Build Linux Apps from Source with Checkinstall for Fewer Problems [Linux Tip]

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The Coupon Network: Everything You Need To Know About The Web’s Hottest Business Model

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Different Ways to list the processes on Linux

ps -A

ps -e

ps -u <username>

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Lifehacker Pack for Linux: Our List of the Best Linux Downloads [Downloads]

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Set Up a Fully Automated, Torrent-Seeding Media Center [Automation]

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Turn an Older iPhone Into a Prepaid Voice and Data Unit [Reuse]

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Bang! Wild West Show – Character Abilities revealed!

Flint Westwood (4 HP)
Ability:
During his turn, he may trade one card from hand with 2 cards at random from the hand of another player (if the target player has only 1 card, you get only 1 card)

Youl Grinner (4 HP)
Ability:
Before drawing, players with more hand cards than him must give him one card of their choice.

Big Spencer (9 HP)
Ability:
He starts with 5 cards. He can’t play Missed!

Teren Hill(3 HP)
Ability:
Each time he would be eliminated, “draw!”: if it is not Spades, Teren stays at 1 life point, and draws 1 card. If the draw is unsuccessful, you can’t play a Beer to save you.

Lee Van Kliff (4 HP)
Ability:
During his turn, he may discard a BANG! to repeat the effect of a brown-bordered card he just played. The brown card may be also another BANG! You may repeat each effect one time only.

John Pain (4 HP)
Ability:
If he has less than 6 cards in hand, each time any player “draws!”, John adds the card just drawn to his hand. The card drawn this way may not be used immediately, you must wait until the previous effect ends. For example if it’s a Beer and you lose at the same time your last life point, you may not use it.

Gary Looter (5 HP)
Ability:
He draws all excess cards discarded by other players at the end of their turn.

Greygory Deck(4 HP)
Ability:
At the start of his turn, he may draw 2 characters at random. He has all the abilities of the drawn characters. The only valid are those from the basic game. At the beginning of your next turn, you decide whether to keep the characters or to change them. If you chose to change them, you must change both of them. This ability also applies at the beginning of the game.

Bang! The Wild West Show US Release Date

No confirmation on the date the game is coming out. However, I made a call to my favorite local board game shop, Gator Games, and they mentioned that the release date has been moved to August.

This is starting to feel like a Blizzard release date.

Bang! Wild West Show Release Date

I’m so excited for the expansion for this game!  Apparently, June 4th is when the European game stores get it, and there is no official date for North America, however the estimate is late June.  That’s the end of THIS month!! So excited.

Check out the Davinci games site: http://www.dvgiochi.com/giochi/wildwestshow/?id=36

Not Enough Server Storage

I found this incredibly useful today:

http://winhlp.com/node/40

Error messages:

  • Not enough server storage is available to process this command.
  • Not enough memory to complete transaction. Close some applications and retry.

These error messages on a computer, which we will call computer A, can indicate the IRPStackSize bug on the other machine, the server that has the share, which we will call computer B. Go to that other computer, B, open the event log, and check for event ID 2011. If this is present, it is a strong indication for this particular bug. The two computers again:

  1. The computer trying to access a share on the other computer over the network, displays the error message, “Not enough …”. Let’s call this one the client.
  2. The server where the share is, needs to have its IRPStackSize parameter increased. Let’s call this one the server, even if it is just a desktop computer.

To repair it, you have to set or increase the IRPStackSize parameter in the registry on the server where the share is, i.e. on computer B.

There are many reports (below), indicating that a value of 15 is not enough, and only values in the range of 16 to 25 solved the problem.

The most successful values used to be 16 and 18, but recently we have more reports of 20 and more. If you want to solve the problem quickly, try 20.

It is not quite clear whether higher values incur any cost in terms of memory usage or performance, but it is conceivable that they don’t. If so, then we probably should just set the value to its maximum of 50 and forget about it.

And don’t forget to reboot after each change, because only that makes the new value effective. Thanks to everybody who tested and reported!

Please add a comment below to report which value you used to make it work. If you find the time to experiment, please report the lowest value that worked. Please try also to set it back to a lower value and recheck whether that indeed makes it fail. Reboot after each change.

Here is the offending registry value:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
\SYSTEM
\CurrentControlSet
\Services
\LanmanServer
\Parameters
IRPStackSize DWORD 0x0000000f (15)

Check for the presence of the value named IRPStackSize. If it doesn’t exist, create it as type DWORD and make sure you have the capitalization absolutely correct (5 upper case, 7 lower case characters), because the system strangely seems to depend on that. Make sure also that you haven’t by mistake added a leading or trailing space as described in this comment below.

With base set to decimal, enter the value 16 or higher. 15 is the default, so entering 15 should have the same effect as removing that value altogether.

Reboot the computer (or restart the server service, as described in the comment below: Worked for me).

Certain software, when installed on the server, also causes this error. One frequent culprit is Norton AntiVirus, which tends to change the registry parameter. See also: How to remove Norton software. Other culprits seem to be Acronis TrueImage, version 10 or 2009 or higher, Seagate DiscWizard (a rebranded version of Acronis TrueImage), IBM AntiVirus, Microsoft’s Bitdefender, and Symantec EndPoint Protection (version 11+). Some reports state that only uninstalling solves the problem. If you have such a case, please report your findings here.

Check also this Microsoft Knowledge Base article. It does not mention Windows XP, but applies to XP as well.

Antivirus Software May Cause Event ID 2011 (Q177078)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/177078/

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