Shantibhushan Naik

Tag: manual

  • Printer not connecting – Troubleshoot

    Didn’t realize turning on “TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper” service would solve the issue. The message “Printer spooler is not running” is completely misleading.

  • Outlook export to Thunderbird

    There is no straight (should I say “easy”) way to export Outlook mails to Thunderbird. Using Thunderbird’s import from Outlook did not work since quite a few emails came up as raw HTML, and I had to manually change Automatic encoding detection to OFF, Universal to see the contents each time.
    A sure-shot (well… which took me 99% of the) way was Outlook –> Import into Outlook Express –> Import into Thunderbird. This worked, but with one sad issue – non-English attachment names are not as original. If you can live with that, then this is the surest way to go !

    Few references which helped-
    Import .pst files – MozillaZine KB

  • How to manually uninstall Symantec Endpoint Protection client from Windows 2000, XP and 2003, 32-bit Editions

    Much recently to my dismay, I figured out that I cannot remove Symantec’s Endpoint Protection from my own laptop without administrator password. I do not own this password, and I do not want anybody other than me permitting me what to uninstall. Hence I went ahead for manual uninstall according to these instructions (from Symantec’s own site) below-

    How to manually uninstall Symantec Endpoint Protection client from Windows 2000, XP and 2003, 32-bit Editions.

    The instructions are crisp and clear. I could manually uninstall following each step of those instructions, but there is one big trouble. The instructions talk to removing over 100’s of registry keys, values which I believe is sheer impossible manually. Why didn’t Symantec simply provide a small tool which has all those instructions bundled in a simple click-n-go fashion?

    I have tried to create a small registry file which can automate the removal of registry entries Uninstall Registry entries for Symantec Endpoint Protection
    For all other manual deletion of files, it would be great to write a small AutoIt script compiled to an exe. Maybe sometime later…

  • vim Settings in the File You’re Editing

    Vim scans the first and last few lines of the file for modelines, if the modeline option is on (which it is, by default). If it finds any it will apply those settings as if you had typed them in manually using :set in command mode.

    #!/bin/sh
# vim:ts=2:sw=2:expandtab

    Übergibson: Embedding vim Settings in the File You’re Editing.

  • MySQL’s killer feature

    MySQL has a killer feature – you can have a timestamp field with DEFAULT as LOCALTIMESTAMP, so that when you insert a new record, the timestamp field will automatically have current timestamp inserted. But what about when the record is updated? Do you manually have to update the timestamp again? NO – MySQL allows you also specify another default on UPDATE so that whenever you update the record, it will automatically update the timestamp again.

    …
      `timestamp` timestamp NOT NULL default CURRENT_TIMESTAMP ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
    …

    Now, isn’t that a neat feature!