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Comment on Remote Command Line On Windows by Piecrust

Piecrust — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 23:15:21 +0000

Seriously, netcat to remotely access a windows server? It’s unencrypted and unauthenticated. Netcat is a wonderously powerful tool but better be sure you understand what it is and is not good at – remember you can do just about anything with a swiss army, you can even cut bread with it but you’ll always be better off with a proper bread knife.

Personally a find a decent win32 ssh server does the job with a fully interactive CLI.

Comment on How to Fix a Hopelessly Scratched Wii Game by Austin

Austin — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:06:14 +0000

heres some tips to keeping your discs from getting scratched up.
1. keep discs in cool places. most discs now are made of polimer based plastic. the polimer in the disc is week to hot places hence the reason for the fan in the wii.
2. if you have any plastic the same size as the disc clean thoroughly and place disc reading side down. if the disc is on a surface not as smooth as read disc side it will be scratched.
3.if you put your disc in wii and notice scratches on it when you take it out after use, most likely your wii is damaged from over use. due to the wii’s sensitive eye when over heated the peice that surrounds it swells up from the heat and brushes up against the disc causing the scratches.

Comment on This picture cannot be rotated in the Wizard by Nick

Nick — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 02:43:52 +0000

… and I forgot to add: I also find I can’t use the option “Delete pictures from my device after copying them” on screen 3 of the Wizard, as the checkbox for the option is grayed out.

It’s as if the memory card (still in the camera) is set to “read-only” in some way.

I think the upshot is going to be that I have to install the “PhotoFunStudio” software that came on the CD included with the camera … sigh … I was so hoping to avoid installing any software and to just use the Microsoft Wizard instead.

Wild guess: there is some kind of protocol mismatch in Microsoft’s and Panasonic’s implementations of PTP.

Comment on This picture cannot be rotated in the Wizard by Nick

Nick — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 02:34:07 +0000

Same here with my otherwise very satisfactory new Panasonic Lumix DMC-FS10. The weird thing is that my 3-year-old Nikon Coolpix S210 showed no such problem … until it died that is.

FWIW there is more information from another affected user here :
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_xp-pictures/image-rotation/8020d077-a1a4-480e-9860-e21dc3e3238b
but no answer.

How very very annoying.

Comment on Access Denied on a VHD by jacqueline Darrigrand

jacqueline Darrigrand — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 17:31:48 +0000

Hi Scott, just found your photos of downtown wells on flicker, where I registered to pay a licensing fee. Is this the best way to buy a photo from you for use in a book about my family? I do not use Facebook or twitter and i avoid blogs but if you could email me a response I would be grateful. your work is wonderful. Jacqueline Darrigrand, native nevadan

Comment on Windows Search Doesn’t Look Inside PHP Files by Murray Cowell

Murray Cowell — Sat, 07 May 2011 11:28:19 +0000

This is so obscure that I would never have found it without this article. Thanks very much.

Comment on Windows Search Doesn’t Look Inside PHP Files by Joey

Joey — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:54:33 +0000

Perfect! Saved me so much debugging time.

Comment on How to Fix a Hopelessly Scratched Wii Game by Carly

Carly — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 03:24:56 +0000

Ridiculous.. this is my exact story almost.. my son shoved a DVD into the wii even though twilight princess was in there.. there are tiny scratches all over it now and I am trying to fix it myself before I send it off.. worst of all, I borrowed this from someone because I had already beat it so many times on gamecube and I wanted to be sure it was that much different.. now I have to buy two copies! (well, still one I suppose if I send it to this place or I don’t get it to work)

Comment on Remote Command Line On Windows by Vaidee

Vaidee — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 06:05:03 +0000

Can any one tell me how to open a non-executable files through this process. Coz. I can’t open any text files

Comment on How to Fix a Hopelessly Scratched Wii Game by Jack

Jack — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 14:04:31 +0000

I’ll give it a shot because the same thing that happen to your game happen to my mariokart wii I’d tried every thing so i guess i’ll use AzuraDisc