Saturday, August 8, 2009

Using Harvard style references in MS Word 2007

1. Download the "BibWord styles" from the nice guys at BibWord
2. Extract to \Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\Bibliography\Style\
3. Restart Word. The new styles should be in the Style list

For Mac users, the Word Styles folder should be at:
/Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/Microsoft Word.app/Contents/Resources/Style/

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

iPhone jailbreak stuck at "Waiting for reboot"

I tried going to 3.0.1 from 3.0, using redsn0w and its developers' suggestions. I updated to 3.0.1 through itunes, and tried to JB with redsn0w 0.8 and the 3.0 ipsw. The jailbreak kept getting stuck at "waiting for reboot".

I just removed the USB cable from the iPhone and reinserted it back at once. It worked, the jailbreak was succesfull - I tried this with two iPhones and I had the same problem which got solved with the same solution.

Although this worked for me, there are no guarantees it will work for you; I bear no responsibility if you break your iPhone!

Friday, July 10, 2009

3Com router claims that "You don't have the priority to operate this DUT!"

I was playing around with voteforninja's 3Com wireless router, when I turned off its DHCP server. It was working fine at the moment; next day I had to assign manually an IP to the computers connecting. The computers could then connect, but I could not get into the router's administration pages. The login page loads fine, a wrong password gives a corresponding error message while a correct password gives the very, very meaningful "You don't have the priority to operate this DUT!".

Unfortunately I found no solution for this problem. I tried changing my IP, I tried through wireless and wired paths; nothing. I was basically locked out of the router since without DHCP I got this error and without getting in I couldn't turn DHCP on. Way to go 3Com!

I reset the router to its factory defaults by turning it off and connecting a cable from its internet port to one (any) of its LAN ports, then turning it on and waiting for the status lights to settle down.

Anyone comes up with a solution, let me know!

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Steve Jobs cartoon saying HELLO! BEFORE! in Russian(?) after Jailbreak

It seems that the Steve Jobs cartoon staring at me after an attempted 3.0 jailbreak with redsn0w, meant that the phone was in recovery mode. Jailbreak failed.

Re-trying to jailbreak did not solve the problem. Instead I restored the phone with iTunes (3.0 fw) and then retried with redsn0w which reflashed the 3.0 fw with the good stuff succesfully.

I guess the correct way to re-jailbreak and re-unlock your iPhone with 3.0 is:

1. Upgrade to 3.0 through iTunes
2. Download 3.0 for iPhone 3G here, (iPhone 2G here, and 3GS here)
3. Download redsn0w here (download links at the end of the post, both mac and win)
4. Follow the instructions carefully and wait until the process ends
5. If you haven't done step 1, Steve Jobs might greet you in Russian; start over!
6. If you also need to unlock the iPhone, launch Cydia and add the source "http://repo666.ultrasn0w.com"
7. Download Ultrasn0w.
8. Restart!

If all went well you should have an activated, jailbroken and unlocked 3.0 iPhone

VoodooPS2 wont save changes after restart

replace the original file in /Library/LaunchAgents with this file.

credits to:
jag from here via Lebidou from here.

Saturday, June 13, 2009

Recovering from garbled display after selecting "Mirror displays" on the NC10

I know I shouldn't have, but I have selected "mirror displays" on my NC10, after connecting it to a monitor. The display became garbled and I couldn't fix it since I couldn't find the checkbox to unselect "mirror displays". Removing the external monitor fixed the netbook's display, but chaos kept coming back after re-pluggin it.

I found out that the displays prefpane preferences, are stored in:
/Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver.plist

So I restored that file from a timemachine backup I had. Not the best solution, since it presupposes that you do have a backup, but...