But one day, the company could “open source” the code that underpins the OS—giving it away for free. So says Mark Russinovich, one of the company’s top engineers.
“It’s definitely possible,” Russinovich says. “It’s a new Microsoft.”
Lately I been using PGP more and more… and I wanted to have my portable application on a flash drive where I could carry all of the private and public keys (of course that if I loose my flash drive, I am at risk – I know that). But, there is really not good documentation that walks through a first time user on how to accomplish this. So, here is my attempt to those first time users on how to do it.
Google voice has been out for quite a while now. There are pros and cons, just like everything else, but I think that one of the benefits about this system is that allows you to make calls without the Google Voice software. This means that you will not need an app installed on your iPhone or Android device. In order to do this, you will need to have your settings on your Google Voice account setup correctly.
Setup
Once you have followed all of those instructions then you are ready to use Google voice on your phone without the application. All you will need to do is to dial the following from your phone… 1235556666,,2,9998887777#
At this point the receiver (the person who you are calling) will get Google voice number as the caller ID and you will be using Google voice number to place your call.
Not until today that I found the right article to be able o stream from my iTunes to any of my apple devices. Previously any time that I tried to make such a research, I found a bunch of apps that you would need to pay for and do some configuration on your PC or Mac. Well, the article below will go over that you can do such a sharing for free by just using Apple “Home Sharing”. … and let me tell you, it works slick!!! I was able even to stream my >15k songs to my devices :).
I’ve tested the steps form 5 through 9 using the Music app as well from my device. The only difference is is that you would have to click on “More” to make the switch from sharing library to local library on the device.
Unfortunate news 🙁 … last night I received the following communication below, stating that the famous packaging tracking system will be shutting down. I’ve been a fan of TrackThePack since it came out, and I think it definitely helped me tracking all the packages into one place.
Hi there,
I’m bummed to be writing this email, but here we are.
As of March 31, 2013, TrackThePack (Personal, Pro and Commercial versions) will be shut down.
That means no more packages will be trackable and our servers will be unreachable on that date. 🙁
Nearly 7 years ago, what started as me scratching my own itch for a toy business I was running, has turned in to an incredibly useful tool that’s touched the internet lives of ten’s of thousands of users and millions of packages. Unfortunately, the economics of it all just don’t add up for us from a business perspective
Alternatives for tracking all of your packages in one place:
Slice (what I’ve switched to)
FaraI appreciate all of you giving TrackThePack a go over the years and taking the time to use and provide feedback.
If you have any questions at all, please don’t hesitate to reply to this email and ask. I’m still here to help.
Josh Pigford
@Shpigford
Try the other versions and I hope that you get the same if not a better experience.
Things are changing!!! How many of you like changes? Probably not that many, right? Microsoft has decided to actually migrate their Hotmail infrastructure to Outlook Web. Not to confuse the Outlook native application.
Assuming that your internal firewall is open (this is not the right thing to do BTW). you can open a connection from any IP address to your XAMPP server. This small tutorial will take you through the changes that you will need to do in order to be able to access XAMPP host and MySQL remotely.
for Apache go to the following line “c:\xampp\apache\conf\extra\httpd-xampp.conf” and do a search for “<LocationMatch”. Once you find it, make a change to the “Deny from all” to have a # in front of it. See code below.
<LocationMatch "^/(?i:(?:xampp|security|licenses|phpmyadmin|webalizer|server-status|server-info))"> Order deny,allow #Deny from all Allow from ::1 127.0.0.0/8 ErrorDocument 403 /error/XAMPP_FORBIDDEN.html.var
Now the next thing is to fix MySQL
Once you find the “my.cnf/my.ini” file, open it up and find the line that has “[mysqld]”. Under that set of line add skip-name-resolve. This should fix the issue. Note that once you enable this, you might have some issues if you are trying to login on MyPHPAdmin. See code for example.
# The MySQL server [mysqld] port= 3306 socket= "C:/xampp/mysql/mysql.sock" basedir="C:/xampp/mysql" tmpdir="C:/xampp/tmp" datadir="C:/xampp/mysql/data" pid_file="mysql.pid" skip-external-locking key_buffer = 16M max_allowed_packet = 1M table_cache = 64 sort_buffer_size = 512K net_buffer_length = 8K read_buffer_size = 256K read_rnd_buffer_size = 512K myisam_sort_buffer_size = 8M log_error="mysql_error.log" skip-name-resolve
Sources:
Apache Friends Support Forum • View topic – How to access XAMPP from external adress
XAMPP MySQL Server Remote Access
MySQL: Can’t get hostname for your address
If you ever have issues when re-installing office on your mac by getting this error
There is a problem with the Office database
Office might be unable to access the database or the database file might be damaged. Without the database, you might be unable to use the Address Book, Scrapbook, and other features that store your personal information.
To rebuild the database, open Microsoft Office 2008/Office, and then open the Microsoft Database Utility. For more information, open the Database Utility application, and on the Help menu, click Database Utility Help.
The section below will help you solve it!!!
Deleting “Main Identity” only did not help me. Here is how I solved
it:
1- Deleted “Microsoft User Data” folder under Documents
2- Deleted all com.microsoft.* under ~/Library/Preferences
3- Deleted Microsoft folder under ~/Library/Preferences
I then re-ran Office Setup Assistant, and problem solved.
via Microsoft Office 2008 Database Problem – The macosxhints Forums.
Even curios what makes your credit score? Below you will be able to find an image with what exactly makes your credit score. Pretty interesting, eh!
Source: FICO Credit Score Chart: How credit scores are calculated.
Have you ever lost/misplace your phone? Well, now is the time where there is an awesome app that you can use to remotely control your phone. When I say remotely, I really mean it. So far I have tested almost all of its features and it works pretty slick!!!