While logged in as Administrator, with the write filter disabled:

dism /online /Get-Packages

You’ll get a list of all packages installed in the running image. Find the ones you want to delete. Then delete them. Reboot.

dism /online /Get-Packages

dism /online /Get-PackageInfo /packagename:WinEmb-Natural-Language~31bf3856ad364e35~x86~~6.1.7601.17514

dism /online /Remove-Package /PackageName:WinEmb-Accessibility~31bf3856ad364e35~x86~~6.1.7601.17514
dism /online /Remove-Package /PackageName:WinEmb-Natural-Language~31bf3856ad364e35~x86~~6.1.7601.17514
dism /online /Remove-Package /PackageName:WinEmb-Speech-LP-ENU~31bf3856ad364e35~x86~~6.1.7600.16385
dism /online /Remove-Package /PackageName:WinEmb-Speech~31bf3856ad364e35~x86~~6.1.7601.17514
dism /online /Remove-Package /PackageName:WinEmb-Diagnostics-Performance~31bf3856ad364e35~x86~~6.1.7601.17514

See also:

• How a Programmer Reads your Resume (comic)
• Pandoc

latex_xetex_resume - txt (WordPress isn’t letting me upload .tex, and it’s a fight I don’t want to pick).

latex_xetex_resume - PDF.

To extract email addresses from Outlook, try this Visual Basic script.  That’s not just a Contacts export; it extracts Sender addresses from email messages.

Throw everything into one file.  Then extract email addresses, as:

$ egrep -io '[a-z0-9._%+-]+@[a-z0-9.-]+\.[a-z]+' < input.txt | tr "[:upper:]" "[:lower:]" | sort -u >output.txt

https://www.google.com/#q=nosql+%22data+integrity

https://www.google.com/#q=barbie+%22math+is+hard

I had a workstation today that would not install the 6.0_update32 JRE, getting the error “error 2753 regutils.dll”.

Sun/Oracle’s ‘troubleshooting’ is worthless.  Nobody else’s was any help, either, though.  JavaRa gave it a good try. (Seriously, you just have a comprehensive list of registry keys and files/directories to delete.  That’s all.)

So, fire up procmon, include “msiexec.exe” and see what pops up….

Simple enough.  The installer thinks there’s another conflicting existing installation:

Delete the registry key (and subkeys):

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Installer\Products\4EA42A62D9304AC4784BF238120632FF

Grand.

So, why can’t Sun/Oracle release a utility to clean up all traces of Java?  Laziness, pure and simple.  This has been a pain for admins for years.  Fix your installer.

cf the .NET Framework Cleanup Tool

The SAP ATP (Available To Promise) server caches availability checks in the export/import buffer, replacing database calls to RESB and VBBE.

Reference:

• SAP Note 99999 – ATP server: Installation and sizing (https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/99999)
  
• SAP Note 702728 – Profile parameter for export/import buffer instances (https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/702728)
  
• SAP Note 373986 – Overflow of the export/import buffer (https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/373986)
  
• “SAP Performance Optimization Guide (6^th Edition),” Thomas Schneider, Galileo Press (2009), section 10.4, pp. 443-450. (http://www.sap-press.com/products/SAP-Performance-Optimization-Guide-%286th-Edition%29.html)
  

Install the ATP Server

Pick a suitable SAP Instance to run the ATP server, subject to the space constraints below.

The ATP server is a logical service activated by a profile parameter, and since all of the instance’s servers will use this same server, the parameter should be set in the DEFAULT profile (transaction RZ10). The ATP server and Enqueue server should run in the same instance.

Set both:

• rdisp/enqname
  
• rdisp/atp_server
  

Restart the instances to pick up the changes.

Tune the Export/Import Buffer

Figure out how many objects you plan to cache. Either follow the elaborate formulas in the references above, or just flush the cache, run a sample test, and extrapolate. Quick and dirty guideline: figure out how many maximum objects you’ll ever need (rsdb/obj/max_objects) and set it, and set the Export/Import Buffer (size in KB) to twice that number (rsdb/obj/buffersize), since each object should take a little less than half a KB. Tune as needed.

In ST02′s “Detailed Analysis” menu, select “Buffered Objects” to see individual records (Table Name = “ATPSB”). See transaction ACDB, as well. You can view or delete individual, or all, entries.

Transactions

• RZ10 – Set parameters.
  
• ST02 – View buffer statistics.
  
• SM50/SM51 – Verify ATP and Enqueue servers activated.
  
• ACDB – View and delete export/import buffer table entries.
  

  
  

… because I know what the girl on the right is thinking …

For posterity, here’s an edited picture that doesn’t make the girl on the left have pointy ears.

There went my lunch hour.

% minizinc product mix model from http://www.solver.com/stepbystep.htm
% 2012 Jason Filley (jason@snakelegs.org)



%%%% parameters
int: glue = 5800;		% glue (quarts)
int: pressing = 730;	% pressing time (hours)
int: pine = 29200;		% pine chips (pounds)
int: oak = 32500;		% oak chips (pounds)


constraint assert(glue >= 0,"Invalid datafile: " ++
	"glue must be non-negative.");
constraint assert(pressing >= 0,"Invalid datafile: " ++
	"pressing must be non-negative.");
constraint assert(pine >= 0,"Invalid datafile: " ++
	"pine must be non-negative.");
constraint assert(oak >= 0,"Invalid datafile: " ++
	"oak must be non-negative.");

	
%%%% decision variables
var 0..100: tahoe;
var 0..100: pacific;
var 0..100: savannah;
var 0..100: aspen;


%%%% constraints

% glue
constraint  50*tahoe + 50*pacific + 100*savannah + 50*aspen <= glue;

% pressing time
constraint  5*tahoe + 15*pacific + 10*savannah + 5*aspen <= pressing;

% pine chips
constraint  500*tahoe + 400*pacific + 250*savannah + 200*aspen <= pine;

% oak chips
constraint  500*tahoe + 750*pacific + 250*savannah + 500*aspen <= oak;



%%%% objective function -- maximize profit
var 0..100000: profit;
profit = 450*tahoe + 1150*pacific + 800*savannah + 400*aspen;
solve maximize profit;


output ["Tahoe: ", show(tahoe), "\n",
		"Pacific: ", show(pacific), "\n",
		"Savannah: ", show(savannah), "\n",
		"Aspen: ", show(aspen), "\n",
		"Profit: ", show(profit), "\n"];

% minizinc.exe product_mix_wood_paneling.mzn
% Tahoe: 23
% Pacific: 15
% Savannah: 39
% Aspen: 0
% Profit: 58800
% ----------