Unbelievable

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OMG!!!

no body would believe me this but today i found a treasure. yes, a tresuare i said.  well, at least for me. 😉  so’ here is what i found… my VERY FIRST web site that i have ever developed…  and in top of that my VERY FIRST program that i’ve ever developed.  this site i developed it when i was 15 years old along with my program.  this program is gold.

this program is called SSWB (Super Special Web Browser)… guess who came up with the name 😉 and what is does is… BROWSE THE WEB… what do you think it would of done… 🙂 … well, why i’ve developed a browser to navigate the net when in that time we had ie5 or ie6?  well, this web browser is the fastest web browser that you could ever use.  even faster than mozilla firefox and i am not kidding.  but, security wise… mmmnnnn, i really do not know.  i didn’t care at that age.

if want to take a look at my page you are more than welcome to go and visit the following link first web site.

if you want to download SSWB all you have to do is to click on the following link Super Special Web Browser.  here is some description from the program “this is like internet explorer, but i create this program (browser), for search specifics things. This browser don’t store, links on the address bar.”  this program was developed in Visual Basic 6 and it was meant to work with windows 98 and ME,  but it is compatible with XP.  just tested 😉

oh! and by the way… sorry for all the grammar errors 🙂 i didn’t mean to write that bad then and now.  enjoy my first program of VB.

Clarke College Athletics Web Site

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well, well, well… clarke college realize that their athletic website looked a little bit out-of-date.  so they upgrade their site doing a parthnership with SIDHelp.  now we finaly look like a D1 school with broadcasting and everything.  if you want more information about this article you could visit the following page Clarke College to Launch New Athletics Web Site Wednesday.  some times i asked my self if i came to clarke at the wrong time.  in order to visit the new site all you have to do is to go to www.clarkecrusaders.com.

Dirty Pictures Found

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so yesterday my girlfriend started to look at my hidden pictures on line and she found a bunch of them back in 1960’s until now.  all i want to say is…

do not judge me for the way i was before, it wasn’t my fault that having a fro was cool… i know i’ve change… now i try to be up to date with the changes in style…

sorry… 😀 those pictures are helarious!!!  here is the link so you can see them Dirty Old Pictures.  by the way, you got to be my friend in order to see them 😀

Facebook Imported Sites

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so i discover yesterday something pretty neat. 😛  what is what i discover?! this wonderful tool developed by Facebook which it allows me to import my RSS to my notes.  so since i have a blog where i post all or at least part of my life, this should go automatically to my facebook notes using RSS.  all i had to do was to link my RSS to the facebook application and everything is ready to go.

before of this i was using wordbook which it was a really neat aplpication as well.  but now since i have this, i guess there will be no more need of using wordbook any more.

Hacked

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so yes, i got hacked in october 24th.  how this happened?  well… i had to open couple of ports so my roommate could play a game.  these ports lead hackers to get into my lan and use my ip address to download illegal items.

so here is my story in short…  i came that day from work and my roommate tell me that there is not internet connection.  i was that is ok… i bet that my isp (internet service provider) is making some changes in order to improve performance.  so i wait until next day to call and get my internet fix.  when i called my isp tell me that i was flagged down.  i ask flagged down with what?  they told me that my ip was registed by downloading illegal documents online.  when i asked the time that this happened, they told me that it happened at 12:15am CST.  when i check my firewall i saw that there was some ip addresses that were trying to hack my server and i report those ip addresses to my isp in order to improve this virtual system from hackers.

Installing Tor in Ubuntu Hardy

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before i show you how to install tor in ubuntu hardy, i am going to explain a little bit what exactly tor is.

Tor is a software project that helps you defend against traffic analysis, a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security. Tor protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world: it prevents somebody watching your Internet connection from learning what sites you visit, and it prevents the sites you visit from learning your physical location. Tor works with many of your existing applications, including web browsers, instant messaging clients, remote login, and other applications based on the TCP protocol.

Retrieved from torproject.org

So if you want more information go and visit torproject.org and you will be able to answer all your questions.  so now lets go and install tor in ubuntu.

Steps:

  1. Open your “Terminal” and type “sudo apt-get install tor”
  2. after tor is installed now you will need to install privoxy.  for that you will need to go to this page and download you system architecture version (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=11118&package_id=35042&release_id=627607).  in my case is privoxy_3.0.10-1_i386.deb.after having both programs install now is all about configuration of just one of them ;).
  3. now, on your “Terminal” make a copy of the configuration file from privoxy folder. in my case would be “sudo cp /etc/privoxy/config /etc/privoxy/config-backup”
  4. make a new file with “sudo nano /etc/privoxy/config”
  5. paste the following information:
    ”
    # Generally, this file goes in /etc/privoxy/config
    #
    # Tor listens as a SOCKS4a proxy here:
    forward-socks4a / 127.0.0.1:9050 .
    confdir /etc/privoxy
    logdir /var/log/privoxy
    actionsfile standard # Internal purpose, recommended
    actionsfile default # Main actions file
    actionsfile user # User customizations
    filterfile default.filter

    # Don’t log interesting things, only startup messages, warnings and errors
    #logfile logfile
    #jarfile jarfile
    #debug 0 # show each GET/POST/CONNECT request
    debug 4096 # Startup banner and warnings
    debug 8192 # Errors – *we highly recommended enabling this*

    user-manual /usr/share/doc/privoxy/user-manual
    listen-address 127.0.0.1:8118
    toggle 1
    enable-remote-toggle 0
    enable-edit-actions 0
    enable-remote-http-toggle 0
    buffer-limit 4096
    ”
    Retrieve from https://wiki.torproject.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/PrivoxyConfig

  6. exit out from the program (nano NOT terminal) and save it.
  7. go to this site to install the tor plug in for firefox.  Tor Plug in.
  8. after firefox is restarted click on the “Tor Disabled” button in the bottom to enable it, and to check that it works properly go to check tor installation.

if it works, congrats.  if it doesn’t sorry.  go back and check this tutorial or go to tor website to get support.

Blackberry and Exchange without Blackberry Enterprise Server

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since february i’ve been a blackberry user.  i really like my black berry pearl 8130, but the only thing that i don’t like at all is the memory.  it is alright, i could live resetting my blackberry so my phone log will not be deleted.  well anyways, sinse i got the blackberry i’ve all my email being send to my blackberry.  now, i am working at this new company and i just configure microsoft exhange.  so guess what?! i would need a blackberry enterprise in order for me to sync my blackberry with an exchange server.  i don’t think that my company would like to pay $2,000 for a blackberry server that will sync my blackberry and theirs.

i started to do some research and i found this web How to set up a Blackberry with Exchange (without using Blackberry Enterprise server) and i tested it but it didn’t work. but, i found a way that you can configure your blackberry and exchange for free and be able to send and receive emails to your blackberry.  it is really easy to do and all you need is to do some research about your phone provider.

Steps:

  1. go to google.com and search for “blackberry webmail sprint”
    just change sprint for your phone provider ex. verizon, alltell, etc.
  2. now you will have bunch of search queries. click on the one that is related to your phone provider in my case is http://bis.na.blackberry.com/html?brand=sprint
  3. login with your user name and password
    if you don’t have. create one.
  4. after you login, click on “Set Up Account”
  5. put your email address and password that you want to setup
  6. then, click next
    wait patiently… until is done TRYING to setup your account
  7. now, click on “I will provide the settings to add this email account.” THEN click “Next”
  8. select either, “This is my personal email account.” OR “This is my work email account.”
    in my case is work email
  9. now this is the part that is tricky. the way i did it was selecting “Outlook® Web Access”.  the reason why i chose that is because my URL of the company is not going to change. so select that one and then click “Next”
  10. now input, the exchange URL, user name, password, email address and mailbox name.  in Exchange, the user name and mailbox name are going to be the same. but, of course this depends on how your Exchange server is setup. in order words, ask your server administrator ;).
  11. then, click “Next”, and congrats you are done ;).

after setting up your blackberry you should receive an emails saying that your blackberry has been compleate configure and you should be receiving emails like in 20 min.  if this didn’t happen, go back and READ CAREFULLY.

Missing HAL.DLL

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last night i was restarting my company’s server (sbs 2003) because i moved couple of big files around and a lot of going on with exchange server.  well, i restarted and 1hr after i could not login remotely.  this morning when i came in i saw this error message on my company’s server screen:

“Winows <<root>>\System32\Hal.dll missing or corrupt: Please re-install a copy of the above file.”

also could appear like:

“Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \system32\hal.dll. Please re-install a copy of the above file.”
“Cannot find \Windows\System32\hal.dll”
“Cannot find hal.dll”

i was like, “Ok, easy fix.”  when i started researching about this problem things got a little bit hairy and ugly :(.  i spend half day trying to fix this problem and i finally got it fix.

first of all, i would like to explain to you what hal.dll does.  hal mean Hardware Abstraction Layer and it is responsable of loading the hardware and other drivers on the computer.  what causes this file to either be missed or corupt it could be hardware problems.  also, missing boot.ini or damage hard drive.

so in order for me to fix this i followed these two steps:
Option 1:

Boot from your CD and follow the directions to start Recovery Console. Then:

Attrib -H -R -S C:\Boot.ini
DEL C:\Boot.ini
BootCfg /Rebuild
Fixboot

Option 2:

Boot from your CD and follow the directions below to start Recovery Console.

Insert the Setup compact disc (CD) and restart the computer. If prompted, select any options required to boot from the CD.
When the text-based part of Setup begins, follow the prompts; choose the repair or recover option by pressing R.

If you have a dual-boot or multiple-boot system, choose the installation that you need to access from the Recovery Console.
When prompted, type the Administrator password. (if you didn’t create one try pressing enter).

At the system prompt, type Recovery Console commands; type help for a list of commands, or help commandname for help on a specific command.

Most likely you will need to expand the file from the CD. The command would be expand d:\i386\hal.dl_ c:\windows\system32\hal.dll. Substitute d: for the drive letter of your CD. Once you have expanded the file type “exit” to exit the Recovery Console and restart the computer.

Retrieved from http://kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_haldll_missing.htm

and it did not work at all.  so i decided to do some more research.  after an hour of research i found out that this problem is some thing that could corrupt my OS if is not done the right way.  so in order for me to fix this problem i decided to repair windows.  if you want to this step you are running the risks of loosing any special data if the setup installation gets corrupts.

Steps:

  1. boot up your OS CD
  2. select install windows
  3. select reinstall windows
  4. then fill out the requested information and then your computer should be back and running like this never happened

if these steps are not well explained you could visit this site and perform those steps one by one at http://pcsupport.about.com/od/operatingsystems/ss/instxprepair1.htm.