Archive for June, 2009

Mouse rant

I got a bluetooth mouse from Amazon. It’s a Logitech mouse V470. I couldn’t tie the middle mouse button to a middle click given the software. I sent this rant to Logitech support.

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I can’t believe that this product was shipped. You have a 3 button mouse. There’s really no excuse that you didn’t check that all 3 buttons work.

The software only allows the middle mouse button to be tied to zoom functionality.

I want to tie the middle mouse button to the middle click. This isn’t rocket science.

Please post a software update to this trivial problem.

Peeved customer,

~Tim Graupmann

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Reference #
090626-001959

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And of course right after I send the mail, I figured out how to assign the key. Doh! Bad interface design.

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QuickCam locks mozMapi32.dll

I couldn’t update Thunderbird because my Logitech Quickcam software was running. Weird. Somehow Logitech had locked the file: [mozMapi32.dll].

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Vista SP2 (bad idea)

I installed Vista SP2 and that was a bad idea. I can no longer connect to my network via the [Netgear WN121T adapter]. I get an error [The system cannot find the file specified]. Be sure to install that Netgear (optional) network Windows Update or you may find yourself stuck.

This device is not working properly because Windows cannot load the drivers required for this device. ([Code 31])

Click ‘Check for solutions’ to send data about this device to Microsoft and to see if there is a solution available.

It turns out Vista SP2 failed to install. [122602]

Service Pack did not install. Reverting changes. Do not turn off your computer.

I’ll try installing the SP2 from Safe Mode. No luck.

Service Pack did not install. Reverting changes. Do not turn off your computer.

Good thing they have a SP2 readiness tool:

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Checking System Update Readiness.
Binary Version 6.0.6001.22375
Package Version 5.0
2009-06-24 10:20

Checking Deployment Packages

Checking Package Manifests and catalogs.

Checking package watchlist.

Checking component watchlist.

Checking packages.

Checking component store
Summary:
Seconds executed: 2429
 No errors detected

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Synergy

[Synergy] is a great open source tool that ties your keyboard and mouse input together across multiple computers as though it was the same computer. Synergy runs a client and server and sends network traffic over TCP which connects Windows and Mac input together. You can even share clipboards. [Engadget] has a detailed article on how to setup your configuration.

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Modo 401

The anticipated [Modo 401] shipped today! I’m sifting through the docs looking for anything on [volumetric lighting].

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Weird Art

I used to go to Photoshop contest every day and post something. I forgot how [cool and weird] my entries were.

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Windows Update

Last night’s Windows Update required a reboot. There must’ve been a Netgear something in the updates because my network was disabled. I had to reinstall my [network drivers] to get back on the network. Pooh! I think I’ll risk installing Vista SP2, or should I???

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Remote Desktop

By default, Remote Desktop is disabled on Vista Home Premium. [This hack] will enable the feature. Without the hack, there’s no way with the GUIs available to enable the feature. It’s actually better to have Vista Home Premium with the hack versus Vista Ultimate because Home Premium (hacked) allows multiple user log ins.

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Squid or Calamari

A couple days ago one leg that feeds power to our house went out. So yesterday, PUD came out to fix it and accidentally killed my Comcast Internet with a backhoe. So now I’m using dial-up AOL until Sunday when Comcast might come out to fix the Internet cables. Originally, the problem traces back to the water pipeline guys who nicked the power and my Internet cables the first time.

Now that I’m on dial-up, I want to share the Internet connection with our computers. In the past I used [Squid] as a network proxy. [ACME] provides windows binaries in the [related downloads] section. Squid seems to be better than [Internet Connection Sharing] because each time AOL connects it recreates the network connections. So this means you lose your Internet sharing settings. In this respect Squid is better. However, Squid by default only supports http, https, and ftp.

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Firefox Add-on

[developer.mozilla.org] – build your own Firefox add-on

[ted.mielczarek.org] – Firefox extension wizard

[developer.mozilla.org] – setup your development environment

[xulplanet.com] – firefox add-ons have access to the XULDocument

[developer.mozilla.org] – how to modify the DOM with XUL

[XULPlanet] – XULPlanet Forums

[developer.mozilla.org] – tips on accessing document.body from your firefox plugin

[irc://irc.mozilla.org#extdev] – Firefox extension channel

[developer.mozilla.org] – embedded dialog API

[developer.mozilla.org] – regular expressions

Notes:
(xp) Extensions should be placed in C:/Documents and Settings/username/Application Data/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/quyeu39o.default/extensions

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