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Downloads are updated

Sems — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 22:35:19 +0000

It took me a while to do it, but it is taken care of now. I had moved the downloads to Fileserve couple of years ago to save bandwidth. However, with their changes throughout the year they are no longer reliable and causes problems to the site’s visitors. So I...
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Windows 8 to Windows 8 Pro upgrade failures

Sems — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 16:28:52 +0000

I have seen a weird issue on a new Lenovo Ideapad Yoga. When you try to upgrade from Windows 8 to Windows 8 Pro it fails around 15%. Also on some machines Windows Update fails too. The above symptom is associated with, but not limited to, the following Lenovo System...
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Creating a Windows PE 4.0 USB Bootable Disk

Sems — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 01:17:55 +0000

I have recently downloaded and installed Windows 8 from Microsoft MSDN. While playing with it, I thought of the new WinPE 4.0 (WinPE = Windows Preinstallation Environment) and started doing some research. While, there are not many Winbuilder projects out yet to support it, I found set of instructions at...
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Free movie for Playbook users – Sherlock Holmes

Sems — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 01:11:01 +0000

This works just great, compliments of RIM: Canada: 1. Go to blackberrycanada.roxionow.com/redeem 2. Enter the code SHERLOCK 3. Login to your Blackberry Video Store account or create a new account. 4. If you haven’t downloaded it already, download the free BlackBerry Video Store app on your PlayBook. 5. Log in...
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Installing Asterisk 1.8.9 on Centos 6

Sems — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:01:13 +0000

It has been a while since I installed Asterisk from scratch and I like to keep my skills sharpened. So for this exercise, I grabbed a base Centos 6 Virtual Box image and installed Asterisk from sources. There might be a few steps not fully explained below, but this should...
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Sugarsync Crash on Mac OS X 10.7 – Lion

Sems — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 22:27:14 +0000

Yesterday, Sugarsync prompted me to install an update. After installation, it complained parts of it was installed separately and refused to run. I uninstalled it via /Applications/SugarSync\ Manager.app/Contents/Resources/SugarSyncUninstaller.command Then I did a fresh install. Still no luck, it kept crashing. I fired up the Console to see if I can find...
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ICANN Registrants Rights and Responsibilities

Sems — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 00:33:07 +0000

Recently, ICANN finalized and published a new document titled “Registrants Rights and Responsibilities.” The 2009 RAA included a provision that would require both registrars and their resellers to link to this new document from their website as a way both educate and protect domain registrants by ensuring they understand their...
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WordPress plugin updates and IIS 7 errors

Sems — Wed, 18 May 2011 00:54:36 +0000

Whenever you upgrade a plugin in WordPress or WordPress itself while running under IIS 7, you get an error. This usually happens as the process was unable to delete the folder for the plugin or such. This issue is related to WinCache plugin for PHP and latest version fixes the...
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Making Mac OS X Terminal Behave Like DOS/Linux

Sems — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 10:27:30 +0000

I was going through my bookmarks and such and I remembered an old gem. The default key settings in Mac OS X terminal will drive you nuts, if you are used to DOS or Linux terminal. Especially Home, End, Page Up and Page Down keys. Fire up your Terminal, go...
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How to start a Blackberry in Safe Mode

Sems — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 23:14:06 +0000

There are times some third party applications starting automatically can cause havoc on your Blackberry device. If you are using a device with OS 4.6 or higher, you are in luck. You can simply start the device in safe mode, similar to Windows. This disables the automatically starting apps and...
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