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Project: Declutter your desk

Been a while since my last post.

Take a look at how we can tidy up our office with the wires around.
Something that my future techie can take on as a project.

http://www.decluttered.com/

I am thinking of putting a peg-board on the wall in front of the techie table.
put all our tools and cables there.

Norton Internet Security 2008

I think its time to drop Trend Micro Internet Security 2007 and 2008, go with Norton Internet Security 2008 for the time being until Trend decided to do something about their resource hungry application...

Reviews: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2180639,00.asp

Accessing Linux Server or Samba Share (NAS) on Vista PC

Our engineer found the 'fix' to be able to fix the problem with access to SMB share on Linux from Vista...

Connect to Samba Share

1- Start - Run - Regedit
2- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControl... l\Lsa
3- Double click "LmCompatibilityLevel", and change the value from 0 "Default" to 1
4- Restart your computer.

Chinese Star XP configuration...

If your Chinese Star XP, something i dont really like on my PC, somehow changes the default menu texts to chinese character, kindly do the following:



Thank God for XP Chinese Support. for more information on how to enable this, go to our manual on the server.

MSN Vundo Virus

My colleague notebook was infected with the latest MSN virus.
Vundo it is called. I tried Vundo Fix, none of antivirus can fix it.
None of the removal kits can remove it either.
I had to boot up using Windows PE or Hire 85 boot CD and removed the virus manually file by file.

If the file is killme.dll, then we have to remove emllik.dll, .BAK and so on.

After our removal of virus, we realized that Paste and network connections are disabled. Somehow the virus crippled the PC. We had to do a System Ghost imaging, and format the system to get it fixed...

MSN users, please beware..

Pretty Cool Magic Tricks in Windows XP

this is pretty cool... haha ! !! enjoy

MAGIC #1
An Indian discovered that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere on the
computer which can be named as "CON". This is something pretty cool...and
unbelievable... At Microsoft the whole Team, couldn't answer why this
happened!
TRY IT NOW ,IT WILL NOT CREATE " CON " FOLDER

---- explanation -----
“CON” is a system name for Console in MS-DOS. It is just like you can’t create folders like LPT1, COM1, etc. Or Nul. During Windows 95 and 98, you can crash a system with these commands.
And it also shows that Windows XP is still based on MS-DOS codes. 
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MAGIC #2
For those of you using Windows, do the following:

1.) Open an empty notepad file
2.) Type "Bush hid the facts" (without the quotes)
3.) Save it as whatever you want..
4.) Close it, and re-open it.

is it just a really weird bug? :-??

MAGIC #3
Microsoft¡¯s crazy facts

This is something pretty cool and neat...and unbelievable... At Microsoft
the whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn't answer why this happened!

It was discovered by a Brazilian.. Try it out yourself...

Open Microsoft Word and type

=rand (200, 99)

And then press ENTER
then see the magic................................