If you are owning an iPad 3G you’re willing to use with your current data tariff. This involves one hurdle: Apple decided to use a micro SIM card slot instead of the traditional mini SIM cards used. But this is no problem, you need to do some hard work. Aware, this step is irreversible in any case. You may get an micro SIM adapter to plug your self made micro SIM card in mini SIM card slots after doing this job.

1. You need to place both cards side by side until the golden contacts are covered.
   
2. Mark these positions, e.g. by using a black fine liner
3. Cut plastics around, do not cut any golden contacts! I made it with typical scissors for office use.
   
4. Fine-tuning your model, e.g. use sand paper or a lumpy wall to optimize the fitting.
   
5. Finally just plug in your card and the network should be detected automatically. You need to set your APN settings in the category “Celluar Data”.
   

The entire process takes less than five minutes. If you decide to perform these steps, keep in mind, you are doing them on your own and only you are responsible for any damage.

Using LNCS 2.14 template with current hyperref Latex package results in

An updated LNCS template has been released in Apr 2010, you can find it here. This fixes the issue.

If you do not know the password of a sparse device, just enter 10 times a wrong password then you will be asked to enter “blackberry” and the device will be wiped automatically.

If the icon is missing to setup additional mail accounts, switch on the blackberry and remove the battery without shutting down the blackberry. Wait 10 secs and plug-in the battery and wait to reboot. Now the icon appears automatically, once the software validation has run independently.

Cost me one hour to figure out this hack.

I often search the Internet for the Window-EasyTransfer tool to migrate all windows preferences during an upgrade. However, I can’t remember this fancy name and end up in looking for migwiz.exe instead of the name. Thus, I need this reminder entry to make sure, what I am looking for.

You can download it for Windows XP, in all other version it is part of the operating system, run “migwiz.exe”.

Often db.h is missing which is part of the Berkeley DB development files.

aptitude install libdb-dev fixed the problem in lenny.

Best to use, open terminal.app, goto preferences, keyboard, select the proper key, copy the escape sequence from the following list, select “sent string to shell” and pase the escape sequence to the field.

Key escape sequence in alphabetical order:

End: \033[4~
Home: \033[1~
Page Down \033[6~
Page Up \033[5~

Settings:

• Microsoft Windows Vista (SP0, SP1, SP2)
• System is not part of a domain
• Outlook is setup up to use company’s Exchange server

Problem: Each time you open Outlook, the credentials for a server in the domain are queried. If you select “save password” the popup occurs next time you restart Outlook again.

Solution:

1.)    gpedit.msc –> Computer Configuration –> Windows Settings –> Security Policy –> Local Policy –> Security Options –> Network Access: Prevent anonymous listing of SAM accounts: DISABLED
2.)    Fill in all username / password for potential servers in the Protected Storage  (browse Preferences –> User Accounts for the Protected Storage).

Issue: WinDent does no longer start, a warning popup occurs containing the info “Maximal 10 parallele Programme”.

Check:

1. Check whether WinDent is installed on the “server” system; mount the WinDent directory (often C:\CG\WinDent or C:\WinDent) via a network share, e.g. N:\.
2. Check on the server system the shortcut to the app, it should be N:\windent.exe
3. With Windows XP SP2 or newer the upcoming security warning should stop you from executing the file unintended.

Solution:

• Add the IP address of the “server” to the list of intranet sites (Control Panel -> Internet Options -> Security -> Intranet -> Sites…).
• Add “.exe” to the list of moderate file extension, e.g. by using gpedit.msc (User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Attachment Manager -> “list for filetypes with modereate risk”)
• Alternatively check this registry entry:
  [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Associations]
  “ModRiskFileTypes”=”.exe”
• Check the same settings, i.e. network share mapping AND intranet sites setting on your client computer(s).

Problem: Yellow warning sign in front of all CD-/DVD devices in device manager.

Solution: Open the registry editor and navigate to the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> SYSTEM -> CurrentControlSet -> Control -> Class -> {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}.
Check the properties of the following keys:

* LowerFilters: PxHelp20
* UpperFilters: GEARAspiWDM

Alternatively, delete both keys. Reboot the system, all devices should be detected and installed automatically.