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Scrolling with TrackPoint in Ubuntu 10.04

Sean Young — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 05:58:42 +0000

My Thinkpad X300 is a great machine and everything in Ubuntu 10.04 works natively except for scrolling with the TrackPoint. I've gotten it working but it never sticks after putting the laptop to sleep. Below are the instructions modified for a Thinkpad X300.

1. Install gpointing-device-settings
Open terminal and type sudo apt-get install gpointing-device-settings

2. Enable scrolling with TrackPoint
Open gpointing-device-settings and click DualPoint Stick and check use wheel emulation with button 2.

3. Create /usr/lib/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-thinkpad.conf

Section "InputClass"
Identifier "Trackpoint Wheel Emulation"
MatchProduct "DualPoint Stick"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "evdev"
Option "EmulateWheel" "true"
Option "EmulateWheelButton" "2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "false"
Option "XAxisMapping" "6 7"
Option "YAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

I modified the instructions found here since they only partly worked for my X300.

Connecting Windows 7 to a Windows XP share

Sean Young — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:11:35 +0000

If you are having trouble connecting a Windows 7 machine to a Windows XP share try enabling Network security: LAN Manager authentication level - Send LM & NTLM responses.

Open the run dialog and type gpedit.msc and press enter.
Open Computer Configuration
Open Windows Settings
Open Security Settings
Open Local Policies
Open Security Options
Find Network security: LAN Manager authentication level and change it to Send LM & NTLM responses

For more info on the settings see the Microsoft TechNet article.

You cannot view a list in Datasheet view after you install the 64-bit version of Office 2010

Sean Young — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:11:37 +0000

Symptom
You cannot view a list in Datasheet view on a SharePoint website after you install the 64-bit version of Microsoft Office 2010.

When you click Actions and then click Edit in Datasheet on a SharePoint 2003 or 2007 site, or you click the List tab and then click Datasheet view on a SharePoint 2010 site, you receive the following error message:

The list cannot be displayed in Datasheet view for one or more of the following reasons:
• A datasheet component compatible with Microsoft SharePoint Foundation is not installed.
• Your Web browser does not support ActiveX controls.
• A component is not properly configured for 32-bit or 64-bit support.

Solution
Install the 2007 Office System Driver: Data Connectivity Components

Screaming Infidelities

Sean Young — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 01:37:09 +0000

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Windows 7 prompting for credentials when accessing SharePoint documents

Sean Young — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 19:41:26 +0000

Sympton
You are prompted to enter your credentials, even though the user account that you are using has sufficient permission to access this site.

For example, when you open a Microsoft Office file from a Microsoft Office SharePoint site by using 2007 Microsoft Office on a Windows 7-based client computer that has no proxy configured, you are prompted for authentication.

Solution
you have to create a registry entry. To do this, follow these steps:

Click Start, type regedit in the Start Search box, and then press ENTER.
Locate and then click the following registry subkey:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WebClient\Parameters
On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click Multi-String Value.
Type AuthForwardServerList, and then press ENTER.
On the Edit menu, click Modify.
In the Value data box, type the URL of the server that hosts the Web share, and then click OK.Note You can also type a list of URLs in the Value data box. For more information, see the "Sample URL list" section in this article.
Exit Registry Editor.
Restart the WebDAV service.
Open an elevated command prompt and type in net stop WebClient && net start WebClient
Reconnect to your SharePoint site.

source: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943280

Windows 7 firewall network location

Sean Young — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 19:58:34 +0000

If you have a computer that is connected to a domain and is plugged into the domain network but doesn't have the domain profile active in the firewall settings of Windows 7 check to make sure you have your domain DNS server set as your primary DNS.

I had a client have an external DNS set for "faster internet" but it was causing errors on the machine because the PDC couldn't communicate with it correctly.

How to write e-mails to nerds from RackerHacker.com

Sean Young — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 18:30:02 +0000

Standard e-mail etiquette is pretty obvious to most of us and if you're good at it, you'll get your point across more often without stepping on toes or causing unneeded confusion. Simple things like identifying yourself well, avoiding sarcasm and adding context to statements are all extremely beneficial. However, writing e-mails to highly technical developers, system administrators, and engineers is a little trickier. These types of e-mail recipients don't really enjoy handling e-mail (inbound or outbound) and most find that e-mail is just a speed bump which interrupts their productivity.

If you're not technical, you might be asking yourself: "I need to e-mail technical people and they need to take what I say seriously? How do I do it?" It's not impossible, but the rest of this blog post should help.

MotoHelper 2.0.24 Consuming free space

Sean Young — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 17:00:22 +0000

A client of mine's laptop ran out of free space. I did a scan and noticed the file MotoHelper.log was using it all. After deleting the file it began to consume all the free space again after a few days. I uninstalled the MotoHelper software and all is well. I couldn've tried updating it but the client did not need the software.

The file path is...
C:\Program Files\Motorola\MotoHelper\MotoHelper.log

Exchange 2003 store won’t mount

Sean Young — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:56:10 +0000

One of the Windows SBS 2003 servers I administer had a BSOD and after bringing it back up the Exchange store wouldn't mount. It gave the error "The database files in this store are inconsistent."

I used the Eseutil.exe utility to check the consistency of the store.
"c:\Program Files\Exchsrvr\bin\eseutil.exe" /mh "c:\Program Files\Exchsrvr\MDBDATA\priv1.edb"

From the output I noticed 2 things. The state was set to dirty shutdown and one of the logs was missing or corrupt.
State: Dirty Shutdown
Log Required: 16655-16655 (0x410f-0x410f)

I tried running Eseutil.exe /r but received an error. I then proceeded to run Eseutil.exe /p which repairs the database. Once that was complete I ran an offline defrag, Eseutil.exe /d, and lastly isinteg.exe -s servernsmr-fix -test alltests which checks for integrity weaknesses.

I was then able to mount the store and users were able to access their mailboxes. A word of caution Eseutil.exe /p is usually a last resort and can cause some data loss. Microsoft recommends restoring from a clean backup rather then doing a repair. I'll leave that decision up to you.

CentOS 6

Sean Young — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 07:05:11 +0000

I noticed CentOS 6 is out. I downloaded CentOS-6.0-i386-netinstall.iso. So far it's working flawlessly with Virtualbox.

For those that don't have the netinstall URLs they are...

32 bit: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/os/i386/
64 bit: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/os/x86_64/