Enable ‘GodMode’ in Windows 7
Probably originally intended as a shortcut for developers, Windows 7 provides a way for users to enable a so-called ‘GodMode’. Despite its grandiose name, it’s simply a feature that lets users to access all Control Panel options in a single window.
Download Windows 7 Release Candidate, for Free
Microsoft finally makes Windows 7 Release Candidate freely available for download on May 5 2009. Everyone is invited to download it, try it, test it and makes live a bit easier for the folks at Redmond.
I have to admit, I find it hard to resist the temptation to try it. Windows 7 RC is supposedly good, fast and most importantly has little problem recognizing whatever devices inside our PCs. So, with my Windows XP performance getting slower and slower, I finally convinced myself to get rid of the old bugger and replace it with this shiny, fresh-baked, albeit unfinished brand new bugger.
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ICS Troubleshooting in Windows Vista
I stumble a bit while trying to share my Windows Vista internet connection with a Windows XP machine. I did this steps:
- set the ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) on the Windows Vista machine and
- set the Windows XP machine to connect to the net through the Windows Vista machine.
Everything was fine and the Internet Gateway icon showed up on Windows XP network connection. Except that the Windows XP machine still can’t connect to the net. What to do?
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Suharto, Former Indonesian President, Dies at 86
Innalillaahi wa inna ilaihi raaji’uun…
Suharto, former Indonesian President, dies at 86 today, January 27th 2008 at 13.10 local time.
Indonesia’s former president Suharto dead
Indonesia ex-leader Suharto dies
Suharto, Former Indonesian Dictator, Dies at 86
Things I Like and Dislike about Windows Vista
Windows Vista is a vast improvement over Windows XP, in terms of visual appeal, user interface and security. But Windows Vista also has many problems. After using Windows Vista for a while, I can list a couple of things I like and dislike about Windows Vista.
Things I like about Windows Vista:
1) Better user interface on Windows Vista’s Explorer. New buttons bring formerly obscure features to the front. Much easier and integrated Search feature (no more need for Ctrl+F), new view types (Large Icons and Extra Large Icons) for image browsing and easier to navigate Address bar.
Ubuntu 7.10 – Quick Fixes
As I didn’t have much luck with Ubuntu upgrade, this time I install Ubuntu 7.10, fresh. Still, it doesn’t stop the problems that show up on Ubuntu upgrade. Here are some quick fixes for Ubuntu 7.10:
1) Can’t connect / browse the net
This has something to do with bug #81507. Ubuntu 7.10 activates IPv6 by default and in this case, we need to deactivate IPv6.
gksudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/aliases
Look for a line which contains alias net-pf-10 ipv6. Change it to alias net-pf-10 off.
Save changes. Restart Ubuntu.
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Ubuntu 7.10, One Linux Distro That Just (not quite) Works!
So, it’s been a week since I upgraded my Ubuntu 7.04 to Ubuntu 7.10. The upgrade process was pretty easy. I saw one flashing button on the Update Manager window, telling me to upgrade to Ubuntu 7.10. So I clicked the button and upgrade I did. Some 1.4 GB of download later I restarted the PC and Ubuntu 7.10 was ready to run.
Yippee!
Not quite. The first thing that instantly bothered me was that I could no longer browse the Internet! What the hell!? I mean, there always be a bug or two… hundreds. But being unable to connect to the net is just too much for a bug. I played for a while with my network setting before I decided to go to Google for some helps. But of course, the internet connection was no longer there, so I was forced to switch to Windows XP to do just that. Talk about irony 
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A Google Gift: PageRank Penalty
It was October 24th 2007 and Big Brother Google gave me a gift: a PageRank penalty. For whatever reason(s) one of my site’s PR was demoted from PR 6 to PR 4. I said to myself, “Here it comes.”
For months I’ve been troubled by Matt Cutts — head of the Google’s WebSpam team — posts, here and here, and Google’s ‘advice’ for for us webmasters to use nofollow tag to stop comment spammers. In summary, Google wants us to use nofollow tag for every paid links on our sites. Sounds fair enough. Google wants to minimize people gaming the whole link-for-vote system. But here comes the question: “How in the world Google can automatically tell between natural and paid links?” The answer is: No, it can’t. Faced with a simple <a href> HTML code, not even a manual review can tell the difference. This lack of clarity would set any webmasters into paranoia mode. Should we now put nofollow tag on every link lest we risk a special visit from the Big G?
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Anonymous Browsing with TOR in Ubuntu
It’s been awhile since I read Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents, an online book about how to stay anonymous on the net. On countries with dismal human right records, anonymous browsing is as vital as breathing. That, or perhaps you just want to lurk around below radar.
The book teaches several methods to keep a person anonymous on the net. The simplest one of them is to use TOR or The Onion Router. So, what is TOR and how to use it?
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