a record of thoughts

If you are looking for a semi-mailing list where subscription and unsubscription is not a needed functionality, then this is for you. This trick is basically an extension of Exchange’s Distribution Group. By design, DG only works for enterprise users – that is users that reside locally within the server. The extension of that is to include e-mail addresses that is outside the scope of the Exchange server. It’s pretty simple and straight forward, but a wee meticulous.

1. Create a MailContact –  this will create a contact in the Active Directory, thus creating a local user.
2. Create a DG and browse for the newly created Contact.

The end.

Finally had Smart’s Plug ‘n Talk. I had it bought from the Philippines and had my grandmother bring it. After a couple of days use, here’s what I think and know about the technology:

• The flashdrive comes with 1GB memory space.
• PnP; installs everytime I plug into the USB port.
• Runs on XP/Vista.
• E-Load link does not work.
• Shows Philippine time.
• Shows status of device. If not ready, re-plug the device if Re-Login does not work.
• I can’t copy-&-paste onto the message box.
• The new message does not show an excerpt; just a blank row.
• So far, not all promo by Smart is covered.
• You will be tempted to spend so much because text messaging is so easy.

I woke up early today expecting to be in the office before 8AM. Luckily, the server was up, so I’m relieved. I can go to the office later.

Last night around 11PM, I had to copy a partition to a new drive (temp) and it took 2 hours to finish. I thought the server hung at shutdown state which was always the case for me. I thought I had to physically reboot the unit. Luckily when I woke up around 6, the damn thing was online.

Later tonight again, the final replacement shall begin. Maybe I’ll start around after midnight.

UPDATE: The fix will cause inability to read mails.

I couldn’t let go of Google Chrome, so I checked bug reports and I found a temporary fix to the problem. For my future reference until Chrome devs fix the issue, here’s what needs to be done:

1. Right Click on the Google Chrome shortcut (Desktop or whereever you place it).
2. Left Click on Properties.
3. On the Target box, add the following line at the end:

--user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1 Safari/525.19"

Therefore, if you are running Chrome in Windows, your target should look like:

C:\path\to\chrome.exe --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1 Safari/525.19"

Close all instances of Chrome and open the browser again using the shorcut prepared above.

Yesterday, WordPress released version 2.7. It’s a point upgrade which means there are significant changes that could affect my plugins and themes. I’m not that impulsive as to upgrading software version, so I ran an upgrade on my test site. It’s close to identical to this “production” site of course so that I can properly troubleshoot if any. I was satisfied with the test, so I decided late last night to upgrade. This is my first post…

The new admin panel looks more like MovableType. Hmmmm. This release is AJAX overload :)

Since my thought (for an entry) escaped me, I’ll post a simple malware removal tutorial.

A few years ago, we called them annoying pop-ups and now we call them MALWARE. Virus is no longer trendy because it does not rake in revenue; malware does because it mostly contains advertising.

If you are a careless netizen and clicking on any pop-up that may appear in front of you, then you are the best malware victim. IT administrators should block all sites except for the ones that the company would need if their users do not abide by the usage policy. In the office, we are too scared to even use Google because internet usage is strictly prohibited unless needed and we can’t hardly slack because there’s too much work to be done.

One night I was victimized by a malware in my home PC. The site I used to frequent had a hidden malware injector through PDF. I’ve been removing malwares for others, so I’ll share the secret with everyone.

1. Download Hijackthis & SmitFraudFix (Google them)
2. Install Hijackthis.
3. Add an exception in your AntiVirus (add both softwares above).
4. Run Hijackthis & fix processes you don’t recognize.
5. Restart your computer in Safe Mode.
6. Run SmitFraudFix (option 2) and clean registry when prompted.
7. Restart your computer in Normal Mode.
8. Done!

Syet na malagkit!

Yes, yes… It’s been a while since my last entry and I’m once again nagging about standards. A week or two ago Hotmail release a new version of their webmail and guess what ladies and gentlemen? YOU CANNOT COMPOSE AN E-MAIL USING CHROME!!! I’ve grown to like the browser, y’know. I “exceptionally” love it when I hit the HOME button and Chrome would show me my frequently-visited sites. It’s one of the awesomest feature the browser has. Of course the drag-&-drop feature of its tabs brings more coolness to the experience.

All that became history. I am a huge fan of Hotmail and no browser will tempt me to move out of that service. An email address for me is very very significant. If you can’t find me anywhere else, you can find me @ hotmail.com That has become my permanent address since I started computing 10 (or so) years ago. Yes I’m quite new to computing.

Anyway, if you’ve been counting along with the counter above (the homepage) it’s almost time. What would it be, what would it be?