Missing language bar in Windows Vista

If you happen to experience this problem, might want to try the method mentioned in the link below

http://www.sysprobs.com/language-bar-missing-vista-windows-7

Basically is to add one more entry in

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

with the following string value "ctfmon"="CTFMON.EXE"

After that, restart your machine.

Cannot access Microsoft website or others antivirus website

If you having this problem of not able to access Microsoft website including their Windows Update site, there is a possibility your PC is infected by conflicker virus. To verify it, go to this website.

There are few conflicker removal tools in the web and you can easily google it. However since conflicker also prevent you from going to some antivirus webpage, you have to use other non-infected PC to download any tools from the antivirus webpage or find a third party webpage that host the conflicker removal tool like this.

How to install RapidSVN on CentOS

To start off, you need to grab the necessary rpm packages. Just go to pbone and type RapidSVN and wxGTK in the search box. and look for the correct rpm packages that match your OS. Besides this, you also need to have subversion, instead of using rpm, i am going to use yum to do it

yum install subversion

After that, install wxGTK follow by rapidSVN.

rpm -ivh wxGTK-2.8.9-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm

rpm -ivh rapidsvn-0.9.6-2.el5.rf.i386.rpm

If everything done nicely, you should be able to launch RapidSVN as below

Link to launch the RapidSVN Subversion Client

RapidSVN GUI Interface

Make your media player "Always On Top" of other windows

This is a very useful feature which can allow you to watch video while surfing net, especially if you are surfing those Paid To Click (PTC) pages. This post will show you how to set the "Always On Top" feature on the following media player.

VLC Media Player


Windows Media Player

For Windows Media Player, you need to go to Tools->Options... and the setting is under Player tab.


Real Player

Install 2008 R2 on ESX 3.5 with Dell T410

If you encounter the following message when you try to install 2008 R2 as a VM in Dell T410:

Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause... File: \windows\system32\boot\winload.exe Status: 0xc000035a Info: Attempting to load a 64-bit application, however this CPU is not compatible with 64-bit mode.

you need to enable virtualization technology to overcome this problem

From BIOS screen, go to Processor Settings

Change "Virtualization Technology" to "Enabled"

Fibre Channel (FC) Disk Interface

Dell T410 pictures

T410

This configuration can put in 6 3.5" harddisk

T410 internal: There are 5 PCIe slots and take note that one slot is being used by the SAS card. All slots are PCIe Generation 2 except for slot 3.