In Windows 7, as in previous versions, there is the ability to have your machine go into Hibernation or power save mode. Whether this is really a valuable option is really up to the decision of each user. As for me, it’s more of a pain than a benefit. The pain part of it for me is that when your machine goes into hibernation mode it creates a cache file the size of everything in your RAM. So, if you have 4 GB of RAM installed on your machine, it creates a cache file that size. This can take up valuable disk space. Here’s how you can disable and delete that cache file.

Open up the command prompt, you need to run it as the administrator. Type powercfg -h on and press Enter.  Done.

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Here’s a few IT related inquiries I’ve had today, enjoy:

- User: My log-in isn’t working. Me: log-in to what? User: the one I use to log-in.

- User: I have Mozilla FoxFire installed on my home computer…have you ever heard of that? Me: Nope.

-User: Is the system down? Me: Yes, we sent an email out about 5 minutes saying that it was going to be rebooted. User: Oh, that’s what that meant.

- User: (Having some problems with some webpage rendering incorrectly) Me: What browser are you using? User: Uhhhh…Gmail….? Me: Hmm, that’s your email. What icon did you click on to get to the internet? User: Hmm, the same one I always do. Me: Was it a little blue “E”? User: I’m not a real technical person.

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So with Windows 7 Microsoft changed the way you set your default applications. So here is how change your default email application
Here is what you do:

Click on the start thing and open up the control panel.
Select Default Programs and then Set program access and computer defaults.
Click on Custom and under choose your app as the default email program.

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If your Lotus Notes is hanging or causing other errors try putting it into basic mode.  Look below:

Explanation:

This allows customers to install the 8.0.2 Notes Standard client, but launch the Basic client based on a Notes.ini parameter UseBasicNotes=1.

This notes.ini parameter will allow external programs that launch notes, such as a MailTo: URL, or launching an NSF file directly, to launch notes in Basic mode if UseBasicNotes=1 is set in the Notes.ini.

This will allow customers to rollout a single package, but define which users will launch Basic vs Standard via this notes.ini parameter.  For example, if a machine does not meet the hardware requirements of 8.0.2 Standard, but does for Basic, this will allow the client to launch in Basic mode until hardware has been upgraded,

By default, this parameter is not in the notes.ini and will launch the Standard client if it is omitted or set to 0.

Notes.ini parameters can be pushed out via administrative policy, which make it easier for customers to centrally control this feature.

Applies to:

Workstations

Default Value:

0

UI equivalent:

None, although you can specify this setting in the NOTES.INI Settings tab of the Configuration Settings document in the Domino Directory.

Syntax:

UseBasicNotes=0 / 1

Available since:

Lotus Notes/Domino 8.0.2

Obsolete since:

Lotus Notes/Domino x.x.x

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So this past week I’ve been trying to install Adobe Illustrator on a computer. Every time I would try the progress bar would stop about 40% and the CD would stop spinning.  No errors, no warnings, nothing…just a dead stop.  Despite my own best efforts in searching for solutions on line and within the Adobe support forums, nothing was working.  I attempted to contact Adobe support to see if they could shed some light on the issue I was having.  Surely they’ve had other people with the same issue and could at least tell me what the issue might be related to.

If you’ve reached this page looking for the solution, here’s what I did to get the installation to work.  Uninstall all programs by Adobe that you might have installed on the computer: Reader, Flash Player, Acrobat and any shared components.  Then restart the computer and try installing again.  There are some other references that I found that said to try copying the installation files from the install CD to the hard drive of the computer then running the setup.exe.  This didn’t work for me and would error out when I tried to copy the files over.  So, remove all Adobe stuff then restart then try installing.

Any how, I jumped on the Adobe tech support chat.  Here’s how it went:

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I thought you might like this chat I had with adobe sales support today. I had some honest questions in regards to CS5 upgrade and CS5.5.

Here’s the online chat transcript:

Please hold as we route your chat to an Adobe Representative.

Welcome to Adobe.com! My name is Carol. May I assist you with your selection today?

Dan: if I buy CS5 today will I get the 5.5 upgrade free?

Dan: also, I have CS3 but I cannot get it to install, if I buy the upgrade to CS5 will CS5 work?

Carol: Dan, I’m sorry, for delay.

Dan: yeah I’m not thinking too positive of adobe right now so what ever you can do to help me will be appreciated

Carol: Yes, if you purchase CS5 version of the software now, you’ll be getting free uprade to Adobe CS5.5 version of the software.

Dan: ok and what about my 2nd question?

Carol: Not, a problem, if you  can purchase the CS5 upgarde using CS3 version of the software, however you’ll have to  enter the serial key of CS3 version of the sotfware.

Carol: *software.

Carol: Could you please provide me the full name of the software you own?

Dan: adobe creative suite 3 design standard

Carol: Okay.

Carol: Would you be interested in developing website in the near future?

Dan: so I should be OK with just the upgrade?

Carol: Yes, you are correct.

Dan: ok thats all I needed to know.

Carol: Dan, Just to confirm, Would you be interested in developing website in the near future?

Dan: will you be in the market for a new home in the near future?

Carol: I’m sorry, could you please be more specific?

Dan: you’re asking me if I want to buy Dreamweaver. and I’m asking you if you want to buy a home.

Carol: Dan, no, I’m sorry, I cannot afford home. I’m not that rich to buy an home.

Carol: I’m sorry, I wish I could help you on in your business.

Dan: well save your money

Carol: However, I’m sorry, I cannot.

Carol: Sure, thank you.

Carol: Dan, would you wish to develop your own website for your business?

Dan: I already do

Carol: Would you wish to maintain the website, or do you own Dreamweaver?

Dan: I own dreamweaver and you’ll be surprised to hear that I created it using cold fusion

Carol: Ho, yes really I’m surprised!!

Carol: Dan, let me help you with the link to order CS5 version of the design Standard?

Carol: * Dan, let me help you with the link to order CS5 version of the design Standard.

Dan: see here, Adobe makes good products its the installation and the updater that ruins them

Dan: ok lets have the link

Carol: Great.

Dan: I use to be on the adobe community volunteer team but they kicked me out

Carol: Ho, I’m sorry, to here that.

Dan: its ok, they were headed in a direction that I thought wasn’t good

Carol: Please click here to order Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Standard.

Carol: Please go ahead with the order process.

Carol: I’ll standby.

Carol: May be , they got different thought.

Dan: I need to wait to receive approval from management before I can proceed with the order

Carol: If you wish I can standby, if it does not take too much of my time.

Dan: I have emailed them the information in regards to the price of the upgrade

Carol: Ho, okay.

Carol: Dan, did you receive any confirmation form your higher up’s?

Dan: nothing yet

Dan: what office are you in? San Jose?

Carol: Yes,  you are correct.

Dan: I’ve been to that building, very nice

Carol: Thank you, yes it is nice.

Dan: I know a few people that work there

Carol: Dan, that’s good to know.

Carol: Dam, what about the order?

Dan: Kevin Lynch (CIO of Adobe) is a friend of mine

Carol: Okay

Dan: we had swim party once

Carol: Dan, have you received any confirmation, as I cannot stay for long time ona  chat.

Carol: I hope you understand that.

Dan: yeah sure no problem

Dan: I haven’t heard anything back yet

Carol: Okay, Please place the order on the same system on which you are charring with me now.

Carol: If you could do that, this might add on to my performance.

Dan: if you see Kev in passing I would appreciate it if you told him “big D” says hi

Carol: Sure, will inform him about you.

Carol: Is there anything else that I can help you with?

Dan: nope thanks

Carol: Thank you for visiting Adobe.com today!  We’d like to hear your comments.  Please click on the ‘Close’ button in the upper right corner and take a moment to complete a short survey.  Thank you!

Thank you for chatting with us today.

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Found this tutorial on youtube how to’s, embedding Flash and HTML5

How To Embed YouTube Videos In HTML5 And Flash Mode – SoftSailor.

The YouTube video website contains millions of videos and most of them are being embedded to other websites with the Flash videotechnology. This is a great feature of Youtube videos and considering that all theweb browsers contain theAdobe Flash Player plug-in installed and so you are able of watching the embedded Youtube videos without any problems. But, when you’re using your mobile’s web browser the things change, because of the fact that mobile web browsers aren’t capable of understanding the Flash technology. Still, some newer mobile phones received support for HTML5, which is a technology which offers support for playing embedded Youtube videos by using the element, which makes all videos supported on the

mobile phones.

How To Embed Youtube Videos In An IFRAME

If you want your website to be used by both types of web browsers, mobile and desktop-based editions, then you need to embed videos on both Flash and HTML5 formats, and by doing this the PC users can view the Flash video and the mobile users can view th HTML5 video. So, the videos based on the IFRAME embedding code will automatically display FLASH or HTML5 video player, depending on what kind of web browser you’re using. This is done because the IFRAME automatically knows what type of browser or OS that you use and so it will use the HTML5 embedding code for mobile web browsers and the FLASH embedding code will be used for computers.

How to Embed YouTube Videos in both HTML5 and Flash Versions

Despite the fact the all the YouTube videos contain support for IFRAME video embedding code, the embed code needs to be written by you manually. In the near future the IFRAME format will be the default video embedding format used for YouTube, because it supports Flash and HRML5 video embedding formats.

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Just got one of these, check it out:

16 GB SDHC Class 6 Flash Memory Card

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Ignite Salt Lake

Looking for something to do in November? Well on Thursday November 13th you could be a part of the first ever Ignite Salt Lake event. What’s Ignite? Well you can visit http://ignite.oreilly.com to check it out but the basic idea is:

If you had five minutes on stage what would you say? What if you only got 20 slides and they rotated automatically after 15 seconds?

The event is free and will be held at the old downtown library (now The Leonardo Science Center).

For more info visit:
http://www.ignitesaltlake.com

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Check out this ColdFusion Submit Form Validation article by Michael Evangelista on the CMX site.

This *free* CMX article shows you how to build a simple form that
submits itself and sends an email with ColdFusion
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=7F9DB

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Today I had a pointless chat with the online help folks of a hosting company. I wanted to find out why my connection to a MySQL database using MySQL Administrator wasn’t working. As you can see I would’ve been better off just trying to figure it out on my own.

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***Waiting for an agent to respond***
*** Chat Session Opened ***
You are chatting with Support_Person.
Support_Person: Hello, Dan . You have successfully connected to your technical services operator. Please wait one moment while I verify and review your information.

Dan: Hello…
Support_Person: Hello, in order to make a backup, please use connection below:
Support_Person: mysqldump -h hostmane -u usermane -ppassword databasename > mZe.sql
Dan: uhhh, what?
Support_Person: It is connection string that creates backup of database
Support_Person: But I suggest you to use special software MyqlYOG
Support_Person: It is easy client that allows you to make backups and restore databases from that backups
Dan: so I can’t use MySQL Administrator?
Support_Person: Generally, you can use any tool, but unfortunately, we do not provide support for third party software, like MySQL Administrator
Dan: well it has always worked in the past and now it says that was an error connecting. so, is there any other way to make a back-up other than a dump?
Support_Person: No. it is the only way
Dan: I’ve tried to use phpmyadmin and then restore the file and it says that there is an error in the file
Support_Person: What is the size of your file?
Dan: about 5 and a half mb
Support_Person: That’s why you’ve got that error, phpmyadmin allows you to upload files less then 2Mb
Support_Person: So I suggest you to use MyqlYOG, it does not have size limitation
Dan: yeah but it costs money for the full version
Dan: ok here is the error I see when I try using MySQL Administrator: Access denied; you need the SHOW DATABASES privilege for this operation
Dan: can you give me those privileges?
Support_Person: No, unfortunately this option is protected on our system due to security reasons
Dan: so basically I cannot make a backup or restore my database…
Dan: this is unaccetpable
Support_Person: You can, but via another tools, it seems your MySQL Administrator tool are not able to make a backup without this option
Dan: but this tool costs money…when in the past the free tool from MySql has always worked
Dan: why now are you forcing me to pay for something that was working in the past?
Support_Person: It seems the size of your backups were less then 2 Mb
Dan: wrong
Dan: I need this to happen today
Dan: can I talk with your manager?
Dan: can we allow the privlege for just a few minutes so I can do a backup?
Support_Person: Unfortunately, it is not possible
Dan: thats not an option
Dan: you’re telling me that something you offered before was possible and now it has changed
Dan: I need this to happen
Support_Person: I apologize, it is a sql command that is protected on our server
Dan: its a simple SHOW DATABASES setting
Dan: can you ask your manager for me?
Support_Person: Unfortunately, it is not simple settings, we are using shared hosting structure, so this command will allow you to have access to all databases of all our clients
Support_Person: Unfortunately, it is not possible
Dan: well then the way you have it set up with usernames isn’t correctly configured
Dan: if you had it setup by usernames…I should be able to see all of my databases
Dan: and not everyone else’s
Support_Person: I apologize, but unfortunately, we can not enable this command for your domain due to security reasons
Dan: unacceptable
Dan: please consider changing your Mysql security structure as it is incorrectly configured
Support_Person: Dan, I apologize, but our structure can not be changed by your request
Dan: please be advised that it is flawed
Support_Person: Ok, Dan, we will take your opinion into our consideration
Dan: thanks
Support_Person: Is there anything else you would like me to help you with today?
Dan: nope…just have a nice day!

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The good times are over.

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Adobe MAX – Registration Now Open! Register now for MAX North America.

Join us at MAX 2008, the annual Adobe event, to connect with thousands of Adobe users, experts, and staff for four days of education and inspiration. Learn cutting-edge skills, explore emerging technologies, build valuable relationships, and ignite bold new ideas. This year’s program features a diverse schedule of sessions and labs, unique networking and social events, and presentations by industry luminaries. November 16 – 19 in San Francisco, CA. Learn more at www.max.adobe.com.

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