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Pentium 4 HDD Configuration

SATA0   – WD1001FALS SATA1   – WD750 PATA PM – ST3750 PATA PS – WD3000 PATA SM – DVDRW PATA SS - None

Having to remove shoes before you enter someone’s house

I have to put this in writing before I forget it over the time. While at work, I got a call from a friend of mine to help him connect to his new ISP. I drove after work to his house and as I approached the main door, I noticed all the shoes being removed and placed at a side. Conscience told me I had to remove the shoes I am wearing. The steel toe shoes I was wearing were strictly indoor and only had house-dirt if you call it that way. I drive to work and I have separate boots to wear during site visits. The shoes came up to my ankle so it took some time for me remove both and finally enter the house. The guy was just waiting at the main door like it was part of normal activity, but *not* for me it was! After I set up the new router it came to the point where I needed the new ISP username and password. Without a surprise he had no idea about it and he said that we will have to go to his cousin’s house to check his email and get the login details from the ISP’s email. I got out of the...

Stereo to Surround in Panasonic SC-HT65

It turns out that no ffdShow setting is necessary. Using the following instructions of the page in SC-HT65 manual, I was able to get stereo to surround upmixing working. https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B0ywocRL7KCFMTE3Y2UzMjYtNGRlNC00MDE5LWJlMWEtNDVlMTZjZjIxMjhk&hl=en

Shark007 and HTPC

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Audio woes with the Media Center PC are finally over with Shark007’s latest Windows 7 Codec Pack. In order to get all my music video files and movie files working, these are the customized settings I would need to apply:   Disabling AC3Filter Passing-through FFDShow and enabling Audio normalization Setting H264 to use FFDShow Using ffdShow is important for MP2/3 and disabling WMF so for TS files with x264 and AAC, no need to remux it using MetaFox to create a MKV file.   We can upscale stereo to mirror the 2 channels in read left/right speakers using this setting: This does not work under SPDIF for some reason.

Thunderbird Multiple Profiles

Similar to Outlook profiles, you can setup multiple outlook profiles using Thunderbird. All it takes is editing the %appdata%Thunderbirdprofiles.ini:  [General] StartWithLastProfile=1 [Profile0] Name=2009 IsRelative=0 Path=C:UsersMihajloDocumentsApplicationsThunderbird2009 [Profile1] Name=2008 IsRelative=0 Path=C:UsersMihajloDocumentsApplicationsThunderbird2008 Default=1

When and when not, things are measured in binary

Hard disk drives HDD sizes are measured by HDD manufactures in decimal . So when they say a HDD is 750 GB in size, they do really mean that it is 750 000 000 000 Bytes. Giga means billion, that’s why. HDD sizes are measured by Windows and Mac (as of writing) in binary. So a 750 GB is shown up as 698.49 in Windows 7 or Mac OS X Leopard. 698.49 is actually 698.49 GiB, but they mistakenly show it as 698.49 GB. This is where the most confusion confusion is coming from. Most Linux distributions, however, show it correctly as 698.49 GiB. RAM Random Access Memory is measured in binary . So they are actually 2 GiB, 4 GiB etc. Manufactures label them incorrectly as GB. Windows and Mac OS X also label them incorrectly as GB. Files File sizes in computers are measured in binary . Windows and Mac OS X measure them in binary but show the decimal unit. Linux does it correctly by measuring in binary and displaying them in binary units also. CDs These are measured in binary by the manufacture...

If Word does not check Spelling

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One more setting to double check: In the “Normal” style, make sure the “Do not check spelling or grammar” checkbox is unchecked.

Multiple connections to a server or shared resource by the same user, using more than one user name, are not allowed!?

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WHY??? [Window Title] Open Folder [Content] \\mike-pc\g$ is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions. Multiple connections to a server or shared resource by the same user, using more than one user name, are not allowed. Disconnect all previous connections to the server or shared resource and try again. [OK]

Latest footage from my Vostro 1510

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The DELL Tech Support person is coming today to replace the Motherboard, LCD and LCD Cable. What are the chances of this not happening again? Never buy DELL again? or Never buy NVIDIA again? Update: some experience problems when watching soapbox video, so here is the same video in YouTube.

Ideas for Windows 8

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Use proper units Rename “KB” to “KiB” Rename “MB” to “MiB” Rename “GB” to “GiB” Rename “TB” to “TiB” etc. http://members.optus.net/alexey/prefBin.xhtml http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html   Enhanced Windows Setup Reuse Users folder If Windows 8 finds a “Users” folder in the partition you are going to install Windows, it will attempt to reuse data inside this folder. For example, if the Users folder has a Mihajlo folder, then it will move all the folders other than the folders listed below, to a folder called Mihajlo.Old.     Later on in the Windows Setup, when you create an account called Mihajlo, new %appdata% etc. folders will be created but all the data folders will be preserved and ready to be used from last install.   This means in other words: Old D:\Users\Mihajlo\AppData is moved to Old D:\Users\ Mihajlo.Old \AppData D:\Users\Mihajlo\AppData will be created new.   The following folders will...

End of µTorrent usage

This is not the first time µTorrent refused to continue seeding completed torrents when my external HDD was temporarily unavailable. Its design makes the torrents take the ‘red cross’ which forces me to recheck each torrent. Having about 200 torrents with over 150 GiB of data, this is a very time consuming task. http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/5342/torrent1822009050621405.png With Vuze, this is not the case. A simple restart of Vuze after the HDD replugged, would make Vuze happily continue seeding torrents. No recheck is necessary. http://i42.tinypic.com/2ikuvlu.png

Outlook mindfucks

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Going from this view: to this view: has no hidden Outlook options involved. It is simply a matter of moving the second vertical splitter leftwards until you see the above view. WTF.

Outlook mindfucks

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Going from this view: to this view: has no hidden Outlook options involved. It is simply a matter of moving the second vertical splitter leftwards until you see the above view. WTF.

Power button action not seen in Start Menu

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Why can’t WLM remember these settings in their servers?

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Everytime I reinstall Windows, I have to go through a routine of customizing WLM settings…   If they can remember the Display Picture and the Personal Status Messages these checkbox settings can’t be that hard.

CNET Top 10 Wireless-N Routers

Netgear WNHDEB111 HD/Gaming 5GHz Wireless-N Networking Kit - 9.3 Linksys WAG160N Wireless-N ADSL2+ Gateway - 8.8 Billion BiPAC 7300N Draft 802.11n ADSL2+/Broadband Router - 8.3 Apple Airport Extreme - 8.1 Belkin N+ Wireless Router - 8.1 DrayTek Vigor2820n ADSL2+ Router - 8.0 Linksys WRT310N Wireless-N Gigabit Router - 7.8 D-Link Xtreme N Duo Media Router DIR-855 - 7.6 NetComm ADSL2+ Wireless Router (NB6Plus4W) - 7.5 D-Link DGL-4500 GamerLounge Xtreme N Gaming Router - 7.3

Relocating Vuze Settings folder

Run CMD as Administrator Assuming you have old settings saved in "H:StandaloneAzureus" Type the following: mklink /d %appdata%Azureus "H:StandaloneAzureus"

Windows Media Player 12 and DiscNumber

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WMP up to version 12 now, still does not support displaying multi-disc albums properly. In this screenshot you will see how tracks from disc 1 and disc 2 are mixed up together.

Dynamic Region Border and Ruler

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Dynamic Crosshair used within a Dynamic Region Border Dynamic Crosshair used within a Dynamic Region Border with a Ruler

foobar2000 : Autoplaylists

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An autoplaylist of ASOT in foobar2000 using can be made using: %genre% IS "Trance/ASOT" AND "$upper($ext(%path%))" IS "CUE" You need Playback Statistics 2.1.7 or higher to get this to work