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Tuesday, June 23, 2009 |
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A helicopter with a pilot and a single passenger was flying around
above Seattle when a malfunction disabled all of the aircraft's
navigation and communications equipment. Due to the darkness and haze,
the pilot could not determine the helicopter's position and course to
get back to the airport. The pilot saw a tall building with
lights on and flew toward it, the pilot had the passenger draw a
handwritten sign reading "WHERE AM I?" and hold it up for the
building's occupants to see. People in the building quickly
responded to the aircraft, drew a large sign, and held it in a building
window. Their sign said "YOU ARE IN A HELICOPTER." The pilot smiled, waved, looked at his map, determined the course to steer to SEATAC airport, and landed safely. After
they were on the ground, the passenger asked the pilot how the "YOU ARE
IN A HELICOPTER" sign helped determine their position. The pilot
responded "I knew that had to be the Microsoft support building, they
gave me a technically correct but entirely useless answer." |
Tuesday, June 23, 2009 12:13:50 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00) | | Technology Jokes
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Sunday, June 21, 2009 |
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These instructions will help you remove hard drive, memory, wireless
card and keyboard from a HP Pavilion dv9000 series laptop. All these
components, except the keyboard, can be accessed through the bottom of
the laptop.
In the next guide I will explain how to disassemble laptop display panel and remove inverter board with LCD screen.
Do not disassemble your laptop if it’s
still covered by the manufacturer’s warranty or you loose the warranty.
Are you looking for spare parts for your HP Pavilion dv9000 laptop?
Search here. 
First of all, remove the battery. Remove screws from the 1st hard drive and memory covers. Remove both covers.
Under the memory cover you will find the wireless card and RTC battery.
In order to remove the hard drive, lift up the right side of the
drive assembly (move 1) and then pull it to the right (move2). If you
are replacing the hard drive, you’ll have to transfer the caddy and
connector to the new drive.
Before you remove the wireless card, you’ll have to disconnect both
antenna cables pointed with green arrows. Simply unsnap both antenna
cables from the wireless card with your fingers. After that remove two
screws securing the wireless card and pull it from the slot by the
edges.
Some Pavilion dv9000 laptops have only one hard drive installed. As
you see, in my case there is no second hard drive under the cover.
If you would like to install second hard drive into your notebook,
you’ll have to purchase a new SATA drive, SATA connector and drive
caddy. You’ll find step by step hard drive installation instructions in
this guide.
we will refer to all HP Pavilion dv9000, dv9000t,
dv9100, dv9200, dv9300, dv9400, dv9500, dv9600 & dv9700 notebooks
as the “dv9000″ since adding a hard disk drive (HDD) to all above
mentioned notebooks are similar.
In order to remove the CD/DVD drive you’ll have to remove the
securing screw (1) and then carefully pull the drive from the laptop.
KEYBOARD REMOVAL INSTRUCTIONS
Remove six green screws securing the keyboard bezel and one red screw securing the keyboard.
Carefully start removing the keyboard bezel with a small flathead screwdriver.
Be very carefull, the bezel is attached to the motherboard with a
flat ribbon cable. The cable location is pointed by the green arrow. Do
not disconnect this cable. Simply place the bezel as it shown on the
picture below.
Remove three screws securing the laptop keyboard.
Lift up the keyboard. Be carefull, it’s connected to the motherboard.
In order to release the keyboard cable, you’ll have to unlock the connector as it shown on the picture above.
1. Slide the connector lock to the direction shown by two green arrows with your fingernails.
2. Pull the keyboard cable from the connector.
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1. Remove Battery
2. Remove DVD drive by removing 2 screws on bottom of the laptop. The two screws will have a lock next to the screws.
3. Remove screw on bottom of laptop labeled M. Lay the screw and memory cover aside.
4. Remove Hard Drive cover by removing 2 screws labeled H. Lay the screws and Hard Drive cover aside.
5. Remove 2 screws labeled H which are located under the Hard Drive
cover. Gently pull on the Hard Drive removal tab and place screws and
Hard Drive aside.
6. Remove 2 screws labeled D from bottom of laptop. These screws are located directly under screen.
7. Gently remove plastic keyboard retainer strip by opening the screen
to a horizontal position and gently prying the plastic strip containing
the power switch.
8. Carefully remove keyboard, unplugging the ribbon cable from the motherboard by lifting the outermost edges of the keyboard ribbon cable connector. This should allow the keyboard and ribbon cable to slide out easily.
9. Remove silver motherboard cover by removing 7 retaining screws.
10. Remove Fan by removing screws labeled TH7 & TH9
11. Unplug and remove fan.
12 Remove processor
heat sink by loosing the 4 strange looking screws that have springs
attached to them and are labeled 1 through 4. Loosen screws a couple of
turns at a times starting at 1 and working through 4.
13. Unplug screen cable from mother board.
14. Remove screw attaching the screen ground to the mother board ground.
15. Hold on to the screen and Remove 2 screws from back of laptop
labeled D. Screen is now loose. Remove and set aside carefully.
16. Remove 4 short screws from top of laptop. Screws are located close to the back of the laptop, under where the screen was.
17. Remove 8 long screws labeled P from back of laptop
18. Remove 2 short screws labeled P from hard drive slot.
19. Remove 2 silver screws labeled P from the top of the laptop. The
screws are close to the power switch and to the right of where the fan
was located.
20. Lift off laptop cover by unplugging the Mouse ribbon cable from the motherboard by lifting the outermost edges of the Mouse ribbon cable connector.
21. Remove motherboard screw labeled TH15
22 Remove Hard Drive Caddy by removing 4 screws.
23. Remove 2 silver VGA output screw/nuts
24. Unplug Speakers
25. Unplug screen switch by disconnecting CON4
26. The Mother Board is free to be removed. Remove the motherboard. De-solder the old power connector from the board. Resolder new power connector to board. Reverse steps to re-assemble. |
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Thursday, June 18, 2009 |
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To enable protocol logging on Receive Connectors, use the following command: Set-ReceiveConnector "Connector Name" -ProtocolLoggingLevel verbose In case you're wondering if there are any choices for the logging level - there aren't. It's either verbose or none. To enable protocol logging from the Exchange console, go to Server Configuration | Hub Transport | select the Hub Transport server you want to configure | select the Receive Connector -> properties | General tab | change Protcol logging level to Verbose, as shown in the screenshot below.  Figure 1: Enabling SMTP logging on a Receive ConnectorUnlike
Exchange Server 2003/2000, you have to enable logging separately for
Send Connectors (equivalent of SMTP Connectors), using the following
command: Set-SendConnector "Send Connector Name" -ProtocolLoggingLevel verbose To do this using the Exchange console, go to Organization Configuration | Hub Transport | Send Connectors tab | select the Send Connector -> properties | General tab | change Protocol logging level to verbose. Besides the visible Receive and Send connectors, an invisible Send Connector lurks under the hood - used to transport messages within the organization,
between Hub Transport servers, Edge Transport servers, and Exchange
Server 2003/2000 servers. It's the Intra-Organization Send Connector.
You won't see it in the console, or in the shell if you use the get-SendConnector command. To configure protocol logging for this Intra-Organization Send Connector: Set-TransportServer "TRANSPORT SERVER NAME" -IntraOrgConnectorProtocolLoggingLevel verbose Where do protocol logs reside?-
Unlike Exchange Server 2003/2000, which maintain separate protocol logs
for each instance of a SMTP Virtual Server, all Receive Connectors
share "SmtpReceive" logs. Similarly, Send Connectors share "SmtpSend"
logs. - Receive Connector logs are located in \Exchange Server\TransportRoles\Logs\ProtocolLog\SmtpReceive- Send Connector logs are located in \Exchange Server\TransportRoles\Logs\ProtocolLog\SmtpSend
How do you change the path of SMTP logs?To change the path of SmtpReceive logs: Set-TransportServer "TRANSPORT SERVER NAME" -ReceiveProtocolLogPath "C:\New SmtpReceive Log File Directory" To change the path of SmtpSend logs: Set-TransportServer "TRANSPORT SERVER NAME" -SendProtocolLogPath "C:\New SmtpSend Log File Directory" If you do decide to change the path, ensure the new directories/folders exist with appropriate permissions, as outlined in " How to Configure Protocol Logging" in the product documentation. In addition to the above, you can also control the maximum log file size, the maximum directory size, and the maximum age of log files.
This ensures you don't have to worry about purging the logs manually
over time, or scheduling a script to do this periodically. SMTP
logs are an important troubleshooting tool - enabling SMTP logging
after the fact isn't any help when troubleshooting SMTP mail flow. |
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Here are some great notes on setting the content filter parameters in Exchange 2007: Open the Exchange Management Shell:
# To check the Content Filter configuration, type in:
Get-ContentFilterConfig
# To set the Bypassed Senders (example):
Set-ContentFilterConfig -BypassedSenders donotspamme@calazan.com, jdoe@abc.com
# To set the Bypassed Sender Domains (example):
Set-ContentFilterConfig -BypassedSenderDomains calazan.com, *.xyz.com
Important Note: BypassedSenders and BypassedSenderDomains are multivalued properties. When you use the Set-ContentFilterConfig
cmdlet, it will overwrite the values of those properties. If you just
need to add more senders or domains, please follow the example below.
# To add Bypassed Senders:
$x = Get-ContentFilterConfig
$x.BypassedSenders += “jsmith@google.com”, “bhope@yahoo.com”
# To remove Bypassed Senders (can only be done one at a time):
$x = Get-ContentFilterConfig
$x.BypassedSenders -= “jsmith@google.com”
# To empty the list:
Set-ContentFilterConfig -BypassedSenders $null |
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Tuesday, June 09, 2009 |
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Configure the outbound Send Connector - Logon to the server hosting the Hub Transport role
- Open the Exchange Management Console (EMC)
- Expand Microsoft Exchange\Organization Configuration\Hub Transport
- Click the Send Connectors tab
- Double-click your outbound SMTP connector to open its properties.
- Click the Network tab
- Select "Route email through the following smart hosts" and click the Add button
- Select "Fully qualified domain name (FQDN)" and enter [domain name of your smarthost] as the smart host. Click OK
- Select Basic Authentication (do not check Basic Authentication over TLS)
- Enter your username (i.e., username@mydomain.net) and password. Click OK
Configure the Edge server to use the corrrect port
- On the Hub Transport server, open the Exchange Management Shell (EMS)
- Type Get-SendConnectors and make note of the name of the send connector you just configured.
- Type Set-SendConnector "name of the send connector" -port xxx to change the port. Obviously, change the name in quotes to the name of your Send Connector.
- Type Start-EdgeSynchronization to force a sync with the Edge server
Force the Send Connetor to Retry
- Open EMC on the Edge server and click Toolbox
- Double-click Queue Viewer
- On the Queues tab, select the outbound SMTP queue and click the Retry action
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Thursday, June 04, 2009 |
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Please be aware that there is a brand new virus going around that is not yet being caught by most anti-virus scanners. If
you receive an email claiming to be from UPS with an attachment and the
body of the message says your package could not be delivered, DELETE
THE EMAIL immediately. DO NOT open the attachments.
Here is an example of what the message might say: "Hello! We
were not able to deliver postal package you have sent on the 27th of
March in time because the addressee's address is erroneous.
Please print out the invoice copy attached and collect the package at our office. Your United Parcel Service" It
has been a long time since I have seen a message like this where the
anti-virus companies have not yet been able to detect it.
If you have received the message already and opened the attachments, please contact me immediately via www.tlgcomputers.com. Other variations of the email body are: "Hello!
We were not able to deliver postal package you sent on the 14th of March in time because the recipient’s address is not correct.
Please print out the invoice copy attached and collect the package at our office.
Your United Parcel Service of America" "Hello!
We were not able to deliver postal package you sent on the 14th of May in time
because the recipient's address is not correct.
Please print out the invoice copy attached and collect the package at our office.
Your United Parcel Service of America" Here is example of the effects if the attachment has been opened already: "I tried to open the so called invoice and the effect was dramatic. I
started to get explore windows opening every 10 seconds or so. As fast
as I deleted them more appeared. Also the screen background change to
black with a flashing warning that I had a virus and needed
professional software to remove it. Then a web page opened offering
virus software at a price to remove all viruses. And when I deleted it
- I wasn't going to be caught twice!! Every minute of so if reloaded.
I also found that Windows TaskManage had been switched off so I could
not attack the problem there. I had such little control of my PC that
I could only stop things by switching off. On restart it resumed the
same activities. With all this going on couldn't get my virus software
to run!" Sources: http://msmvps.com/blogs/donna/archive/2009/04/13/malware-spam-united-parcel-service-of-america-ups-nr1-zip.aspx
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Tuesday, June 02, 2009 |
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Well, I think most of us already knew that Microsoft would ship Windows 7 before the holidays but no one knew for sure when. It has been officially announced that 7 will ship on October 22, 2009. With the leak from Acer regarding its Windows 7 PC being available in October, most of us suspected October, but now it is official. Again, I have had great luck with the Release Candidate and anxiously await a better product to get Vista off the shelves and into the trashcans. More on the release here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124396629749777857.html#mod=djemTECH Thoughts? |
Tuesday, June 02, 2009 3:40:17 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00) | | Windows 7
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