Cygwin "unable to remap..."

After thinking that Cygwin was finally "stably" installed on Vista-64bit, I started to see "unable to remap..." errors while running a perl CPAN module install.

What was that command that I had to run?.... Oh yeah, "rebaseall".

• Start up an ash session from a cmd.exe window.
• cd c:\cygwin
• \bin\ash.exe
• Then from the ash prompt: /bin/rebaseall
• Then start up a Cygwin window... and everything should be working again.

-endCommunication!

Firefox Scrapbook woes...

I love to use the scrapbook plug-in. But a I've come across a problem...
I used the same scrapbook directory over the network on 2 different computers at the same time (which is not recommended by the way). As a result, the data that I have added via either computer is in the Scrapbook directory, but the scrapbook.rdf file only contains the data from 1 or the computers (the last computer that saved it's scrapbood.rdf index).

Anyhow, I hope to find a way to sync the rdf file with the actual data that is contained in the Scrapbook directory.


href=http://www.justthink.it/firefox/scrapbookSync/

Cygwin.bat on Vista-64bit

After installing Cygwin on Vista-64bit, I found that bash shell would start but no unix commands like 'ls' were available. Now, I had fixed this problem on my laptop, a while back... not sure about all the details. But, here's the Cygwin.bat script that starts things up...


@echo off

@REM Cygwin Startup script for Vista-64bit

C:
chdir C:\cygwin\bin

set CYGPATH=C:\cygwin\bin;C:\cygwin\sbin;C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin;
set PATH=%CYGPATH%;%PATH%
set DISPLAY=:0.0

REM echo %PATH%

bash --login -i


Cygwin still seems to have problems with forking new processes on Vista, but all I really need it for now is for some perl scripting...

-Yeah...

Nvidia 650i Ultra Motherboard (Long Beeps)

I'm making this posting because I found very little data on the problem of getting Long Beeps upon reboot on my computer, which has an Nvidia 650i Ultra motherboard.

After much web searching, I was very disappointed that there was no data available regarding beep-codes for the Nvidia 650i Ultra motherboard. There were a few mentions about re-seating memory cards and video card, and with that not working, the mother board may be dead.

So, I re-seated by memory and video cards, but I still got the long beep.

I was finally resigned to getting a new mother board, when I decided to test for a failure in the power supply, by removing some of the memory, to lower power consumption. After removing 2 of the 4 memory chips, I found that the system was able to boot up. This also lead me to believe that the problem could also be a memory issue, so I swapped memory around, (after fully switch off the computer, don't rely on the soft switch on the front) and I was able to isolate the faulty memory card.

So, that was cool. Rather than having to find a new mother board or replacing the power supply, all I had to do was buy a new 2gig memory card. The bottom line is, that long beeps can also be caused by a bad memory card (on Nvidia 650i Ultra motherboards). Come to think of it, I did have several brown outs about 1 week earlier that took my computers down several times (my UPS needed a new battery).

-Later...