Seen when trying to navigate to \\computer-name from windows7 where
the target is an XP virtual machine, under vmware workstation. Both
machines are members of an Active Directory domain. The g'oracle
indicates this message has to do with AD replication failure and
similar. Most of the hits have to with server configuration though, not
workstations.
Rejoining the workstation to the domain made the error message go away,
but did not accomplish the original goal: accessing the vm file system
from the host while running.
That's curious: the guest vm in NAT network mode can authenticate via
AD, even though it's ip is local to the host (192....etc).
In any case the fix …continue.
Who would have thought a simple question like "what version of windows
am I running under?" would be so complicated?
This stub retrieves the number as a string. A complete working script
which parses ver and responds accordingly is attached as
winver2.cmd.
For practical purposes you might be better off with Simon Sheppard's
approach.
~~~~ {.prettyprint}
@echo off
for /f "tokens=2 delims=[]" %%x in ('ver') do set WINVER=%%x
set WINVER=%WINVER:Version =%
echo CMD version is %winver%
~~~~
A one liner for the major number (reg.exe not always available, XP and
newer I think):
reg query "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion" /v CurrentVersion
References
Windows Version Table
Scraped from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microso...ne_of_releases
Product name
Current Version / Build
Windows 1.01
1.01
Windows 2.03
2.03
Windows 2.10
2.10
Windows 2.11
2.11
Windows 3.0
3.0
Windows 3.1x
3.1
Windows For Workgroups
3.1
3.1
Windows NT
3.1
NT …continue.
Once again I find myself a slightly better Windows script writer thanks
the excellent reference pages provided by
ss64.com. The
particular situation I was stumped by, is wanting to be able to set a
variable to the contents of another variable rather than the variable
name. The answer? Use 3 percent signs in a loop.
:: Notice that to evaluate the contents of %pc1%
:: requires triple ‘%’ symbols i.e CALL SET _pc_name=%%%_pc_name%%%
This is one
CALL
I’m very happy to have made.
What was my goal? To estimate the number of indexable documents in use
on our shared departmental fileserver, in order to get an idea of what
size of Google
Mini
or search …continue.
((In response to: Choices =
Headaches
and Windows Shutdown
Crapfest))
ahem, rather than fixing the Shutdown feature, uh… menu I mean, how
about fixing the real problem: my circa 2004 computer is more than 5
times as slow as my 1994 computer. In 1994 I pressed the power button
and within 30 seconds I could get to work typing a letter, playing a
game or whatever. Today I press the power button, go to the bathroom,
get a fresh cup of coffee and THEN sit down to work. (150s to login
prompt, plus 55s to point of being able to open the start menu). If I
was in to computing in …continue.
This morning I had to dig up a series of emails and a script from almost
2 years ago in order to answer questions about what I’d exactly I’d
given to someone (it was a digital elevation model mosaic). A 3rd party
needed to know the specific datatype and precision of the model. I
couldn’t remember, I’d long since deleted the mosiac, and since it was
only a 1 day project which didn’t require learning or research I didn’t
keep any notes.
After spending some time coming empty in the filesystem and not finding
the email exchange I fired up Google Desktop Search and located the
specific emails and …continue.
Our extended health insurance company helpfully profides pdf forms with
my name, client #, etc. pre-filled for easy printing. Unfortunately
there are a number of fields which will aren’t likely to change, like my
phone number and the names of my kids, which are not filled in. I’m
lazy, so I figured it was worth spending an hour figuring out how to
save 1 minute of no-thought grunt work every time I need to fill out a
form.
I found an article extolling the virtures of
flpsed,
a pdf “annotator” for linux. Great, that sounds perfect! Flpsed is not
listed in the cygwin package repository but a little bit of …continue.
This was an attempt to use some photographic image processing
techniques^1^
to bring back some detail in the regions of mountain shadows in a
Landsat7 composite image. It didn’t work but I learned a lot in the
process. It could be useful in future with other data which is has not
lost so much to white and black shadows.
Original on left while right shows result of contrast mask combined
with grain merge selected in the layer Mode. It almost works, but
not enough for the project I was researching for. Below, detail view of
grain merge result.
Comments {#commentz}
matt wilkie wrote:
just found the PHATCH project,
http://photobatch.wikidot.com/, which
is python alternative to …continue.
As Tom Patterson describes in “Resolution bumping GTOPO30 in
Photoshop“,
using a too-detailed shaded relief image can actually yield a map which
is less legible. In the same article Patterson also demonstrates how to
counteract this problem. He says this is something to do to the
elevation model and not the shaded relief, but not having a graphics
program installed on my machine capable of editing 16 bit images I
applied it to the shaded relief instead. The results are good, but I’m
itching to try it out properly to see what the difference is when used
earlier in the chain. Here is my nutshell re-work of Patterson’s
resolution bumping …continue.
I installed GraphicsMagick-1.3.6-Q16-windows-dll.exe on Windows XP
Professional x64 SP2. When I try and convert a pdf to jpeg I get the
error “gm convert: Postscript delegate failed”. EPS, PS, PDF are listed
with the “gm convert -list delegates” command. I’ve tried with and
without Ghostscript (v8.63) in path. The pdf’s I’m trying to convert can
be downloaded from
ftp://ftp2.cits.rncan.gc.ca/pub/canmatrix2/250k_pdf/,
but it’s also happened with simpler documents.
WORKAROUND: In “GraphicsMagick\config\delegates.mgk” hardcode the path
to gswin32c.exe by replacing all occurences of “@PSDelegate@” with
“C:\local\gs\current\bin\gswin32c.exe” (change path according to local
environment of course). This is enough to let me keep working, but it
would be nice to solve the root of the problem so upgrades …continue.
If all of a sudden your vmware machines stop powering on, and the error
is an undescriptive “general system error”, check and see if you are
using a beta version which has expired.
When intalling vmware server 2 on windows server 2003, if you get an
error like “This installation is forbidden by system policy.” even when
you are logged in as administrator or have used “r-click > Run as… >
Adminstrator” you may need to create a security policy. It looks like
the install aborts if there are no policies at all.\
- Click Start -> Control Panel
- Open Administrative Tools
- Open Local Security Settings
-
Click Software Restriction Policies
- If no software …continue.
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