Firefox 3.6 tweaks

Problem?: I was happily using the features of Firefox 3.5 and below, then changing to 3.6 somehow changed some of my favorite features.....

Solution:
Most features that you missed in newer versions are 'revertible', either natively or via some plugins by some like minded geeks.
Here's some sample tips.
http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2010/01/firefox-3-6-tips-and-tweaks

Why can't my firefox work on Windows 64 bit OS??

There has been widespread reports on problematic memory issues with Firefox 3.* on Windows 64-bit systems, but the problem doesn't seem to occur for every system.

Here's the link to get our good old Firefox in pure 64bit versions. Note that it doesn't run on 32bit Windows even if your hardware supports it.

http://wiki.mozilla-x86-64.com/Firefox:Download

Oracle complains again - Shutting down or initialisation in progress

Problem:
Sometimes Oracle simply flashes the following message or something similar.
Shutting down or initialization in progress.

There's nothing you could do, even after u waited for ages for it to complete its cycle.

Solution:
This is unorthodox, but me being bad programmer, i choose to solve the problem first before looking for detailed explanations.

Log in under SQLPlus with following command.
sqlplus sys/yourpassword as sysdba

Then run the following SQLPLUS commands.
shutdown immediate;
startup;

Sometimes of order of the SQLPlus command needs to be reverse, depending on its state.

Dlink DI-624 disconnects

Problem:
DI-624 disconnects every few minutes. The problem escalates with more wireless clients, or when a BitTorrent software runs in the background.

Solution:
It seems that the issue can be resolved by simply disabling the UPnP function in the router.
Note that the router still couldn't handle high amount of simultaneous connections, so please tune your BitTorrent application accordingly.

Sharepoint search crawl failed

Problem:
Sharepoint's indexing service unable to crawl site. Error given as follows.
[To be updated]

Possible Solutions:
1) In my scenario, the problem was caused by a impersonate="false" setting in web.config. Somehow, the Indexing service requires impersonation to be true. However, some custom Sharepoint pages may require impersonation to be disabled. If impersonation cannot be enabled for your application, try the following alternative.

In Sharepoint's Central administration, you can extend the web application. By doing this, you are essentially creating a second web app site (with a different port number) for your application. However, the content source are shared with the original web app. Thus both sites are actually identical. Now, the newly created web app site would have impersonation enabled by default.

In your crawler settings, replace the original site path with the new port number.
Eg: Original is http://mysite, New is http://mysite:2434

The indexing/crawling will now function and search results will be redirected to http://mysite.

[Detailed steps to be updated]

VMware tools not running

Problem:
Cannot install VMware tools by selecting the install on the menu

Possible Solutions:
1) VMware tools run by loading an ISO image into the CD drive, if autorun is disabled, it cannot install automatically.
In the VM, go to the CD drive, it should be loaded with VMware tools setup. Run setup.exe manually from there.

2) The VM OS could be hardened. Windows Installer may be disabled, thus VMware tools setup can't run.
Run the following command
msiexec.exe /regserver
Ensure that the service Windows Installer is up and running. Try running VMware tools again.

Trick - Locking a windows folder

Trick:
Locking a windows folder

Solution:
I got this somewhere on the net.
1) Consider you want to lock a folder named caclub in your f:\, whose path is f:\caclub
2) Now open the Notepad and type the following ren caclub caclub.{21EC2020-3AEA-... More»1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}
3) Where caclub is your folder name. Save the text file as loc.bat in the same drive.
4) Open another new notepad text file and type the following ren caclub.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D} caclub
5) Save the text file as unloc.bat in the same drive. --------- Usage: ---------
6) To lock the caclub folder, simply click the loc.bat and it will transform into control panel icon which is inaccessible.
7) To unlock the folder click the unloc.bat file. Thus the folder will be unlocked and the contents are accessible.