T410 USB not working - SOLVED

I tried posting this to the Lenovo Community thread but after I registered, everything was in German and it wouldn't let me post.

But, for those struggling with the same issue, here's how I solved it.

1. Right-click on "My Computer"
2. Select Manage
3. Expand the "Universal Serial Bus controllers"
4. Right-click on the first "USB Root Hub"
5. Select Properties
6. Select the "Power Management" tab
7. Uncheck "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power."
8. Click OK
9. Repeat steps 4-8 for the other "USB Root Hub"
10. Right-click each USB Root Hub and uninstall each one
11. Right-click on the "Universal Serial Bus controllers"
12. Select "Scan for hardware changes"
13. Let all the stuff reconnect (USB hubs, camera, fingerprint, AND MOUSE! :)
14. Done!

CSS Compressor

I found this the other day. Another nice compressing tool, but this one is for CSS.

http://www.cssdrive.com/index.php/main/csscompressor

DSN-less ColdFusion queries

<cfscript>
// DNSless DB connection
// http://www.datapackethelp.net/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=47&nav=0
// http://www.ibmpressbooks.com/articles/printerfriendly.asp?p=170336
classLoader = createObject("java", "java.lang.Class");
classLoader.forName("macromedia.jdbc.MacromediaDriver");
dm = createObject("java","java.sql.DriverManager");

con = dm.getConnection("jdbc:macromedia:db2://myserver.com:55000;DatabaseName=SMWDB","username","password");

st = con.createStatement();
rs = st.ExecuteQuery(PreserveSingleQuotes(mySql));
q = createObject("java", "coldfusion.sql.QueryTable").init(rs);

st.close();
con.close();
</cfscript>

Developer tools

I have some development tools I've used day-to-day, you might like them too...

Quickly find and replace stuff (commas to line breaks, regular expressions, etc)
http://www.parkapps.com/tools/find_replace.cfm

Other tools can be found at http://www.parkapps.com/tools/

Minify Javascript

We're having some problems with JavaScript not loading entirely for some users... I'm not sure why yet, but I came across this JSMin - JavaScript minifier. Excellent stuff.

http://fmarcia.info/jsmin/test.html

Vertical multi-column list

function ge(obj) {
	return document.getElementById(obj);
}
/*
Reorder a list that normally flows horizontally and refactor to flow vertically in the same area. 
Assumes that the li element has a css width and uses the shortcut function ge()
*/
function vertMultiColList(parentObj) {
	var nextColHtml = '
';	// no quotes b/c IE is weird about rewriting HTML
	//  if this has already run take out any continued lists
	
	parentObj.innerHTML = parentObj.innerHTML.replace(/<\/ul>
/ig,'');	// Firefox
	parentObj.innerHTML = parentObj.innerHTML.replace(/<\/ul>
/ig,'');	// IE
	
	var arrUl = document.getElementsByTagName('UL');
	for(var j=0;j= 0) {
			//arrUl[j].style.border='1px solid red';
			var arrLi = arrUl[j].getElementsByTagName('LI');
			var lenArrLi = arrLi.length;
			if(lenArrLi==0) {
				break;
			}
			// get outer width of container
			var padOffset = -30;
			var container_width = parentObj.clientWidth+padOffset;	// gives a little padding
			if(container_width==padOffset) {	//IE6 problem
				container_width = document.body.clientWidth+padOffset;
			}
			// get width of list item
			var item_width = arrLi[0].clientWidth;
			if(item_width==0) item_width = arrLi[0].style.width;
			// calculate the number of columns that can fit in the space
			var cols = Math.floor(container_width/item_width);
			// divide the number of list items by the number of columns to 
			// find out how many items should be in a column
			var li_per_col = Math.ceil(lenArrLi/cols);
			for(var i=0;i';
				}
				if(i>1000) {
					cLog('over 1000 LI');
					return;
					break;
				}
			}
			
			parentObj.innerHTML = parentObj.innerHTML.replace(/<\/li>/ig,nextColHtml);
			cLog('parentObj.id: ' + parentObj.id);
			cLog('container_width: ' + container_width);
			cLog('item_width: ' + item_width);
			cLog('lenArrLi: ' + lenArrLi);
			cLog('cols: ' + cols);
			cLog('li_per_col: ' + li_per_col);
			//cLog('parentObj.innerHTML: ' + parentObj.innerHTML);
		}
		if(j>100) {
			cLog('over 100 UL');
			return;
			break;
		}
	}
	//window.onresize = vertMultiColList;	// IE can't handle this and spikes memory
	//parentObj.ondblclick = function()  { alert(this.innerHTML); }
	//parentObj.onmouseover = vertMultiColList;
}
function cLog(s) {
	//alert(s);
	if(document.all) {
		return;
	} else {
		//console.log(s);
		return;
	}
}

Auto format a date onblur to mm/dd/yyyy


/*
reformats dates entered as m/d/yyyy to mm/dd/yyyy
*/
function reformatDate(inp) {
var d = inp.value;
if(d.length==0) {
return;
}
d = d.replace(/\/\//gi,'/'); // replace double slashes
var parsedDate = new Date(d);
var month = (parsedDate.getMonth() + 1).toString();
var date = parsedDate.getDate().toString(); //date is the day of the month
var year = parsedDate.getFullYear().toString();
if(month.length == 1)
month = '0' + month;
if(date.length == 1)
date = '0' + date.toString();
parsedDate = month + '/' + date + '/' + year;
inp.value = parsedDate;
}