I upgraded my Office Communicator 2007 to R2 last week, and my custom presence stopped working. Turns out R2 will assume default security for transport, which is set to High, and then requires your custom presence XML file to be an HTTPS URL. Even if you set your registry entry to be an https path it still won’t work. The link to the articles that did help can be found here: Defining custom presence states for Office Communicator 2007 R2Communicator…
I can never remember what the pinout is to get 5VDC from a male USB-A connector, and being color-blind having a true wiring diagram helps a lot. Sure I could Google and Wikipedia search it, and combine the results, but hey, why not use my blog as a repository of stuff I’ve learned, right? Here is a link to a PDF document including pictures and data polarity/voltages. Basically, you want pins 1 and 4. Looking at the male connector head-on,…
Like many Cliq XT owners (TMO), I got tired of everyone in the world getting a newer OS except me…even the Cliq owners got 2.1 this past month, but Cliq XT didn’t. Yeah, well, enough of that crap. Here’s how I rooted and upgraded my Cliq XT: 1. Root the phone – instructions here2. Install Recovery image – instructions here3. Download ROM zip file (leave as ZIP file!) and copy to root of SD card – instructions here4. Boot the…
I was working on a rather lengthy query that used a typical CASE WHEN THEN ELSE END sequence, but it kept telling me “Case expressions may only be nested to level 10”, even though I wasn’t nesting or doing something unique with them, just like this: case when field1 = ‘data’ then ‘data1’ when field1 = ‘datax’ then ‘data2’ when field1 = ‘datay’ then ‘data3’ when field1 = ‘dataz’ then ‘data4’ when field1 = ‘dataa’ then ‘data5’ when field1 =…
Most useful here is subjective, but here is a quick way to create your own quick listing of common Windows 7 settings, including shortcuts, links to Control Panel items, etc. It’s definitely not an all-inclusive list, but it works, and it’s pretty cool. Create a folder somewhere (desktop preferably until you see what it does). Right-click and rename the folder .{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} Note the period between and the unique identifier – very important! “Name of your choice” can be anything you…