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Solo Piano Arrangement of Bowser’s Castle theme, composed by Koji Kondo.

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Solo Piano Arrangement of Chim Chim Cher-ee West Wind, as featured in Saving Mr. Banks, originally composed by the Sherman Brothers.
How to find out why nginx fails to start
When nginx fails to start, it is most likely due to an error in your configuration file. Fortunately, it is quite simple to parse the configuration file for errors.
Simply run the following command:
nginx -c /etc/nginx/nginx.conf -t
Your configuration will be parsed and any error will be displayed and suggestions to fix the error will often be displayed as well.
How to bypass Bell Fibe Hub and use your own router
While Bell Fibe is quite fast, their modem isn't so great. It has freezing/reboots issues and should you want to have more control over the router, you're basically stuck with the options Bell gives you.
Fortunately, you can simply bypass Bell Connection/Home Hub ( the black Sagemcom box) and use your own router for the internet connection. The Bell Connection/Home Hub continues to provide TV services as usual. This is also useful for people that don't like Bell being able to see your whole home network. While the instructions below are for ASUS routers, you can pretty much use any router that let you specify custom VLANs (Tomato and DD-WRT firmwares both provides this feature).
Note that this guide only applies if you have FTTH (Fiber-To-The-Home). If you don't have an ONT (white Bell box where the Fiber connects), you cannot use this guide!
Balanced vs. Unbalanced audio, TS vs. TRS connectors explained
I recently came across a noise problem while recording audio. After some research, the cables used were the issue. In this article, I will explain the 2 different cables/connectors and when you should use both.
Unbalanced audio (TS, RCA)
It is usually used in consumer audio products. It is cheaper but can easily be affected by interference. The connectors for unbalanced audio are TS (Tip-Sleeve) and RCA. TS connectors are characterized by having only 1 black ring.
Balanced audio (TRS, XLR)
Used in professional audio. They costs a bit more but significantly reduce noise and interference. This is why balanced cables makes more sense when audio is transported over a long distance. The connectors for balanced audio are TRS (Tip-Ring-Sleeve) and XLR. TRS connectors are characterized by having 2 black rings. XLR connectors are much bigger and features 3 metal pins.

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How to fix slow Visual Studio + TFS
Upon installing Visual Studio 2012, I found out that all operations related to TFS (such as adding a new file, check in/out, etc.) were incredibly slow and would freeze the application for quite some time. If this is the case for you, try this solution:
Edit the Visual Studio config file found in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe.config and locate the following line:
<system.net>
Right below (above settings, NOT under), insert the following line of code:
<defaultProxy enabled="false" />
Your visual studio should now be more responsive!
Enable Aero Glass over Remote Desktop in Windows Server 2008 R2
Using Remote Desktop to connect to a Windows Server 2008 R2 session will usually result in an old looking Windows classic theme, even if the client is fully capable of displaying the Aero Glass theme. While it’s not a simple option to enable, it’s still possible to enable full Aero Glass support over Remote Desktop.
Requirements: A Windows 7/Windows Server 2008 R2 client (the machine you connect from) and a Windows Server 2008 R2/Windows 7 host (the machine you connect to). The host doesn’t need any special hardware requirements, as long as the client supports Aero Glass. Note that you can connect from a Vista client to a Vista host as well, but any other combination is not supported.
Sharepoint 2010 – How to launch the new/upload file dialog from Javascript
If you need to brand Sharepoint to the point of hiding the ribbon, you might want to still have some functions available via custom buttons in your interface. For example, if you have a document library/list and want to create a new folder or upload a document, you would need to have a custom button in your interface to do so.
The problem is how to actually launch the Sharepoint modal dialog to use these functions from Javascript. Fortunalty, Microsoft provides the Sharepoint Object Model for Javascript which exposes most of Sharepoint functions to the client side (as long as the logged in user has access obviously).
CSS/jQuery Selector – ID with a dot
I had an issue today while trying to use a jQuery selector on simple div with ID “Ribbon.Read-Title”. This specific selector (#Ribbon.Read-Title) usually means that we are matching the ID “Ribbon” have the class “Read-Title”. But trying to match the ID “Ribbon.Read-Title” will simply not work with this selector. This is also true for a CSS selector.
The workaround is to escape the dot with a backslash. So in the above example, you would use selector #Ribbon.Read-Title to match the specific ID “Ribbon.Read-Title”.
Note: Contrary to what some people believe, using a dot in an ID or Name attribute is totally valid and accepted, as specified by the W3C. However, it’s easy to confuse the default selector behavior for dots.
Guide to Early Cancellation Fees (ECF) in Quebec
Note: All the info found on this page should be accurate as of October 11th 2011. However, you should ALWAYS confirm with your service provider for any fees or processes involved in getting out of a contract / early upgrade. Also, this guide only apply to contracts made AFTER June 30th 2010 in Quebec ONLY. If you are in another province or your contract was signed BEFORE July 1st 2010, the rules are different and you should have a look the their terms & conditions found on your service provider’s website.
So you got in a 2/3 years contract with a cellphone service provider (Fido/Rogers/Bell/Telus/Virgin) and you’re now looking to cancel your contract or upgrade to a new phone early in your contract. In the past, you usually had to pay astronomical fees in order to cancel your contract. Fortunately, since July 1st 2010, in Quebec ONLY, a new bill (Bill 60) changes the rules of early cancellation fees (known as ECFor DECF). For some reasons, it seems to be a complete mystery as to how these new rules work. It’s not explained anywhere on any service providers. So I did some research and talked to a few representives to get the details right. So here’s how it works:

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How to install Windows 8 on a VHD (or Windows 7/2008 R2)
In this guide, I will explain how to install Windows 8 on a VHD (Virtual Hard Disk). This methods lets you have a second (or many more) bootable operating systems without having to dedicate a complete partition for every OS installed (and without affecting your current Windows installation!). A VHD is essentially a complete partition contained within a single file on the disk. Don’t want that OS anymore? Simply delete the .VHD file and you’re done. Quick and simple.
Now where VHD becomes handy is in testing the new developer preview builds of Windows 8. Note that this method will work on future builds of Windows 8 (Beta, RC and final) as well as Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. For the purposes of this guide, I’ll assume you currently have Windows 7 installed natively on your machine and want to install the Windows 8 Developer Preview on a VHD. Before we start, you should have already burned the installation ISO of Windows 8 to a DVD or made a bootable USB installation media.
Hyper-V – Remote desktop to your own host limitations
In order to boost our development capabilities at work, we recently moved an Hyper-V solution on a VHD host. The host system is a standard Windows Server 2008 R2 system (running from a bootable VHD). We then use Hyper-V to create virtual machines with various configurations for development purposes.
Hyper-V and its basic virtual VGA adapter
The great thing about Hyper-V is that you can boot your VMs and let them run in the background. Should you need to see what’s going on (like a real monitor attached to a physical PC), you can use the built-in “Connect…” feature to see the VM screen. Hyper-V is using abasic VGA adapter to achieve that, which results in a 4:3 low resolution display of the VM. If you’re using that remote screen for development purposes, it’s quite counter-productive and annoying. Which is where the standard Remote Desktop (mstsc.exe) comes handy.
Mac App Store – “You have updates available for other accounts” bug
I had a rather major issue with the Mac App Store concerning the updates. In the Purchases tab, I could see the apps I had previously downloaded but when I clicked the Update button for each of them, I would get the error message “You have updates available for other accounts…” inviting me to sign in into the “other” account. The problem is that I only have 1 Apple ID and always used this ID.
After contacting the Apple Support, all I got was a totally useless response about re-installing iTunes and that might fix the problem. Even though I knew iTunes had absolutely nothing to do with the Mac App Store, I still followed their instructions and re-installed iTunes. Guess what, it didn’t fix the issue at all. Thanks for your support Apple…not. A few posts in Apple support forums have suggested deleting the apps and re-install them. While it works, it’s not really convenient.
It turns out the issue is related to Spotlight. Apparently, the Mac App Store use the Spotlight index to find which applications are installed on your Mac. So if for some reasons the spotlight index is empty, corrupted or disabled, the Updates tab will always be empty and you’ll get the error message discussed above every single time you try to update your apps. Depending on what makes your spotlight index buggy, there’s various fixes:
Sharepoint 2010 – Tableless webparts guide
If you tried to create even simple page layouts, you probably noticed the mess Sharepoint creates with tables when placing webpartzones and webparts in the page. While searching about a way to remove completely these tables, I found an interesting solution by David Schneider, which removes tables completely but creates a new whole set of issues with Sharepoint. While the tables are removed around webparts and webpartzones, it breaks functionality of the ribbon in lists and some ajax functionnality on default Sharepoint controls. Not really convenient.
Fortunately, with the help of a colleague, we found a way to remove the tables only on defined webpartzones. Zones marked with a property called tableless=”true” will be stripped from their tables while all other Sharepoint controls won’t be affected at all.
Windows 7 – Fix the explorer not auto-refreshing bug
One of the most irritating bug still present in Windows 7 is explorer not auto-refreshing when creating a new folder or copying/moving/renaming a file. The apparent cause to this problem is when you map network drives in My Computer. Turns out the fix is quite simple (or at least it worked for me):
1) Open My Computer and click Organize > Folder and Search Options
2) Under the View tab, uncheck the Hide protected operating system files (recommended)option.
3) On your desktop, you should now see 1 or more Desktop.ini files. Delete all of them (no, it won’t break your system, they are auto-generated).
4) Reboot your computer. Problem solved!
Note: I still get the bug when copying or moving files from a network drive but anything done locally on the computer seems to work again. You might want to re-check that setting in Folder and Search Options once you’re done.

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C# – Keep user settings between versions
Unless you’re using the ClickOnce deployment method for your applications, user settings are usually not transferred when updating to a new version of a C# desktop application. There’s in fact a quick and simple way to always keep the settings between versions.
The trick is to call the .upgrade() method your app settings object. The system will look for previous versions of your application in the App Data directory and copy the user settings to the new version automatically.
Properties.Settings.Default.Upgrade();
But now we have a problem. How do you know when the upgrade method should be called? As we don’t want to upgrade everytime the application is started, but only the first time after an upgrade. The solution is to create a new user settings variable that will be used to determine whether an upgrade is required. You can either make it a string and save the current application version, or make it a boolean and set it to True by default. I personally find the boolean method easier to use and this is the one I will explain below:
Sharepoint – Masterpage User Controls Limit
If you insert more than 10 user controls in a masterpage, you might get an error similar to this:
The page ‘/path/somefile.master’ allows a limit of 11 direct dependencies, and that limit has been exceeded.
You can easily increase that limit as it is actually set in your sharepoint web.config:
1) Browse to C:inetpubwwwrootwssVirtualDirectories
2) Open the folder corresponding to your Sharepoint website.
3) Edit the file web.config
4) Do a search for “safemode“.
5) Change the property DirectFileDependencies from 10 to a value your choice.
6) Do an iisreset command and you’re done!