Oakley Sunglasses get a new lease on life
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
If your Oakley sunglass handles happen to break, don't fear, a couple of wood nails and some swim goggle straps can render them useful again. I cut the ends off the nails with a wire cutter and sanded off the sharp edges. Aside from that, the fit was just snug enough to not require anything to hold the nails in place. They kind of look like they belong in the Chronicles of Riddick!
posted by Chris @ 2:17 PM, ,
Bridging two WRT54G routers
Sunday, May 27, 2007
I put the info in a pdf click here
posted by Chris @ 11:06 AM, ,
Visual C++ 6.0 setup won't run in XP / crashes with "Setup has encountered an error and needs to close" modname: appname: offset: blah blah blah
Thursday, April 26, 2007
steps to resolve this issue:
1) create a shortcut to the setup program on your desktop
2) right click the shortcut and select properties
3) goto the compatibility tab
4) select "run in compatibility mode for": "Windows 98 / Windows ME"
took me hours to figure this out so hopefully it will save somebody else from hours of frustration
posted by Chris @ 4:21 PM, ,
Google Sitemap Control
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Use this to generate google-understandable sitemaps for submission into Google webmaster tools:
http://www.gotdotnet.com/codegallery/codegallery.aspx?id=237330e0-65c5-4ebb-b62b-e486dd598604
posted by Chris @ 3:52 PM, ,
The Longest Journey (1) Music/Audio Extractor
Monday, March 19, 2007
I wrote a utility to extract stereo audio files from TLJ resource files (.iss & .xarc)... have fun!
http://www.alithiatec.com/downloads/TLJExtractor.exe
posted by Chris @ 1:51 AM, ,
Dolci Desideri
Sunday, September 24, 2006
Tasty cookies if you can find them!
http://w2000.webelife.com/mangiami/asp/schedabiscotti.asp?id_pasta=94
posted by Chris @ 12:55 PM, ,
Disable native XP CD burning feature
Thursday, September 07, 2006
http://network.mpei.ac.ru/lang/rus/faqw2kxp/jsifaq/rh5404.htm
posted by Chris @ 2:08 PM, ,
Disable recent documents list in XP
http://www.windowsutilities.net/regfiles/NoRecentDocsHistory.reg
posted by Chris @ 1:58 PM, ,
restore username@password behavior in IE
Wednesday, September 06, 2006
make a regedit file with the following:
-----------------------------------start
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_HTTP_USERNAME_PASSWORD_DISABLE]
"iexplore.exe"=dword:00000000
"explorer.exe"=dword:00000000
-----------------------------------end
posted by Chris @ 9:10 PM, ,
DV to DVD
- DV to AVI use DVIO
- AVI to M2V use TMPGENC:
My settings were: NTSC
audio doesn't matter
video type: camcorder=interlaced, usually bottom field first, 4:3 NTSC aspect
choose bitrate to result in desired size 2-pass is good if less than 8000 kbps constant bitrate for 8000 kbps - AVI to AC3:
virtual dub to WAV (FILE->save wave)
use BeLight for PCM WAV to AC3 - M2V and AC3 to DVD VOB FILES:
Use DVD Lab Pro - Burn the files using the burner of your choice (nero is good)
posted by Chris @ 1:10 AM, ,
ogm to avi to rm
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
at divx digest
posted by Chris @ 10:56 PM, ,
Feelin' the burn
If you want to make sure your DVD backups are as error-free as possible this program can come in handy:
http://www.cdrlabs.com/kprobe/
posted by Chris @ 9:15 AM, ,
Prevent Outlook from blocking inbound attachments
Saturday, June 24, 2006
stick this in a .reg file:
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Security]"
Level1Remove"="ADE;MDB;ADP;MDE;BAS;MSC;BAT;MSI;CHM;MSP;CMD;MST;COM;
PCD;CPL;PIF;CRT;REG;EXE;SCR;HLP;SCT;HTA;SHS;INF;URL;INS;VB;ISP;VBE;
JS;VBS;JSE;WSC;LNK;WSF;WSH"
posted by Chris @ 11:49 PM, ,
Change how Visual Studio handles file extensions and create your own
Sunday, June 18, 2006
open the registry editor and navigate to
\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\X.X\Languages\File Extensions
where X.X corresponds to the version of VS you have (8.0 is VS 2005)
in my case I wanted to add another html extension called rhtml so:
- create a new 'key' named ".rhtml"
- create a new 'string value' named "(Default)" with a value of the GUID that corresponds to the editor you wish to use (in my case the HTML editor GUID found in the .html key: {58E975A0-F8FE-11D2-A6AE-00104BCC7269})
-create a new 'string value' named "Name" and the value should be a description of the file (in my case "Ruby HTML"
that's it!
posted by Chris @ 11:35 AM, ,
Solid workout with no weights
Saturday, June 17, 2006
This workout program seems rather decent and something one can get hooked on:
http://www.mattfurey.com/conditioning_book.html
It requires no weights and really gets the blood flowing!
posted by Chris @ 1:31 AM, ,
Ruby on Rails
Friday, June 16, 2006
I just stumbled across a new rapid web development tool that seems to be cool:
http://www.rubyonrails.org/
gonna check this out and see where it leads
here are some useful links:
posted by Chris @ 3:43 PM, ,
Sympatico.ca DNS Servers
Wednesday, November 30, 2005
In case sympatico's DNS servers fail these alternates will keep one surfing:
CIRA: 192.228.22.70 / 192.228.22.71
Level3 Communications: 4.2.2.1 / 4.2.2.2
209.244.0.3 = resolver1.level3.net
209.244.0.4 = resolver2.level3.net
Bell Canada (not Sympatico): 198.235.216.130 / 198.235.216.131 / 198.235.216.134
posted by Chris @ 11:55 AM, ,
IIS Lockdown
Thursday, November 10, 2005
If you're using XP's built in IIS webserver, this tool plugs your security holes:
here
posted by Chris @ 1:01 PM, ,
MBSA
Want to see how secure your XP is? Try this tool out:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/tools/mbsa2/default.mspx
It's the MS Baseline security analyzer that gives you a security analysis of your PC and instructions on how to fix the diagnosis. Pretty useful...
posted by Chris @ 12:46 PM, ,
.NET Weblinks
Tuesday, September 13, 2005
plugins
scripting
operators
class guidelines
sets
generics
posted by Chris @ 3:47 PM, ,