Pidgin home dir

What once was '%GAIMHOME%', while Yahoo did not do their thing, now on Pidgin is '%PURPLEHOME%'.

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Firefox 3 disable extentions compatibility checks

• Type about:config into Firefox's address bar and click the "I'll be careful, I promise!" button.
• Right-click anywhere. Choose New>Boolean. Make the name of your new config value 'extensions.checkCompatibility' and set it to 'false'.
• Make another new boolean pair called 'extensions.checkUpdateSecurity' and set the value to 'false'.
• Restart Firefox.

Multiline paste for Firefox 3

Type "about:config" in the location bar. In the "Filter" field type "singleline." You can set the value to 2 for editor.singleLine.pasteNewlines, which will allow pasting of multiple lines to input boxes.

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Windows XP Single to MultiProcessor patch

To switch to Multiprocessor support need to modify some system files.
There are three files involved in this in your \Windows\system32 directory:

• HAL.DLL
• ntoskrnl.exe
• ntkrnlpa.exe

The versions you need may be found in \Windows\ServicePackFiles\i386:

• halmacpi.dll
• ntkrnlmp.exe
• ntkrpamp.exe

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Adding missing GPG key for custom repositories

Option 1:

wget [URL].gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -

Option 2

#!/bin/bash
gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv $1
gpg --export --armor $1 | sudo apt-key add -

HTC Hack - Show Date and Time in Title Bar

Browse to 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shell\'

Create a binary value named "TBOpt" and set its value to "13 00 00 00".

Navigate to 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\nls\overrides'
Change (or create string) value of "SSDte" to the date format :"dd-MMM "

It is important you add 3 spaces at the end!!

Save any unsaved document and reset your Pocket PC.

Windows :: Disable the Shutdown Event Tracker in Windows 2003

If the event tracker is of no use to you then you can disable it. To do this, open the Group Policy Object Editor Console. Go to Start > Run…, type gpedit.msc and press OK.

Navigate to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > System and in the right hand pane, select the “Display Shutdown Event Tracker” setting.

Double Click this setting to open the Properties page. You are now given the option to leave it in a default state of Not Configured, set it to Always Enabled, Enabled for Servers/Workstations (Windows XP Pro) or Disabled completely.

After you make the change to the Group Policy, open the Command Prompt and run the gpupdate /force command to refresh the policy and have your settings be applied straight away. Alternatively you can just restart the machine.

When you next attempt to shutdown or restart the machine, the Shutdown event tracker will no longer be visible and the normal shutdown prompt will appear.

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