How much water do your plants need? It took me a lot of time (and lots of indoor plants) before i finally found it, that i will probably never learn to give them the right amount of water. How to fix that problem?
Use the great Blumat Watering System. Less problems with your plants. More time to write great code :-)

I have not been working with the Linq to SQL tool before and had to make some changes to an existing Visual Studio 2012 project. Some new colums were added to a database table and i needed to update the corresponding dbml file in the Visual Studio project.

How-i-fixed-it:
I found the solution here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1110171/how-to-update-linq-to-sql-dbml-file

Delete the modified tables from the designer, and drag them back onto the designer surface from the Database Explorer. I have found that, for this to work reliably, you have to:
a. Refresh the database schema in the Database Explorer (right-click, refresh)
b. Save the designer after deleting the tables
c. Save again after dragging the tables back.

I have a SIMULINK model to filter and process sensor data. I wanted to access some of model data from MATLAB workspace while the model was running.

How-i-fixed-it:

In my simulink model i added a non-blocking UDP receive block, a triggered subsystem ad a UDP send block.
The Status output of the UDP receive block triggers the subsystem which contains the UDP send block and received as Input the model data i want to send to the workspace.

In the workspace i create a UDP object to communicate with the UDP blocks in the SIMULINK model.
When the model is running, i send just a single byte on UDP from Workspace to the UDP Receive to Trigger the send. Next step is to read the desired number of bytes from the udp port in the workspace.

I found out, that the timing of this solution is not very performant. When the model is very busy (or at least the CPU is), then there can be significant delays in the model sending out the data on UDP. I think this does not work for real-time Systems, but its a simple solution to get it working.

I got a LateX document template that was using the bibunits package to create the references list. Out of the box, TeXnicCenter was not creating the references list in the document, there were still "unknown references".
How i fixed it:
I found the right hints here: http://latex-community.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=9168&p=74542
There are two steps to make it working:
1. In your project folder create a batch-file with the following Content (in case its not already part of the template files):

@echo off
echo Processing auxiliary files with BibTeX
For %%i in (*.aux) Do bibtex %%i

save it e.g as compilebib.bat.
2. Then click define output profiles (Alt+F7), select the postprocessor tab, and add new. Put compilebib.bat under executable.

Windows 7 automatically names network connections like Connection 1 etc. I want to assign a name to the network connection myself, but theres no context menu or link in the network and share center. How i fixed it: Click on the network type symbol next to the name of the network at "Active Networks" in the network and share center. A dialog box opens to allow entering a name for the network and to choose the symbol to be displayed. Here are the screenshots for my german OS: Click on the network symbol to open the dialog:

I was wondering, how i can link to a specific page in a PDF file openend in the browser.

How-I-fixed it:

Heres the AdobeManual on PDF opening Parameters for command line and URL:
http://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/pdf_open_parameters.pdf

Specifying parameters in a URL
  Because all specified actions are executed, it is possible that later actions will override the effects of previous actions, so it is important to use the correct order. For example, page actions should appear before zoom Actions.
Commands are not case sensitive except for the value of a named destination. There can be no spaces in the URL.

URL examples

http://example.org/doc.pdf#Chapter6

http://example.org/doc.pdf#page=3

http://example.org/doc.pdf#page=3&zoom=200,250,100

http://example.org/doc.pdf#zoom=50

http://example.org/doc.pdf#page=72&view=fitH,100

http://example.org/doc.pdf#pagemode=none

http://example.org/doc.pdf#pagemode=bookmarks&page=2

http://example.org/doc.pdf#page=3&pagemode=thumbs

http://example.org/doc.pdf#collab=DAVFDF@http://review_server/Collab/user1

http://example.org/doc.pdf#page=1&comment=452fde0e-fd22-457c-84aa-2cf5bed5a349

http://example.org/doc.pdf#fdf=http://example.org/doc.fdf

 

URL limitations

●Only one digit following a decimal point is retained for float values.

●Individual parameters, together with their values (separated by & or #), can be no greater then 32 characters in length.

●You cannot use the reserved characters =, #, and &. There is no way to escape these special characters.

●If you turn bookmarks off using a URL parameter when a document had previously been saved with bookmarks on, the bookmark scrollbars are displayed at first, and only disappear once Acrobat obtains enough streamed information to render the full page.

Today we started an ASP.NET C# Project under VisualStudio 2012 using Team Foundation Server. We ran into the problem that we need to store some local path settings in the web.config file, but they are different on every developers computer.

How-I-fixed-it:
The solution is, to split the web.config up into several files and just reference the files using the configSource="sectionName.config" Attribute in the corresponding section in the web.config. Dont add these local files to the project, to not get them overwritten by each other.

Heres a sample:

web.config:
<applicationSettings>

<KCM.Properties.Settings configSource="KCM.Properties.Settings.config" />

</applicationSettings>

KCM.Properties.Settings.config:

xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

<KCM.Properties.Settings>

<setting name="DataStoragePath" serializeAs="String">

<value>D:inetpubftproot</value>

</setting>

</KCM.Properties.Settings>
Here i found the right information to get the solution:

Recently I changed the password of my WebDav-Account. After that, Outlook stopped to publish my calendar to the Server. I tried to re-publish the calendar, but Outlook did not prompt me for the username / Password and still told me "Login failed".

How-I-fixed-it:
I went to system control -> user accounts -> credential manager -> windows logon credentials
There i found the setting "MSOutlookGeneric - MyWebDavServer". Open the tab and use "edit" to Change the credentials or delete the entry to let Outook prompt you for the login credentials again.

In German / Deutsch:
In der Systemsteuerung findet sich unter Benutzerkonten -> Anmeldeinformationsverwaltung -> Windows-Anmeldeinformationen "MSOutlookGeneric - MeinWebDavServer". Den Tab ausklappen unter unter "Bearbeiten" das Passwort eingeben.

I wanted to move the local temp folder of OneDrive to a different harddrive on my computer.


How-I-fixed-it:

I found the right hints here: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive/wiki/sdoptions-sdfileset/change-the-onedrive-folder-location/147dade2-830b-46ee-bf7e-36a8eab9446a

Change the OneDrive Folder Location

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I was behind a Firewall that blocked outgoing mails. I got a mail stuck in my Windows 8 Metro Mail App outbox. The app did not allow me to delete it from the folder.
How i fixed it:
I disabled my network connections. Then i was allowed to delete the mail.