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Comment on UI Horror: Windows 8 BSOD by Eric

Eric — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 17:45:02 +0000

Hi Dave,

I don’t have any contacts in the group that does keyboards, unfortunately, so I’m afraid I can’t be much help. Good luck pursuing your ideas though.

Comment on UI Horror: Windows 8 BSOD by Dave Cline

Dave Cline — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 22:41:18 +0000

Eric,
Sorry to hijack your sad PC thread; but I found a post you made over on a MSDN site and thought I’d risk a stab in the dark here. Delete this comment and ignore me if you find it in appropriate.

I’ve sent the following image over to Logitec’s idea submission – and never hear back from them (on many occasions in fact). If you think these keyboards are worthy, maybe you could send them to someone internally?
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/29771494/KoderKeyboard.jpg
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/29771494/KoderKeyboardTrackpad.jpg

Again, sorry for this intrusion. Delete as needed.

Comment on Updating an Amazon Linux AMI to Python 2.7 by Jacinda Shelly

Jacinda Shelly — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 21:25:54 +0000

Also, looking at some of the other packages in the 2.6 site-packages directory like cloudinit and cfnbootstrap which are probably helpful for interaction with aws, it is less of a hassle to call 2.7 explicitly when needed and leave the default symlinks alone.

Comment on Updating an Amazon Linux AMI to Python 2.7 by Jacinda Shelly

Jacinda Shelly — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 21:20:29 +0000

Unfortunately, doing this breaks yum because the yum (and probably some other things with similar issues) because the yum python package is installed in /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ .

One way to get around this issue with yum after doing your update is to modify the /usr/bin/yum shell script to start with
#!/usr/bin/python2.6
instead of
#!/usr/bin/python

Comment on Time to Think by Carmella D. Compton

Carmella D. Compton — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 23:05:51 +0000

What strokes the most prominent difference between issue and problem is the solution. When you have an issue, you generally can readily come up with the solution. Often, you even know how you would solve an issue before it even presents itself. A problem, on the other hand, is not something that you can solve without forethought, and even a certain amount of guesswork.

Comment on Migrating from TFS to SVN by Eric

Eric — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 04:37:33 +0000

@saji – I’m not aware of one if there is, sorry.

Comment on Migrating from TFS to SVN by saji

saji — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:16:36 +0000

that’s cool tool!.. is there any tool to commit code in both TFS & SVN

Comment on Updating an Amazon Linux AMI to Python 2.7 by Anuj Kumar

Anuj Kumar — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 06:19:20 +0000

Thanks for the help.

Comment on Clean HTML from Microsoft Word: Rube Goldberg Method by PaulO

PaulO — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 19:00:54 +0000

Previous instructions slightly wrong:
To create clean html pages in Word

Backup Blog.docx in templates folder
In Word, select Publish > Blog
Add Design view to Quick Access toolbar from Developer tab in the opened blogging window
Select Design View and delete the top ‘Enter title’ block
Save as Blog.dotx in templates folder

To create clean HTML from Word documents you can now select Publish > Blog and save the file
Still get ‘Create a blogging account’ dialog, though

Comment on Clean HTML from Microsoft Word: Rube Goldberg Method by PaulO

PaulO — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 18:41:34 +0000

Started trying to create a script that would be served by Apache Server by placing in Apache\cgi-bin. Ended up with a much simpler solution:
Create a backup of Blog.dotx template then open it with word.
Click on the down arrow next to the Quick Access Toolbar and select More Commands
Select Choose commands from: Developer tab > Design View > OK
Click the newly added Design View icon and selct the ‘Enter title’ block at top of the document then delete it.
Save as Blog.dotx in templates folder and the next time you select Publish > Blog it will give you the html page you wanted!
Unfortunately you still get the ‘create a blogging account’ nag screen, though.