One night after I got back from work, I noticed that some persons are gathering near our house. Then my mother-in-law informed me that those neighbors might be connecting to our wifi. I thought that it would have been impossible as we don’t give our passwords to anybody…, except our one neighbor that we allowed to connect to our wifi. We gave our wifi password to her, and she promised us that she will not tell anybody. And so naturally, our whole neighborhood can now connect to our internet connection. But since I know a thing or two about setting up routers, this would be very easy for me and my neighbors will not know what happened. Even though they will be able to connect to the wifi with the password that they are using, they will not have any internet access for I have allowed only my devices to connect to our internet connection. I got all my devices MAC Address, and then I set my router to allow internet connection only on the mac addresses that I specify. So the next day, there are no more gatherings near our house. From time to time I block my neighbors mac address and then unblock it again, I just want to teach her a lesson because of what she did. I told her maybe somebody else is using her password, that’s why she can’t connect some times. Moral of the story, always protect your wifi connection.
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One of our payroll servers broke down today. A Supermicro server with Windows 2003. This server is quite old, probably more than 5 years, running 24 hrs a day 7 days a week. The last time this was fixed was probably around 2010, also its first setup as a payroll server. This has already proved its worth, but I’m not still going to retire this server, I still have a spare HDD drive, so I’m going to reset up it again with Windows 2003 and have another go with it as our payroll server. 5 more years…
October 28, 2013, the date of the start of the political ambition of a newbie politician. Be it in SK election, or in the Barangay Councilor or Captain sortie. It all starts here, as this is the beginning of public service or the corruption. Hopefully it’s public service, I know some persons running in this election for good reasons, but not all candidates have noble intentions. Sometimes candidates will win as there are many relatives living in their area, but a few will only win because of their good reputation. Don’t forget the connections of these candidates to the ruling mayor, congressman and governor as these connections will always affect the results of our elections. But anyway, this will come to pass, whatever the result, cooperation with the elected officials will always be beneficial to the community. And of course 1 good thing about elections, there’s no work on that day.
After downloading at least 30 firmware image files, I finished flashing this android tablet. The other firmwares that I used earlier were also successfully installed but the problem was always the touchscreen. It took me two weeks of searching for the correct firmware for this brand and model. And finally I read about this firmware TZX-Q8-713B7_2127_AD06, I searched, downloaded and installed on the tablet. After 5 minutes of waiting for the completion of the flashing step, I touched the screen and I was unable to unlock the tablet. And again, I was relieved as all my efforts was vindicated. I don’t like starting a project and have it left undone. And still, nothing beats reading for additional knowledge, thanks to all the forums out there.
Is it just me or the slim LG Xnotes notebooks that our korean managers use in our offices are all easily broken. Most of my boss’s use Samsung notebooks, but a few have LG Xnotes, the 2 koreans who has LG notebooks, are the once that experienced a problem with their units. So I think that 2 out of 2 LG’s here have both been sent back to the supplier for warranty purposes. The problem for both is that the SSD is either not detected, or it is being detected but wasn’t booting the system. We never had any other problem like this on Samsung, HP or Asus notebooks that we have. My boss’s would probably refrain from getting another LG Xnote, as the design will not make up for the fail of the SSD drive.
Have you ever experienced a time when just after using your notebook a few hours ago, it will no longer boot properly or the OS will just keep on crashing? And then you will think what you might have done wrong, and nothing seems to be the cause of it. Most of my Korean bosses have experienced this problem before. Their common denominator, they don’t shut down their notebooks, they just close it then pack it for travel. This may seem harmless, but this can cause some serious problems in your notebook. From a crashing OS, defective hard disk drive and sometimes the main board dies out. If the problem would only be the crashing OS, this is easier to fix, as you only need a bootable CD or USB with some system repair tools. I prefer WINPE2 as this can run some diagnostic checks and repair for win xp, 7 and 8. The most basic repair would be running the check disk tool, as the most common problem here would be the file system structures. The check disk would fix most of the problems to enable you to use your operating system again. A broken hard disk needs replacement and reformat, while a broken main board would probably be expensive and harder to fix so you might need to change to a new notebook. So to make your notebooks last longer, shut it down before bringing it to somewhere else.
For the 5th time this year, my Kingcom 903 phone has started restarting and restarting and restarting over and over and over again. I reset it again to its factory state, but it still didn’t work properly. I then wipe all data and cache on the phone, and then factory reset again, plus I reformatted the micro sd memory card so that it will totally be clean. It was only then that the phone worked properly. And so again I have to install all my apps again one by one, test each app before installing another. Thankfully until now, my phone is still okay. I still have to install some apps, but i don’t want to rush it yet, my memory card is still empty, I will be transferring some files in the next few days. And then I hope that everything will still be okay. But sadly I lost all my levels in 4 pics 1 word, level 384 and now back to level 1.
Remember the time when these kind of pictures are the trend in our mobile phones? There’s no internet in our phones then, no bluetooth and even infrared, you have to physically connect your phone to the Com1 of your computer, and each phone has a unique set of cables, that connects directly to the board of your phone. This is usually for the old Nokia phones. You would also need a specific program for transferring these pictures to the phone, that’s why during that time cellphone shops earn a lot for installing logos and wallpapers. Unlike now that every phone is capable of having any wallpaper that we want. Those were the days when just having your name in your phone can be a bragging right.
I was able to watch an episode of Dragonball Z today which is about the appearance of Android 19 and Android 20. I know later in the series there will be an Android 16, 17 and 18. I watched this Android saga back in my college days, so during that time, when the word android is mentioned, I think about these characters in Dragonballs. These days, when an android is mentioned, I think about Honeycomb, Gingerbread, Froyo, Ice Cream Sandwich and others. But as far as I can remember, the word Android is associated before with the 6 Million Dollar man.
Your Universal Multiboot Installer aka YUMI. The days of installing from a CD or DVD drive is almost gone. Because of new developments, we can now directly install an OS from a USB drive. I’m using YUMI now, this is the program for creating a bootable USB installer. Steps in using this are very simple, first you need a USB drive whose size should be bigger than the image file (ISO) of the system installer. Then you need the image files of the OS set up disk. I have in my USB the installer for Windows XP, Windows 7, Ubuntu, WinPE, Android Live and some other bootable utilities. I maximized th 8 GB USB that’s why there were many OS installers in the drive. Most of the image files I used, worked, but I am having a problem with Windows Xp and PCLogin, as they seem to encounter some errors. 3 years ago, I managed to make a USB installer of Windows XP using another software but there are limitations for the installer created, like there should be no partition for windows XP. The steps are complicated and you can only make 1 installer for 1 USB drive. With YUMI, I can have many OS installers in 1 USB drive, and the steps are very easy in making them. Anyway, I’ll try to make XP and PCLogin work with this program, so that I’ll have a good set of OS installers in just a single USB drive.
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