Sometimes you just need to leave the classics alone…. Sure Hollywood hasn’t really come up with an original movie in a LONG time but the Karate Kid? Seriously! Apple Trailers has a link to the new Karate Kid movie. I think part of me died when I saw Jackie Chan is playing the role of Mr. Miyagi. Don’t get me wrong, I like Jackie Chan but this is border line sacrilegious!
My New Toy
This year for Christmas Stephanie and I decided to buy something that the family could use rather than just gifts for each other. Now we’re the proud owners of a new Canon Rebel T1i, w00t, and let me tell you what, this thing is awesome! Random photos:
For the record, taking close-up photos of a moving baby is not easy
A Sonic Tale
This one pretty much wrote itself…
Stephanie – I’d like a diet vanilla coke please.
Cashier - We have no diet vanilla so it would have to be a regular diet vanilla coke with vanilla.
Windows 7 Activation
I laughed when I saw this:
Windows 7 activation error: 0xC004F061
If you receive error “0xC004F061″ when trying to activate Windows 7, it means you’re using a product key for an upgrade version of Windows 7 and a previous version of Windows wasn’t on your computer when Windows 7 was installed. To install an upgrade version of Windows 7, Windows Vista or Windows XP must be installed on your computer. If you formatted the drive before starting the installation process, you won’t be able to use the upgrade product key to activate Windows 7. To activate Windows 7, you’ll need to install your previous version of Windows, and then reinstall Windows 7. For help with the activation process, go to the Microsoft Support website.
Seriously? Is that what you call customer service? Rather than giving your customers an option to enter their XP/Vista product key you want them to reinstall the old operating system only to reinstall Windows 7…. Does anyone else see something wrong with this? So if you don’t want to reinstall two operating systems there is a registry fix to get around this.
- Open up regedit and go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup\OOBE
- Backup (Export) the folder just in case
- Change MediaBootInstall from 1 to 0
- Open up a command prompt running it as Administrator
- go to C:\Windows\system32
- > cscript.exe slmgr.vbs -rearm
- Reboot your computer
- Enter your product key
Hope this helps
To Ubuntu or not to Ubuntu
I’m one of those weird people who have multiple computers, three at current count, each running a different OS. Two desktops running Windows XP and Ubuntu Linux and my laptop running Apple OS X. Lately I’ve been toying around with the idea of dropping my Windows installation for two Ubuntu computers. I really like Ubuntu, I’ve been using it for years and haven’t had any problems with it except for my unfriendly printer that only has XP drivers… but I digress. Window 7 came out and while I did run the release candidate for a while there’s always those lingering issues:
- It’s $200!
- Windows so I know I’ll be plagued by slowdowns, spy-ware, viruses, etc
- Did I mention it’s $200?
Who am I kidding, I’m going with Ubuntu
Android and the Missing GEN Folder
I’ve been playing around with Android now and so far it’s been a good experience save one really annoying thing.
Project ‘Project Name’ is missing required source folder: ‘gen’
Seriously?! I mean come on, the folder is in the project for crying out loud! Sadly I’m not the only one who has been plagued by this error. Many Google searches later and still no hard-fast answer that. I have found one thing that seems to help although it’s a pain to keep doing it over and over again….
- Delete the R.java file under the gen folder
- Refresh the project
- Build Project, not Clean
This, so far, seems to be the only way to consistently get rid of the missing gen folder message….
Edit:
It seems I’m getting more and more traffic to this post. Christian provided the correct fix below on how to resolve the missing GEN folder in the comments below. Set the Java version of the project to 1.6 and you’ll be troubled no more. Thanks Christian.
Grandma B
Last night Grandma B left us to go be with our Lord and Savior. It pains the heart to know that such a kind and loving woman will not be here with us any more. Yet my heart leaps with joy knowing that she is in no more pain and that she has finally made it home. Grandma B, you will be missed.
Grandma B
Don’t let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, and trust also in me. There is more than enough room in my Father’s home. If this were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you? When everything is ready, I will come and get you, so that you will always be with me where I am. And you know the way to where I am going.
John 14:1 – 4
Proverbs
I’ve always lived Proverbs, probably my favorite book.
“Teach a wise man. He will become even wiser. Teach a person who does right. He will learn even more. If you really want to become wise, you must begin by having respect for the Lord. To know the Holy One is to gain understanding.” – Proverbs 9:9-10
Good stuff!
A Different Perspective
Someone forwarded this to my wife, saw it and I think you’ll agree that it speaks for itself.
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1 Corinthians 10:13
“God is faithful, and he will not let you be tested beyond your strength but with your testing he will also provide the way out so that you may be able to endure it”