In my previous post I have mentioned a Windows hot-fix for the synchronisation bug you may encounter using Windows 7 64 bit and iTunes 9.0.2.
I can see in the stats that many people have found this blog post. The big question remains: Did it work for you?
Please let me know (add a comment to this post).
Do you have Windows 7? Perhaps the 64 bits version? Do you have an iPhone, iPod?
Do the following things happen when you try to sinc with iTunes?
- your iphone stops saying it is synchronizing, but iTunes still thinks it is.
- your computer becomes very slow, so slow you actually have to restart it in order to
do your daily things again.
- synchronisation works fine only for Contacts or Calendar items.
“heavier” stuff (ie photo’s or
music) causes the symptoms above.
Don’t worry: You are not alone.
In fact many others have been suffering from the same issue. But, there is hope.
I have tried several ’solutions’: An XML trick, tweaking your power manager, lowering your max ram or disabling your “standard enhanced pci to usb” device. But I was still not satisfied with the ‘fix’ or ‘workaround’.
The first 2 only work temporarily, or not at all. The 3rd is not desirable, I had installed Win 7 64 bits, so I could use all my 4 GB of RAM.
The last one though works ok, but it disables your USB 2.0 support and thus makes synchronisation very very slow.
I figured that since this seemed to be related to the USB ports (ie, the last ‘fix’ worked), I dug into Win 7 64 bits USB port related problems. I had found this particular problem. It kind of had the same symptoms, and I found some saying it also infected the iPhone/iPod synchronisation. And, the best news is:
Microsoft have brought up a hot fix to solve this issue
I have tested this fix (just like I did with all the others I have described) and I am glad to say that it works!
If you cannot find it, try this . It has some unofficial download links that may work for you.
I hope it helps you out, it sure did for me.
I’ve been working with Eclipse for at least 2 years. When I just learned of Eclipse I was mostly programming C / C++ using Visual Studio 6, which I bought zillion years ago.
Eclipse was a whole new world to me, offering all the convenient tools (like finding references, go to class, etc) a Java programmer could need.
All my hobby projects are mostly written in C / C++ using the old Visual Studio version. It worked well, but after getting used to Eclipse, going back to Visual Studio 6 was like going back to the stone age. Of course, at this time Visual Studi0 7 is already out-dated; If I’m not mistaken, version 9 or 10 is around the corner.
Good news though, there is an Eclipse version where you can develop in C / C++ using the Eclipse IDE. It is available here. You have to use it in combination with a compiler. To get started, I have used MinGW which is easy to set up. Grab that from here.
The good thing is, once MinGW was set up correctly, Eclipse automatigically found it (I bet it used the PATH variable) and you could try to compile your first “Hello world” program.
My first impressions are good, the C++ IDE is actually like the Java variant with all the handy tools. The performance is good, it works good, It has Doxygen built in for you. All in all I am quite satisfied. Also, I am quite happy that it exists, since Dev-Cpp and Code::Blocks is not being updated. I thought Dev-Cpp had a lot of potential, especially with the built-in packages.
If you ever consider to use an IDE (you don’t need it!) for writing C / C++ programs, you should definately give the Eclipse IDE for C++ a try.
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