Patrick Tørresvold

Word cannot start the converter mswrd632.wpc

There are several reasons to this error, and one being errors in the registry of the client. I’m not going to talk about how to solve that, because there is allready a very nice article on that subject: Word cannot start the converter mswrd632.wpc error on Wincert.net

But one error that this article doesn’t talk about is file-extension errors. And that’s what was wrong in my case. I could open my .doc-file, but the document just said:
%PDF-1.3
%âãÏÓ

1 0 obj
<<
/Type /Page
/MediaBox [0 0 595.20 841.68]
/CropBox [0 0 595.20 841.68]
/Parent 2 0 R
/Rotate 0 /Resources <<
/ProcSet [/PDF /ImageC /ImageB /ImageI]
/XObject <<
/Obj3 3 0 R >>
>>
/Contents [ 4 0 R ]
>>
endobj
3 0 obj
<< /Type /XObject /Subtype /Image /Name /Obj3 /Width 2480 /Height 3507 /ColorSpace /DeviceGray /BitsPerComponent 8 /Length 5 0 R /Filter [ /DCTDecode ] >> stream
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This doesn’t make much sense for a normal user, but if you read closely you can can find some lines that can tell you something about the files content. In my case you can see one line saying: “/ProcSet [/PDF /ImageC /ImageB /ImageI]“. This line gives me the indication that this file is not an .doc, but actually an .pdf-file.

So if this is the your case, simply rename the files extention like so:
my_wrong_file.doc => my_wrong_file.pdf

If you have done correctly, you should be prompted with a message asking you if you wanna change the files extension, and to this you click “Yes”, and your all done!

NOTE: You have to un-check the “Hide extensions for known file types”-option in you “Folder Options” (Explorer -> Tools -> Folder Options -> View (tab) -> Advanced settings).

Hope this helps you, and if it did, please take time to comment Maybe you found some other headers? Please do share!

WMC2 sneek peak

Her’s the latest screenshot of the view “coverflow”:

CIFS failed code -22

I got a new error today when trying to mount a share to my media server. When running my mount command I got this error:
CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -22

It seems like it’s not that easy to find an distinct answer to this error on Google, so I thought I might share it with you

In my case it was quite simple (maybe that’s why nobody had posted it somewhere?). The error indicates that the source is wrong. In my case my “shared folder” or mount source was “//lois/mystorage”. When I pinged the hostname “lois” from the mediaserver I got no answer. AHA!

So, I just mounted the source with the ip-address instead “//192.168.x.x/mystorage”, and voila!

Hope this helped you
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Fruity Loops 9 XXL

I have now started using FL Studio 9 XXL. I wanna say it looks quite nice. Fresh design, new plugins and some improvements to the solutions. All over it’s seems like the good old FL Studio, with minor improvements I’ll post some more music stuff in the future if wanted, so stay tuned!

Now also on Twitter

It’s now also possible to follow me on Twitter by going to this site:
http://twitter.com/torresmedia

Don’t forget to check out these Twitters to:
MysteryGuitarM
Clublife.no
Larsen_82
JRstrengen
ShayCarl
RayWJ

See you around!

WMC: New project

I started using XBMC a while back to organize my backups of my DVDs, but it seems like my “Media Center”-server couldn’t handle the graphics that XBMC demanded, so I got an idea to make my own “Media Center”.

This new “Media Center” will be mostly PHP-based, and will be fully browser friendly. It’s suppose to present your movies in an slick and easy fashion, but without having to drain your crappy “Media Center”-solution (Like mine…)

Her’s a sneak peak at the Alpha version

Stay tuned for more updates

Vlog it!

Yeah, I to have started to vlog :/ Inspired by the awesome “ShayCarl” from youtube, I to have started vlogging. Vlogging is basically blogging, but making movies of your life instead of writing it.

I thought to myself: If something as simple as Shay’s life can be interesting to watch for me, maybe someone would find it interesting to see my life?

I will start posting my vloggs in a new section her on this site, so watch for it See you around! (Or at least you’ll see me )

Be sure to check out ShayCarl and the Shaytards by clicking her!

Useful Spotify searching trick

Ok, so I found some Spotify tricks today that I found quite useful. It seems like you can specify what you would like to search for in the search field.

I did honestly not know of these feature, so I thought I would share them with you:

1. Write a field you would like to search for (ex. artist) followed by “:”.
2. The string you would like to search for.

Something like this: “album:best of” (without the quotes).

You can read more about this feature her:
http://www.spotify.com/blog/archives/2008/01/22/searching-spotify/

Getting to know C#

I have always loved PHP-scripting. I thought I could make anything in PHP, but I finally met my match It seems almost impossible to get PHP to talk with Microsoft solutions, so I had to try something different. That resulted in me learning C#, and after doing so I discovered that it’s quite fun

Maybe I’ll post some fun programs in the future, so watch out Or even some easy tutorials. Anny suggestions?