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Sunday, November 1, 2009

Welcome To Devils Workshop!!!

Posted: 01 Nov 2009 04:44 PM PST

Yet another Monday is here and we have some announcements to make along with telling you what is new on DW.

First things first it has been a pretty good October for rtBlogs. Facebooknol our blog dedicated to Facebook has been doing quite well, and slowly but surely moving upwards. Sauravjit has been doing a stellar job there.

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Blogger of the Month

We are still checking and rechecking the scores for Blogger of the month for October. But many guest authors had questions on how the ratings are calculated. Ever post you contribute on an blog on rtBlogs will get a rating and it all adds up for winning Blogger of the Month. Feel free to give relevant posts on Facebooknol, Orkut Diary, Crictalks and obviously Devils Workshop.

Also I can tell you that next month Blogger of the Month winner can expect a surprise coming his/her way.

Bloody Computer!

Goodbye Windows. Hello Xubuntu

Posted: 31 Oct 2009 09:00 PM PDT

For years I have had a love/hate relationship with Windows in its various incarnations, which has led me to flirt with a number of Linux distributions in the past. Nevertheless, games and other Windows only applications have meant that I have always returned to Microsoft OS's. That was until last week when I finally lost patience with my install of Windows XP. Degradation of performance and the constant threat of viruses finally prompted me to install Xubuntu.

I picked that distribution because I have had good experience of using Kuki Linux, which is based on Xubuntu, on my Acer Aspire One netbook. I like the XFCE windows manager because it is lightweight unlike Gnome and (to a lesser extent) KDE. If I wanted a bloated, feature-laden OS I'd still be using Windows.

I have a few games and other Windows programs that I am going to want to run so I will be experimenting with Wine and VirtualBox to see whether I can avoid having to set up a dual-boot machine. I will continue writing posts on this blog offering help and advice to Windows users; although, the more ardent Microsoft-detractors may be disappointed when I don't offer the advice of ditching Windows. I will also be enhancing this blog with occasional Linux themed posts too, which will be aimed at novice users.

Nita's Random Thoughts

Photo Baby Announcing Cards

Posted: 31 Oct 2009 08:53 PM PDT

Looks like Photo Announcing Baby is quite famous these days. Most parents prefer to celebrate their new arrival with photo birth announcement where they can use their favorite photo to create baby birth announcements or birth announcement cards.

If you are looking for unique photo announcing baby cards, be sure to check out http://www.birth-cards.com for unique and exclusive designs of baby birth announcements only available at Birth-Cards. Personalize your invitations and announcements by adding a photo or even modify any card design or color as requested at no additional cost. They will print and ship your order the same day it is approved. No more long wait!

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Facebook : How To Get Friend Update Status In Priority ?

Posted: 01 Nov 2009 02:45 AM PST

What you noticed that as open up your Facebook web page after log in ? I think it should be all those notifications from the applications and quizzes that flooding into Facebook wall.Then you have to scroll down to end of the Facebook web page then can find out your friends recent update...

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HP FW660AA monitor won’t resume from standby

Posted: 31 Oct 2009 11:32 PM PDT

Customer buys a new computer, but continues using the old monitor (a HP FW660AA).

Since the new PC has a DVI plug, I decide to connect the monitor using DVI (previously it was using the analog VGA cable).

Everything works well for about a day, and then I’m told the monitor say “going to sleep” and then goes blank. No matter what buttons are pressed, it just goes blank.

I ask the customer to use the VGA cord, and everything is OK, but I’m soon told that the display is “wavy”.

I go out thinking its probably something strange with the standby settings, or maybe the BIOS needs updating.

I get there, and I find restarting the PC fixes the problem, but I can force the problem to occur by setting the XP power properties to “system standby” in 1 minute, and then waiting 1 minute.

Sure enough, after 1 minute, the system goes to standby, and the system seems to be “off”. I move the mouse, and the system resumes, the HDD light flickers, but the monitor remains dark.

Oddly, this is not a problem while using the VGA cable.

OK, I download and install the latest intel motherboard BIOS, but that doesn’t help.

Since the customer has a spare Dell S2009Wb monitor, I plug it in, and I find it works perfectly using the DVI cable/plugs… and more importantly, it resumes from standby correctly.

So the HP monitor had a very specific fault: Only while using DVI, if the DVI signal indicated “go to standby” the monitor would shut down, and then be unable to detect when the DVI signal was available again…. weird.

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Sunday, November 1, 2009

Welcome To Devils Workshop!!!

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