Archive for December, 2009

Compaq “Do Not Remind Me Anymore” Keeps on Coming Back

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

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

VirtualBox 3.1 on Ubuntu 8.04 Dies after Kernel Update

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

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