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VGN-TZ180N Laptop: Matshita UJ-850S CD/DVD RW Drive Not Showing Under My Computer Running Windows XP

InsightsBy alexFebruary 25, 20102 Comments

An issue I had with a clients laptop after reinstalling Windows XP was the CD/DVD drive was not displaying underneath My Computer. When inserting a CD into the drive you could hear the drive spin up but the drive never displayed underneath Windows XP My Computer window. Initially I thought the issue could be resolved…

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Sony VGN-TZ180N: Display Not Filling Entire Screen In Windows XP, Resolution Max Is 1024×768

InsightsBy alexFebruary 25, 2010Leave a comment

A client recently had me reinstall Windows XP on their Sony Vaio VGN-TZ180N laptop. There were lots of driver issues after installing Windows XP Professional that were mostly resolved by downloading various drivers from Sony’s support site for the laptop. One that caused me a bunch of problems because I assumed it was related to…

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Prevent Framebuffer Terminal from Going to Sleep

InsightsBy purehateFebruary 25, 2010Leave a comment

I’m back with another short post. Today I was adding a screen to one of my racks and I wanted it to display data such as a top session or something of that nature. They are servers so there is no X-server. I got the screen all hooked up and running they way I wanted…

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svn: Syntax error parsing revision using svn+ssh

ErrorsBy purehateFebruary 24, 20101 Comment

I was trying to check out from one of my project repositories this morning and I kept getting the below error. I have never had this problem before and it drove me insane for about 1 hour. I just could not figure out what the problem was because the same repository was working just fine…

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ERROR: Error installing webrat: Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of necessary libraries and/or headers.

ErrorsBy alexFebruary 23, 20102 Comments

One of my tasks today at work was to install numerous Ruby gems on a couple of our development servers. One of those gems was called webrat which is used for “Ruby acceptance testing and for web applications”. When I attempted to install webrat using “gem install webrat” from a Linux shell I received some…

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The Social Engineering Toolkit: Creating Fake Web Sites to Own Boxes

InsightsBy purehateFebruary 23, 201041 Comments

One of the hottest new tools in Backtrack 4 final is the Social Engineering Toolkit otherwise known as SET. The tool was written by a major contributor to Backtrack, David Kennedy (ReL1k). He is also a friend.  The homepage for SET is http://www.secmaniac.com/ and there is more useful information there.

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How To Manually Remove XP Antispyware 2010

InsightsBy purehateFebruary 22, 201011 Comments

I ran into a interesting virus today at work. It was another one of those “buy this to get rid of this” type programs which are pretty common but this was one I hadn’t seen before. It was particularly nasty to get rid of so I thought I would make a short post in case…

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Obtain iTunes Linkshare Affiliate ID By Using The Linkshare Web Site To Generate Affiliate Product Links

InsightsBy alexFebruary 22, 20101 Comment

I have seen the question many times about how to obtain your iTunes Linkshare affiliate ID using the Linkshare web interface. Part of the problem appears to be that there is some confusion about generating the iTunes product links using the LinkShare web interface. Below is a quick step by step guide about how to…

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How To Find Out How Much Disk Space Is Available On A Mac Running OSX

InsightsBy alexFebruary 21, 20101 Comment

Earlier I was installing some applications on my little sisters Macbook Pro and needed to verify how much disk space was available. I was installing numerous applications and I wasn’t sure how large her hard drive was or how much space she had already used. Below is a brief explanation on how to find out…

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