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IBM Remote Insight Board (RSA) causing Windows XP to blue screen (BSOD) when attempting to remote control a system.

Was getting a BAD_POOL_HEADER error, with stop code: 0×00000019 & 0×1A020001 almost every time I tried a remote control session.

That error code seems to be device driver related according to my research, but what device drivers are involved in a Java application in Internet Explorer?

The solution was to remove the SD card from the card reader in my laptop!

My guess is that the part of the remote control that allows you to map a local drive or file to be mounted by the remote system was causing a crash when it saw the SD card while going through my local drives to find suitable devices for the local drive list.

Export your key as an OpenSSH (password pretected) key file
Put a copy of the pub key in a file with the same name . pub (ie Mykey.OpenSSH.key.pub)

keyring /filename
source ~.keychain/USERID-sh
ssh host

should work!

offlineimap from feed: http://mail.pdaxrom.org/contrib/rgrep/
edit ‘which offlineimap’ and replace:
#!/usr/bin/env python2.3
with:
#!/usr/bin/env python
mv /usr/lib/python2.3/offlineimap/ /usr/lib/python2.4/
In the end I toasted most of this and copied the files from the latest distro from http://quux.org/devel/offlineimap/
You need to backup these files:
/usr/bin/offlineimap
/usr/lib/python2.4/lib/offlineimap/

Either back those up and reuse them, or just pull them again from the distro.
Remember to:
edit ‘which offlineimap’ and replace:
#!/usr/bin/env python2.3
with:
#!/usr/bin/env python

Or try U+221F, 2220, 2221, 2222 in Unicode fonts (… Type 2221, then =
Alt+X … If you have a Unicode font with those angle symbols installed, =
Word will likely choose it automatically.)

Disable add-on “Exchange SCAN”

First, the card would not work for me when I started using it in my new laptop at work.

The program would start, and when I inserted the card it would say “Starting bluetooth…” but that was it. It never worked.

Here is what I did to make it work:

1. In Device Manager, under Network Adapters enable Cisco Systems VPN Adapter.

2. In Device Manager DISABLE the built in Modem.

3. In Device Manager DISABLE the external COMM port.

Now, I know, you say, “What does this have to do with bluetooth, and most people don’t have Cisco VPN on their computer!?” Yes, I know, but doing these three things has made it work consistently. I have tried any “one” of them, and it only works if I do ALL THREE.
Second, DRIVERS! SocketCOM seems to be very stingy about giving out the drivers for XP. They do send them via tech support. Here are the links they gave me:

First, THIS is the one I use, it works for me on XP:

http://www.socketcom.com/ftp/Bluetooth%20BlueSoleil%201.6.4.1%20Win%20XP%20only.zip

Now here are two other links I got from them. One is for an old version. Tech support told me I had to install the old version first, and then the new one, but that is not true. I used the above one by itself on a new computer just fine. You should not need the links below, but I put them here for documentation:
http://www.socketcom.com/ftp/BlueSoleil%201.4.9.5%20release%20050127.zip  http://www.socketcom.com/ftp/BlueSoleil_1.6.1.4.zip
			

Advice someone gave me on a forum on taking low light shots with my Canon A610:

Have you tried raising the ISO for those handheld low light shots?

The A610 takes really terrific low light shots at ISO 200 or 400.

Use aperture priority and set the aperture at f/2.8. You should get a
high enough shutter speed for a reasonably sharp image - IF your
subjects aren't moving...pretty difficult with small children!

Ideas for rules to block adds in an OpenBSD PF firewall:

(These are just ripped from google searches, put them in Google and you will find the real author, I did NOT write these.)

EXAMPLE 1:
# Tables: define large lists of host or network addresses for efficiency
table  persist const { 216.73.80.0/20 } # nasty hobbitses

# block doubleclick
block in  quick on $ext_if inet from  to any
block out quick on $ext_if inet from ($ext_if) to 

EXAMPLE 2:
doubleclick = “204.253.104.0/24, 205.138.3.0/24, 206.65.183.0/24,
208.184.29.0/24 ” # Doubleclick Ad-Server

block out quick on $ext from any to $doubleclick

block in quick on $ext from $doubleclick to any

EXAMPLE 3:
table  persist { \
216.73.80.0/20, \
204.253.104.0/24, \
205.138.3.0/24, \
208.184.29.0/24 \
}

table  persist { \
2.23.190.0/24, \
65.247.105.0/24, \
65.215.137.0/24 \
}

# deny pop ads
block in  quick on $ext_if from any to { ,  }
block out quick on $ext_if from { ,  } to any

You can easily change the port that RDP runs on my modifying this registry entry:

"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\System\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\TerminalServer\\WinStations\\RDP-Tcp\\PortNumber"

Douglass Adams created a video game called Starship Titanic. It is a must-see for any fan of his work.

However, it does not work properly on Windows XP. I used to run it on Windows 98, but my most recent computer has a video card that has no drivers for Windows 98.

What happens on XP, is that the game runs fine, but there are “blank” spots in the game. What those are is places where the program uses AVI files to play video clips.

The culprit is the iccvid.dll file. The latest version just does not work for this game. The file, in XP, is in c:\windows\system32

The solution: Just copy iccvid.dll from an older system into Starship Titanic’s directory! I am told that the file from XP SP1 works. I haven’t tried that yet. I used a file from Windows 98, and it works great!
So, if you want to run Starship Titanic on XP, just get an old version of iccvid.dll and put it in C:\program Files\The Digital Village\Starship Titanic\ You do not need to bother the non-working dll in c:\windows\system32\ , because the program will look in the local directory FIRST for the dll and then in the system32 directory later.

If you do not have an old copy of iccvid.dll, I have put a copy of it here on my web site. iccvid.dll This is from Windows 98 SE. It is version 1.10.0.6

Here is a newer version of ICCVID.DLL that I found on the web here. It is version 1.10.0.11 I think it might work slightly smoother than the Windows 98 file.

Note the version in XP that does NOT work is 1.10.0.12, so the above is apparently the most recent that will work. I also find it interesting that the files get smaller as the versions get newer.

Again, please do not risk putting this this file in c:\windows\system32, instead just put it in the directory with the ST.exe file (the Starship Titanic executable). It will use the copy that is in the folder with it. It searches there first.

(BTW, I found this out by using FileMon from SysTernals. That is an awesome troubleshooting program!)