It looks like MS came up with different colors for different problems .. and I now found out that there is also a black-screen available :)
Unfortunately the system disc space of one of my Windows Small Business Servers 2003 was packed … not that I didn’t plan to have enough space .. I just underestimated MS-Updates over years, it’s just crazy.
However, after the disc was full, the login (and logoff) screen of the Server was black .. only the logo had its colors. I couldn’t see what or even where I was exactly typing and you don’t have to be a designer to know, that black text on a black background is everything else but visible.
Thx to computing.net I know now, that this is a common problem if there is no disc space left. The solution, assumed that you managed to log into your system, is to go into the registry and set the colors back to default.
To do so, go to [HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Colors] and put in the following colors:
"ActiveBorder"="212 208 200"
"ActiveTitle"="10 36 106"
"AppWorkSpace"="128 128 128"
"Background"="102 111 116"
"ButtonAlternateFace"="181 181 181"
"ButtonDkShadow"="64 64 64"
"ButtonFace"="212 208 200"
"ButtonHilight"="255 255 255"
"ButtonLight"="212 208 200"
"ButtonShadow"="128 128 128"
"ButtonText"="0 0 0"
"GradientActiveTitle"="166 202 240"
"GradientInactiveTitle"="192 192 192"
"GrayText"="128 128 128"
"Hilight"="10 36 106"
"HilightText"="255 255 255"
"HotTrackingColor"="0 0 128"
"InactiveBorder"="212 208 200"
"InactiveTitle"="128 128 128"
"InactiveTitleText"="212 208 200"
"InfoText"="0 0 0"
"InfoWindow"="255 255 225"
"Menu"="212 208 200"
"MenuText"="0 0 0"
"Scrollbar"="212 208 200"
"TitleText"="255 255 255"
"Window"="255 255 255"
"WindowFrame"="0 0 0"
"WindowText"="0 0 0"
At least MS has an article about it which you can get here.
Posted in IT & Development, Microsoft
[...] Once a mobiler, always a mobiler [...]
with these words, Sunny Lee, president of Samsung germany, handed over the certicicates of ‘distiguished alumni’ of the samsung mobilers program to the 18 members on January 19th 2010. He told us that he is amazed about what the group achieved in 4 month and was thankful about all ideas and the creativity of the mobilers.
As you already know, I’m one of the 8 mobilers who won the trip to Korea getting the chance to work with the developers over there to get mobile phones to the next level :)
Unfortunately I still have no news concerning mobilers 2.0 – but it was mentioned more than once that this group is not done yet and “that is is not over yet”!
Here’s a picture of my cool samsung mobilers program certificate. It’s been a great time and it will be an aweseome time in the future .. I feel it ;)
For another review you can also check Querweb-Blog from my mobilers (and also group blue) colleague Sabine [in german].
Posted in Android, mob!lers
Awesome, I’m one of the 8 mobilers from samsung who won the trip to korea with visits of the samsung developer center, how cool is that?
This actually brings my “mobile world” to a whole new level and I’m really exited to work together with the developers there on new mobile phones.
Today is the second day of the final workshop at samsung headquater germany in Schwalbach. The mobilers now have 4 great month of diving into the mobile scene behind them and the pilot phase of the mobilers concept here in europe has payed off. There will be mobiler 2.0 campains starting this year in other european countries too. The campaign will also continue in germany but I don’t have an exact picture of what this will look like at the moment. I’ll keep you up to date.
The 18 mobilers who were divided into 3 groups, each of 6 people were not only there for samsung promotion. The 3 groups also came up with new concepts of smartphone applications which they promoted and for which the group members also came up with business models.
Here’s the list of the apps which were designed and the corresponding mobilers group:
I’ll keep you updated on my korea trip. … Oh and by the way: I’m on group blue :)
Posted in Android, IT & Development, mob!lers
I just uploaded my first Chrome Extension, a currency converter.
The extension uses the latest conversion rate coming from the free public webservice webserviceX.NET.
If you want to install that little (hopefully cool) thing, I’d appreciate if you download it from the official Chrome Extension page here (instead of installing the source). This is just for better stats :)
For those interessted in the source code, you can download the zip file here. For more information about how to get your chrome ready for extensions (they’re beta at the moment), you should have a look here.
If you want to dive into deep development, the website you need is this one.
Posted in Google, IT & Development
