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Installing Python for Windows Extensions on Python 3.5.1 64-bit C:\>pip install pypiwin32 If you are getting the following error message in importing win32gui install VC++ 2010 redistributable. >>> import win32gui Traceback (most recent call last):   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found. Reference(s): http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/ https://www.python.org/downloads/

# apt-get purge virtualbox* Reference(s): https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=54881

LXDE is pretty lightweight desktop environment. There are other lighter weight DEs out there mind you but for most practical purposes LXDE serves most of the modern x86 machines. To install minimalist (just the core) LXDE on Debian Strech, do: #: apt-get install lxde-core lightdm Note: This will also install a lighter version desktop manager LightDM This is a pre-release version, it may change without notice.

Modifying an  SQL Server table that requires the table to be re-created is not allowed by default using SQL Server Management Studio for good reason. For example, changing a column of type nvarchar from 10 to 20 will result with the following error: Saving changes is not permitted. The changes you have made require the following tables to be dropped and re-created. You have either made changes to a table that can't be re-created or enabled the option Prevent saving changes that require the table to be re-created. To allow schema change for the above situation using SSMS, do the following: Open SSMS (SQL Server Management Studio). I am using SSMS 2014.  For good measure, back-up the database. Navigate to Tools | Options .  Click on Designers . Remove the check box on Prevent saving changes that require table re-creation .  Click on OK .  Proceed with changing the table schema. Again for good measure, enable Prevent saving changes that require table re-crea

On Hyper-V virtual machine with integration services installed the host machine can be identified by reading HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Virtual Machine\Guest\Parameters\Hostname on the guest machine itself. Reference(s): http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/219.hyper-v-how-to-find-the-host-of-a-vm.aspx

You have a .Net application that fails to load and you are suspecting that it may have to do with assembly dependencies. On a development machine fuslogvw.exe will aid you in collecting failed assembly binding but fuslogvw.exe is not normally available on production environment. So what do you do? Logging of assembly binding can be enabled via the Registry, to do so navigate to HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Fusion . Add the following keys with corresponding values: Key Type Value ForceLog DWORD 1 LogFailures DWORD 1 LogResourceBinds DWORD 1 LogPath String C:\FusionLog\ You need to restart the .Net application under test for this to take effect. The log files will be saved in C:\FusionLog . Reference(s): http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1012252/using-fuslogvw-exe-on-a-machine-with-no-visual-studio-installed

Squeak 5.0 stable as of this writing (3/21/2016) only supports 32-bit on Linux. To get this to work on 64-bit install follow the instructions below. Download Squeak 5.0 from http://squeak.org/ Extract to location, e.g., ~/apps/ Open a console $: cd ~/Downloads $: unzip Squeak-5.0-All-in-One.zip -d ~/apps/ Get 32-bit libraries Use the Squeak built-in script to get most (not all is installed) $: cd ~/apps/Squeak-5.0-All-in-One $: Squeak-5.0-All-in-One.app/Contents/LinuxAndWindows/install-libs32 This will fail with the error message below (at least on Ubuntu 15.10) Fail with the following error message: E: Unable to locate package lib32bz2-1.0 E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'lib32bz2-1.0' E: Unable to locate package libgl1-mesa-dri-lts-utopic E: Unable to locate package libgl1-mesa-glx-lts-utopic Let us fix this by running command below: $: sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 $: sudo apt-get update $: sudo apt install lib32z1 $: sudo apt in