Author: Trond Endrestøl
McAfee Consumer Product Removal tool
Sometimes McAfee products causes more grief than joy. For some mysterious reason, some, if not all, McAfee products interfer with the handling of VBScript as they register their own .dll file for handling VBScript. Not all attempts at manually correcting the Windows Registry prove successful. In most cases McAfee Consumer Product Removal tool are able […]
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Av og til kan man lure på om programmerere noen gang gjør fullstendig testing av programmene sine. PC|SCHEMATIC Automation trenger en real gjennomgang. Blir ikke PC|SCHEMATIC Automation avsluttet skikkelig, så blir *.$pr-filer liggende i katalogen til programmet. Dette blir oppdaget neste gang PC|SCHEMATIC Automation starter opp, og da starter en evigvarende runddans mellom å velge […]
Read More → PC|SCHEMATIC Automation og gjenopprettingsfilerResetting a deactivated iPhone 4
A colleague had been given an iPhone 4 previously owned and used by another colleague. After too many attempts at entering the wrong PIN code, the iPhone decided to deactivate itself. I was tasked with bringing this iPhone back to life.
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Update 2014-11-30 Upgrading to Oracle VirtualBox 4.3.20 removed the timeout messages shown below. The bug was acknowledged in the change log as Storage: fixed an interrupt acknowledge issue causing hanging guests or slower I/O (4.3.18 regression) Since upgrading Oracle VirtualBox from 4.3.16 to 4.3.18 on my Windows 7 x64 host, most of my FreeBSD guests […]
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«Læreren er gradvis endret fra [en] fagperson med tyngde i sitt fag, til en rapportskrivende figur i klasserommet styrt av politiske krefter.» Fra Teknisk ukeblad, «Regjeringen fjerner muligheten for å gå rett fra yrkesfag til ingeniørutdanning».
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I upgraded a stable/8 i386 system and switched from lang/perl5.16 to lang/perl5.20 only to experience problems with swig generated code for AMANDA. I have confirmed this behaviour on stable/9 amd64 too. I found 17 files containing these three lines: This results in error messages such as:
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I was among the many beta testers for Star Trek Online back in 2010, but I soon lost interest in the game. I recently revived my interest, though.
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Bare en organisasjon blir stor nok, så sysselsetter den seg selv med arbeidsoppgaver som ligger langt utenfor kjernevirksomheten.
Read More → Kjernevirksomhet og ekstra sysselsettingRicoh MP C5502 stuck at updating @remote certificate
Two Ricoh MP C5502’s exhibited the same symptoms, they were both stuck at updating their @remote certificates. If you have this problem, you’ll notice a message in the bottom left corner of the screen on the MFPs. The MFPs were fully functional, but nevertheless I wanted to get @remote up and running again.
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Strangely enough, Java Runtime Environment (JRE) fails to register javaws.exe as the handler for .jnlp files when installed in Windows 8/8.1. Just remember to choose javaws.exe, not java.exe nor javaw.exe. Further more, Blackboard Collaborate insists on using 64-bit JRE on 64-bit Windows, i.e. visit the directories and files usually found in C:\Program Files\Java, not the ones […]
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