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When you are in Asia,draft.blogger.com tries to automatically detect your location and sets the UI to the language that was detected by Google. Unfortunately, sometimes the gateway is provided outside of the country mostly from Hongkong. This leaves you with a Chinese interface which I can't really understand. This is even more challenging if you are trying to access sites using BlackBerry. Anyway, to access Blogger Draft in English, use the following URL: http://draft.blogger.com/ mobile-start.g?hl=en ~ts

I have been using STAF/STAX for a while now as a framework on top of software test automation. When we started moving some of our tests in Windows Vista noticed that there have been cases where uninstallation of the software under test is crashing. I thought it was some component not playing well with Windows Vista but I when I tried to perform the uninstallation sequence manually everything was fine and dandy. So I started digging around and I found out that in Windows Vista, the following command may fail. C:\>staf remotemachine process start command "C:\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\INSTAL~1\Driver\1150\INTEL3~1\IDriver.exe /M^{1CD6500F-DE1E-44AC-A279-4C85247A9A85^}" Poking around even more and I finally found a workaround, to get the above command working in Vista, do: C:\>staf remotemachine process start shell command "C:\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\INSTAL~1\Driver\1150\INTEL3~1\IDriver.exe /M^{1CD6500F-DE1E-44AC-A279-4C85247A9A85^}" Notice the use of shell to ma

Sample code playing around canvas, cursors, images. Another wxPython Tutorial The wxPython Tutorial - The wxPython tutorial is the largest and most advanced wxPython tutorial available on the Internet. Suitable for beginners and intermediate programmers Rubberbanding in wxPython

This is the Microsoft Windows Vista Send To: Adding item to Sent To menu in Vista is easy, just create an item (the item can be a shortcut, a small application, a folder etc..). The location of this folder is in: %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo You can type this in Run dialog (Window+R), in Start Search box, in Windows Explorer locator bar. Another shortcut to this is : Shell:sendto As before you can type this in Run Dialog(Window+R) or Windows Search bar ~ts

If you are trying to access a project in SourceForge using an SVN client and you see something like "Could not open requested SVN filesystem" then it is possible that the project's SVN access is not enabled. See this link on how to enable SVN. Note that you need to have admin privileges to a particular project to enable SVN. ~TS

SVN repository is not enabled by default when creating a project in SourceForge . To enable SVN is easy. Go to the summary page, see below for sample screen shot, then hover to Admin tab. You should see the screen below, then just enable "The following box should be checked to enable Subversion" and Update and off you go. Enjoy! TS

Some useful links for SourceForge users. Quickstart Guide to Subversion on SourceForge Recommended Software Configuration - this includes how to configure SVN clients, cvs and many more. ~TS