If I could just get someone to do all the tagging. I tagged almost all of my 8,000 emails over a weekend, and that went OK, but on-the-fly manual tagging just takes too much time and effort, and if I forget to tag an email, it is effectively lost. Their auto-tagging is nice, but it doesn't know what I consider to be the topic-keyword for the message.
Also, it insists on connecting to its server in order for the Outlook plug-in to work. What happens when Taglocity goes out of business or drops support for v2.0?
Note: If you also have Windows Ruby installed, you'll need to ensure that your Cygwin environment variables (including PATH) reference the Cygwin edition and not the Windows edition. The two editions are NOT compatible due to the binary parts of some gems and the path separator differences.
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Along the way, I decided to disable ALL other NICs (including the Microsoft Loopback Adapter), and it started working. Eventually, I narrowed it down to the loopback adapter.
Solution -- Disable Microsoft Loopback Adapter.
BTW - Support from Belking was abyssmal. It was pigin English, and it suggested that I try a number of troubleshooting steps that were clearly proven to be unnecessary from my list of what I had tried. (i.e. Don't tell me to check to see if I have my Ethernet cable plugged into my laptop. If I can ping the device, I clearly have a network connection!)
Of course, like many problems, once you know the solution, it is trivial to repeat the solution. However, it took me weeks of part-time troubleshooting to discover the loopback adapter as the root cause.
Another note: If you extract (via 7-zip) the setup.exe for this device, then you can get a prompt to enter the device MAC address if you run ...\utility\wired\setup.exe from the extracted folder.
Update:
After all that work to get the Control Center to see the hub, it could see the devices on the hub, but it still couldn't "connect" to them. There is nothing in the way of diagnostic messages to provide a clue as to why it can't connect. The Belkin FAQ suggests a firewall or a VPN problem, but neither is active on my (real or virtual) machine. I'm throwing it out. After ~20 hours, the opportunity cost (in MBA terminology) is just too much. From what I read, for many people, even when they get it connected, it is an unreliable connection. One less piece of clutter in my home.
]]>So what? There is lots of software out there that once it finds a connected adapter, it stops looking for better adapters. Yeah, I know that isn't the fault of the MLA, but here's the effect:
]]>So what? There is lots of software out there that once it finds a connected adapter, it stops looking for better adapters. Yeah, I know that isn't the fault of the MLA, but here's the effect:
Here are some programs that have failed after enabling the MLA:
This method is useful if you don't have a Blackberry data plan.
Prerequisites:
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Prerequisites:
Actions:
<loader version="1.0"> <application id="Gmail:Google"> <name>Gmail</name> <description></description> <version>2.0.5</version> <vendor>Google</vendor> <copyright></copyright> <fileset Java="1.0"> <files> GoogleMail-3.cod GoogleMail-2.cod GoogleMail-1.cod GoogleMail.cod </files> </fileset> </application> </loader>
Note: It is important to take the value for VERSION from the MIDlet-Version row in the .JAD file. Otherwise, BB desktop can tell you "No additional applications designed for your device were found" Other reasons for this message include:
- Tools/Account Settings
- Select gmail.youremail.imap
- Server Settings:
- *Port = 993
- *Use secure connection = SSL
- *Check for messages at startup = true
- *Check for new messages every 55 minutes
- *When I delete a message: Remove it immediately (Paradoxically, this will retain the email in your "All Mail" folder. The one thing that Google IMAP uses to trigger deleting an email from All Mail is when a message gets moved to Trash.)
- Select Outgoing Server (SMTP)
- Select smtp.gmail.com and click Edit
- Enter smtp.gmail.com as the Server Name and set the Port to 587
- Username = youremail@gmail.com
- Use secure connection = STARTTLS
- Tools/Options/Network & Disk Space/Connection
- Automatic proxy configuration URL = file:///k:/pac/cingular/mailproxy.pac
Note:
If Get Mail produces (in the SSH session)
channel 13: open failed: connect failed:
Try going to an outside-the-firewall server and pinging imap.gmail.com. Then update c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts to point imap.gmail.com to that address. Your firewall may be preventing accurate DNS to imap.gmail.com. Also, the address to imap.gmail.com changes on occasion, so even if you did this once before, you may have to do it again.
]]>Eventually, what got it recognized was when I did two things (one might be enough, but which?):
1. Open the back cover and push a paperclip into the reset hole in the BB.
]]>Eventually, what got it recognized was when I did two things (one might be enough, but which?):
1. Open the back cover and push a paperclip into the reset hole in the BB.
2. Disable USB autoconnect in the VMX, and manually attach the BB via the "Devices/Research in Motion USB Device" menu.
I suspect that it was number 2 that did it.
They didn't help USB synch, but they did get my bluetooth dongle working in the VM!
Then I discovered that there was an old security policy on the BB. (I bought it used.) Google for "adding desktop connectivity wireless bypass services.
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Add a router to your network with Windows XP Professional:
Install an additional network card in the box and then configure the registry setting below it it is able to route IP packets from one interface to another.
Regedit:
]]>Add a router to your network with Windows XP Professional:
Install an additional network card in the box and then configure the registry setting below it it is able to route IP packets from one interface to another.
Regedit:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters
set IPEnableRouter = 1
Reboot to start routing. You may also need to disable Windows Firewall on the machine.
Note: I don't think this will solve your VirtualBox access to the network. It is easy to tell the VBOX VM to send packets to the outside world via the router, but if your VM subnet is on its own network, someone is going to have to tell the real, outside router that it can send data to your subnet via your XP router. You can do this at home, but the corporate IT folks aren't going to do this for you.
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With the latest edition of VMWare Fusion, there is a .VMX setting that will force the BIOS to start (bios.forceSetupOnce = "TRUE"). This will probably show up in the PC/Linux edition eventually, but here's a work-around that I've found.
First, edit your VMX and tell it that your boot drive is NOT present (something like scsi0:0.present = "FALSE").
]]>With the latest edition of VMWare Fusion, there is a .VMX setting that will force the BIOS to start (bios.forceSetupOnce = "TRUE"). This will probably show up in the PC/Linux edition eventually, but here's a work-around that I've found.
First, edit your VMX and tell it that your boot drive is NOT present (something like scsi0:0.present = "FALSE").
Then boot your VM. It will fail, and tell you to press Control-alt-delete.
Put your keyboard focus in the VM, and press Control-alt-del, and then start banging on F2.
Once it boots and goes to the BIOS, tell it that it should first attempt to boot from the NIC. This will give you time for Control-G, followed by visually confirming that focus has been set to the VM, followed by F8, before Windows starts.
Finally, edit your VMX and tell it your boot drive is again present.
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This shows much more than just View/Show Hidden Devices does, without setting the environment variable.
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This shows much more than just View/Show Hidden Devices does, without setting the environment variable.
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If there is a domain policy in effect, a few minutes after you reconnect to the domain, your policy change will be un-done. However, the policy only prevents the CREATION of new bridges -- it does not disable bridges that are in existence.
]]>Using VMWare Player (version ?) and VirtualBox (version 2.0)
Note: Items marked with "+" are items I did in advance, so I don't have to do them on each conversion attempt.
From Original VMWARE GUEST:
]]>Using VMWare Player (version ?) and VirtualBox (version 2.0)
Note: Items marked with "+" are items I did in advance, so I don't have to do them on each conversion attempt.
From Original VMWARE GUEST:
From host:
From Copied VMWare Guest in Safe Mode:
Note: All of the non-"+" below are in this handy script - VMware-to-VBox-Script-1.
From Copied VMWare Guest in Normal Mode:
Note: All of the non-"+" below are in this handy script - VMware-to-VBox-Script-2.
Restart the guest VM in normal mode. I recommend holding down shift-key to prevent your Startup folder from running.
From the VirtualBox GUI
Start your Vbox-VM:
Note:
I have been totally unable to get "Host Interface" networking to work.
I created the interface, and I bridged it to a real interface, and I assigned an IP to the bridge and it didn't work.
I created the interface, and I assigned it 192.168.99.1 and I assigned 192.168.99.2 to the client's NIC and it didn't work.
I tried bridging it to a real NIC and I also (separately) tried bridging it to the Loopback adapter and I got nowhere.
I get too-frequent blue screens with VBox Shared Folders, so I needed to be able to map a host drive in the client. I can't just use the host's real IP address (e.g. \\10.20.2.42\c-drive) because I use the host at multiple sites and it gets a different IP address at each. Ultimately, I bound the Host's Loopback adapter to 192.168.99.99, and in the guest I mapped to \\192.168.99.99\c-drive, and I used only a single NAT virtual NIC.
Helpful web pages:
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