Archive for October, 2010

Service Pack 3 – system cannot find the file specified

If you are having this problem installing service pack 3,  Here’s how to fix it.

Windows key-R (or start, run)

Type notepad and press enter

Copy the following by highlighting it with your mouse:

regsvr32 wuapi.dll
regsvr32 wuaueng.dll
regsvr32 wucltui.dll
regsvr32 wups.dll
regsvr32 wuweb.dll
regsvr32 Mssip32.dll
regsvr32 atl.dll
regsvr32 Softpub.dll
regsvr32 Wintrust.dll
regsvr32 Initpki.dll

File, Save As, select the type as all, name it fixit.bat, Save it on the desktop, click save.

Now double click the batch file fixit.bat on your desktop (windows – D will get the windows out of the way)

It should say  DllRegisterServer in xxxxx.dll succeeded with an OK for each line of the batch file.

Reboot and reinstall service pack 3

Hot scan those business cards with droid #bwe10

A few of you have asked me what I’m doing when I snag a card with my droid so,

for what it’s worth here’s what I use and how to get a version:

under market, search for card scanner,

select BusinessCard Recognition (choose the one that’s NOT Japanese.)

The free version is limited by the number of cards per week, the paid version is $8.99.

This app works well for most cards, will capture email, phone, title, twitter and more.

I’ve tried 6 of these apps, but this has been the best of the 6.

I recommend BusinessCard Recognition by HotCard Tech.

TweetDeck howto x64 bit Ubuntu Linux.

Want to know how to install Tweetdeck for linux in an x64 environment?

Ran into a problem today and asked geekgiant (www.thegeekgiant.com) for some help, he recommended talking with a contact with adobe to help me get the solution for how to get adobe air installed in my x64 ubuntu 10.10 install I run on my laptop.  He recommended I contact @duanechaos and he sent me back this link to how to get adobe air reconfigured for an x64 environment.

He directed me to James Ward’s blog RIA Cowboy.

Here’s the link to how to install the i386 .deb package into a x64 environment so you can get the adobe air environment working.

http://www.jamesward.com/2010/10/14/install-adobe-air-on-64-bit-ubuntu-10-10/

After you go there, you can load TweetDeck, click the pc/windows/linux button in the bottom right of the screen and click install, and run the downloaded file to install tweetdeck.

SC101 network access from linux.

Have a SC101 raid box? need to access it from linux?

http://code.google.com/p/sc101-nbd/downloads/detail?name=sc101-nbd_0.03_i386.deb&can=2&q=

Really a nifty installer to get block level access to the SC101 Netgear RAID box.

Links for .deb package i386 only.

QR Tag above (2 dimensional barcode) for saving the link on the iphone.

Links for other methods of installing this device in ubuntu:

http://forum1.netgear.com/showthread.php?t=29788