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Micro-USB to 30-pin Apple connector adapter!

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NOTE: now available from Amazon for about $6.99 with free Prime 2-day shipping, woot! PS if you don’t like the white color, they also have black… Here is a cool little adapter that lets you use all of your snazzy-nearly-universal Micro-USB cables and chargers with the also ubiquitous but generally proprietary Apple 30-pin dock connector 🙂 I’m adding this to my adapter cable bag so now that my iPod touch will be covered (as well as friends’ iPhones) I should be able

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How to power on a server via IMPI

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The following instructions are for a Supermicro mini-itx dual core Atom based machine with IPMI built in 🙂 Load the administrative interface by specifying the IPMI interface’s IP address and entering it in  your web browser Example: http://192.168.1.9/ Default login: User: ADMIN Password: ADMIN (both are in all caps) Go to Remote Control -> Power Control menu option Select Power On Server Click the Perform Action button The computer will then power on. 🙂 Top Search Terms:supermicro impi (6)howto power

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How to recover missing SABnzbd queue

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Occasionally SABnzbd may totally lose it queued downloads, if that happens you will likely seem something like this in the error logs: When Type Warning 2012-06-18 08:30:54,999 ERROR: Loading C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\sabnzbd\admin\queue9.sab failed 2012-06-18 08:30:54,999 ERROR: Loading C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\sabnzbd\admin\postproc1.sab failed 2012-06-18 08:30:54,874 ERROR: Loading C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\sabnzbd\admin\totals9.sab failed Thankfully, here is a simple solution that will normally recover your queue! Load the SABnzbd web interface Click the ‘Status‘ link near the top left of the screen Choose the ‘Queue repair’ tab Press the ‘Repair‘ button

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Annoying AVG Free disk space requirement

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Tonight I was installing AVG Free on a virtual machine running XP that was setup to only have 10GB of hard drive space. With all the various updates and programs installed there was only about 800MB free space left. Annoyingly AVG Free would not allow an install until 1GB of space was free. 🙁 If AVG actually needed a gigabyte of space that would be one thing. But guess how much space it actually uses? About 100MB. Yes, they are

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Grey screen with login, incorrect voucher, start.exe [antivirus info]

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UPDATE 2012.09.20 commenter Lauralea suggested the following simpler procedure: Reboot Windows (you can power off your machine if necessary) When your computer restarts, enter safe mode by pressing F8 before Windows can load Run malwarebytes (alternate link) to remove the infection Reboot and you should be good to go!* *NOTE: I would recommend performing an additional virus scan after you reboot, just to make sure there aren’t any other viruses/trojans. -JD Original instructions: If you get a grey box like this, then you have a virus infection or

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Disable Java Auto Updater on Windows 7 stop pop-up [SOLVED]

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Question from FrankT:  I have a nice Windows 7 computer that runs great EXCEPT it has a super annoying “Java Auto Updater” popup that occurs every day! I go into the Java Control Panel and uncheck the auto updates box but it always ends up being checked again next time I check 🙁 I am wondering if I have some sort of java auto updater virus??? I am about to go crazy with this, so if I don’t have a

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Setup screens for the New iPad

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Here are screenshots showing the setup screens after you first turn on the iPad after taking it out of box and begin setup 🙂 Top Search Terms:ipad setup screens (10)apple ipad home screen setup (2)where is the setup screen on ipad (2)set up screen ipad (2)new ipad setup screens (2)ipad wifi setup screenshots (1)ipad vpn setting screen shots (1)ipad setup screenshots (1)youtube ipad (1)initial ipad setup screens (1)

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Kindle for iPad, error fix by deregistering

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My wife received the following error when trying to download and read a Kindle book on her 1st generation iPad: Please remove the book from your device and redownload it from your archived items. If the problem peesists, try to deregister your application and register it again. Here is step-by-step how to get things working! PS if this was useful to you, please let me know how you rate it on a scale of 1 to 5, thanks! [starreview tpl=16]

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