http://www.truecombatelite.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=26227&sid=d7f42bc042a2595f68b3ec3b98f08262

I’ve tried and it works perfectly – after deleting the registry key under group HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MSNMessenger\PerPassportSettings, my Windows Live Messenger came back to work.

I haven’t read through though, not sure what’s the story beind.

I tried e-filing again this year and same thing. Reading the help articles and discussions on the web doesn’t help too much. I tried to change SSL/certificate setting in IE, nothing helped, I’m on wired LAN so wireless problem should not be an issue to me, I tried on both Vista and XP but neither worked so …

I thought it could be because I’m using Chinese version of those Windows, so I installed everything on my corporate-issued laptop (thanks for the download version, easy to install anywhere you want), things are working like a charm.

I still need to dig out if it is network issue (such as TurboTax or IRS blocked Comcast which seems less possible), or it is actually Chinese edition problem – I would like to say the 2nd one is more reasonable.

However, I may only get the answer the coming year, since I’ve filed everything …

http://www.technullogy.net/index.php/2009/06/22/multiple-remote-desktop-sessions-on-vista-sp2-x86-x64/

I’m trying to migrate some VMs to the Vista Ultimate so that I can utilize all those 4 cores and 6G memory.

I need to test some mysql proxy and master/slave things, and better try it out in different environments.

Create a message.lisp:

(use-package "FFI")
(def-call-out messagebox
              (:name "MessageBoxA") (:library "user32.dll")
              (:arguments (hwnd int) (text c-string) (capt c-string) (type uint))
              (:return-type int)
              (:language :stdc))

(defun main()
  (messagebox 0 "Hello World!" "Message" 0)
  (quit))

then run:

clisp -M “C:\Program Files\clisp-2.47\base\lispinit.mem” -x “(load \”message.lisp\”)(ext:saveinitmem \”message\” :init-function #’main :executable t :norc t :quiet t)”

now we have a message.exe under the same directory, run it, you will get a standard Windows message box like this:

Almost all stuffs mentioned here are coming from:

http://www.frank-buss.de/lisp/clisp.html

except I added “:quiet t” to avoid CLisp’s welcome messages printed out in screen.

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/a8ffbb6d53f6b3db

pretty much what I want I’ve managed to created a executable on my Windows box and it runs just fine, well, with some tweaks, and actually a follow up describe the Windows dll problem:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/71544781ad46b5c3

Most likely I will leave it there and play with it once another while, but I may not be able to have enough time to do serious evaluation, as I’m not a serious Windows developer or a system administrator . I would like to assume all potential development should be based on Windows XP or at most Vista, so to make majority can run it.

By the way, I haven’t figured out what’s the difference between Vista and 7 .

Better than remote desktop or VNC, as it does not need port forwarding nor firewall holes.