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Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Replacing a mobile home water heater with a normal one.

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How to Replace a mobile home water heater with a 'normal' one. 1. Remove power (or turn off the gas). 2. Turn off water (Likely f...
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Tuesday, December 21, 2010

PHP website attacks

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I looked at our logs recently and was surprised that the normal visitors had jumped from 250 a day to 550 on one day.  Then I checked the er...

Asus EEE disassembly / teardown / crack open

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How to disassemble the Asus EEE. To start with remove the battery and find the four catches located under the battery. Unlock them and th...
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Thursday, December 16, 2010

Internet Security Suite - Fake Anti-virus

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Well I just ran across a new version of the old fake anti-virus software.  This one did not even attempt to stop me from installing MalWareB...

Windows Server 2008 taken down by Windows Updates

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This morning Sage ACT was down when I arrived at work.  They had been trying to get the Windows 2008 server to work to no avail.  I logged i...
Monday, December 13, 2010

MP4 player Dissembled

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Last year for Christmas I bought some tiny MP-4 players on Ebay.  Unfortunately most of them died after about a month of use.  One sat aroun...
Thursday, December 2, 2010

Another Fake Antivirus - ThinkPoint

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There is a new fake anti-virus out there.  It is not as 'tricky' as some of the older ones, as it can be defeated with out doing a l...
Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Kodak Camera Repair

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Recently I was given a Kodak camera that was a few months old but was not working.  It had fallen off a chair and that fall had rendered it ...
Monday, November 29, 2010

Facebook is infected once again

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There is a new Facebook virus going around.  The biggest giveaway is that it uses shortened links.  The messages refer to a video of you or ...
Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Gateway W350a Laptop Conversion from vista to XP

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My dad’s Old laptop was running Windows Vista and true to form doing anything with it was a pain in the butt.  So I upgraded it to Windows X...
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Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Interlocking laminate flooring

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I used tiles to do the floor in the master bedroom.  The floor tiles have several problems.  They require luan to be put down first to be gl...
Friday, October 29, 2010

Ban Java!

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Some others are picking up on something I have been saying for years... "Microsoft reports 'unprecedented wave' of Java malware...
Friday, October 22, 2010

Massive web site infections or false positives?

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Are there many infected web sites including most twitter shortened links and Alexa.com? Either that or BitDefender is having a lot of false...
Wednesday, October 20, 2010

IPCop with Block Out Traffic - BOT

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Installing BOT on IPCop is not for the 'faint at heart'. It takes some time because by default it blocks all traffic. Secondly the...

Act causing a continuous reset

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Sage Act likes to cause computers to continuously reset and restart.  There is a simple, quick fix for the problem by using MsConfig in saf...
Monday, October 18, 2010

UDP Port 8881 Virus - A BitDefender 2011 problem

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UPDATE: This is a BitDefender 2011 problem - Disable P2P file sharing in the Bitdefender 'updates' section to fix it.  This is shoc...
Thursday, October 14, 2010

Rear Projection Setup

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I have seen a church allot 30 feet behind the projection screen for a rear projection setup. this is unnecessary all you need is a mirror. ...
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IPCop Revisited once again...

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There are ongoing problems with Snort IDS not updating on IPCop.  So I thought I would try out Smoothwall instead.  Smoothwall installed muc...
Wednesday, October 13, 2010

New Virus Infection

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There are a lot of fake, virus infected, Linkedin emails going around.  Supposedly this virus might have come from just viewing a profile o...
Monday, October 11, 2010

Free Instant Keyword Analyzer Tool

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Google no longer pays any attention to the 'keywords' meta tag on your web site. Instead they do an analysis of your web site to fi...
Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Hawking WIFI Antenna

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I recently purchased a Hawking Antenna. It was really cheap because it rattled. That was because the antenna mount was slightly broken and...
Friday, October 1, 2010

EDUP USB wireless adapter drivers

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I recently purchased one of these tiny EDUP wireless adapters on EBay.  First of all they advertise them as 'high power' but they ar...
Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Better Business Bureau to the rescue

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First of all let me warn you.  You have 30 days to get Verizon Internet working or you are stuck with a $160 disconnect fee even if it does ...
Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Ode to AVG

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AVG was my favorite anti virus program for years.  I converted a place where I worked to using it after it found as many as 2 virus' on ...
Thursday, September 16, 2010

Outlook error 550/Administrative prohibition fix.

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MS Outlook sometimes comes up with a error 550, Administrative prohibition, or 0x800CCC69 error message.  It has to do with proper authenti...
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Monday, September 13, 2010

Update on my predictions for this century

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Back around 2000 I made several predictions as to what will happen in this century. http://sites.google.com/site/bobdavis321/my predictio...
Tuesday, September 7, 2010

WordPress - Clean up your Database!

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I was working on our WordPress database looking for an error in one of the posts.  While using a PHP based SQL editor I discovered that ever...
Tuesday, August 31, 2010

My computer is slowing to a crawl once again

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My computer is slowing down to a crawl once again and it is because Windows update is running every five minutes.  Or maybe I should title t...
Monday, August 30, 2010

Camping at Allegany State Park

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We just got back from camping at Allegany State Park.  The blue roof on the main building was just underlayment for a slate roof. I spott...
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