Rarely seen salamander (Lissotriton vulgaris) in Southern Finland

They say salamanders (Lissotriton vulgaris) are living in Finland, but not many have seen those. At our summer cottage in the Southern Finland, you can sometimes see them in small puddles.
This one was in the drainage well.

Dead Hawfinch (Coccothraustes coccothraustes) found from grass

I found strange looking bird from our backyard lawn. I had to check from the internet what it was. I found out that it was Hawfinch (Coccothraustes coccothraustes).
If you think I have recognized it wrong, please let me know.

Nokia 5800 Xpressmusic bluetooth modem problem solved

When trying to connect to the internet from my laptop, using phone's bluetooth modem, I encountered error message like: "Failed to connect to the network! The modem may be used by another application or the modem may not be configured properly."

I solved the problem by following the procedure found from http://discussions.europe.nokia.com/t5/PC-and-Mac-Software/One-touch-access-Bluetooth-Modem-error/m-p/144134#M18310

Commodore keychain

I was looking through my boxes of stuff, and I found this Commodore keychain. This keychain is in it's original plastic bag. It was given as a gift for Amiga 500 computer buyers, around year 1989.

Visual Studio 2008 intellisense not working - solution

I have many times struggled with Visual Studio compile problems. Most difficult problems to solve are problems which seemingly don't have any reason! For example the intellisense is showing return type string, but you know the return value is int.

The reason is that intellisense is storing data from old headers, and for some reason is not clearing it's database, but keeps giving you (and compiler) wrong information.

The solution is simple, simply remove the file $solutionname.ncb from your solution folder.

Note: you need to close your solution first!

Apps in iTunes grayed out - solution

Recently I encountered this strange error with iTunes and my iPod touch: I downloaded some applications from appStore and went to iTunes->Devices->"myipod" and chose "Apps" from the top bar, the application editor that opened was grayed out.

I was able to sync photos and videos correctly, but unable to install or manage the applications.

Solution:

1. I disabled restrictions completely from my iPod
2. Closed iTunes
3. Reconnected the iPod to my laptop

Really, I had to remove everything from iPods restrictions, not just only "installs".

Solution for Invalid MS-DOS function while copying from SD card

Recently I got "Cannot copy file: Invalid MS-DOS function" when I was copying digital images from SD card to my laptop. The reading device was my laptop's internal card reader and the card was 4 GB Kingston SD card.

Nothing worked for this particular file: no copying, no renaming and no deleting. Every operation ended with this "Invalid MS-DOS function" error.

Then I thought, that back in the days disk drives were quite picky about reading and writing certain disks. Perhaps it is true also with modern memory cards, too. So I took my external card reader, put the SD card in that, and I was able to copy the file without problems.

So, one possible solution for "Invalid MS-DOS function" resulting when copying file from SD card, is simply to use another (different) card reader.

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