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Turn on character overwrite in Word 2007
by lunarg on July 5th 2010, at 16:39
Apparently, Office 2007 no longer has character overwriting enabled by default. Pressing the Insert key on your keyboard does nothing at all. While most rarely use this function, a customer was blaming his keyboard from nothing working properly. A quick look around showed that, indeed, pressing Insert no longer enables the overwrite function in Office 2007 (Word in particular was tested).

Microsoft has decided some time ago to turn off this function by default, because it is indeed rarely used - it's the first time I noticed it was gone, and have never received a question up until now,   ...
 
Print spooler crashes with HP LJ 1020/1022
by lunarg on June 30th 2010, at 18:04
Ever so often, owners of a HP Laserjet 1020 or 1022 may run into a problem with the print spooler crashing over and over for no apparent reason. Restarting the spooler causes an immediate crash, and the only way to get rid of the problem is by removing (sometimes by force) all printers. The observant type has already noticed (the title of this post says it all) that the common dominator is indeed the 1020/1022 printer, and that the problem usually occurs upon attempting to print one or another PDF document.

In truth, the problem is caused by newer versions of the HP Host-based printer drive  ...
 
Activating SSH on ESXi 4
by lunarg on June 30th 2010, at 17:12
While not documented, it is possible to activate remote SSH access to an ESXi 4.0 (free or paid license).

You need console access to the machine to turn on SSH access; it cannot be done with the vSphere client.

At the console, press Alt+F1 to switch to the console. You will not see a prompt, but you will be able to type in the logon name. Type in unsupported then press Enter; you will see a Password: prompt. If you did not set a password in ESXi, type in unsupported. If a password was set for the root account, type in that password. Once logged in, navigate to /etc, and open the fil  ...
 
iPad, will it blend?
by lunarg on June 25th 2010, at 14:11

Probably the most important question to ask about the iPad: will it blend...?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAl28d6tbko

 
IPSEC on multi-WAN linux firewall
by lunarg on June 23rd 2010, at 17:14
Working on implementing Multi-WAN at our office (more about that later), in which we use a rather special routing setup, we got this error message on our IPSEC tunnels:

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ipsec_setup: Starting Openswan IPsec U2.4.12/K2.6.26-2-amd64...
ipsec_setup: no default route, %defaultroute cannot cope!!!

While the reason was obvious to me (there's indeed no default route in the main routing table, this is by design), fixing the problem was not.
I tried adding options like leftnexthop=ip-address but it did not really matter; the error persisted.

After searching around Google, I cam  ...
 
Drive safely, seriously...
by lunarg on June 18th 2010, at 22:22
 
Last call for soaring camp 2010
by lunarg on June 18th 2010, at 20:49


It's getting closer and closer to Albatros's Soaring camp 2010, and the places are getting filled up as the days go by. If you're still interesting in joining this year's camp, you should hurry up as there aren't a lot of places left. If you're even remotely into flying and want to have two weeks of flying fun, along with one hell of a camp with a great atmosphere, this is your chance. Click on the image to get more information; while the site's in Dutch, you can use the contact form (link at the bottom-right) to get all the info in English.

The soaring camp t  ...
 
Fallout 3: notorious CTD upon saving
by lunarg on June 18th 2010, at 20:27
Ran into a problem with my Fallout 3 saving, oddly enough for the first time ever. Every time I tried saving my savegame, the game crashed with an access violation. As long as I did not save, there was no problem, but hey, what's the use about not saving your game...
The problem started appearing right after I started the Broken Steel quest line, but even outside the quest line, I have this problem.

As a member of Fallout Nexus, I was nosing around the mod repository when I stumbled upon an unusual post: Crash To Desktop Begone. It explained a plausible reason for the problem: upon sav  ...
 
Soaring camp 2010
by lunarg on June 5th 2010, at 20:51

 
Fiddling with Shorewall
by lunarg on June 3rd 2010, at 20:03
Linux has always been a great player in internetworking, thanks to a very advanced networking stack. In addition, the filtering capabilities provided by Netfilter are only surpassed by a very select group of devices. It doesn't come as a surprise there are a lot of firewalls and internet gateways out there that are running this powerful combo.
Detailing the features of linux as a firewall/internet gateway would take up an entire article so I'm not going to elaborate on it. It suffices to say that whatever you can think up of setting up, the linux + netfilter combo can probably do it. Worst cas  ...
 
Finally face-booked...
by lunarg on June 2nd 2010, at 17:58
Officially hooked by Facebook. Well, not really...

It wasn't exactly peer pressure (like everyone is assuming), but was getting a bit tired of the endless conversations about things happening on Facebook. I was starting to get a feeling I was missing out on things. Moreover, because of the creation of various Facebook groups (mainly Zweefvliegclub Albatros), I created a Facebook profile to join these groups as well. And last, but not least, it's amazing how many people you once knew can be found on Facebook. My profile exists for only a week, but already I received a bunch of frien  ...
 
Belgacom introduces unlimited internet for 10 EUR/month
by lunarg on June 1st 2010, at 09:33
Starting this month, every type of subscription can be upgraded to have unlimited (i.e. no volume limits) internet access for an additional fee of only 10 EUR/month. Belgacom is doing this to counter the offer of Telenet; they have removed volume limitations to their higher subscription types (TurboNet and FiberNet).

About four months ago, both Belgacom and Telenet announced the ending of the volume limits in Belgium. This policy gained more and more resistance from various companies, claiming that the limitations were preventing from certain services to be expanded succesfully. Belgium wa  ...
 
Advanced 7-Zip SFX creation
by lunarg on May 31st 2010, at 10:57

By default, 7-Zip SFX (self-extracting executable) creation only has basic configuration options. With 7-Zip SFX Maker, you can expand those options with a whole lot more.

This piece of software allows the creation of customized SFX, taking 7z files as input. Things like changing the icon, captions, default extraction path and more, are all implemented. This makes 7-Zip SFX Maker a handy tool when you require a little more than a standard SFX but less than a fully-fledged installer.

Download link: http://teejee2008.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/7-zip-sfx-maker-v20-2/.

 
Remote Desktop Connection: enable redirection of DOT4 printer
by lunarg on May 31st 2010, at 10:51
Printers that use ports that do not begin with COM, LPT or USB are not redirected in a remote desktop or terminal services session. To force all ports to be redirected, the filtering type has to be changed. This is done in the registry.

Do a Start, Run, type in regedit and press Enter. This starts the Registry Editor. Navigate to the key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Terminal Server Client\Default\AddIns\RDPDR. Right-click in the right pane, choose New, then DWORD value. Name the value FilterQueueType, press Enter. Double-click the newly created entry, and set the value to  ...
 
Licensed to radio
by lunarg on May 27th 2010, at 19:57
Yesterday, I did my exam for a radio-license. This license officially gives me permission to use a radio in aviation. The exam took place in Brussels at the office of B.I.P.T., civil aviation branch.

The exam itself was pretty simple compared to what we have been practising during the course; it was much more complicated then, but that's a good thing (of course).
Aside of the obligated part about theory (regulations etc.), there was a short pratical exam in which a "virtual flight" has to be made, during which you have to follow the right radio procedures and aviation regulat  ...
 
EDPnet keeps classic dial-up available
by lunarg on May 18th 2010, at 10:41
EDPnet is currently the only ISP in Belgium to retain the classic dial-up services. EDPnet keeps to servicing those that only require internet occassionally for checking their e-mail. For this purpose, Free EDPnet is provided.

Similar to a classic dial-up subscription from the old days, Free EDPnet requires an analogue dial-up modem or ISDN dial-up modem. Most systems no longer have this by default, although external USB variants (e.g. US Robotics) still exist.

Free EDPnet requires no registration or activation costs, other than the fee you pay your telephone company for the duration of t  ...
 
Exam for passenger license
by lunarg on April 26th 2010, at 22:32

Over the last year I managed to gather my required 50 hours of solo flight time, and yesterday was a good time as any to take my exam for a passenger's license.

The exam itself was basically a revision of most elementary flight manoeuvers (stale turn, high turn, stalling, etc.), accompagnied with an additional back tow (i.e. when the cable does not release).

While I succeeded in my exam, it goes to show that even those things really have to be maintained; I was a bit rusty in performing some manoeuvers. Guess I'll be practising them a bit more.

 
I don't want no SEO
by lunarg on April 26th 2010, at 22:24
SEO companies ocassionally use my contact form to offer me to get my website on the first page of Google.

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We would like to get your website on first page of Google.

All of our processes use the most ethical "white hat" Search Engine Optimization techniques that will not get your website banned or penalized.

Please reply and I would be happy to send you a proposal.

Are they serious? I'm not a commercial organisation, nor do I care about SEO. This site is merely a personal blog site, and was designed for little more than that (which is also clearly stated  ...
 
McAfee's take on svchost.exe
by lunarg on April 23rd 2010, at 20:42
One of my clients at work was also a victim of the latest McAfee false-positive trouble. In case you don't know what I'm talking about, read the official statement (and remedy): https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?id=KB68780&page=content.
Basically the issue is that McAfee wipes svchost.exe from your system because it thinks there's a virus in it. And this file is in fact quite critical for Windows to function properly.

My client managed to skip by the worst part of the trouble, and only had this issue on two of their desktop computers (running Windows XP SP3). Their systems were not entire  ...
 
HP online warranty check
by lunarg on April 20th 2010, at 14:09

HP has an online warranty check tool, but it's not easy to find on their website. Here's a direct link to it (for as long as it works:

http://www4.itrc.hp.com/service/ewarranty/warrantyInput.do

 
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