This one has eluded me for quite some time, until I came across the answer here
Simply hit alt+fn+F11 to do a screen capture on a Macbook Pro (fn+F11 maps to Prt scrn on a mac running bootcamp)
updated: If you have a newer version of bootcamp (2.1+) the combination is now shift+alt+fn+F11
Add comment June 27th, 2009
I have a Core Duo model and am running windows (w/ bootcamp), so some of this stuff probably doesn’t apply but …
1. The hard drive is painfully slow. When you go to delete something, you can sit there for a good 5 seconds before the delete dialog is gone
2. You can only run an external 2.5 inch hard drive off one particular USB port (the one to the right) … if you put it on any other port, it will not get enough power and be stuck powering up then powering down. Or it will power up and stay fine for a bit, until it suddenly starts experiencing the situation I’ve described.
3. Maximum installable RAM … 2 Gigabytes.
god.
4. While you can get up to 4 hours of power running OS X on the battery … you’ll barely get 2 hours running Windows.
note: This is a late night rant … I love my darling MacBook Pro.
Add comment May 25th, 2008
I ran into a “bad system call” error while trying to run Apache2 on cygwin.
I had installed Apache 1.3 and Apache 2 using cyg-apt, but when I went to start the Apache 2 server, I kept getting this error.
Of course, I set off to fix this and after googling for a while, I found out that to fix the “bad system call” error you have to set the CYGWIN environment variable to ’server’.
The problem is, no one actually tells you one of two things
First of all, set the CYGWIN environment variable.
Start by going to the root of your cygwin install and open cygwin.bat
Now insert this line in it
set CYGWIN=server
save the file and restart your cygwin shell (more information on setting the CYGWIN environment variable)
Now type cygserver-config and hit enter
For me, that was enough (as you can see from the image above), but in case you need more help installing cygserver, here’s a link
After that, you just need to start the cygserver service like so
and now the command
httpd2 -k start
should work
1 comment May 8th, 2008
This is very straight forward, but for those who think it might be complicated. Here is all it entails.
I think you might require Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 to make this work …
It doesn’t seem to make sense for that to be the case, but do post a comment if you get this to run without having Visual Studio installed.
Add comment March 17th, 2008
Segoe UI.
How do I know this and why am I posting it? Read on …
A long time ago, I installed about 833 fonts on my system. But over the years, I came to realize that a lot of the fonts were crap, looked exactly alike or were never going to be used.
So I grabbed the excellent font management software, The Font thing, and cleaned up shop. Whittling down my font count down to 300+.
Tired (it took an hour and a half), I went to use my email program (Windows Live Mail) . That was when I realized the fonts were bolded … everywhere. I knew instantly that I had deleted the font that it was using for its UI.
Windows Live Mail was trying to compensate by using the only version of the font it could find, which was the Bolded version. If I had deleted all of the font (bold, italic etc), it would probably have defaulted to an entirely different font … and given me a painful headache.
I thought for a couple of days about how I would find the font, without going through all my installed font faces to find one that had a bold version, but no normal version.
Eventually realizing that the font that Live Mail uses, isn’t a standard system font … I figured that if I sorted the Fonts in the C:\Windows\Fonts folder by “Date Modified” … the font I was looking for would be at the top of the list.
I did the sort … and sitting right there was a Segoe UI Bold … with no normal version. (Usually there is an italic, bold and bold italic version of a font).
I moseyed on down to my trash can, found the corresponding Segoe UI fonts … restored them and all was well with the universe 
But I made this post, just in case someone … somewhere ever has the same problem …
Segoe UI … that’s your answer!
Add comment March 6th, 2008
Microsoft is definitely trying hard to keep pace with Firefox, Opera and Safari.
It has released a beta for IE 8
Add comment March 5th, 2008
Just a quick note to help folks who want to get rid of the annoying restart prompt that keeps popping up after an automatic update has installed.
Remember … you really should restart your computer after an update has installed. So make sure you do that eventually.
PS: Starting certain applications will cause the automatic update service to start running again and the nag will come back. Just Rinse and repeat
Add comment December 19th, 2007
Safari for Windows (3.0.4) became my current favorite browser by (to my trained eye) slaughtering Opera in Javascript performance.
Hopefully that changes with Opera 9.25. Of late though, I’ve been having trouble with it. Safari initially broke on my Windows Laptop a few weeks ago, popping up a debugger prompt and closing immediately if I cancelled out of it.It kept running on my main workstation, however … that is until this evening, now its doing the same on my desktop.
I realize how poorly supported this browser is, because there is no place to file a bug report except from in the browser itself. Shouldn’t there be an active bug database or something for Safari on windows?
If anyone knows how to fix this please let me know … I want my super fast javascript back!
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Add comment December 19th, 2007
So … I’m running Windows XP on a 17″ Macbook Pro with Bootcamp …
Every now and then, when I put the laptop on Standby and try to resume work from where I left off, the USB devices stop responding all together.
This is a big problem for me, since
I poked around online, but didn’t really find anything on Google or at the Apple bootcamp forum.
So I decided to try fixing it on my own.
What I found curious about the problem, was that everytime the usb devices stopped working, I’d get this message in the Event Viewer.
Timeout (30000 milliseconds) waiting for a transaction response from the AppleOSSMgr service.
So I simply restarted the “Apple OS Switch Manager” service and after allowing it to complete … it would fail, but my usb devices would be operational again.
Here’s how to accomplish it, and I hope this helps someone out.
From the command line
cmd“net stop "Apple OS Switch manager"] (note the quotes)net stop "Apple OS Switch manager"]Visually
services.msc“Apple OS Switch Manager” (sort the columns by name to help you find it a bit more easily)Restart“Add comment December 7th, 2007
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