Does your sound playback works, but can’t get your mic to work in Skype for Linux? The solution is rather straight forward. For some reason the capture devices in the ALSA sound mixer are muted by default. Easy to fix (if you know how): Open Mixer Press button “Select Controls” Check “Capture 1” and “Capture […]
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Transitioning to a Google Apps account
Last month I wrote about migrating from a personal Google account to a Business Google Apps account. Google, however, doesn’t provide the tools to do such a thing easily. Or do they? Resources worthwhile checking out: Google NL employer trying to do the same thing in July 2011: http://www.filiwiese.com/transitioning-to-a-google-apps-account/ Gmail backup: http://code.google.com/p/got-your-back/ Update March 30th […]
Notebook BIOS Master Password?
Got a few laptops here with a BIOS passwords on them. I know there are lists of notebook bios master passwords. I also know miracles can be performed by removing the CMOS battery, but I’m looking for those lists! Who can help me? Related posts: Top 5 Patchmanagement Cloud Software solutions for IT system managers […]
Autostart Unity in VMware Player
Remember this blogpost about creating a Free XP mode with Windows 7? Well it works, but not with trying to get Unity to autostart Resources used (and doesn’t work): http://groups.google.com/group/macenterprise/msg/d66e4abd1ce62803?pli=1 I wonder if there’s a solution. Who can tell me? Related posts: F*CK !!! public_html/megla.txt – “hacked by megla akash from Team_CC” – TROUBLESHOOT
Removing ING mebroot virus
If a mebroot variant has infected your system, then your registry and legitimate Windows files are also compromised. System Restore can reinstate clean system files by restoring the configuration to an earlier date. If you still have a restore point created before you got infected with Boot.Mebroot. But … SURPRISE … that — as well as […]
Packard Bell EasyNote Drivers
The folks at Packard Bell are doing a terrific job at supporting their older laptops …. not. Lost your driver CD or recovery image? Then you seem pretty much screwed. Unless … yup! We have the answer! Checkout this FTP site: ftp.download.packardbell.com subdir: NOTEBOOK And you’ll find the Packard Bell drivers Mecca! Including the ancient MIT-LYN01 […]
All my Mac OS X icons disappeared (+ solution)!
Turned on my computer yesterday and to my great surprise all my desktop icons were gone in Mac OS X Snow. Odd! Didn’t care for it much at first; was hoping it would be temporarily glitch of some sort, but this morning same thing again. So did some digging to find a solution for this […]