Hafidz Zulkifli

I've had this problem (ok,..so I usually write a how-to when I got a problem to fix) whereby my recently acquired laptop (my last one was stolen..#uck#n thieves..) was not able to play any movies at all. Talk about NOT being able to play movies on your laptop! Such blasphemy! Ok, so I know that you're not even suppose to go around and watch a movie using your company's property, but I mean come on..who does'nt? Anywho, after months of surviving without my own able-to-watch-laptop (I've been using my wife's since then :P ), recently I found this comments which attributed my problem to a DirectDraw problem. Full coverage of that thread here : System freezes when trying to play ANY movie So after disabling the hardware accelaration on my laptop - I could play them movies again! Yippee! Time to watch some episodes of the X-Men cartoon (the one that usually airs at 7pm back then) that I've been downloading.

Below is a picture depicting the SS7 architecture. With SS7, a packet data network overlays and controls the operation of the underlying voice networks, signaling information is carried on an entirely different path than voice and data traffic. Signaling in essence does not take a lot of time, hence it is possible to multiplex many signaling messages over one channel - and that's why the signaling system is a packet network. SS7 entire architecture performs out-of-band signaling (in which conversation and signaling take over different paths). It (the architecture) defines the procedure for the setup, ongoing management, and clearing of a call, and it enables the passing along of customer-related information that helps in routing calls. The key components of SS7 are: 1. SSP:Service-switching points Them switches that originate and terminate calls. It serves as the source and destination point for the SS7 messages 2. STP: Signal transfer point Responsible for translatin...

Several useful commands. Basic Retrieval from single table SELECT [DISTINCT] display_fields FROM tables WHERE field_conditions ORDER BY field_name [ASC | DESC]; e.g: select * from MethodParameter; e.g: select * from MethodParameter where NAME=DUNHAM; Delete the whole content of table DROP TABLE tablename ; e.g: drop table MethodParameter; Delete one or more records from a table DELETE FROM table_name WHERE record_retrieval_conditions ; e.g: delete from MethodParameter where NAME='DUNHAM BUSH';

Should you ever see these types of message, there are several 'must-know' unix commands that can be used in order to start investigating. 1. du | sort -n : lists all file usage from smallest to largest. 2. df -k -b : see how much allocation is used in the directory. For more help, go to links below:- 1. An IT-admin guide to clearing up disk space 2. df unix command definitions and usage 3. du unix command definitions and usage

From http://www.ncl.ac.uk/iss/unix/unixhelp/kill.html and http://www.decf.berkeley.edu/help/unix/kill.html If you are logged in to a Unix system and your session "hangs" or "freezes" (i.e. nothing happens for a long time and it does not respond to Ctrl/Q Ctrl/C or Ctrl/D), you can attempt to unfreeze it yourself by "killing" the process which has stopped your session. You can also use Ctrl/Z to get out of a process in UNIX. Login to the system where your session is frozen Type the command: w usid where usid is your own username. This will produce a line of output for each login something like this: 9:53am up 82 day(s), 15:58, 132 users, load average: 6.50, 6.25, 5.70 User tty login@ idle JCPU PCPU what nabc pts/160 9:12am -csh nabc pts/166 9:53am w nabc Note the contents of the tty column for the frozen login -- in this example attached to pts/...

The basename utility deletes any prefix ending in / and the suffix (if present in string) from string, and prints the result on the standard output. It is normally used inside substitution marks (``) within shell procedures. Syntax basename [string] [suffix] string - the leading part of the path name or sting suffix - additional remaining portion of name that if matches will be removed Examples basename myfile.txt .txt - Takes the basename of myfile.txt and strips the .txt portion and then just displays myfile. credits to: http://www.computerhope.com/unix/ubasenam.htm

Few days back I was in this situation where by I had to transfer some files over to a remote desktop (aka the client's server). The shitty part I can't send files over through any websites or webmail; they've banned it all. No FTP softwares and the worst thing is, every time my manager sends them email with the attached packages; them packages are not sent through. Don't know where it got filtered..our site or theirs (I assume it's their's). Some thoughts are given also on mapping my drives so that it'll be accessible at the remote desktop; but some people have that said (read other blogs) the method only works if the remote desktop is not using Win2k and below. So again...i hit a wall. Anyhow, that's where this trick comes in. In essence you turn your file into something readable (read ASCII) and copy and paste the text over the remote desktop. One thing to note though is that not everything can be easily read by the notepad. Introducing 'uuencode...