Making an Intel 3945 Wireless card work in Ubuntu 8.04

By cbarrett | July 4, 2008

I found this on the Dell linux wiki and it did the charm. These are the steps I took, your results may be different.

First, I disabled the wireless via the switch on the side before loading Ubuntu.
Next, I did the follow step:

Create a file called /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-ipw3945 and add:

blacklist ipw3945

Add to /etc/modules:

iwl3945

Then, I enabled the wireless card and enabled the restricted driver.

After that, I was finally able to connect to my wireless router.

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How to clear stored network passwords

By cbarrett | June 19, 2008

In the start menu, select Run (or Windows + R)
In the Run dialog box, type: rundll32.exe keymgr.dll, KRShowKeyMgr
Browse the stored passwords, remove the offending password.

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Fixing a REALLY slow Windows Picture and Fax Viewer

By cbarrett | March 20, 2008

I was having trouble with Windows Picture and Fax Viewer taking upwards of 1 minute to open. I noticed that this was only happening when I tried to open an image from the Desktop. I googled around a bit, but didn’t really find anything concrete (must have been my excellent search skills). I tried running the Desktop Cleanup tool and amazingly, it resolved the problem. I did some more searching and I discovered that dead links to programs/shortcuts in the same directory as the image, will cause the Viewer to hang until it times out on that link. Simply removing the dead shortcut will resolve the problem.

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How to run a script at login

By cbarrett | March 1, 2008

I use synergy to control multiple computers with a single keyboard and mouse. I recently built a hackintosh and wanted to run the synergy server on it and connect my linux box to it. I had already set Vista up to be a server, so the linux configuration didn’t need to change much. The problem is that synergy on OSX didn’t have a gui like in windows and I didn’t know how to autorun it like I did in linux. So I began digging in. I’ll use synergy as the example, but this should work with just about any script.

First, I created file called synergy.command with my command to start the synergy server. The contents of the file are:

nohup /Applications/synergy-1.3.1/synergys -f –config /Applications/synergy-1.3.1/synergy.conf &

Now I have a way to start synergy up, but how would I get it to start when I logged in. A quick google found exactly what I was looking for.

Open System Preferences

Then open Accounts

Select your account, then click on Login Items

Click the + at the bottom of the window.

Browse to your synergy.command and click on Add.

That is really all there is to it. Next time you login, Synergy will be started. If the terminal window comes up, you can close it, since the nohup command is there.

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Backing up Putty Settings in Windows

By cbarrett | November 30, 2007

To Export:
regedit /e putty.reg HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SimonTatham\PuTTY\Sessions

To Import:
regedit /s putty.reg

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Clearing Remote Desktop History

By cbarrett | October 25, 2007

Clearing Remote Desktop History

1. Open My Documents and delete default.rdp
2. Open the registry editor (regedit):
Clear (delete) the MRU’s in the following key (these are the hosts):
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Terminal Server Client\Default

Clear (delete) the username hints in the following key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Terminal Server Client\UsernameHint

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Replace wget with Prozilla

By cbarrett | June 23, 2007

A quick and simple wget replacement to speed your downloads.
wget has long been a great tool for downloading from the commandline. Its quick, easy to script and very simple. But if you’ve noticed that it can be really slow, you aren’t alone. Here’s how to get all the greatness of wget, with a little added speed. Read the rest of this entry »

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