Category: Geekery
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WiFi passphrase or key is incorrect even if it’s correct after upgrading to Windows 7
If you’ve encountered the error “the key or passphrase is incorrect” with your wireless connection after upgrading your Windows XP or Windows Vista to Windows 7, then you’re not alone. I’ve encountered this annoying error after upgrading my 64-bit Windows Vista Home Premium to 64-bit Windows 7 Home Premium.
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How To: Enable UPnP on Belkin N1 Vision Wireless Router
I recently replaced my Linksys WRT 310N Wireless router with the new Belkin N1 Vision Wireless Router, because of it’s super cool interactive display that shows how many computers are connected to the router, the maximum and current speed of my Internet Service Provider, the current upload and download speed that I’m using, and the…
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eBay is full of fake 32GB SD, flash, and memory cards
After 2 weeks of waiting for my 32GB SD card from Hong Kong, I finally received it. Too bad, I waited for nothing, because I bought a fake SD card. It’s really deceptive, because if you check it in your PC or MAC, you’ll see that total capacity of 32GB. But don’t let you eyes…
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IE9 beta is now available for test drive!
The latest version of the world known Internet Browser that sucks after Firefox and Chrome dominated the world wide web has attempted to take back its place in the browser war. I recently downloaded IE9 beta 64-bit for Windows 7 and I can say that it has a potential to be loved by web enthusiasts,…
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Top 288,945 sites in the world visualized with favicons
Others are saying that the top 300,000 websites in the world are visualized with favicons. But why my title is 288,945? Because I want to be specific, and there are only 288,945 favicons in this poster. A large-scale scan of the top million web sites was performed in early 2010 by computer David Fifield and…
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Zip files via SSH and copy it to another folder or server
If you files and directories in your server via SSH, just type the command below: zip -r zipfilename.zip folder Just replace the folder with the folder name you are targetting or use * if your currently in the folder. If you want to quickly zip all files and folders individually in your server via SSH,…
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Whitelist an IP address in your server via SSH
One day, one of my blog readers can’t access my site. I wondered why and how come she can’t access it but I can. I also asked other readers, and they can. If this happens to you, just like what happened to me, maybe that specific user was blacklisted by your host. In order for…
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Change your PHP handler from mod_php (DSO) to suPHP
Finally, I decided to change my server’s PHP handler to suPHP from mod_php. It’s more secure and I can update my plugins and WordPress files automatically without annoying permission errors. Here’s what my php config looks like after the update: php.conf updated to: # This file was automatically generated by the Cpanel PHP Configuration system…