It might actually not be hanged, but instead but you might have been kicked into an initramfs shell but it is not displaying on the screen. Try to boot in recovery mode or boot on a install CD or USB stick in rescue mode. Edit /etc/default/grub: vi /etc/default/grub Set the following: GRUB_TERMINAL=console GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=text If the […]
Recently Facebook decided to hide all other e-mail addresses but your @facebook.com address on your Facebook profile. After all, Facebook is a free service, so you should consider yourself "the product" rather than "the customer". Facebook’s real customers are their advertisers and not you, so they can do more or less anything with your account and […]
To be able to use the ZTE MF820D 4G dongle from Telia with Dovado routers, both units need to have updated firmwares. Unfortunately even in stores, those units seems to have outdated firmwares. To upgrade the ZTE MF820D 4G dongle – follow this guide (Telia Sweden): http://www.telia.se/ To upgrade the Dovado router, visit Dovado’s homepage: http://www.dovado.com/firmware and […]
System Check is a virus/trojan pretending to be a system diagonstics tool displaying fake errors. To recover them the user will be fooled to pay for the software. Whatever you do – do not pay for it! When infected, all icons on the desktop will be hidden and the only program in the Start menu […]
I have a YouTube channel where I post videos from different strange things I am up to. Suddenly I noticed the video shows dropped significantly. The statistics (analytics) showed that the majority of my video views came from "related videos" (also sometimes referred to as suggested videoes). Some Googleing on the subject didn’t really turn […]
I had a HP desktop PC running Windows Vista that sometimes hanged on the Welcome screen (displayed after entering the password to login). The problem occured randomly but started to occur more and more often causing trouble for the user. Just waiting for the Welcome screen to dissappear (for hours) didn’t help. I applied different solutions […]
When setting up a site in Joomla 1.5 for multiple languages JoomFish is the tool for you (Joomla 2.5 has native multi language support). But there are some things in Joomla that JoomFish can’t handle, like the slogan for example. This is one way of making a language dependent slogan. Create a file called en-GB.tpl_your_template_name_here.ini […]
In Asterisk it is possible to upload .wav or .mp3 files to be used as music-on-hold (MOH). Another option is to use streaming audio but using a stream from a Shoutcast server requires some hands on. This is how I did the setup for AsteriskNow 1.7 with FreePBX 2.9. First of all you will need mpg123 […]
When trying to do an apt-get upgrade the MySQL package failed with the error message: package mysql-server-5.1 5.1.37-1ubuntu5.1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 The problem is that the start / stop script for MySQL fails to stop the running MySQL server before upgrade. Solution: apt-get update ps ax […]
In WordPress Media it is possible to edit the images in some basic ways including cropping. To use the tool you must fist make a selection in the image by clicking and dragging across the image. The selection must be wider than the smallest image setting in WordPress. Otherwise the crop tool will stay greyed […]