windows: windows live mail v 2011 - stuck in offline mode

accidentally clicked "work offline" on my windows live mail. now whenever i click send/receive i get multiple 'would you like to go online?' dialogues. clicking 'go online' doesn't seem to work.

to fix, open your internet explorer, click file, then click work offline to uncheck.

should work normally after.

windows: restore mk802 bootable sd

how to recover an sd card used to boot fedora on mk802

using windows:

1. use computer disk management to clear previously created partitions
right click on my computer > manage > disk management
delete partitions of removable disk

2. use diskpart to create new partition
# diskpart
# list disk
# select disk <your sd card>
# create partition primary size = <size>

3. use explorer to format
right click on your sd card drive then click format

tada! :)

activeperl: a way to install packages on a box without internet connection

i use activeperl to deploy perl scripts on a windows box. it's easy to install, and with its ppm (perl package manager) you can search packages from online repositories and install (and remove) perl packages in a snap.

perl package manager

but what if you have to install perl packages on a box that has no internet connection?
here's my quick solution...

1. install activeperl on my computer that has internet connection
2. using ppm, install needed perl packages on my computer
3. uninstall activeperl from my computer
4. uninstall activeperl from the box that has no internet connection
5. copy the whole \Perl folder from my computer to the destination box
6. reinstall activeperl on the destination box

i'm sure there are other ways, such as just updating your \Perl\lib\ files or copying perl packages' installation files into a specific folder which you might be able to set as ppm's repository. i'll try them when i have time. for now, this works fine for me ;)

check your \Perl\html\index.html file for info