Just got Snow Leopard and installed Boot Camp 3.0 on Windows? Boot Camp 3.0 is definitely a well welcomed update. The trackpad works much better now with 2 finger tap for secondary click, it finally works like in OS X. Even better, you can now access HFS+ without third party apps in Windows. Definitely nice for Windows 7 x64 users that MacDrive doesn’t even support. But one problem that seems to trouble people in the forums is that navigating to /Users/[yourname] in Windows shows an empty folder. You can’t access your music or pictures or anything from Windows.
One possibility is the presence of a .Xauthority file in your $HOME directory. Delete the file and you may access your home directory in Windows. Remember that running X11 will recreate the file. Delete it again. Continue reading
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I need to do this all the time and don’t have the best memory in the world. Today, I decided that I looked this up one too many times so here’s my solution to this multithreading problem:
The Problem:
You try to modify UI components created in one thread in another thread. In VB, you can only make UI changes on the same thread that created it so you get a nice “Cross thread operation not valid” exception.
Here’s the wrong code:
thread = New System.Threading.Thread(AddressOf DoStuff)
thread.Start()
Private Sub DoStuff()
'error occurs here'
Me.Text = "Stuff"
End Sub Continue reading
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