It was last Monday when I first encountered this problem:
After entering my Windows 7 user account password, I am stuck with a blue swirl and the Welcome screen on my laptop. I waited for a while, and when it seems that nothing is happening to my computer, I forcibly removed the battery from my laptop and rebooted. Then, it was back to normal.
If you’re like me who sometimes doesn’t care reading about the device manual or Getting Started guide, here’s a quick info on how to insert an Ñ or ñ using your Asus Eee Pad Transformer TF101:
With the Android Keyboard activated, PRESS & HOLD the letter N/n and several accented versions of that letter will appear. It’s rather tricky, as you will need to slide your way up from the letter N/n to that accented letter(s).
So, I got hold of a Windows Developer Preview of the upcoming Microsoft OS, Windows 8. Since I do not want to install it on my primary laptop, I made the bold move of installing it on my HP Mini 2133 netbook. Here is what inside my HP Mini 2133:
Processor: VIA C7-M 1200MHz 32-bit
RAM: 2.00GB
Display: 8.9-inch diagonal WXGA (1280 x 768) LCD with CCFL backlight
Keyboard: 92% of a full-sized keyboard
Connectivity: WLAN 802.11a/b/g/n, Ethernet 10/100/1000 Mbits/s,
Google Docs is simply awesome! Saw this video clip from CNET TV. Just learned new stuff about Google Docs today.
We had been using Sky Broadband for than a year now, and based on experience, OpenDNS works better with it than Google Public DNS (configured in our router).
How about your setup? Which works better on your side? Please do indicate your ISP when you leave a comment. Thanks!
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When I started teaching in 2004, most of the machines (read as PC units) we used in school run on Windows XP already. It was during this time that the Network Administrator of the school decided to keep the FTP port closed in all of the multimedia labs (good thing he was replaced already; such a pain in the a#*). Imagine how tormenting it was to upload an entire website using cPanel’s File Manager.
So, I decided to teach my students then a work-around that will somewhat enable them to FTP using a Windows XP-based machine: Network Places.
When Windows Vista, and later Windows 7, were introduced, Network Places was scrapped out. Then, I came across this nifty utility called Gladinet Cloud Desktop.
Gladinet Cloud Desktop allows you to map a cloud storage (that includes Google Docs & Windows Live SkyDrive) or any FTP location as a virtual network drive. Using Gladinet Cloud Desktop doesn’t require for a separate FTP client software to be installed in your machine, since you can tap the features of Windows Explorer to cut, copy, and paste files and folders from your PC to a remote location/server storage.
First things first: “I am NOT talking about those nasty videos showing “unknown supernatural entities or what we know as ghosts”.
Being a techie person, I had subjected my BlackBerry Bold 9700 to several tests and trials. One of which was testing different video formats and encoding to see if they will play in the device — take note that the files were saved in the microSD card (media card). As a matter of practice, after the tests were done, I usually delete the file(s) from the device. However, I had noticed that the files I had deleted previously are still listed inside the Media section of the BlackBerry Bold 9700. Kinda weird, but my research paved the way for a solution.
BlackBerry Storm 9000 owners were faced with the same problem — deleted media items in the microSD card still appears in the Media list of the device. The normal work-around is to pull the BlackBerry’s battery out then restart the unit. In my case, it didn’t worked. Another work-around is to pull the microSD out of its hatch then re-insert it prior to restarting the device. It worked, but such a hassle to do it whenever I delete a media item.
Then, I came across a BlackBerry user’s forum, the solution posted was simple:
In the BlackBerry Bold 9700, go to Options -> Memory. Press the menu button and choose Remove Media Card. Then, press the menu button one more time and choose Install Media Card.
This method will show you the updated list of media items in your BlackBerry Bold 9700′s microSD card.
Ever since I started using WHMCS (Web Host Manager Complete Solution), my dilemma is that it uses the server’s timezone as its default. If a server is based outside of my local timezone, I have no choice but to adjust all of the transaction dates every time there is an entry at the WHMCS.
Now, here’s a trick to dictate WHMCS to use your local timezone:
date_default_timezone_set('Asia/Manila'); if you are from Manila.The list of timezones can be found at http://www.php.net/manual/en/timezones.php
We received an odd email from one of our clients saying that they hit a bug in Mailman:
Bug in Mailman version 2.1.11.cp3
We’re sorry, we hit a bug!
Please inform the webmaster for this site of this problem. Printing of traceback and other system information has been explicitly inhibited, but the webmaster can find this information in the Mailman error logs.
Upon checking, it seems that a recent cPanel upgrade changed the permissions of the Mailman folder, resulting to the error. A quick fix can be done using the command line (or via SSH to your Linux server):
chmod 02775 -R /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/
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A day after I blogged about my Smart mobile phone (a Sony Ericsson W760i Walkman unit) went semi-dead: can’t make / receive any phone call, nor do GPRS/3G/MMS browsing, a very interesting comment was left on my Facebook wall from a long time friend.
Tonio (a friend since high school and works for Smart Communications) advised me to key-in the following keywords on my mobile unit: ROAM OFF then send it to 333. Wait for a couple of hours (around 2 hours for me) and I was back to mobile web surfing via GPRS/3G and was able to send MMS already!
This was confirmed to me by an email from Smart (in response to my email to them) stating that there are times wherein the International Roaming service is accidentally turned on(?). Hmmm.
Hope this helps those who had experienced the same thing and same error voice prompt.