads
search with model name
software
get Set IP

(also works with Wine)

konica 7145 IP setup

? Help
Key Operator Mode (default password is 7145)
Network

open pdf with gimp on win

Install ghostscript.

Accentuated characters in file names breaks import.

windows at work

Here are some tips on how to set up a computer at work. There should be the least possible influence to other accounts or system-wide settings.

firefox + addons
gvim
launchy
avast
processxp
foobar2000 (and usb sound-card + phones + somafm :)
ctrl2caps (not system-wide?)
coretemp
tail

remove old kernels

find kernels

dpkg -l | awk '{print $2}' | grep linux | grep -e headers -e image -e modules

aptitude purge every one having version number lower than the highest.

EDIT: Is it really safe to remove modules?

See also cleaning after package managers.

exFAT on XP

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=1cbe3906-ddd1-4ca2-b727-c2dff5e30f61&displaylang=en

gimp win language

For some reason, by default, Gimp runs in french on my 7(English) desktop. I didn't find any option to change language, in Gimp or GTK. So, to start Gimp in English, make a batch file containing something like:

set lang=en
cd C:\Program Files (x86)\GIMP-2.0\bin
gimp-2.6.exe

cleaning after package managers

Once in a while, it may be a good idea to remove unneeded files generated by package managers. Downloaded package updates are not deleted after use, so we may end up with a lot of wasted space after several weeks.

On Ubuntu (10.04), those files are located under /var/cache/apt/archives and can be removed by doing:

aptitude clean

 See also remove old kernels.