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Palm and Outlook Categories #
While switching a Treo 600 from syncing with Palm Desktop to Outlook (which was as easy as running the installer again and choosing Outlook instead of Palm Desktop), categories went missing. The following pages helped resolve the problem:
- Mapping handheld categories to Outlook categories
- Using Outlook categories with PocketMirror
- The Outlook Categories Do Not Match the Palm Pilot Categories
/palm | Oct 30, 2005
Missing or corrupt: \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM #Confronted with the rather unpleasant sounding "Windows XP could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM", Google turned up the following KB article: How to recover from a corrupted registry that prevents Windows XP from starting. Two potential problems:
- "Do not use the procedure that is described in this article if your computer has an OEM-installed operating system." (it did)
- "This article assumes that typical recovery methods have failed and access to the system is not available except by using Recovery Console." (sounds ominous)
- Boot system via BartPE
- BACKUP DATA!!!
- Move c:\windows\system32\config\system, software, sam, security, and default to temporary directory
- Copy (not cut) and paste those same 5 files back to their original location
- Reboot computer
UPDATE 1: Stephen kindly wrote in with the following advice:
There are 2 reasons that come to mind why what you did worked.UPDATE 2: Jeff Harrison offers another explanation as to why this might have worked:I don't see how simply moving and recopying the files would repair them otherwise. There is another utility called Registry Restore Wizard to copy the registry from the system restore using BartPE.
- The files were crosslinked, in which case a chkdsk /f is in order.
- There are bad sectors on the hdd, in which case a replacement drive is in order.
The reason for the error message above is HEAVY fragmentation of those registry files and this is also why copying the files from A to B and back to A helps in this case. It's not really a "mystery", Windows just reacts somewhat picky when booting. The error was already known on Windows 2000 by the way. A good thing to do is to regularly defrag those files when necessary, an easy way to do so is by running the PageDefrag utility from Sysinternals.
/windows | Oct 29, 2005
Editing and removing email headers #- X-Ray Mail Assistant is a freeware email header filter and POP/SMTP server switching tool. It runs as a local POP/SMTP relay server and scans your incoming and/or outgoing mail for user specified mail headers. Once it finds a match it can change the header, remove it, replace it or perform some other special modifications. In addition, the program allows you to set up multiple profiles for POP and SMTP servers and switch between them from the system tray. Installer-free version available (though it stores settings in both a local INI file and the registry).
- Edit-X edits or removes your Eudora X-Sender & X-Mailer headers.
- Remove X-Mailer from Netscape Communicator 4.79 for Windows
/windows | Oct 29, 2005
Cracking Compressed (zipped) Folders password protection in Windows XP #Microsoft claims that "The password for a password-protected compressed file is not recoverable. If you lose the password, you will be unable to access that file." Someone needs to let them know about PicoZip Recovery Tool, which cracked a 6 character password in about 30 minutes.
/windows | Oct 29, 2005
Screen Recorders #John Bokma (who posted a great tutorial on creating an XP Pro VM for VMware Player) kindly hosts the last freeware version of Bulent's Screen Recorder. Don't forget CamStudio and DemoStudio, which have several potential advantages: open source, screen and audio recording, save results as either AVI or SWF (Flash).
/windows | Oct 29, 2005
ZIP password recovery tools #- Freeware
- Shareware
/windows | Oct 29, 2005
BIG BOX MART #Those clever but puzzling fellas over at JibJab have a swell new animation.
/misc | Oct 28, 2005
Software for network and systems admin #adminfoo.net has a great guide to freeware, shareware, and web-based tools of special interest to admins.
/windows | Oct 27, 2005
Ping over TCP #Eli Fulkerson kindly informs us about several of his projects, including tcping.exe which is similar to ping, but uses TCP instead of ICMP.
/windows | Oct 27, 2005
XVI32 - Powerful freeware hex editor #
XVI32 2.51 [493k] + Full-featured hex editor. Runs under Windows 95 and higher. 
/windows | Oct 25, 2005
Freeware SSH clients for Palm OS #- pssh: Open-source SSH 2 client for Palm OS 5.
- Top Gun ssh: Simple SSH client for Palm OS.
- TuSSH: SSH 2 client for Palm OS 3.5 and higher
/palm | Oct 24, 2005
TiddlyWiki #TiddlyWiki is an open source WikiWikiWeb built by Jeremy Ruston. It's written in HTML, CSS and JavaScript to run on any modern browser without needing any server side logic. One of the neatest features of TiddlyWiki is that it is entirely self-contained in a single HTML file - even including graphics like the GradientMacro and Sparklines. The file contains the actual hypertext document, and the JavaScript, CascadingStyleSheets and HTML necessary to both view and edit it. This means that it is trivial to host a TiddlyWiki on a website, or to distribute one by email. And anyone with a reasonably recent web browser will be able to read and edit it. (via Rick Lively)
/misc | Oct 24, 2005
Brother Sun, Sister Moon #An inspiring film about St. Francis of Assisi. IMDB | screenplay | Amazon | Two songs from the movie:
If you want your dream to be, build it slow and surely.
Small beginnings, greater ends. Heartfelt work grows purely.
If you want to live life free, take your time, go slowly.
Do few things, but do them well: simple joys are holy.
Day by day, stone by stone, build your secret slowly.
Day by day, you'll grow too; you'll know heaven's glory!
Brother sun, sister moon, I seldom see you, seldom hear your tune
Preoccupied with selfish misery
Brother wind and sister air, open my eyes to visions pure and fair
That I may see the glory around me
I am God's creature, of you I am part
I feel His love awakening my heart
Brother sun, and sister moon, I now do see you, I can hear your tune
So much in love with all that I survey
I am God's creature, of Him I am part
I feel His love awakening my heart
Brother sun and sister moon, I now do see you, I can hear your tune
So much in love with all that I survey
/misc | Oct 23, 2005
Upload ringtones, games, & wallpapers to Nextel phones for free #Detailed instructions (with screenshots and required files) on using webjal to load ringtones, games, and wallpapers into Nextel, Iden, Boost, Telus Mike, and SouthernLINK phones for free.
/misc | Oct 23, 2005
Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts File #Block ads, banners, 3rd party Cookies, 3rd party page counters, web bugs, and hijackers with a customized HOSTS file.
/windows | Oct 22, 2005
ZETA 1.1 Live CD for Free #OSNews informs us that YellowTAB has released a free live CD of their BeOS-derived operating system.
/misc | Oct 22, 2005
My InternetPC - On Demand Personal Computing Service #My InternetPC offers access to Microsoft Windows desktop and business applications from any computer using a web browser. (via TUAW)
/misc | Oct 22, 2005
Blosxom explained line by line #Frank Hecker has generously provided an annotated version of Rael Dornfest's blosxom.cgi. A must-read for Blosxom users who want to understand what's going on under the hood.
/blosxom | Oct 22, 2005
System Virginity Verifier #System Virginity Verifier is a CLI tool that checks Windows System components for possible alteration by malware.
/windows | Oct 21, 2005
Ping-O-Matic #Ping-O-Matic allows you to ping the following services quickly and easily: Weblogs.com, Blo.gs, Technorati, Feed Burner, Syndic8, NewsGator, Feedster, My Yahoo!, PubSub.com, Blogdigger, BlogRolling, BlogStreet, Moreover, Weblogalot, Icerocket, News Is Free, Topic Exchange, Audio.Weblogs, RubHub, GeoURL, A2B GeoLocation, BlogShares.
/blosxom | Oct 20, 2005
First Blosxom Post #Converting from Blogger to Blosxom over the next few days... please be patient while things get straightened out.
/blosxom | Oct 19, 2005
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