Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Fix KB974417 Installation Failure

Fix KB974417 Installation Failure—Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 2 Security Update for Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, and Windows XP

Microsoft’s KB974417—.NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 2 Security Update for Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, and Windows XP—fails to install in Windows Server 2003 SP2 / Windows XP SP3 reportedly when computers are part of a domain using Windows Server Update Services (WSUS).


Solution

Uninstall KB976569 (issued February 22, 2010), install KB974417 and then reinstall KB976569.

Friday, April 9, 2010

Make Linux use local time

If you have dual boot (windows/linux) and every time you switch from Linux to Windows your computer clock is wrong, it is because Linux is set by default to use UTC and Windows is set by default to use your local time zone's time (i.e. EDT, PST, etc).

To make your Ubuntu system read the hardware clock as 'local' :

1: edit /etc/default/rcS
2: add or change the following section:

# Set UTC=yes if your system clock is set to UTC (GMT)
UTC=no


REF: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuTime

Restore BACKSPACE functionality to take you to the previous page in Firefox on Linux

1. Type “about:config” in the address bar of Firefox and press Enter.
2. Type backspace in 'Filter' and look for ‘browser.backspace_action’
3. Change its value to 0 (zero).

More information

Background

The backspace key was mapped to the browser ‘Back’ function in Mozilla for consistency with Internet Explorer. However, to improve consistency with other applications running on Linux, it was decided that this mapping should be optional—and set based on which platform the browser was running on. As a compromise, this preference was created to allow the backspace key to either go back/forward, scroll up/down a page, or do nothing.

Possible values and their effects

0:
Pressing [Backspace] will go back a page in the session history and [Shift]+[Backspace] will go forward. (Default in Windows)

1:
Pressing [Backspace] will scroll up a page in the current document and [Shift]+[Backspace] will scroll down. (Default in Linux builds before 2006-12-07)

Other:
Any other integer value will simply unmap the backspace key. In Linux builds after 2006-12-07, the default is 2.

Reference: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.backspace_acti