Problem: Adobe Lightroom 3 has a very slow and jerky import dialogue

Problem: Adobe Lightroom 3 has a very slow and jerky import dialogue

With Adobe Lightroom 3 (3.2 x64 on windows 7 in my case) it is almost impossible to import pictures. This is independent from their location; whether they are stored on CF, network or local disk gives the same results.

Scrolling is slow, (de)selecting pictures is slow, even moving the (mouse) cursor over the import dialog is slow and jerky. It seems like the import dialog freezes every 2 seconds and un-freezes a second later.

A lot of forums suggest a lot of solutions. My computer is fairly new and has got 8GB of RAM. The following 'solutions' didn't work: defragmentation, creating a new catalog, discarding all preview images, ...

Suddenly I found the solution to the problem in my case. The import dialogue was really slow when my phone was connected to the computer through ActiveSync. When it was disconnected Lightroom 3 was blazing fast!
Usually the first thing I do when I get at my computer is syncing my phone and leave it connected. This is why I didn't discover this horrible impact it made on Lightroom's performance at first!

The phone is an HTC HD2 - Windows Mobile 6.5 - connected with Active Sync to a Windows 7 x64 box.

The general problem that may be an explanation for other people's slowness might be the import dialogue probing all file systems on the computer. Even really slow ones, like the file system on my HTC phone. It even might be a slow network drive or mounted archives or tape drives (?) or floppy disks or your camera connected with an USB cable... you name it.

Hopefully this solution will be of some benefit to you, too! In my case: Mystery Solved.

Problem: Hotmail cannot deliver mail to certain domains: "Relay Access Denied"

Problem: Hotmail cannot deliver mail to certain domains: "Relay Access Denied"

The error message is:

Diagnostic-Code: smtp;554 5.7.1 <user@domain.com>: Relay access denied

Solution:
When there exists an A record in DNS for a specific domain, on certain occasions hotmail.com tries to deliver mail to the server at the IP address the A record resolves to. This is the case when there is (another) e-mail server running on that IP-address.
This is wrong because it only should try to deliver mail to the MX records in your DNS server and not to the A records.

The easy solution here is to just delete all A records. But then your web server will be unreachable!

The harder solution is to follow the instructions I have learned here on windowslivehelp.com

The only fix (short of getting MS to do something) is to convince the person who runs the domain you are trying to email to (hilariously) block hotmail's IP's from sending mail to there web server.


I did this for my linux mail server with the following;

iptables -A INPUT -s 65.52.0.0/14 -p tcp -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-port-unreachable

Note: you may have to add more IP's to this range, I am unsure if msn, live, etc use other IP's

Cheers!

Problem: Remember the Milk cannot sync on Windows Mobile

Problem: Remember the Milk cannot sync on Windows Mobile

Solution:
Unfortunately there is no solution (yet) to this problem. Keep checking back because I'll be posting the solution here immediately after I have resolved this annoying problem.

On my device I installed MilkSync, the portable application from Remember The Milk's GTD website. It is version 1.0.0 dated 2007.
My device: HTC HD2, Windows Mobile 6.5

MilkSync produces a few error messages in a few different scenarios: 

• Syncing through ActiveSync / USB-to-PC / WiFi

- Status message 'Connecting...' is displayed for about 30 seconds
- After that this error message pops up: "Error: Cannot establish an Internet connection."
- _any_ other application can connect to the internet (http or https protocol)
- I don't use a proxy server

• Syncing through mobile internet / 3GSyncing through mobile internet / 3G

- Status message: 'Connecting...' -> Sending tasks 1-... -> Waiting for server data ... -> Finished receiving -> Ending
- After that - or sooner!! - this error message pops up: "Authentication failed. Check username and password of Pro account status."
- The odd part is, that some tasks _do_ get synchronized, despite the 'authentication failed' error message.
- After uninstalling the MilkSync app and subsequent installation, the server requests a re-sync. When there are less than about 75 tasks on the mobile device, the synchronization process is completed without error messages. ...most of the times

Until now RTM hasn't come up with a solution to the problem...

Problem: A flash video doesn't stay at full screen when clicked on secondary monitor

Problem: A flash video doesn't stay at full screen when clicked on secondary monitor on a multi monitor setup

Solution:
A certain someone named Rafal has proposed a solution for this problem. Here
The downloaded file goes here: C:\Windows\system32\Macromed\Flash\ or C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash\

Problem: What happened to the development of Quicksilver for mac?

Problem: On the blacktree website appear no more recent builds of Quicksilver. The last one is B56a7.

Solution:
The development of Quicksilver is continued by the open source community and can be found here: http://github.com/tiennou/blacktree-alchemy/downloads

Problem: Windows Mobile Device Center reports error 80040154 and doesn't sync with device

Problem: When connecting my Windows Mobile device (HTC touch diamond2 T5353 / Topaz) to my Windows 7 - x64 box, there is a message that the Windows Mobile Device Center (version 6.1) is stopped unexpectedly.
When I open up the Windows Mobile Device Center (through Control Panel), it displays an error message with error number 80040154.
"An unhandled exception has occured in your application" "Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {89108EE5-18DA-11DB-9617-00EE08161165F} failed due to the following error: 80040154."
As expected, no syncing has been done.

My software:
Desktop: Windows 7 - 64 bit, Windows Mobile Device Center 6.1 (stock), Microsoft Office 2010 (beta) (I know, I know).
Mobile Device: Windows Mobile 6.5, Remember the Milk sync app.
Problem exists with anti-virus and firewall switched off.

Solution:
It seems to be a problem with Outlook corrupting the PST-files. At least there is a communication error between the computer and the mobile device, based on the way the PST-files are stored.
Open up Outlook and right-click your root folder one-by-one (Personal Folders), choose Data File Management, choose Advanced and choose Compact Folder.
After that, syncing works again. Peculiar.

Solved!

[edit] After all, this doesn't seem to be the (complete) solution. (re)starting activesync on the mobile device (windows mobile 6.5) does the trick permanently. [/edit]

Problem: Microsoft Excel 2008 on Mac OS X 10.6 can't save a file to a samba share on linux (ZFS filesystem).

Problem: Microsoft Excel 2008 on Mac OS X 10.6 can't save a file to a samba share on linux (ZFS filesystem).
Error message:

Microsoft Excel cannot access the file "server:path:to:file"
There are several possible reasons:

- The file name or path name does not exist
- The file you're trying to open is being used by another program. Close the document in the other program, and try again.
- The name of the workbook you're trying to save is the same as the name of another document that is read-only. Try saving the workbook with a different name.

I believe it started after I have upgraded from Mac OS X 10.5.5 to 10.6 (Snow Leopard), but I am not sure

The problem is that Excel writes some kind of temp file (a mix of 8 digits and letters) to the shared folder and sets the permissions to -rw-r--r-- (644). After that Excel cannot write to that file anymore and it fails to save the document to the share. The user that is logged on to samba is the right one, so the permissions should be sufficient. Excel fails anyhow.

Solution:
The samba configuration file on linux has to be changed on a share basis (/etc/samba/smb.conf):
Excel needs the permissions on file on the share to be at least 664 (-rw-rw-r--). In my case I have changed the sections for the affected share in smb.conf as follows:
- create mask = 0775 (new files are created with this mask)
- force create mode = 0775 (not needed for this to work)
- force security mode = 0775 (limits how file permissions can be changed)

Problem: How do I add a ipv6 address for a specific interface in windows vista / windows 7

Problem: How do I add a ipv6 address for a specific interface in windows vista / windows 7

Solution:

Open a command prompt window, run as administrator

do: netsh interface ipv6 add address interface_name ipv6_address