The blog of William Britt

Disable Your PC Speaker Beep, in Windows

nospam@example.com (Bill Britt) — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 15:43:03 -0800

Just open a command prompt, and type the command below in. It will disable the "beep" service.



sc config beep start= disabled

To turn it back on, type:



sc config beep start= auto

XP Unattend Timezone Settings

nospam@example.com (Bill Britt) — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:53:23 -0800

Below are is a list of timezone settings for Windows XP unattended installations.



000 Dateline Standard Time (GMT-12:00) International Date Line West

001 Samoa Standard Time (GMT-11:00) Midway Island, Samoa

002 Hawaiian Standard Time (GMT-10:00) Hawaii

003 Alaskan Standard Time (GMT-09:00) Alaska

004 Pacific Standard Time (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US and Canada); Tijuana

010 Mountain Standard Time (GMT-07:00) Mountain Time (US and Canada)

013 Mexico Standard Time 2 (GMT-07:00) Chihuahua, La Paz, Mazatlan

015 U.S. Mountain Standard Time (GMT-07:00) Arizona

020 Central Standard Time (GMT-06:00) Central Time (US and Canada)

025 Canada Central Standard Time (GMT-06:00) Saskatchewan

030 Mexico Standard Time (GMT-06:00) Guadalajara, Mexico City, Monterrey

033 Central America Standard Time (GMT-06:00) Central America

035 Eastern Standard Time (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US and Canada)

040 U.S. Eastern Standard Time (GMT-05:00) Indiana (East)

045 S.A. Pacific Standard Time (GMT-05:00) Bogota, Lima, Quito

050 Atlantic Standard Time (GMT-04:00) Atlantic Time (Canada)

055 S.A. Western Standard Time (GMT-04:00) Caracas, La Paz

056 Pacific S.A. Standard Time (GMT-04:00) Santiago

060 Newfoundland Standard Time (GMT-03:30) Newfoundland

065 E. South America Standard Time (GMT-03:00) Brasilia

070 S.A. Eastern Standard Time (GMT-03:00) Buenos Aires, Georgetown

073 Greenland Standard Time (GMT-03:00) Greenland

075 Mid-Atlantic Standard Time (GMT-02:00) Mid-Atlantic

080 Azores Standard Time (GMT-01:00) Azores

083 Cape Verde Standard Time (GMT-01:00) Cape Verde Islands

085 GMT Standard Time (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time : Dublin, Edinburgh, Lisbon, London

090 Greenwich Standard Time (GMT) Casablanca, Monrovia

095 Central Europe Standard Time (GMT+01:00) Belgrade, Bratislava, Budapest, Ljubljana, Prague

100 Central European Standard Time (GMT+01:00) Sarajevo, Skopje, Warsaw, Zagreb

105 Romance Standard Time (GMT+01:00) Brussels, Copenhagen, Madrid, Paris

110 W. Europe Standard Time (GMT+01:00) Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna

113 W. Central Africa Standard Time (GMT+01:00) West Central Africa

115 E. Europe Standard Time (GMT+02:00) Bucharest

120 Egypt Standard Time (GMT+02:00) Cairo

125 FLE Standard Time (GMT+02:00) Helsinki, Kyiv, Riga, Sofia, Tallinn, Vilnius

130 GTB Standard Time (GMT+02:00) Athens, Istanbul, Minsk

135 Israel Standard Time (GMT+02:00) Jerusalem

140 South Africa Standard Time (GMT+02:00) Harare, Pretoria

145 Russian Standard Time (GMT+03:00) Moscow, St. Petersburg, Volgograd

150 Arab Standard Time (GMT+03:00) Kuwait, Riyadh

155 E. Africa Standard Time (GMT+03:00) Nairobi

158 Arabic Standard Time (GMT+03:00) Baghdad

160 Iran Standard Time (GMT+03:30) Tehran

165 Arabian Standard Time (GMT+04:00) Abu Dhabi, Muscat

170 Caucasus Standard Time (GMT+04:00) Baku, Tbilisi, Yerevan

175 Afghanistan Standard Time (GMT+04:30) Kabul

180 Ekaterinburg Standard Time (GMT+05:00) Ekaterinburg

185 West Asia Standard Time (GMT+05:00) Islamabad, Karachi, Tashkent

190 India Standard Time (GMT+05:30) Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi

193 Nepal Standard Time (GMT+05:45) Kathmandu

195 Central Asia Standard Time (GMT+06:00) Astana, Dhaka

200 Sri Lanka Standard Time (GMT+06:00) Sri Jayawardenepura

201 N. Central Asia Standard Time (GMT+06:00) Almaty, Novosibirsk

203 Myanmar Standard Time (GMT+06:30) Rangoon

205 S.E. Asia Standard Time (GMT+07:00) Bangkok, Hanoi, Jakarta

207 North Asia Standard Time (GMT+07:00) Krasnoyarsk

210 China Standard Time (GMT+08:00) Beijing, Chongqing, Hong Kong SAR, Urumqi

215 Singapore Standard Time (GMT+08:00) Kuala Lumpur, Singapore

220 Taipei Standard Time (GMT+08:00) Taipei

225 W. Australia Standard Time (GMT+08:00) Perth

227 North Asia East Standard Time (GMT+08:00) Irkutsk, Ulaan Bataar

230 Korea Standard Time (GMT+09:00) Seoul

235 Tokyo Standard Time (GMT+09:00) Osaka, Sapporo, Tokyo

240 Yakutsk Standard Time (GMT+09:00) Yakutsk

245 A.U.S. Central Standard Time (GMT+09:30) Darwin

250 Cen. Australia Standard Time (GMT+09:30) Adelaide

255 A.U.S. Eastern Standard Time (GMT+10:00) Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney

260 E. Australia Standard Time (GMT+10:00) Brisbane

265 Tasmania Standard Time (GMT+10:00) Hobart

270 Vladivostok Standard Time (GMT+10:00) Vladivostok

275 West Pacific Standard Time (GMT+10:00) Guam, Port Moresby

280 Central Pacific Standard Time (GMT+11:00) Magadan, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia

285 Fiji Islands Standard Time (GMT+12:00) Fiji Islands, Kamchatka, Marshall Islands

290 New Zealand Standard Time (GMT+12:00) Auckland, Wellington

300 Tonga Standard Time (GMT+13:00) Nuku'alofa

Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3 Public Beta

nospam@example.com (Bill Britt) — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 09:42:00 -0700

Just got the public beta of Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3, only to find I couldn't connect to any games due to a NAT issue. Then I saw a post on the EA Forums that said the README included with the game listed the ports necessary to open up for the game.

The README states the following:

Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 uses UDP ports 8088-65535.

After forwarding these ports I was successfully able to start a game. Let just hope the game doesn't keep crashing like it did on my first game...

Bears!

nospam@example.com (Bill Britt) — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 23:20:29 -0700

Found this Via my Brother, pleny of laughs.

Compiz - No Windows Borders

nospam@example.com (Bill Britt) — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 01:00:17 -0700

One solution to this maybe to add

Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"

To the "screen" section of the file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"

nospam@example.com (Bill Britt) — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 23:04:59 -0700

I was unable to make my super (windows) key work in ubuntu, until I found the following in an ubuntu forum post.

To make the super key work with compiz-fusion add this to you xorg.conf file in the keyboard section:

Option "XkbOptions" "altwin:super_win"

Set "gnome-system-monitor" to ctrl-alt-del in Ubuntu

nospam@example.com (Bill Britt) — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 03:11:06 -0700

First run this command
gconftool-2 -t str --set /apps/metacity/global_keybindings/run_command_9 "Delete"

Then this command:
gconftool-2 -t str --set /apps/metacity/keybinding_commands/command_9 "gnome-system-monitor"

Thats it, try it out, and enjoy!

Installing Command and Conquer 3 Maps

nospam@example.com (Bill Britt) — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 00:36:51 -0700

First Download and unzip the maps you want (some can be found here)

Next go to Start->Run and copy the following (With the quotes):

"%appdata%\Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars\Maps"

Click Ok

Copy the files you unzipped to the folder that opens.

The maps should now appear in Command and Conquer 3

Destruction of a Bear

nospam@example.com (Bill Britt) — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 17:32:18 -0700

Video of some good times this 4th of July.

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Code Monkey Anime Music Video

nospam@example.com (Bill Britt) — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 20:53:31 -0700

I came accost this cool video, just wanted to share.

[ Via Amber Mac ]

Yahoo Finance Presentation Recommends Google!

nospam@example.com () — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 03:58:57 -0700

As I was browsing for some information on how to setup MySQL Replication, I noticed this in a presentation from a Yahoo Finance guy, Jeremy Zawodny. And He Recommends Google to find information about MySQL Replication. (3rd to last slide) Screenshot if it gets taken down: http://img455.imageshack.us/img455/631/yahoorecommendsgooglewh2.jpg

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Forcing LS to use color in Debian

nospam@example.com () — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 03:24:14 -0700

In Ubuntu "ls" outputs its results using color highlighting, however in Debian this is not the case. To solve this problem complete the following steps.



nano -w ~/.bashrc

Then uncomment (remove the #'s) the following lines, and change the "--color=auto" in the first line to "--color=always":



export LS_OPTIONS='--color=auto'

eval "`dircolors`"

alias ls='ls $LS_OPTIONS'

alias ll='ls $LS_OPTIONS -l'

alias l='ls $LS_OPTIONS -lA'

Google Trying New Layouts? Again?

nospam@example.com () — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 08:10:54 -0700

While I was browsing earlier I went to Google, and noticed a different looking page. It looks like Google is trying some new layouts that will appear randomly, as they have in the past. I am quite fond of the one they I was presented with, give it a look below.

10 Linux commands you've never used

nospam@example.com () — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 02:31:15 -0800

It takes years maybe decades to master the commands available to you at the Linux shell prompt. Here are 10 that you will have never heard of or used.

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200 Linux commands for serious newbies

nospam@example.com () — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 08:17:21 -0800

About 200 Linux commands for serious newbies. To get more examples on how each command is used, use this command:#>man commandname

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