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01
Aug 10

Reset toshiba laptop to factory settings

if you have a  Toshiba Satellite L300 and you would like to restore the system to factory settings (meaning back to the way it was when you first bought it) below you will be able to find the instructions on how to do it.

To reinstall your laptop to the factory settings / “out of the box” settings, please follow these steps. It worked for me, and should work for you.

ALL DATA WILL BE ERASED ON YOUR HARD DRIVE IF YOU PROCEED. YOU WILL NEED TO ENSURE THAT YOU HAVE THE POWER ADAPTER PLUGGED IN. DO NOT SWITCH OFF OR RESTART YOUR COMPUTER DURING THIS PROCESS.

1) Hold down the power button for 10 (ten) seconds to switch off your machine.

Please note: Holding down the power button on the machine forces it to switch off. Any unsaved data will be lost.

2) Press and hold the 0 (zero) key and at the same time, tap the power button once to switch on your notebook.

3) When the machine Starts beeping; release the 0 key.

4) When prompted by the warning screen; select Yes to continue with the system recovery.

5) Select Recovery of Factory Default Software; click Next.

6) Select Recover to out-of-box state. Click Next again.

7) Click Next to Start recovery.

Source and credit to=> Reset toshiba laptop to factory settings [Solved].

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22
Jun 10

Twitter / Over capacity

Twitter whale over loaded

even the big URL’s get over loaded/over capacity!!!  i like how they make people note that it is ok to have a server full of people and not enough bandwidth for the people that are connected to the server.

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21
Jun 10

Windows blue screen even on virtual machines

if you thought that blue screens are only on regular windows boxes…. you are wrong!!! yesterday i just experience  a blue screen on my windows virtual machine (vm).  i am currently running ubuntu 10.04 and have windows xp pro on my virtual machine.  apparently the vm got stock on a process with a infinite loop.  isn’t that something…. only on the windows journey.

vboxdisp

Virtual Machine Blue Screen of Death

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17
Jun 10

Apple apologizes for iPhone 4 ordering fiasco – Computerworld

apple ran out of phones!!! that is kind of embracing for a company like apple.  they should get better at forecasting what people would like to buy and get.

Apple apologizes for iPhone 4 ordering fiasco – Computerworld.

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16
Jun 10

Android vs iPhone

on a recent blog they show a really good graph which it was base on the current smartphone competition.  this included iphone and android phone for the different phone carriers.  i honestly think that android is a better phone, but it is not as popular as the iphone.  the market of the android has definitely increase, but we need to give the android more time to mature and have people more engage to a different phone [perhaps carrier].

http://www.billshrink.com/blog/wp-content/themes/shrink/images/comparisons/iphone4-evo4g-incredible-thumb.jpg

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16
Jun 10

Download AVG and install offline

the other day i was fixing a friend’s computer with no internet connectivity.  his internet was down but not really.  he has a windows pc which it has a virus…… the usual story.  i really couldn’t connect to the internet at all and he did not have any anti-virus.  (good figure :sight:).  so i went to a free anti-virus version (AVG), but i couldn’t figure out how to download the free version as an offline app.  after researching for a awhile i found my path :) .

if you would like to install AVG not from the server (meaning offline installation; in other words not using internet connectivity for the installation) here is the path for the english version.

http://free.avg.com/us-en/download

enjoy :)

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25
Apr 10

untangle linux protecting me from virus

i have been having utangle for a while now and i did not know how useful it was to protect my gateway until today.  out of 52072 files that the clamav antivirus look for 25761 were blocked :o .  that is about 49% of the files that would of probably infect my computer were blocked at the gate making by only windows pc safe.  so, if you are thinking about safety on a windows environment, maybe utangle might be the solution :) .

for more information about untangle visit the following site http://www.untangle.com/.

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04
Jan 10

New York Yankees Planning For Big-Name Future | Bleacher Report

yankees might be thinking about getting big players for their line up :) .

Yankees are one of the very few teams who are always….

via New York Yankees Planning For Big-Name Future | Bleacher Report.

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02
Sep 09

Domain Name Scam

today i just received the most legitimate scam in last year.  is about a domain that i own and they would like purchase.  this has been going around and around for people to purchase appraisals so companies could make some money.  simply report the email as scam to who ever is your email system administrator.
here is the email information:

from Mark Allen (markallen38@gmail.com)
to “you”
subject Offer for your domain domainname.com
mailed-by domainstoreonline.net

also here is how the email comes out like:

We are interested to buy your domain name domainname.com

and offer to buy it from you for 70% of the appraised market value.As of now we accept appraisals from either one of the following leading appraisal companies:

macez.com
sedo.com

If you already have an appraisal please forward it to us.

As soon as we have received your appraisal we will send you our payment (we use paypal for amounts less than $2,000 and escrow.com for amounts above $2,000) as well as further instructions on how to complete the transfer of the domain name.

We appreciate your business,

Yours truly,

Mark Allen

hope that helps reducing the amount of scam in the world!!!

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25
Aug 09

Splitting in Linux and Combining in Windows

i don’t know if you do this on a daily, monthly, yearly, or never basis, but i do some times.  what is it that i do?!

whenever i want to email or upload gigs of information over the net usually takes for ever.  the file might be upload it incorrectly or the file won’t go through because is too big.  well, there are applications out there that you can use in order to be able to split files.  for example, if you are compressing an application using WinRar, it will automatically create *.rar-xxx which it will have your files separated depending on the size that you specified.  well, i believe there is a easier way to be able to perform this.

OK, now lets say that you are using Linux and you would like to split a 1GB file into 100MB files.  the way to do this is using the split command… and it will go like this:

split --bytes=100mb file1 file_

where you will replace file1 with the actual name of the file (e.g. MyFamilyDVD.iso) and file_ will be how the files will be renamed (e.g. MyFamilyDVD.iso_)

now, lets say that you upload these files to a server and your friend download them.  your friend will need the following command in order to be able to combine the files:

cat file_* > file1

where file_* are all the files that were created (e.g. MyFamilyDVD.iso_*) and file1 is the actual name of the file to be created (e.g. MyFamilyDVD.iso).

so, lets say that your buddy doesn’t have Linux and they have Windows instead.  here is the command that they will need in order to combine all of those files.

copy /B file_1+file_2+file_3 file1

where file_1+file_2+file_3 (e.g. MyFamilyDVD.iso_*)will be all the files created and file1 will be the actual name of the file to be created. the bad thing in windows is that you won’t be able to use the asterisk and you will need to type file per file.

any ways i hope this helps!!!