
India unveils prototype of $35 computer, paving way for solar-powered websurfing in villages – Yahoo! Canada News.
Glad to hear that some people are working in this direction, one’s at a conference on Afria, a person asked, “why is it that the people that needs it the most have it the least?” well cheers to Linux and the open source community! Make it stable and reliable!
Posted on July 24th 2010 in
IT/ Network Admin,
news update
French scientists crack secrets of Mona Lisa – Yahoo! Canada News.

We come from an era of great artists who could do so much with so little to a period where we spend so much to marvel on the past. What becomes of our today’s artists ? do they go so cheap or is there any hope for them to ever be recognized ? Or is it that in 100 years, if there is still human on earth, they will be looking back at the iPhone and the Androids as historical breakthrough of the past???
Posted on July 19th 2010 in
Personal,
news update

Haven’t you tried the beta version of the freephone line? awesome look, much cleaner and stable when using multiple device connections.
Posted on June 27th 2010 in
IT/ Network Admin,
news update
I’ve some job coming up where I’ll have to reconfigure a few DHCP servers. GUI interface is great but when you have a lot to do and you don’t want to miss anything, it’s better to have a script ready and check for all configs required. Microsoft somehow got that and moving on with a “core” version for in its 2008 server. Time to really make use of the new “black and white – non-graphical” technology!!
| netsh dhcp server |
<serverip> |
add scope |
<scopeip> |
<scopesubnet> |
“<ScopeName>” |
“<Scopedescription>” |
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| netsh dhcp server |
<serverip> |
Scope |
<scopeip> |
add iprange |
<start ip> |
<last ip> |
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| netsh dhcp server |
<serverip> |
Scope |
<scopeip> |
add excluderange |
<startexcludeip> |
<last exclude ip> |
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| netsh dhcp server |
<serverip> |
Scope |
<scopeip> |
set optionvalue 003 |
IPADDRESS |
“<router IP>” |
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| netsh dhcp server |
<serverip> |
Scope |
<scopeip> |
set optionvalue 006 |
IPADDRESS |
“<DnsSvr1>” |
“<DnsSvr2>” |
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| netsh dhcp server |
<serverip> |
Scope |
<scopeip> |
set optionvalue 015 |
string |
“Domain Name” |
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| Netsh dhcp server |
<serverip> |
Scope |
<scopeip> |
set optionvalue 051 |
DWORD |
86400 |
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| netsh dhcp server |
<serverip> |
Scope |
<scopeip> |
set state |
1 |
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| netsh dhcp server |
<serverip> |
Scope |
<scopeip> |
add reservedip |
<reserve ip> |
<mac-address> |
“<reservename>” |
“<reserveDescription>” |
“BOTH” |
| netsh dhcp server |
<serverip> |
Scope |
<scopeip> |
add reservedip |
<reserve ip> |
<mac-address> |
“<reservename>” |
“<reserveDescription>” |
“BOTH” |
| netsh dhcp server |
<serverip> |
Scope |
<scopeip> |
add reservedip |
<reserve ip> |
<mac-address> |
“<reservename>” |
“<reserveDescription>” |
“BOTH” |
| netsh dhcp server |
<serverip> |
Scope |
<scopeip> |
add reservedip |
<reserve ip> |
<mac-address> |
“<reservename>” |
“<reserveDescription>” |
“BOTH” |
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- Copy paste in spreadsheet, update all <..> as required.
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Copy paste to a text file,
- save as a .BAT, execute wherever with proper permissions.
- save to a single file and run using the C:\>netsh exec filename.txt command from the command line.
NB: Option value: 3=ROUTER ; 6=DNS ;15=Lease time; 51=Domain Name;
Posted on June 25th 2010 in
IT/ Network Admin
Nice ride around Erindale park this summer.. and really like the Smooth Gallery of NextGen.
Posted on June 25th 2010 in
Personal,
Photo
Pretty easy actually, noting that I’ve upgraded from WPMU 2.9 with just 2 sites and running Apache with XAMPP. For the windows IIS users, hmmm… I’ll have to figure it out later at work. But with mod_rewrite enable in httpd.conf and .htaccess already reconfigured on upgrade, that was easy.. The only hiccup was the thumbnails in the secondary blogs were not showing up although the path and files were correct. WordPress does give a note that
“The wp-content/blogs.php file is deprecated. Please remove it and update your server rewrite rules to use wp-includes/ms-files.php instead.”
What it actually means is that you have to edit .htaccess under the root folder and change
“RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/(.*) wp-content/blogs.php?file=$2″
For
“RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/(.*) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$2″
Quite evident really but sometime you just have to know these things…
Posted on June 22nd 2010 in
IT/ Network Admin,
LAMP-sites
It’s been a while since I programmed in PHP/MySQL. The last program I made was to manage the set of IPv4 addresses we have across the different sites we manage. It never really kicked off but the IP calculator I made is pretty handy. I know there are quite a few, with more features out there on the Internet but I like mine, simple and for people who know what they are looking for. This site was quite nice because I really got into more details, AJAX features and the usability was quite nice. I hope I find the time to work more on it in the future.
Posted on June 22nd 2010 in
IT/ Network Admin,
LAMP-sites
Always good to know that there are tools out there help you test your MS Exchange server connectivity.
https://www.testexchangeconnectivity.com
Posted on June 17th 2010 in
Uncategorized
Windows 7 seemed to have a bug when it came to reading PDF files in the preview handler, in Windows Explorer Itself and in Outlook. Found the fix on MSOutlook.info
This should work directly on a 32-bit version of Windows with the latest version of Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat installed. Sadly, the installer from Adobe does not write the correct registry setting to also enable the previewer on a 64-bit version of Windows.
To fix this registry issue, you can download the fix. It will add the following registry entry;
Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Classes\CLSID\{DC6EFB56-9CFA-464D-8880-44885D7DC193}
Value name: AppID
Value type: REG_SZ
Value: {534A1E02-D58F-44f0-B58B-36CBED287C7C}
Note: This will also enable the PDF Preview feature in Windows Vista and Windows 7 itself.
Posted on June 9th 2010 in
IT/ Network Admin
I will sound a bit old-fashioned but my favorite word editor is and has always been “NOTEPAD”. It is way easier and less distracting that having to click a dozen times to get to the editor and get used to all the button/bars which changes from one page to another… I like the new Office 2010 (with the hidden ribbon), and the ability to publish directly with all the easy editing features is the icing on the cake.

HOW TO ??
http://www.screencast.com/users/absando/folders/Jing/media/2009773c-0bf6-4064-a528-e1918f5589f2
Posted on June 9th 2010 in
IT/ Network Admin,
LAMP-sites