The Advanced Diary journaling/diary program from CSoftLab stores its license information in the Windows registry at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\CSoftLab\Advanced Diary. When you install the software, you will have a 30-day trial period and the LicenseCode and LicenseName keys will not have any values set. You can see the values using the Microsoft Windows registry editor regedit.exe.

If you need to view the license information, you can navigate to the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\CSoftLab\Advanced Diary key in the registry using the registry editor or you can open a command prompt window and issue the following reg query commands.

C:\>reg query "HKCU\SOFTWARE\CSoftLab\Advanced Diary" /v LicenseName

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\CSoftLab\Advanced Diary
    LicenseName    REG_SZ    John Doe


C:\Users\Lisa>reg query "HKCU\SOFTWARE\CSoftLab\Advanced Diary" /v LicenseCode

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\CSoftLab\Advanced Diary
    LicenseCode    REG_SZ    VN37-H79K-28ZZ-XMMUMM9XX9


C:\>

You can extract the information from the registry by right-clicking on the Advanced Diary entry in the registry and choosing Export and then saving the information to a .reg registry file. That will save all of the registry information for Advanced Diary. You can then delete all but the lines that are like the ones below, if you only need the license entries in the registry.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\CSoftLab\Advanced Diary]
"LicenseName"="John Doe"
"LicenseCode"="VN37-H79K-28ZZ-XMMUMM9XX9"

You can then import the registry entries after installing Advanced Diary on another system. You can import them by opening the registry editor and choosing Registry and then Import Registry File.

Note: if you are transferring the registry keys to an installation of Advanced Diary running under Wine on a Linux system, you can run the registry editor provided by Wine by opening a terminal window and then setting the WINEPREFIX environment variable equal to whatever Wine prefix you have set, if you are using one other than the .wine one, and then running wine regedit. E.g.:

$ export WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.wine-advdiary"
$ wine regedit

If you have saved the registry values to a .reg file, e.g. file.reg, and want to import the values from that file from a command-line interface (CLI), open a command prompt window as an administrator and run reg import "C:\path\to\file.reg". Alternatively, use regedit /s "C:\path\to\file.reg" to import the file silently without a confirmation prompt. To import the registry values from a Windows system into the registry for an instance of Advanced Diary 9.0 running in a Wine prefix named .wine-advdiary on an Ubuntu Linux system, I used the commands below in a terminal window to import a .reg file named AdvancedDiary_LicenseInfo.reg.

$ export WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.wine-advdiary"$ wine regedit /s "$HOME/Documents/AdvancedDiary_LicenseInfo.reg"
$

After doing so, when I clicked on Help and chose About Advanced Diary, I saw it was registered.

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If you want to prevent a Secure Shell (SSH) connection being dropped when it has been inactive for several minutes, you can specify a keepalive value. To specify a keepalive value directly from the command line, use the -o flag followed by the ServerAliveIntervaloption

Command Line Syntax

Run the following command to send a keepalive packet every 60 seconds:

ssh -o ServerAliveInterval=60 user@hostname

Advanced Keepalive Control

For more robust protection against drops, combine the interval with ServerAliveCountMax. This defines how many consecutive keepalive messages can go unanswered before the client disconnects.

ssh -o ServerAliveInterval=60 -o ServerAliveCountMax=3 user@hostname

• ServerAliveInterval=60: Sends a packet every 60 seconds of inactivity.
• ServerAliveCountMax=3: Drops the dead connection if the server fails to respond 3 times in a row.

Making It Permanent (Optional)

If you get tired of typing this out every time, you can save it to your local configuration:

• Open your configuration file in a text editor, such as nano:

  nano ~/.ssh/config

• Add these lines to apply it to all hosts:

  Host *
   ServerAliveInterval 60
   ServerAliveCountMax 3

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I needed to install the Advanced Diary diary/journaling program from CSoftLab on an Ubuntu Unix system. The application is developed only for Microsoft Windows, so to get it to work on an Ubuntu Linux system I used Wine, which is free and open-source software that allows one to run applications developed for the Microsoft Windows operating system (OS) on Linux systems. I started the installation from a terminal window after creating and initializing a Wine prefix for it. But when I clicked on Install, I saw the message "Invalid operation in GDI+ (Code: 2)". When I canceled the installation and closed the window associated with it, I saw an error window stating "The setup files are corrupted. Please obtain a new copy of the program." I had encountered the same "Invalid operation in GDI+ (Code: 2)" problem many months ago (the setup file wasn't actually corrupted, so I could ignore that message) when I installed a previous version of Advanced Diary, version 8.0, on another system using Wine — see Installing Advanced Diary on a Linux system with Wine — and remembered that I had used a shell script then to install additional software for Wine that would alleviate that problem. I needed Winetricks installed, so I verified I had already installed it on this system with the which command (you can install it with sudo apt install winetricks, if it is not installed). I used winetricks to install gdiplus and core fonts for Windows applications. That resolved the problem with the "Invalid operation in GDI+ (Code: 2)", but then I saw a "Access violation at address 75D947DC in module 'qcap.dll'. Read of address 5F505353" message every time I started Advanced Diary.

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I needed to make an optical disc drive accessible to a Windows virtual machine (VM) running in VirtualBox on an Ubuntu Linux system. The drive was attached to the host operating system (OS) via a USB connection. One way to make a USB optical drive connected to a Linux host available to a Windows VM is to pass through the host optical drive. With the VM running, I could select Devices and then the optical drive connected to the host operating system, "Host Drive PIONEER BD-RW BDR-XS07U (sr0)". Since I had seen a recommendation to use a USB passthrough method instead, though, as while passing through the host optical drive works well for ordinary CD/DVD access, unusual discs or software that communicates directly with the hardware are less likely to be problematic if one uses the USB passthrough method, instead, I chose the USB passthrough option. To do so, I verified that the logged in user account was in the vboxusers group by issuing the command grep vboxusers /etc/group in a terminal window. If it isn't, you can add the account to that group using sudo usermod -aG vboxusers $USER. I also verified that the USB 3.0 Controller option was enabled by selecting the Windows 10 VM in VirtualBox and clicking on Settings and then selecting USB. I then made the Pioneer Blu-ray drive accessible inside the Windows VM by clicking on Devices at the top of the running Windows VM window and then selecting Pioneer Corporation Pioneer Blu-ray Drive [0100]. I then was able to see the blu-ray drive in the Windows File Explorer.

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