2010年12月14日

The AUTORUN.INF file is corrupt or missing

The error message "The AUTORUN.INF file is corrupt or missing" appeer during installation of Microsoft Money(or other software)
It may be due to some protection software, such as antivirus software (Kaspersky actually does) prevent the execution of autorun.inf.

For instance, Kaspersky denies autorun for external devices and processing autorun.inf file in its Access Control protection. In order to disable autorun, do the following:
  • Open Kaspersky Anti-Virus.
  • Go to the section Protection in the left part of the window.
  • Click Device Control and choose Settings in the dialogue box.
  • Click the Settings button.
  • Uncheck the box "Disable processing autorun.inf" in the block Autorun.
  • Reboot the PC to apply the changes.

ref
Corrupt AUTORUN.INF file
Kaspersky :: How to allow/deny autorun for external devices and processing autorun.inf file

2010年12月11日

MMS streamming capture tool

The SDP Multimedia website for ASF download and MMS protocol specification
http://sdp.ppona.com/

free WebDAV client (and SkyDrive tool) under Windows

Rei's Shed - WebDAV Client CarotDAV - (support MSN SkyDrive)
http://rei.to/carotdav_en.html

FTP, SFTP and WebDAV client
http://www.bitkinex.com/

SkyDrive Simple Viewer for WebDAV
http://skydrivesimpleviewer.codeplex.com/

UML Tools for Software Development

StarUML - The Open Source UML/MDA Platform
http://staruml.sourceforge.net/en/

argouml.tigris.org
http://argouml.tigris.org/

Open ModelSphere - Free Modeling Software Open Source GPL
http://www.modelsphere.org/

Free Binary Tool - AptDiff

Binary Diff Tool
AptDiff - Visual Files Comparison and Merging Utility
http://www.aptedit.com/comparetwo.htm

Binary Viewer Tool
Hexplorer
http://hexplorer.sourceforge.net/

2010年12月2日

Turn you Notebook in to WiFi hotspot (Tethering)

Connectify - Turn your Windows 7 laptop into a Wi-Fi Hotspot (Windows 7 only!!!)
http://www.connectify.me/

安裝教學
Connectify:免指令,把Windows 7筆電變成AP | T客邦 - 我只推薦好東西
http://www.techbang.com.tw/posts/2285-connectify-free-instructions-the-windows-7-laptop-into-ap
Windows 7專用【Connectify】將電腦變身成無線基地台 | 就是教不落
http://steachs.com/archives/1464

2010年11月28日

Flashpaper alternatives

SWFTOOLS :: PDF2SWF
http://www.swftools.org/
 
(quote: http://key.chtouch.com/ContentView.aspx?P=563)

Print2Flash - convert or print any printable document to Adobe Flash (SWF) file for easy publishing on the Web
http://print2flash.com/

(quote: http://print2flash.com/help/Screenshot.php)

ref:
把文件轉換成Flash電子書,閱讀文件免下載、更方便! | ㊣軟體玩家
http://blog.soft.idv.tw/?p=795

2010年11月27日

Getting Free Droid Font

A good quality Unicode fonts is included in Android, and released as BSD.
Apart from Android SDK, you may also obtain it in  its Git repository (platform/frameworks/base.git/data/fonts)

ref:
How to get the latest Droid font family § Lvx ex Cælis
http://blog.bcse.tw/how-to-get-the-latest-droid-font-family

Virtual CD-ROM (mounting a CD under Windows)

For normal user:
SlySoft Virtual CloneDrive
http://www.slysoft.com/en/virtual-clonedrive.html

For advanced user:
StarPort (also iSCSI and ATA-over-Ethernet Initiator)
http://www.rocketdivision.com/port.html


also
Daemon Tools, Alcohol 52%, MagicDisk

ref:
Mount an ISO image in Windows 7 or Vista - How-To Geek
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/mount-an-iso-image-in-windows-vista/

2010年11月6日

disable ctrl+mousewheel zooming

How can you disable zooming in Internet Explorer/Firefox? - Super User
In Firefox, if you still want the option of zooming with ctrl-- and ctrl-=, you can

go to about:config
and set mousewheel.withcontrolkey.action to 0.

This makes it so scrolling with the control key down does the same as scrolling without the control key.

2010年11月5日

易用免費燒錄軟體 -- True Burner

True Burner 簡潔、趁手、高效能免費藍光光碟、DVD燒錄軟體
用「簡潔趁手」來形容一款燒錄軟體,似乎怪怪的?不過這就是我自己尋找「免費燒錄軟體」的重要標準之一。雖然對於大量使用或者有專業燒錄需求的玩家來說,會需要更全面、更深入的軟體;但老實說我真的太少使用燒錄功能,乃至於每次臨時需要備份而打開燒錄軟體時,總要被各種設定術語或不夠直覺的介面拖延些操作時間。

2010年10月2日

Software Application List

Monit
LedgerSMB.Org | Community developed Open Source accounting software
FOG :: A Computer Cloning Solution - Home
]project-open[ - Open-Source Project Management Software
Linbox.org - Trac
OSSIM (Open Source Security Information Management)
ADempiere
Zmanda: The Leader in Open Source Backup and Recovery
The SchoolTool Project — The SchoolTool Project Alfresco Community Network - Open Source Content Management
Geek2Live: Ghost Open Source Alternative
sakaiproject.org
Apache CouchDB: The CouchDB Project
Raw Therapee v2.4.1 - 相片美化的最佳幫手 :: 綠色工廠 Easylife Blog

Areca Backup - Official Website
介紹好用工具:ServiceEx ( 將應用程式轉成 Windows 服務 )
ThinkPad Anti-Theft Manager | Get ThinkPad Anti-Theft Manager at SourceForge.net
OpenEMM Home
OCS Inventory NG - Welcome to OCS Inventory NG web site !
GLPI - Gestionnaire libre de parc informatique
Homepage of ZABBIX :: An Enterprise-Class Open Source Distributed Monitoring Solution Apolitically Incorrect » Time Drive
oFono
Zoph Organizes Photos
Homepage - Hiawatha webserver
concrete5 - Free CMS | Open Source Content Management System
Nitro PDF Reader
放大縮小頁面
添加簽名
選擇文字
增加筆記、可以劃重點,如上圖所示,支援中文輸入
可擷取文字,不是指一般的選擇文字,而是可以直接將PDF轉成純文字
可擷取PDF檔的圖片,即匯出PDF檔案中的所有圖片
可以自編輯文字
再來一個很強的功能:支援300種以上的檔案格式,可以檔案轉成PDF檔。
免費、開源又跨平台的檔案同步軟體:DirSync Pro
一說起免費的檔案備份與資料同步軟體,SyncBack會是被提及頻率頗高的一套,除了免費版本外,也有提供付費功能供使用者選用。但如果想要找一套免費、開源又跨平台的同步軟體,則會難倒一堆人,幸好DirSync
Pro(Directory Synchronize Pro)填補了這個空隙。
跨平台的Visio繪圖替代軟體:yEd Graph Editor
偶然發現一套功能尚稱完整、以Java開發的類似軟體:yEd Graph Editor,只要有Java環境就能執行,因此也能使用於Linux或Mac等作業環境。

2010年8月15日

yum-security-check

yum install yum-changelog
wget http://yum-security-check.googlecode.com/files/yum-security-check-v0.1.pl


change line 9
#use Expect::Simple;

line 33
        #my $eobj = new Expect::Simple {
        #       Cmd => "/usr/bin/yum --changelog update $_",
        #       Prompt => [ -re => 'Is this ok.*'],
        #       DisconnectCmd => 'n',
        #       Verbose => 0,
        #       Timeout => 300,
        #};
to
my $str = `echo n | /usr/bin/yum --changelog update "$_"`;

line 45
                #print "\n--------\n$_\n----------\n";
                #$security_info .= "\n=========$_==============\n$_\n";

2010年7月20日

FreeFileSync: SyncToy-like tool for file sync

FreeFileSync
雖然之前有介紹過幾套同步軟體 - PathSyncToucan 以及微軟的 SyncToy, 它們都有值得推薦的地方 - PathSync 同步速度快;SyncToy 操作介面人性化,但是就像沒有十全是美這回事,它們也有某些缺點。PathSync 的效率雖好,但程式已經有兩年多沒有更新,而且不支援 Unicode,遇到非 Unicode 的檔名就沒轍;Toucan 的穩定性欠佳,同步到外接硬碟的時候常會當掉;而 SyncToy 則是在處理大量小檔案的時候效率過低。
今天來介紹另一套,算是目前為止是我心目中最佳的同步軟體 - FreeFileSync。

Free antivirus for business

FortiClient Endpoint Security Standard Edition
FortiClient內建了防毒、防火牆、網頁過濾(反色情、暴力網頁)、反垃圾郵件…等等功能,可說是相當「齊全」呀,聽說現在防毒軟體都要搞一堆功 能才有競爭力,而且聽說他的反垃圾郵件能力不太行,反正我用Gmail也用不到他的,只要防毒能力高一點就好。

Rebuild Icon Cache in Windows 7

without explorer.exe running
run those in cmd.exe
CD /d %userprofile%\AppData\Local
DEL IconCache.db /a
EXIT
How to Rebuild the Icon Cache in Windows Vista and Windows 7

2010年6月26日

Soluto – Anti-Frustration Software
什麼是Soluto?簡單的說,它希望能夠提供一個自動建議工具,確實幫你解決各種令人困擾的電腦問題;當你的電腦出現效能瓶頸時,Soluto可以跳出來告訴你「哪裡出問題?」、「應該怎麼做?」,甚至提供你直接利用Soluto排除問題的功能。而這些建議將會來自於所有 Soluto用戶的回饋,包含Soluto以匿名收集的各種電腦程式資訊分析。http://playpcesor.blogspot.com/2010/06/soluto-beta.html
Sync Butler - File Synchronization Tool
我們來舉一個實例,假設你已經設定好同步「我的文件夾」,每次按下同步軟體的執行按鈕,主機硬碟裡的「我的文件夾」資料就會同步到隨身碟當中,於是你可以把隨身碟帶到其它電腦繼續工作;然而事情總有意外,今天你忽然把一個重要的新文件儲存在「電腦桌面」上,忘記移動放進「我的文件夾」中,結果同步時自然就遺漏了這個重要檔案,讓你到了其它電腦想要繼續工作時才遍尋不著?上述的意外,即使最嚴謹的檔案管理者也有可能發生類似的疏忽,而這篇文章想要推薦的一款免費、開源、免安裝的同步軟體:「Sync Butler」,就想要提供一個簡便防呆的方法,以確保每次同步都能保證備份到重要的資料文件!http://playpcesor.blogspot.com/2010/04/sync-butler.html
TweakNow WinSecret 2010
TweakNow 終於出了套免費的軟體了,這套 TweakNow WinSecret Professional 有點像控制台的加強版,可以輕易的調整各項設定來增進效能,而且出現問題時還可以直接還原,讓使用者可以放心的去做調整。http://funp.com/t154800

2010年6月20日

Xanga archive 亂碼

Xanga大約2006年或之前還是用non-Unicode
香港地區多用Big5, 但如果用左香港字就會轉左去GB18030
後來Xanga依地區setting自動將Big5統一轉用Unicode顯示
但有香港字的post會亂碼

Soln:
只要去
http://www.xanga.com/updatelanguage.aspx
轉成簡體中文
那就可以看有香港字的post

當然, 用後記住還原

CygWine - a Cygwin GUI package management utility

http://code.google.com/p/cygwine/

2010年6月8日

block MSN by iptables

dstport
1863

dsthost
64.4.13.0/24
152.163.241.0/24
64.12.163.0/24
207.46.110.0/24
207.46.1.0/24
65.54.0.0/16

在防火牆後禁用MSN Messenger
2, 拒絕對IP 207.46.104.20的訪問
3, 拒絕對TCP 1863的訪問
4, 對HTTP進行應用層檢查,阻止包含gateway.messenger.hotmail.com的連接

2010年5月9日

Easy package management in Cygwin

cyg-apt - Project Hosting on Google Code
cygwine - Project Hosting on Google Code

AVG Rescue CD

  • Comprehensive administration toolkit.
  • Midnight Commander – a two-panel file manager.
  • Windows Registry Editor– simple registry editor for more experienced users.
  • TestDisk – powerful hard drive recovery tool.
  • Ping – to test the availability of network resources (servers, domains, IP addresses).
  • Common Linux programs and services– vi text editor, OpenSSH daemon, ntfsprogs and etc.
  • System recovery from virus and spyware infections.
  • Suitable for recovering MS Windows and Linux operating systems with FAT32 and NTFS file systems.
  • Able to perform a clean boot from CD or USB stick.
Rescue CD (CD version)  - http://www.avg.com/us-en/download-file-cd-arl-iso
Rescue CD (USB version) – http://www.avg.com/us-en/download-file-cd-arl-rar

2010年4月15日

Firefox Place Cleanning for performance

Use PlacesCleaner 收藏庫清潔工 :: Firefox 附加元件 directly
or execute those commands one-by-one in Tools->Error Console by your hands:
Components.classes["@mozilla.org/browser/nav-history-service;1"].getService(Components.interfaces.nsPIPlacesDatabase).DBConnection.executeSimpleSQL("DELETE FROM moz_historyvisits WHERE place_id IN (SELECT id FROM moz_places WHERE visit_count <=2 );");
Components.classes["@mozilla.org/browser/nav-history-service;1"].getService(Components.interfaces.nsPIPlacesDatabase).DBConnection.executeSimpleSQL("DELETE FROM moz_places WHERE (visit_count <=2 AND hidden <> 1 AND id NOT IN (SELECT place_id FROM moz_annos UNION SELECT fk FROM moz_bookmarks));");
Components.classes["@mozilla.org/browser/nav-history-service;1"].getService(Components.interfaces.nsPIPlacesDatabase).DBConnection.executeSimpleSQL("DELETE FROM moz_inputhistory WHERE place_id NOT IN (SELECT id FROM moz_places);");
Components.classes["@mozilla.org/browser/nav-history-service;1"].getService(Components.interfaces.nsPIPlacesDatabase).DBConnection.executeSimpleSQL("DELETE FROM moz_favicons WHERE id NOT IN (SELECT favicon_id FROM moz_places);");
Components.classes["@mozilla.org/browser/nav-history-service;1"].getService(Components.interfaces.nsPIPlacesDatabase).DBConnection.executeSimpleSQL("DELETE FROM moz_annos WHERE anno_attribute_id IN (SELECT id FROM moz_anno_attributes WHERE name = 'google-toolbar/thumbnail-score' OR name = 'google-toolbar/thumbnail');");
Components.classes["@mozilla.org/browser/nav-history-service;1"].getService(Components.interfaces.nsPIPlacesDatabase).DBConnection.executeSimpleSQL("VACUUM"); 

Ref:
檢視主題 - Firefox 3 日漸肥大的收藏庫減肥法 • Mozilla Taiwan 討論區
Vacuum Firefox databases for better performance, now with no restart 

2010年4月13日

Disable Thread SMS in Window Mobile 6.1

Under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Inbox\Settings\OEM\ (create if not exist),
create a new DWORD named SMSInboxThreadingDisabled and set it to 1.

ref:
Disable SMS Text Message Threading or Conversation Mode in Windows Mobile 6.1

2010年4月11日

GIMP plug-in for content-aware resize

Liquid Rescale GIMP plugin: content-aware resizing for the GIMP
It is a free, open source frontend to the Liquid Rescale Library, which provides an implementation of the Seam Carving algorithm as described in this paper by Shai Avidan and Ariel Shamir.

2010年3月13日

Change Soft Keys on Windows Mobile

Change Soft Keys (Shortcuts) on Windows Mobile Today or Home Screen
Changing Soft Key 1 (Left SoftKey)
To change the default value of the left softkey (SK1) on Windows Mobile, navigate to the following registry key:
For Windows Mobile 6 Professional or Classic:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Today\Keys\112]
For Windows Mobile 6 Standard:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Home\Keys\112]
Inside the registry key, there are two options which should be changed accordingly:
@=”” (Also known as Default)
“Open”=
Changing Soft Key 2 (Right SoftKey)
To change the default value of the right soft key (SK2) on Windows Mobile, navigate to the following registry key:
For Windows Mobile 6 Professional or Windows Mobile 6 Classic:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Today\Keys\113]
For Windows Mobile 6 Standard:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Home\Keys\113]
Inside the registry key, there are two options which should be changed accordingly.
@=”” (Or label as Default)
“Open”=”[Enter path to the location of handling app program or executable]”

2010年3月6日

sync between 2 FTP servers

GoodSync同步二台FTP主機中的檔案
隨著文章數不斷的增多,圖片也跟隨著增長,所以主機穩定性就格外的重要,最近租用國外的圖床主機又小出狀況,與他們的線上客服聯絡,又請梅干等到六點再與 他們的工程部門聯絡,真是快昏了於是梅干就在想,有沒有什麼工具,可讓FTP同步FTP,這樣子梅干就把檔案備到另一份主機中,當A掛掉後還有B可擋著, 所以今天要來介紹一個好幫手,那就是GoodSync這工具,總於可完成梅干的夢想

Microsoft Free Office Templates for Small Business

http://www.microsoft.com/smallbusiness/office2007templates/

2010年2月13日

Get Logitech QuickCam support in Windows Vista and 7

Trick to Use Logitech QuickCam Messenger in Windows Vista » My Digital Life
  1. Download QuickCam 8.4.8 with driver for WinXP.
  2. Install WinRAR if not already installed yet.
  3. Open the setup installer qc848enu.exe and unpack its contents to a folder. Alternatively, right click on qc848enu.exe and select “Extract to qc848enu\” option.
  4. Insert or plug in the Logitech QuickCam Messenger to a USB port if not already done so.
  5. An “Driver Software Installation” icon in systray (notification area) should appear, which will pop up detailed message if click. It should fail, and “Add Hardware Wizard” dialog window will appear. Choose to install the driver manually by instructing the Wizard to locate and look for the web cam driver inside the Drivers folder under the unpacked folder of the qc848enu.exe setup program. You can use browser button to select the folder.
  6. Windows Vista should grab the XP driver and install it properly.
  7. Download the latest version (10.5.1) of Vista compliant QuickCam software from Logitech to install the software on Vista.
  8. Run the setup (qc1051enu) normally. You may need to skip the detection of webcam near the end of installation process.

2010年1月3日

Pidgin fonts problem under Windows

It seems that no fail-safe font for GTK under Windows.
Solved by adding font alias

Edit C:\Program Files\Common Files\GTK\2.0\etc\pango\pango.aliases
Adding the target fonts as alias

ref: http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/2966

Setup Mathematica font in Xming

Edit font-dirs in C:\Program Files\Xming
Add the font dirs
or extract fonts to C:\Program Files\Xming\fonts\TTF

The Mathematica font can be found here

2010年1月1日

bbDRIVE - free alternatives of WebDrive

HKBN have relicense WebDrive from South River Technologies for its bbDRIVE service
The feature of bbDRIVE is restricted to its use. However, the restriction could be removed easily.

1. download bbDRIVE from
http://www.hkbn.net/bb1000/download/wd_7_34_1801_bbdrive_english.exe

2. Restore the UI by removing key content in registry
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\South River Technologies\WebDrive]
"UIDisableList"=""
"BasicUI"=0