Windows error 43

Stupid solution for a stupid O.S:

Following the advice of a fella in some Microsoft forum, I just connected my USB device with a different USB cable, and the error disappeared. It's stupid, I know, but it worked for me.

Context:

Yesterday I sucked the whole day trying to solve the "error 43" droped by a brand new computer with a just-installed Windows 7 (100% original!).

The super-powerful Windows 7 of that computer couldn't recognize my device (a custom Radio Frequency Module we used at work). That device, with the same cable worked in a twin computer, brand new also and just-installed too. In the same hand, other devices with the same "problematic" cable worked perfectly.

I tried register fixing, installed the RegistryBooster and the Registry Mechanic, and it didn't solve the problem, even I had to reinstall windows because one of them destroyed the boot-up

Then I found a video of a Russian guy, who explained that this problem was mainly associated with the power supply, and suggested another registry change to fix it. Many people said it worked for them, but it didn't for me.

Then found that forum (I don't find the link now :S) where someone suggested, to try just a change of cable. Worked immediately.

During the whole day I remembered that sentence that says:
"to move from Windows to Linux is hard, but to move from Linux to Windows is impossible!"

There are no ...

There are no problems, just solutions

Happy Music's Day

21 of June, the longest day of the year on the northern hemisphere, is the day of the Music! Music, that friend who is always there to make the feelings and moments greater, that friend who can say for you those things you can not, that friend who I simply love.

Today, in her* day, I am pleased to post a great band I just discovered precisely today: Moriarty

What do you think about her voice? simply amazing. With that voice honey I don't need any summer solstice, I don't need any light!

*her: I know, Music doesn't have a gender in English, but since in my mother tongue it is female, I can not stop thinking on the Music as a woman (a pretty one).

Serial port under Wine

How to make a Windows program running under Wine get access to the serial port (or USB port)?

It's enough to make a symbolic link in the folder

~/.wine/dosdevices

pointing to the /dev/tty special file you are using. The symbolic link should be named using the Windows conventions to name the ports.

As things are easier with an example, here is my case:

I am running an own windows program which has to open the USB port (the com5 which is the ttyAMC0), so I typed in a terminal:

ln -s /dev/ttyACM0 /home/pablo/.wine/dosdevices/com5

and that's it, now my windows program is running in Wine under Linux perfectly (first I typed COM5 and it didn't work, it seems case sensitive)

No, it's not.

For long time I wanted to say that Johann Strauss lied, I don't judge him, we all lie after all. The thing is that he promoted the Danube as blue, sorry but no, it's not. Though my intention is not to make a bad image of him or such a thing, because I understand his purpose very well, hence I forgive him.

My first picture of the Danube@Margarit Island, more than two years ago.

The Danube is more than beautiful, I just don't want to use hundred of adjectives while I talk about it. I love this river when I go from Pest to Buda at morning and it looks silver from the Petofi bridge, yes silver instead of blue. And it is even better when the wind is not blowing that is looks like a mirror and you see the city duplicated, but when the wind blows it stills amazing. It's also nice then at the afternoon when I come back from work, this time from Buda to Pest, the river has another color (which is not blue still), the river reflects the city in another way, with another mood, like forecasting the vibrations the city is going to have at night. I better stop being romantic with the river and don't go out from my point: The Danube is not blue, it doesn't need to be so to be unforgettable.

Regarding to that I just today realized that the place I like the most* in Budapest is neither in Buda nor in Pest, and it is precisely because it is over the Danube, mainly at night. The view of the city from the Petofi Bridge is something I hope it never banishes from my mind

*mmm well, there are many places I like "the most" in this city, just let me be sensationalist for one time to make my post more impressive :P