Will Not start at Park, can start at Neutral

Could not start the engine on my AT Honda City 1995 model when the gear is at Park. Surprisingly, shifting the gear to Neutral it could be started. Sent it to service centre & was told the gear sensor needed to be replaced. Price is Rm300.

Loud Engine Noise

Been driving with loud sound coming from engine compartment for the past 1 month. It sounded like the engine is going bad. Got me so worried & send it to the workshop. Thought it will caused me a bomb. It was actually the rear wheel bearing fault. Cost me RM700 for a replacement. Never thought a wheel bearing problem sounded almost like a noisy engine sound.

A Victim or Victor

Nice Software Tools

Tools where a System / Network / Administrator will surely like for their daily routine job can be found at http://www.nirsoft.net/

 

 

gmail.com is not responding to ping on Spiceworks

Been trying out on newest version of Spiceworks 7.0.01308.  The setup of my network, pinging to outside LAN is closed on the router which resulted in me getting lots of email from Spiceworks alert on “gmail.com is not responding to ping”.  Searching high & low including at Inventory – Setting to disable that option. Finally found it at Inventory – Cloud Services – under provider “Markmonitor.com”. Deleting “gmail.com” resolved the problem.

 

 

 

 

How to Start an Effective Email Search

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How to Start an Effective Email Search
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Increase VirtualBox VDI Size

 

 

The time will come when there’s a need to increase the Virtual disk size. These are the steps (to increase existing size of 10GB to 20GB):

 

STEPS

1.       Close the VM VirtualBox Manager.

2.       On command prompt, go to the VirtualBox directory & issue command  VBoxManage modifyhd “d:\vm\xp.vdi” --resize 20480



Notes :
d:\vm\xp.vdi is the  location of the vdi file. The location can also be found under SETTINGS – STORAGE.




20480 is the size in MB.  In the case above, 20GB x 1024MB = 20480MB


The progress will be shown. Resize is completed at 100%

3.       Start VirtualBox Manager. The VDI size is now at 20GB.

4.       Boot up the virtual machine.

5.       Final step is to Increase the partition size. My favorite is EaseUS Partition Master Free Edition.  It’s simple & easy to us. Best of all, it’s free.

 

Problem Deleting Registry Key ?

This guy has a great write up on issue related to deleting stubborn  Registry Keys 

http://www.raymond.cc/blog/full-control-permission-to-delete-or-edit-restricted-windows-registry/

 

 

Force Gmail Contact Resync Blackberry Contact

 

1.  On the Blackberry device, go to Contacts and open Options.

2.  Type:  rset (there isn't a field to type it in, just type it while Options is open.)

3.  Confirm that you want to wipe the contacts.

4.  After a few minutes the contacts will sync back.

 

 

 

Reason 442: Failed to Enable Virtual Adapter - Windows 7 64 bit

For an unknown reason, Cisco VPN client just refused to connect after I make Windows 7 as WiFi Hotspot. Getting error Reason 442: Failed to enable Virtual Adapter.

 

 

Apparently, Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) service was causing the error. The workaround is to STOP Windows ICS service & bravo, Cisco VPN Client works like charm!

 

 

 

Life's Journey

 

 

Add Outlook.com Account to Blackberry Torch 9810

This is how to add Outlook.com account to Blackberry Torch 9810 (using software version 7.1) :
 
Go to SETUP - EMAIL ACCOUNTS - Add another email address.
 
Under Windows Live, choose  @live.com
 
Key in your outlook.com email address (ie :  uremail@outlook.com)
Key in the password
 
CONTINUE

Can't Partition Unallocated Disk

Having more than 2 TB of disk space but can only create a partition up to the size of 2 TB ? The rest remain as  “ Unallocated Disk “ & no matter what, the options are blur out making partitioning impossible.

Converting the DISK to GPT format resolved the problem (right mouse click on DISK, choose Convert to GPT Disk).

DB2 Best Practises

For the DB2 Database Administrators, the best practices

 

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/groups/service/html/communityview?communityUuid=d4334e67-3b43-4d33-bf32-22a73685871c

 

Job Interview - What You Need To Know

 

IBM Websphere Application Server - WAS6.0, WAS6.1, WAS Fix Packs

WAS6.02 Not Supported in Windows Server 2008

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=180&uid=swg27009288

 

WAS6.0 Information Center

http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v6r0/index.jsp

 

WAS6.1 is however, supported in Windows Server 2008

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27007663

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21315370

 

WAS Fix Packs

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=180&uid=swg27006876#60243

 

WAS Fix Packs Step by Step Installation

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=180&uid=swg27019743#steps

 

 

DB2 Fix Pack Lists

The good about DB2 Fix Packs, there’s no need to follow Fix Pack sequence. Eg, DB2 v9.1 last supported fix is Fix Pack 12. It contains the cumulative fixes of prior versions. Instead of having to apply earlier Fix Packs, the latest one can be used. However, do check on the requirement listed in latest Fix Pack prior to installation.

 

List of available DB2 Fix Packs can be found here :

 

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27007053

 

Upgrade DB2 v9.1 to v9.7

The process of upgrading DB2  prior to version 9.7 is fully described here :

 

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v4r1/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.tpc_V421.doc%2Ffqz0_t_migrating_db2_95_to_97.html

 

Assign Color To Folder

Bored of the same old color of your folder? Feel like giving your folder a more lively color ? Try this out  -> Rainbow Folders

A sneak peak :

 

Disable AS400 Electronic Service Agent

To stop AS400 Electronic Service Agent, issue command :

 

GO SERVICE

Opt 1 – Change Service Agent Attributes

*NO – to disable  (*YES – to re-enabled)

 

To verify it has been disabled,

Opt 10 – Work With Jobs (there should be no jobs listed)

 

 

 

 

Debug Assetion Failed

Program :  c:\windows\system32\igfxsrvc.exe

 

igfxsrvc.exe is a process associated with Intel Common User Interface from Intel Corporation. It is installed with graphic card drivers with Intel chipsets. This program is important for the stable and secure running of your computer and should not be terminated.

 

Had issue with the error on newly setup Lenovo ThinkPad. Uninstalled the Intel Graphic driver & reinstalled with the version from Lenovo Support site & problem was resolved.