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Source Codes
To add source code listing we use the @ symbol
@print "hello world";@ is equivalent to <code>print "hello world";</code>

I have recently purchased a USB Network Interface Adapter trying to make it work with my neighbor's wifi hot spot. I'm always mobile so, applying for a dsl subscription is not a good idea. I am working with my pc at home inside a cave to be more specific, I have some trouble connecting to the hotspot which is right beside our house. What is the range of a typical wifi hotspot?

Google is my friend, instead of giving me the range, i found a wifi range extender instead. It's so creative with just the following items needed:
1 - Metal Strainer/Steamer
1 - USB WIFI Adaptor
1 - USB Extension Cable (I chose a 10ft long)
½" Drill Bit (I like to use stepper bits for metal)
Gorilla Glue (Epoxy works well too)
2 - Zip Ties

I am tempted and I'm sure I'm going to miss our home strainer. Not sure if it's going to work inside a cave. I tried searching some more and found Smart bros latest wireless modem. It's very tempting, based on the operator's messages, as long as there is a signal from your phone; the modem should work! I have changed my mind ill try the modem first and later, if its not going to work; ill experiment on the strainer.

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Market demand for IT certified, especially Microsoft 70-294 certified professionals, has increased tremendously. Therefore, fresh graduates prefer go for 70-647 certification before starting their professional career so that their skills can earn good money. People, who have skills as well as CISCO 640-863 certification are more in demand in networking field. 70-293 certified people are supposed to perform better in complex networking environment. 70-536 certified personnel can earn more money than the average certified professionals.

The search bar in IE7 will become redundant if we install another toolbar for like the google toolbar. we could then use the extra space for our address bar. To disable the built in search bar in internet explorer 7 :

1. Start -> Run -> regedit -> OK
2. Navigate to
* HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
* Software
* Policies
* Microsoft
* Internet Explorer
* Infodelivery
* Restrictions
3. Right click on an empty space select: New -> DWORD value
4. Rename New Value #1 to NoSearchBox : Right click on New Value #1 -> Rename
5. Double click on NoSearchBox name
6. On the Value data textbox change it to 1 from zero
7. Click on OK

Your Search bar in IE7 will be gone, to enable it back again, just change the value data 1 back to 0.

One problem with POP3 mail is that when you are downloading mails and suddenly an error has occurred, when you try to restart your download you will get duplicate mails!!! Now my inbox has over 8000 emails and its about 900MB in size, that would be very hard to manually delete those duplicate emails.

With IMAP hopefully that problem will be resolved since it has two-way syncing capabilities. IMAP stands for Internet Message Access Protocol. When using IMAP with GMAIL, all your labeled messages would arrive in folders, that is a label and inside the individual messages with its corresponding marks. Deleting a message in IMAP wont de deleted in GMAIL, you have to move it to the trash or delete it at GMAIL.

You can set your client to work offline to be able to download all your email messages, otherwise on most IMAP clients, it will only download the mail headers. When sending messages from your client creates new labels on GMAIL, they are marked as Sent Messages which indicates that the messages are sent from your mail client. When you create folders on your client they will be treated as label on GMAIL. There folder names which are reserved, they are Chats and Sent, when you try to create a folder with this name on IMAP they have a prefix IMAP/folder name on GMAIL.

Taken from GMAIL help center, How do actions sync in IMAP?

Enabling IMAP 1. Login to your GMAIL account 2. Click on the Settings Link on top of the page just beside your email address 3. Click on forwarding and POP/IMAP tab 4. On the IMAP access section, select enable IMAP if its not yet selected 5. Save Changes.

Configuring your client I'm using Outlook 2003, well use it as our client. Or you can click on the link below for your client. On user Information Your Name: the name that will appea in the From: field of outgoing messages. Email Address: your GMAIL email address

On Server Information Incoming mail server (IMAP): imap.gmail.com Outgoing mail server (SMTP): smtp.gmail.com

On Login Information User Name: Your Gmail username (including @gmail.com) Password: Your Gmail password

* Click on More Settings button and on the Outgoing Server tab, Check the box next to My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication. * Select Use same settings as my incoming mail server radio button.

On the Advanced tab make the following changes: Check the box next to This server requires an encrypted connection (SSL) under Incoming Server (IMAP) and also under Outgoing server (SMTP) * IMAP port is 993 * Outgoing SMTP port is 465 * Click OK * If you want to you click on Test Account Settings button to check if there are mistakes.

However, IMAP for GMAIL supports the following clients: * Outlook Express (Windows) * Outlook 2003 (Windows) * Outlook 2007 (Windows) * Apple Mail * Apple Mail 3.0 (Leopard) * Windows Mail * Thunderbird 2.0

----- CISSP certified person can work in all IT industries; banks, manufacturing companies and service businesses. Increase in demand for 350-018 certified persons in networking field shows that this certification can fulfill the requirements of employees training. 640-816 certification identify people with expertise in installing, managing and trouble shooting networks. Increased corporate IT spending is fueling demand for 70-297 certified persons. 156-215 certification validates your knowledge and expertise of administrating security issues on corporate level.

The new version Internet Explorer 7 has a problem in caching of the displayed specially if you are using some ajax applications. Even if you have use the meta tags that specifies no cache, the IE7 would ignore them.

<meta name="pragma" content="no-cache">
<meta http-equiv="Expires" content="-1">
<meta http-equiv="cache-control" content="no-cache">

The above code does not work on IE7. You could force the browser to remove the cache by manually deleting it or by using the following code below in PHP:

// choose a date in the past
header("Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT");
// set the last modified date to today
header("Last-Modified: " . gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s") . " GMT");
// if the browser supports HTTP/1.1
header("Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate");
header("Cache-Control: post-check=0, pre-check=0", false);
// if the browser supports HTTP/1.0
header("Pragma: no-cache");

Another way is to add the meta tag code below in between your end body tag and your end html tags. It does not conform to the w3c standards, but it works. :D

</body>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="PRAGMA" content="NO-CACHE" />
</head>
</html>

This is so nice, saw it on wordpress blogs. it lets you see a snapshot of the link before actually visiting it.

to add it to your site, you need a generated code from the snap site and paste it on you blogs head tag.

Actually, they are better called response codes. Below is a list of the HTML error codes and its short description

Informational
100="Continue"
101="Switching Protocols"

Successful Client Requests
200 OK
201 Created
202 Accepted
203 Non-Authorative Information
204 No Content
205 Reset Content
206 Partial Content

Client Request Redirected
300 Multiple Choices
301 Moved Permanently
302 Moved Temporarily
303 See Other
304 Not Modified
305 Use Proxy

Client Request Errors
400 Bad Request
401 Authorization Required
402 Payment Required (not used yet)
403 Forbidden
404 Not Found
405 Method Not Allowed
406 Not Acceptable (encoding)
407 Proxy Authentication Required
408 Request Timed Out
409 Conflicting Request
410 Gone
411 Content Length Required
412 Precondition Failed
413 Request Entity Too Long
414 Request URI Too Long
415 Unsupported Media Type

Server Errors
500 Internal Server Error
501 Not Implemented
502 Bad Gateway
503 Service Unavailable
504 Gateway Timeout
505 HTTP Version Not Supported

Paypal is here!.

Here is the registration page.

If you are using paypal for online payments then the Personal account will enough for you, otherwise if you are planning to have an online store you should get the Premier account. Anyway, if you are living in the Philippines like me, even if you have upgraded your account to Premier account, you would still not able to receive any money, maybe just for now.

You may also Apply for the Expanded Use option for just $1.95 to remove your account spend limit, don't worry the $1.95 amount will be refunded after making your first paypal purchase. You will need to enter the 4-digit number on your credit card statement just before the word PAYPAL to verify the use of the Expanded Use option.

If you came across to this error while installing apache2, well, heres the fix.

Goto your apache installation folder its usually at:

Execute this command:

-k install -- tells apache to install an Apache service
-n "Apache2" -- sets its service name to be Apache2
-k start -- Start Apache server
-k restart -- Tells Apache to do a restart

You can then test your installation by typing in http://localhost/ to your browser address bar.

Here's the result to the query: the answer to life, the universe and everything using google. To search on how did google came to the answer, read it at wikipedia, but before that, watch the movie Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.