Solved - Dell Studio 1535 Keyboard Issues
When a keyboard misbehaves, it is maddening. My Studio 1535 keyboard has been getting worse and worse the last few days for no apparent reason. Basically, keys get stuck down or refused to work at all. I’m talkin’ bout many keys just not working right, over 10 of them. I figured it was too early for a replacement keyboard – I’ve replace Dell laptop keyboards before, but that was after 3 years of use, not 18 months.
Using the internet, I found a possible fix. It didn’t make any sense, but I needed to try something since it was impossible to type with the issue.
It worked. I’m typing as fast as ever now after taking the following steps.
Pondering File Transfer Speeds 1
I move files around my network alot. Most of the time, these transfers are between wired GigE connected systems and are limited by disk performance, not the network. It is good and fast. Multi-gigabyte files transfer in seconds.
However, there are some tools that only work on Windows and my only Windows machine is a WiFi (G) connected laptop. Yes, I can wire it into the GigE network and see huge transfer speeds only limited by the laptop disk drive, but that is usually not how I do it. Yes, I use WiFi for convenience.
Why is 1 tool 2x faster than others? Why?
Virtualization Primer Found
I came across a virtualization primer
KVM is what Ubuntu 9.10 and later support natively thanks to the additions by the Linux Kernel team. For this reason alone, it makes sense for almost all Linux power users to take a look at KVM as a hypervisor, Dom0, as it were.
Linux Media Server with miniDLNA 3
I received a WD TV Live, TVL, for Christmas to replace my aging MediaGate MG35 network media player. The MG35 is still working and has a nice GUI, but doesn’t support many of the newer media file formats like x264, mkv or high definition content. Also, the MG35 requires anonymous access via samba to the media. I’ve locked it down by IP, but would rather have userid/password controls.
Install miniDLNA instructions below.
32 Million Passwords - Most Bad
Passwords are boring. Knowing how to choose a good password has been covered here and elsewhere many, many times. Yet, most people still don’t choose good passwords.
Today, we’ll take a different view of passwords. What are bad passwords by looking at results from actual passwords used by real people on a web site with 32 million users. The source article.
Top 20 Passwords Used Ranked
How to Reset Adito Passwords 3
The Adito administrator has control over whether users may change their passwords or not. In some situations, an administrator may decide to prevent password changes, so the user may not see that option at all.
If you can’t locate the password reset in the web interface, contact your VPN administrator and ask whether it is possible to change the password with your level of Adito VPN access. Otherwise, the password reset function isn’t hidden.
This article was written based on search results from web search engines.
Computer As an Alarm or Timer - XFCE4
What
You’d like to use your Linux computer as an alarm clock, egg timer, or just to remind you of things beyond what a calendar program or cron or at support.
How
The best solution depends on your selected OS and window manager. I am currently using xfce4 as my window manager. That means I’ll look for a solution that docks with the xfce WM. xfce4 timer is the name of the program. I suspect GNome and KDE and LDXE have their own alarm/timer programs.
Solved: Clock Time Loss Under Windows7 and Vista 2
How to solve this
There are many ways to solve this issue. This is just the one I used based on my experience and expertise. I didn’t use this complex solution initially, it was only after all other solutions attempted failed, badly. My Windows Vista and Win7 computers were losing 2 minutes a day. After the first attempt to correct it with daily time sync, is was still losing about a minute, which was impacting some scheduled events. 1 minute off matters when someone else sets the start and end schedule.
Stolen Laptop, What Now?
I saw a headline about stolen laptops here and thought I’d mention my methods before reading the other article.
Before Stolen Laptop
The most important stuff happens before your laptop is stolen, but you need to do it. It isn’t automatic.
New VISA Credit Cash Back Scam Email
Well, I’ve arrived. Seems besides winning the European, Spanish, Hong Kong, Singapore, and world wide lotteries, I’ve also won 10% cash back from VISA every month. I just need to enroll by clicking on a web link. Sweet!
