Suhas Patil

Configuring HP Laserjet 1005 on Windows 7 64 laptop

2010-02-22T23:38:00.000-08:00

Recently I got a new laptop with Windows 7 Professional 64bit. While almost all of the migration from my old laptop went smoothly, I could not get it working with the HP Laserjet 1005 printer in my office. The relevant drivers of this printer for win7 64bit are not available on the HP site.

After a couple of hours of struggle I got it working with the help of a ubuntu server in the office

Android SDK Setup Issue Resolution

2009-12-16T23:14:00.000-08:00

I recently downloaded android SDK r04 for windows. Its a set of basic tools that help you download and manage several versions of SDK and other stuff. However launching the "Setup SDK.exe" just flashed a black box (command line box) that vanished in a fraction of a second - No error messages.

I tried to run it from command line, where it promptly returned to the command prompt without doing anything.

Tried searching the web, found a couple of threads on various forums. One suggested to update to latest version of JDK. I did that, still no help, other thread weren't of much help.

After fiddling around a bit found the following solution:
In the home folder of SDK two folders "platforms" and "add-ons" are missing. create these two folders
then click on the "SDK Setup.exe" and it's interface will pop-up.

EXE files stuck up on my desktop

2009-08-28T01:52:00.000-07:00

Recently I stumbled upon a strange issue, I copied some installers from a server to the desktop of my winXP notebook, so that I could install them later. After installation, I couldn't delete those .exe files with an error that the file is being used by some other program. rebooting the notebook did not help.

To find the culprit program that was blocking those exes, I downloaded the "Process Explorer" from Microsoft Technet. It allowed me to find the process that was locking the exe files on my desktop. It turned out to be the "explorer.exe" process. I killed and restarted the explorer process from task-manager, the exes were still locked.

Then I opened an cmd window, kill the explorer process and removed the files using good old "del".

I still can't delete any exe file from my desktop. I am however, able to delete other files. I tried to search for the reason of this strange behaviour on google, but couldn't get any reason. If a get the reason I will certainly post it here.

Multiple Tiffs to single PDF using Openoffice.org

2008-05-28T03:03:00.000-07:00

Recently I had multiple tiff files, that I wanted to send to somebody. I thought it could be better to send them as a single pdf. A quick google search revealed that there are some shareware converters from tiff to pdf, some suggested to use pdfprinter with some image viewing software,
abandoning those, here is how I quickly converted it without any hassles using Openoffice.org Draw:

Started a new document in OpenOffice.org Draw.
On the lefthand side in the pages pane, created 7 blank pages (I had seven images)
Using File->open opened the first tiff image
Copied it and went back to the newly created document
Selected the appropriate page for that image and pasted it
Closed the tiff image
Repeated step 3 -6 for rest of the images.
Used the "Export directly as PDF" button from the toolbar
Its Done!!!, Now either discard or save your document

I am sure that this method can be used with any other commonly used images formats (even mixed types). Hope this helps somebody.

Have a great day!

Hari Om!

2004-12-04T00:17:00.000-08:00

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