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There are reported instances where some notebook programs continue to display pop up reminders even after the user performs the requested action. In most of these instances, the program did not remove the Task Scheduler entry and the pop-up message displays each time the Task Scheduler starts.

To stop the pop-up message action from repeating, the user must run the Task Scheduler program and manually remove the entry.

Remove an automatic action from Task Scheduler
To prevent automated tasks from starting multiple times, remove the entry from the Task Scheduler by performing the following actions:

1.  Click Start, type Scheduler in the search field, and select Task Scheduler when it appears.  If prompted for permission, click Continue.
2.  In the left column, click Task Scheduler Library.
3.  In the center column, select the task you want to stop.
4.  In the right column, click Delete, and then click Yes to confirm deletion.
5.  Close the Task Scheduler window.

The task or reminder will no longer begin automatically.

Tears of joy

Just updated my Ubuntu kernel, and now VirtualBox no longer works.  I ran

• sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

And kept getting an error message that the Makefile was not working due to too many unresolved links.

After several hours of poking around and playing around I was able to get things working again. Hopefully this will benefit you as well.

Using the Synaptic Package Manager I downloaded

• linux-headers
• linux-image
• linux-restricted-modules
• linux-source
• linux-ubuntu-modules
• dkms

for the version of the Ubuntu 8.04 operating system I am using when I run “uname -r”.  Mine happens to be 2.6.24-26-generic.

After you install all of these you may have to reboot.  It should not hurt anything.

I did some digging around /lib/modules/2.6.24.26-generic/build and found two broken symbolic links for Makefile and Kbuild.  These pointed back to the directory /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-26-generic.  Inside there is no Makefile nor Kbuild to point to.

After much consternation I did the following:

# cd /usr/src

# sudo tar xvjf  linux-source-2.6.24

# sudo mv linux-headers-2.6.24-26-generic   linux-headers-2.6.24-26-generic.orig

# sudo cp -r linux-source-2.6.24   linux-headers-2.6.24-26-generic

# sudo   /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

This took a few minutes and I wept tears of joy when it completed without errors.

Now I lost VirtualBox icon from my Applications menu, but I can run it from the command line

#  /usr/bin/VirtualBox &

Good luck

So I wanted an online CRM/ERP package to keep track of what was happening in my company.  I saw that there were hundreds of open-source solutions available and narrowed it down to these:

• SugarCRM
• Compiere
• Zimbra
• vTiger
• egroupware
• TUTOS
• Cynapse
• Daffodil CRM
• Hipergate
• OpenCRX
• Civicrm

I finally chose vTiger because it fit most of my requirements

1. Full size calendar.
2. Sales planning and progression tools.  Looks very nice.  Hope it works as good as it looks
3. Contacts have the ability to be categorized.
4. Can run email campaigns.

Other nice functions are that it appears that it will be easy to import and export contacts and calendars.

egroupware was a close second for me, but I could not get the email to work. I might have been able figure it out, but it is time for me to sell.

Here is why I did not choose the others from what I can remember.

• Compiere – required Oracle DB
• Zimbra – no sales forecasting tools
• SugarCRM – no recurring events option for calendar
• TUTOS – no sales forecasting
• Cynapse (cyn.in) – over-collaboration with chat & more
• Daffodil CRM – no sales tools I believe
• Hipergate – no calendar
• OpenCRX – no viewable calendar
• Civicrm – too difficult for me to get Calendar features to work with Drupal

If you want to try these out, I suggest you type in the product name to google and the word “demo”.  For example, “hipergate demo”.  Most of these firms have demos that you can drive and you can see if it will work for your purposes.

I’m not sure why this is but Ubuntu 8.04 LTS will not install on VirtualBox. I even downgraded VirtualBox to the version 2 series, and it still would not install. (What I thought was weird about these downgrades is that I asked it to complete the installation in a different folder SUN/Virtualbox-3.06. It overwrote SUN/Virtualbox folder and renamed it to VirtualBox-2.24)

Firstly Ubuntu 8.04 would not install at all.  I had to set in the virtual machine under VirtualBox tabs

    System->  Enable APIC and I/O APIC

So the next hurdle was an error message about a kernel not being able to be built and the installation would not complete.

    "no installable kernel was found in the defined APT sources."

At this point press Alt+F2 to switch to console.  Press Enter to activate console and then:

    chroot /target
    apt-get install linux-generic

Once the kernel installation is complete (this takes about 10 minutes or so) type the following

    exit
    exit

Press Alt+F1 to return to the installer and then answer “Yes” to the “Continue without installing a kernel?”

The installation will take about another 30 minutes or so and then your system should be up and running.

I’m running Vista and needed Windows 2000 so that Quickbooks 2004 would work.  I didn’t want to upgrade to QB2005 because I would need Vista.

So I did some research I found this website

http://www.bearwindows.boot-land.net/vbe9x.htm

And found a graphics emulation card for Win2000.

Inside Windows 2000 guest I linked the graphics card device to the driver.  Did a reboot, and now get more the 16 colors and higher than 800×600 resolution.

Try these steps to build the alsa modules yourself.

Here’s the solution:

sudo apt-get install module-assistant
sudo module-assistant update
sudo module-assistant prepare
sudo module-assistant auto-install alsa

This last step will take about 10 minutes, so be patient.

Then the final step.


sudo /etc/init.d/alsa-utils reset

Hope that you have the same luck.

This might also work on earlier versions of Ubuntu as well, but I tried this only on Hardy (8.04), and Intrepid (8.10).

If you were like me, you saw the feature to add the wireless device in the upper right of the window.  You left clicked and saw your wireless network and said, “Cool, this is just like Windows.  Just put in my KEY and I’m off and running!”

So, you do just that.  No joy.  Doesn’t accept your key.

You try again after you make sure that the spelling is correct.  No joy.  You try different options.  You convert you ascii key to a hex key (or vice versa).  No joy.

You give up and determine that you are just going to get by with a wired connection on that box.

Well that’s where I was and then I thought, “Let me try System->Administration->Network”

I unlocked it with my root password, and saw two Wireless options.  Wasn’t sure which one would work for me so I tried them both.

I double-clicked the top one and it popped open a new window that had the “Enable Roaming Mode” button clicked.  I unclicked that and manually put in my settings.  I did this as well for the second wireless line, but I probably just need one of them.  I still don’t know which one, but when I run

ifconfig -a

I have an IP address set for wlan0, but not wifi0.

Don’t forget to enable these settings by checking the box to the left for each wireless connection before closing out the “Network Settings” dialog.

I can’t remember if I rebooted or did a network restart via

/etc/init.d/networking restart

or

/etc/init.d/networking reload

but now it works, at least for me.

Now a cable is free for my desktop.

Wow! Okay, I finally heard the best explanation as to why Unix uses ls instead of list, or rm instead of remove.

In the past techies would say that these commands had short names because back in 1965 or so when all of this stuff was created, memory and disk were expensive and so they did everything to they could do to save space by shaving letters where they could.

But that didn’t answer questions for me like mount, umount, cpio, sleep, etc. My personal belief was that PhDs don’t really like typing and so why make the command longer if you don’t have to. So the commands were shortened just for speed. The designers never really saw Unix taking off like it did. Unix was written by PhDs for PhDs so what we might consider normal today wasn’t written for back in 1968. For example when you remove a file on Unix, it just does it; whereas on other operating systems it will ask you if you really want to remove it. After you say yes it will say “filename removed”. Unix doesn’t do that.

So why are these commands so short? Modems.

Yes, modems. Back in 1969 modems ran around a top speed of 150 baud. That is about 1000 times slower than internet access at home today. Imagine taking 30 minutes just to wait to see google’s home page. That’s what it would have been like back then if there were websites. Just a small picture would take 3 hours to see.

So common activities like moving files, deleting files, or duplicating files could be done faster if less data is traveling from the terminal to the server. These commands were done a lot. A lot more than most commands, and so to hasten data travel across slow modems copy, list, and remove were made cp, ls, and rm.