Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Windows firewall is missing in Services


That is mainly due to a virus/malware infection. To repair the registry entries do the following:

*** Taken from http://www.hageltech.com/blog/2012/02/07/base-filtering-engine-problems.html ***

First of all apply the firewall registry fix: 
http://dl.hageltech.com/blog/Firewall-Repair-Windows-7.reg

Then apply the BFE reg fix 
http://dl.hageltech.com/blog/BFE-Repair-Windows-7.reg

Fix permissions in the registry:

1.     Open Registry Editor (type regedit in Start Menu):
2.     Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\BFE\Parameters\Policy
3.     Right-click and select Permissions
4.     Click Add, enter “Everyone” and click OK
5.     Click on Everyone in the list at the top, and check the “Allow Full Control” checkbox below.
6.     Click OK to dismiss this dialog.

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Copy and paste the following to a .bat file and run it as Administrator.

sc config MpsSvc start= auto
sc config KeyIso start= auto
sc config BFE start= auto
sc config FwcAgent start= auto
net stop MpsSvc
net start MpsSvc
net stop KeyIso
net start KeyIso
net start Wlansvc
net start dot3svc
net start EapHostnet
net stop BFE
net start BFE
net start PolicyAgent
net start MpsSvc
net start IKEEXT
net start DcaSvcnet
net stop FwcAgent
net start FwcAgent

If you get an Error 5 for MpsSvc do the following:

Fix permissions on the SharedAccess registry

1.     Open Registry Editor (type regedit in Start Menu):
2.     Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\SharedAccess
3.     Right-click and select Permissions
4.     Click Add, enter “Everyone” and click OK
5.     Click on Everyone in the list at the top, and check the “Allow Full Control” checkbox below.
6.     Click OK to dismiss this dialog.

And that’s it.

Monday, July 16, 2012

Add a Google search function to a web site

To add a Google search function to a web site add the following code:

*form method="get" action="http://www.google.com/search" target="_blank"**

*input type="text" name="q" size="31" maxlength="255" value="" /**

*input type="submit" value="Google Search" /**

*/form**

Replace * with < and ** with >

And that's it.

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Removing Rythbox from the sound indicator in Ubuntu

To remove, or add another media player, on the sound indicator on Ubuntu do the following:

  • Install Dconf-editor (use sudo apt-get install dconf-tools)
  • Run it with Dconf-settings
  • Navigate to com.canonical.indicator.sound interested-media-players 
  • And delete the name of the media player you don't want to have, or ad the one you want.

Monday, June 18, 2012

Manually resync local time with Microsoft clock service

To manually sync your computer's local time with Microsoft's time server type the following (or create a batch file) in console window:

w32tm /config /manualpeerlist:”time.windows.com” /syncfromflags:manual
w32tm /config /update
net stop w32time
net start w32time
w32tm /resync /nowait


And that's it. No more problems. Just make sure you actually have connection to the Internet because it won't wooooooork.

Creating desktop launchers in Ubuntu 12.04

To create a launcher in the desktop download first Gnome Panel:

Sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends gnome-panel

and then type in this command:

gnome-desktop-item-edit ~/Desktop/ --create-new

A dialogue box will appear. Add all information and press OK. Your new shortcut is ready.

Adding Java on Ubuntu

To add Java from Oracle and not the OpenJDK just type the following into a terminal window:

Sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer

This will download a script that will install Java. The PPA doesn't actually contain files it self.

Sunday, June 10, 2012

Replacing AutoCAD in Ubuntu

One of the task I had set on my self to do was to replace AutoCAD with a program that would run on Linux. After alot of searching I found one. It's called DraftSight (http://www.3ds.com/products/draftsight/overview/).

DraftSight is using the same engine as the AutoCAD alternative in Windows IntelliCad (http://www.intellicad.org/).

The only problem with DraftSight is that running the .deb file by itself is not installing it properly because there are some files missing that DraftSight is not installing by default. Those files can be installed as follows:

1) Open a Terminal window and type in:
sudo apt-get install libdirectfb-extra libxcb-render-util0

2) Install the .deb package using the force option. In this example we assume that the file is located in the Dowloads folder:
sudo dpkg --force-architecture -i ~/Downloads/draftSight.deb


And that's it. Draftsight is a very good AutoCAD replacement. And if you have been working with AutoCAD from the first days of its production (like I did, wow do I feel old now) you will be just fine because it even uses the same key commands as AutoCAD.

So go ahead. Give it a try. It's great!