Give Google An Answer To Find the Question!?
This is a anecdote of how Google gave the question to the answer I already had.
Normally, people input questions and keywords into Google to find an answer. In my case the answer was known. Use caspol.exe with the -pub -file arguments to trust all the assemblies signed with my certificate. The MSDN caspol.exe documentation was helpful but the exact syntax for implementing the command was a little fuzzy.
When in doubt Google it. Behold, the question to my answer stated in a question:
“What does this statement do? caspol -machine -addgroup All_Code -pub -file MyApp.exe FullTrust”
Thanks to Matthew Podwysocki his question fit my answer and provided the syntax needed to complete my work with caspol.
Silence propagates itself…
“Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.” -Samuel Johnson
Installing Windows 7 on an Acer One A0751H Netbook
This is a short overview of my experience installing Windows 7 on my new Acer Aspire One Netbook model A0751H. It wasn’t out of the box for more than an hour before I wondered if I could replace the existing Windows XP Home OS with the new Windows 7 x86 OS. As it turned out, it is easily done.
- Connect netbook to USB cd/dvd drive. The computer boots through the BIOS quickly but continually pressing F12 brought up the boot device selection menu.
- Install Windows 7 as usual. I choose to install Windows 7 x86 Ultimate Edition. The install should complete without an issue.
- Install the video drivers. Windows 7 didn’t have a driver for the internal Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 500 and it wouldn’t display the exotic 1366×768 resolution until the proper driver was in place. Download the VGA driver from the A0751H drivers and download Acer support section. As of today the most recent VGA driver is VGA_Intel_v.7.14.10.1095_VistaX86.zip To successfully install the driver you must change the properties of setup.exe in the driver package. Set the program compatibility level to Windows XP SP 3. Otherwise the installer will fail with an error that the version of windows is not supported.
- Install the other drivers from the support page as needed using the same steps as the video driver.
The system handles Windows 7 better than anticipated but the slow processor and 1 GB of memory are evident bottlenecks. Turning off desktop composition to optimize the system for performance instead of visual appearance resulted in a noticeable speed improvement.
Instead of installing the Synaptics touchpad driver I relied on the standard driver. As a result the special touchpad gestures didn’t function.
Occasionally the system would lock up for no apparent reason. The mouse would stop responding forcing me to do a hard reset. I suspect this could be a driver issue but without proper drivers it didn’t make sense to push forward debugging the situation.
In summary, the system is sluggish but usable. If it hadn’t been for the sporadic system lockups I would have continued to run Windows 7. For now, I’m back to using XP Home.
Collection of Favorite Quotes
Like pearls of wisdom, a good quote is valuable. A quote that can be recalled at the right moment is priceless. With that thought my blog gets a “Favorite Quotes” tag.
‘The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.’
-Hans Hoffmann
Tips I Learned For The New York City Subway
Just a couple tidbits I learned while trying to figure out the New York Subway.
- Referring to a particular line by its color instead of the alpha or numerical designation you immediately let every local around you know that you have no idea what you are doing.
- Know the last stop on the line you want to take.
- Uptown and downtown, get it straight. North, South, East, and West mean nothing. Streets and Avenues.
- Local trains can help you get to the next stop if your train hasn’t arrived.
- Express trains that follow the same path but have a different designation can be used as long as there is a all trains stop along the same path where you can catch the local. Otherwise, you’ll pass your stop and end up back tracking.
- Streets can have west and east designations. Sections of Manhattan could be “X West Xth Street” or “X East Xth Street”. 5th Ave is the east/west divider.
Good Luck!