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Get a GNOME look in Windows XP

December 17th, 2009 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | View Comments | Filed in Offline

GNOME is a popular *NIX desktop environment, which has a very soft, simple, and user-friendly interface many have tried to emulate.  It is possible to get GNOME themes for Windows XP by using a hacked uxtheme.dll file.

Let’s install our hacked DLL file:

  1. Download a small tool called Replacer. Let’s extract Replacer to the desktop.
  2. Run the file replacer.cmd
  3. Open up C:\Windows\system32 and find uxtheme.dll. Drag the file into the command prompt window. Hit enter.
  4. Drag that unlocked uxtheme.dll file you found earlier into the command prompt window.  Hit enter.
  5. Agree to replace the file, and when the tool finishes, restart your computer.

Done!  Now lets get some awesome GNOME visual styles.

To install these styles, extract them to (C:\WINDOWS\Resources\Themes).  The name of the msstyles file should match the name of the folder it’s in.

Enjoy your newly skinned Windows XP!

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How to fix MySQL Error 1067

October 14th, 2009 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | View Comments | Filed in Tech

When installing MySQL, if you install it in a non-standard directory, then you’ll need to specify where your defaults file’s path is before you can run MySQL or install the MySQL service, otherwise you’ll get Error 1067.

First let’s open up the command prompt.  Navigate to your MySQL install folder and find wherever mysqld.exe is.  Then run this:

mysqld –remove MySql

That will uninstall the MySQL service.
Now reinstall the service with the defaults-file parameter:

mysqld –install <service name> –defaults-file=<full path of “my.ini” file>

For example:

mysqld –install MySql –defaults-file=c:\mysql\my.ini

Enjoy your error-free MySQL install.

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Windows Setup freeze

December 12th, 2008 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | View Comments | Filed in How Tos, Offline, Tech

Having trouble with windows setup not starting, and just freezing on “Setup is inspecting your computers hardware configuration”?

Here’s a couple handy suggestions:

  • If you happen to have one plugged in, try unplugging your external hard drive

    Note: This also works for regular Windows XP installs, when they hang on startup and it just shows a blank screen until you unplug the drive.

  • if the above one didn’t work, try creating an NTFS partition that is smaller than the whole drive (you can do this using a linux live cd like Ubuntu).
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    How to run Spore on Linux

    November 15th, 2008 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | View Comments | Filed in How Tos, Offline, Tech
    Spore on Linux

    Spore on Linux

    Before we install, we need to be sure your system can really handle this kind of graphics.  You should have a decent graphics card, and you should have the drivers installed.  If not, check out this post.

    The first step to installing Spore on linux is to download Wine.  Obviously Spore is not a windows program so you’re going to have to emulate windows which is what wine does.  If you’re on Ubuntu just go to the terminal and type in the following commands in this order:

    sudo apt-get install wine alsa-oss

    On other operating systems you can do likewise using your various package managers.

    Then, after Wine is done installing, then you can pop your Spore CD into your CD drive and then it should install (if you’ve already installed spore on the same computer but in windows and you’re in a dual boot, at this point you can just browse to the folder where you already installed it in windows and run SporeApp.exe since wine is installed with all the other required packages).

    After installing, get the no-cd crack from gamecopyworld here, install that into the program folder, and you’re all set!

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    Nvidia and ATI drivers for Linux

    November 15th, 2008 by Connor McBrine-Ellis | View Comments | Filed in How Tos

    Some programs in Linux (including the ultra-cool Desktop Effects) need graphics accelleration, so they need to use your card to the full.  You need to install your graphics drivers if you want to play 3d games.

    Here’s how.

    First open the terminal (Applications, Accessories, Terminal)

    If you have a recent card type this and hit enter:

    sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-new

    -or-

    sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx

    If you have an older card (only for TNT, TNT2, TNT Ultra, [old] GeForce, and GeForce2 chipsets):

    sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-legacy

    For ATI, enter this in the terminal and hit enter:

    sudo apt-get install xorg-driver-fglrx

    After your graphics card is all set up you’re set to have fun.

    Play around with desktop effects by installing this package:

    sudo aptitude install compizconfig-settings-manager

    Then go to the System menu, click on Preferences, and then click on Advanced Desktop Effects Settings, and have fun!

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