Technical help at CPCDR

MS Windows system related
1. MS-Word custom dictionary file at C:\Documents and Settings\user_profile\Application Data\Microsoft\Proof\custom.dic
2. Create MS-Office shortcut bar on desktop by
  - Start-> Programs -> Micrsoft Office Tools -> Microsoft Office Shortcut Bar
  - Right click on bar, select customize
  - Check "Show Title Screen at Startup" at View tab
  - Check "Auto Fit into Title Bar area" at View tab
3. Fix "Mapped Drive Connection to Network Share May Be Lost"
  - Click Start, click Run, type regedit (Windows 2000 or Windows Server 2003) or type regedt32 (Windows NT 4.0), and then click OK.
  - Locate and then click the following key in the registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\lanmanserver\parameters
  - In the right pane, click the autodisconnect value, and then on the Edit menu, click Modify. If the autodisconnect value does not exist, follow these steps:
    - On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click REG_DWORD.
    - Type autodisconnect, and then press ENTER.
  - Click Hexadecimal
  - In the Value data box, type ffffffff, and then click OK.
  - Please refer to this Microsoft support for more detail.
4. Logon scripts problem
  - Logon Script location: %WINDIR%\SYSVOL\sysvol\domain-name\scripts
  - Please refer to this Microsoft support for more detail.
5. "Windows Installer Service could not be accessed" error message when installing application"Windows Installer Service could not be accessed" error message when installing application - After you upgrade to Windows Installer version 2.0, the Windows Installer Service may not start, and you may receive the error message.
  - For windows 2000, please refer to this Microsoft support to fix the problem.
  - For windows XP, please refer to this Microsoft support to fix the problem.
6. CD/DVD-ROM locked by MS-Windows and the drive cannot be open, but it can be open during hardware boot up or bios setup mode.
  - Solution - possible register/driver messed up by MS patch or software installation. Refer to the above problem (item 5) to fix the problem.
7. Ping failure and possible reasons:
  - Request timed out - The IP address is valid, but there is no reply from it. If the IP address is on a local area network, the most likely cause is a firewall program blocking the ping.
  - Unknown host or Ping request could not find host - The computer name does not exist on the local area network. Make sure that NetBIOS over TCP/IP is enabled.
  - Destination host unreachable - The IP address is not on a local area network, and the default gateway can not access it. Either there is no default gateway, its address is wrong, or it is not functioning.
  - How to reset Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) in Windows XP.
8. How to recover from a corrupted registry that prevents Windows XP from starting, please click MS Suppoer & Help
  - System error: Lsass.exe
    When trying to update a password the return status indicates that the value provided as the current password is not correct.
SPSS/R notes
MS Office related
- How to copy a chart from Excel into a Word document. Click here.
Linux related
Lab related
LIMS related
- LIMS Support site
- LIMS support platform
- Life Science LIMS fails to install JRE 1.3 on XP
  Solution: add these at registry
  Key: \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\JavaSoft\Java Runtime Environment\javaHome\1.3.1
  Key: \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\JavaSoft\Java Runtime Environment\javaHome\1.3
  Value: C:\Program Files\JavaSoft\JRE\1.3.1
  Key: \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\JavaSoft\Java Runtime Environment\MicroVersion\1.3.1
  Key: \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\JavaSoft\Java Runtime Environment\MicroVersion\1.3
  Value: 1
  Key: \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\JavaSoft\Java Runtime Environment\RuntimeLib\1.3.1
  Key: \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\JavaSoft\Java Runtime Environment\RuntimeLib\1.3
  Value: C:\Program Files\JavaSoft\JRE\1.3.1\bin\hotspot\jvm.dll
Affymetrix 500K related
- A brief detour to explain the various types of files created during expression analysis using Affy Chips. The general relationship is:
  .DAT --> .CEL --> .CHP
  .DAT files are the raw image files, largely unprocessed by GCOS. .CEL files are produced when GCOS reads the .DAT files and assigns hybridization data therein to to specific probes. .CHP files are generated from .CEL files by consolidation of all the probe pairs that interrogate a gene into a single value and an Absent/Present/Marginal call. .CHP files can be exported into a tab-delimited format that can be read by Excel. Please click here for more detail.
- GCOS Tutorial
- Perl program to read Affymetrix data
R-Project related
- R home
- To install a package in Linux or Unix, with system administrator privileges, use a command like:
  R CMD INSTALL mathgraph_0.9.tar.gz
- On Windows:
  Rcmd INSTALL --doc normal mathgraph_0.9.tar.gz
File Format
- pre File (in 'pre-MAKEPED', or 'pre-LINKAGE' format)
  Lists family relationships and assigned alleles. This file is an initial input file to the LINKAGE calculation programs.
  The file contains the following information:
  - Column 1: pedigree number
  - Column 2: individual ID number
  - Column 3: father's ID number
    missing parents are entered as 0
  - Column 4: mother's ID number
    missing parents are entered as 0
  - Column 5: sex (1=male, 2=female, 0=unknown)
  - Column 6: affected status (1=unaffected, 2=affected, 0=unknown)
  - Subsequent Columns: alleles for each marker, ordered as they appear in the .name file
    To code a codominant marker locus phenotype, simply list the two numbered alleles with at least one space or tab between the alleles. The unknown genotype is coded as 0 0
Statistical software notes
- Run solar in script
  command ">solar test", "test.tcl" must be at the current folder, output is shown on screen
Symantec antivirus related
- Install Symantec antivirus 10, slow down everything or computer hang for a long time
  Fix: Uninstall 10, and install the older version 7 or 8 until Symantec fixes this problem.
- Try to install Symantec antivirus 7 or 8, but the installation doesn't start, or see the 25002 error,
  Fix: please see how to fix 25002 error
- Get Norton 25010 initialize error
  Fix: Please see how to fix 25010 error
Merge pdf files:
- Reference from here
- For Windows PCs:
  gswin32 -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOUTPUTFILE=Merged.pdf -dBATCH 1.pdf 2.pdf 3.pdf
- For Unix PCs:
  gs -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOUTPUTFILE=Merged.pdf -dBATCH 1.pdf 2.pdf 3.pdf
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