Japanese/Chinese Characters do not appear in Media Player in Windows 7

So if you have songs or CDs that have information like song titles or artists as symbols they may appear just as boxes on your system. To get them to appear correctly you must do the following: enable hidden fonts in windows

1. Hit the Windows key and go to Control Panel 
2. Click Fonts 
3. Font settings 
4. Finally uncheck the box that says "hide fonts based on language settings" 
5. Restart your computer

Source: Link!

Convert Cue and FLAC files into MP3

The process to do this is actually Relatively simple.

First Download
1. Foobar2000 (http://www.foobar2000.org/download)
2. Lame (http://www.rarewares.org/mp3-lame-bundle.php)

Steps
1. Install and then launch Foobar and Extract the Lame ZipFile
2. File > Add Files...
3. Select the Cue and FLAC Files, It will automatically load them all into the screen and parse the songs
4. Ctrl-A or Manually Select all the songs
5. Right Click > Convert > Quick Convert > MP3
6. Select or Make a folder to store the files in
7. When it asks for Lame navigate to where you extracted
8. Happily wait for everything to complete

Cheers.

Too many bonded comps of type "IOB" found to fit this device

This error is generated during the MAP of Implementation of the design.
If you are designing a core that goes inside the design you can safely ignore this error.

What it means is the number of pins at the top level is more than the total available pins of the design, that's why it happens during the implement design phase.

Map fails because the selected FPGA doesn't have enogh resources (I/O pins). 

See this Thread:
http://www.edaboard.com/thread205544.html

Impact Crashing from PlanAhead " i_impact4.exe has stopped working"

If you get an Error Launching Impact from Planahead in your project you simply need to navigate to:

Project.data/impact/

Look for the file called " impactdefaultproj.ipf " 

Then Delete this file and impact will launch again:

Original Source: Link

[EDK 24-166] (generate_target): Failed to execute XPS Script

If you receive the following error:


[Edk 24-166] (generate_target): Failed to execute XPS script. Please check for any errors reported by the XPS application in the console: [C:/Users/User/Documents/project_folder/project_name/project_name.srcs/sources_1/edk/proc_mod/__xps/pa/_proc_mod_synth.tcl]

it means your design has an error. Open up the EDK and try to generate netlist. It should tell you where your error is.

Powerpoint Set Transparent Color

This option in powerpoint saves LIVES. I keep forgetting where it is so here is a picture!

If you cannot read that.

1. Select a Picture
2. Click on the Format Toolbar
3. Go over to "Adjust" 
4. Select Color
5. Set Transparent Color is at the bottom

Java is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file

This basically means that Java is not installed or it is not in the path.

Remember that that the Path is in Start>Control Panel>System>Advanced System Settings>Environmental Variables

Scroll down in the bottom box and look for the line that says 'path' click edit.

At the end add the path to java which is typically something like: C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre6\bin