Historical Research & IT Consultancy
Historical Research & IT Consultancy
The last few days my printer was telling me that the toner was low and that I should get ready to replace it. Finally, today the printer refused to print any more and instead just displayed ‘Replace toner’ on it’s…
Auch wenn der Name es nicht vermuten laesst: der D-Kanal Dekoder stellt nicht nur die D-Kanal-Informationen dar. Zumindest seit Version 2.5.2 Beta kann er auch die laufenden Logeintraege anzeigen. Das hat mir z.B. geholfen meine Emailprobleme zu beseitigen.
Um an die Log-Files heranzukommen, einfach im Menue Service->Servicedaten das sogenannte ‘Tk-Anlagen Image’ herunterladen. Beim Speichern am Besten gleich die Endung .log durch .tgz ersetzen. Dann kann man die Log-Dateien entweder mit 7-zip (Windows) oder ‘tar xvzf ServiceData.tgz’ (Linux) entpacken.…
Simply add a new preference ‘general.useragent.override’ and leave that string empty.
Mate of mine gave me one of the above mentioned PCI cards. This particular card provides 8 serial ports. It was quite easy to get the card working (no need to patch the kernel anyway). Here are the necessary steps:…
I’m testing a 3G router at the moment and when I tried to send an email Thunderbird refused to do so claiming my email server didn’t support the STARTTLS. As I was quite sure that it did, I took out…
I always wanted to have xplanet running as a background process like I used to on Linux. Here’s how I did it: Download and install the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools Create the xplanet service: ‘instsrv xplanet “C:\Program Files\Windows…
Recently I wanted to demonstrate the effects of the ‘volatile’ keyword on compiler optimization to a former colleague. I therefore needed to show him the assembly code generated by gcc. This can be easily achieved by using ‘gcc -S test.c’…
I have been recently approached to help get the above laser printer to work with Windows Vista. Checking Epson’s web site for a Vista driver all I could find was a comment stating that this printer wasn’t supported on Vista.…