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Input Error: There is no script engine for file extension “.vbs”.
Just installed Bluefish for Windows and let it take control of alot of the files that you might want to edit including .VBS files (Visual Basic Script). After which I got the following error: C:\Users\myusername\Desktop>cscript DownloadAndConvert.vbs Microsoft (R)...
Cygwin X – failed to activate core devices
Recently updated my Cygwin install on Windows 7 Ultimate x64 Workstation. Tried to run startxdmcp.bat and got a Cygwin X error - failed to activate core devices Looking in /var/log/XWin.0.log showed nothing obvious as to why the X server failed to start. Ran Cygwin...
Javascript Best Practices
I don't do a lot of programming, and the languages I use are all interpreted (Perl, VBS, Kix, PHP) and not compiled. So people can easily see the mess I make of code. But I do like to know, at least, how to do things correctly. With regard to Javascript there are many...
Adding HP Officejet Pro 8500 A910 to Linux Mint 10
I un-installed all the hplip packages on the box from the Software Manager to start with. Then I followed the instructions here http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/install/manual/distros/linuxmint.html You definately need the latest hplip tarball. (I used...
For Halitosis try Linux Mint
Just did something stupid with my home system: Started an update from Ubuntu 10.10 to the development version of the new 11.04 using update-manager -d. Saw the `don't use this on a production system' warning and ignored it, and pulled the trigger on the update. Then I...
Getting Screenshots working the way I prefer in LXDE
The default command on lubuntu-desktop for ALT-PrintScreen and PrintScreen dump the file in $HOME On my Fedora 20 LXDE install there are no preconfigured screen shot options. So the following needs to be added to the openbox config xml. Before you start install scrot...