Can't view devices and printers.

Problem.
Laptop cannot view devices and printers. The machine states 0 items.

Solution 1
Start print spooler service under Windows Services

Solution 2
Start blue-tooth service under Windows Services

Suspected internet scam

I found the following on the internet and it smelled like a scum all the way
The link to the website is

 http://www.mcroyandeffietech.com/

The scum seems to try use the hype that is has been created by the new Konza city that is being advertised and promoted by the government . Konza city is a city that the Kenyan government hopes will spiral the country to being the technology hub of the region . The city will be have a highly connected fiber cable infrastructure and the core businesses operating in the city will be IT firms.
 The scum offers jobs to prospects in the form of IT support jobs and states you follow the below link


http://www.mcroyandeffietech.com/job_application_form.htm

The page asks you to deposit 8 USD with a bank account no provided . Rule of thumb in internet jobs is no employer asks for your money to consider you for a job unless its a recruitment agency.
The links at the top of the page are none operation .Which implies a shoddy job and a reputable agency would have noted flaws like that .

airplane mode android

When i first got my android,once i put my phone in airplane mode then i forgot. Took me so long to figure out whats wrong with the phone. Talk about embarasing.

network ip ping sniffer software

Found a tutorial and sample code and improved on it. I call it "node it all"
current version: V 0.1
It asks for an Ip network section then searches for hosts in the network it defaults to 192.168.0.xxx  network
I made a console aplication to just sniff ips + network names
download link
node it all

Future improvements a windows app that can save availability and remember nodes and notify if a link that is always on if its down

know which data point

PROBLEM :On a live system and you want to check out a single point with minimal interaption. If you can‘t tell which data point is which on a network cabinet .

SOLUTION: fastest way is to have someone stand near the switch .Unplug the patch cord while the machine is turned on .Do that 3 or 4 times and the other person checks which point goes on and off on the switch. And you know which port to work on.

programing for droids in droids

Took me an entire month searching for this finally someone was crazy enough to think it and code it .I mean an app that does just that programming android apps inside of android.I found a couple of apps that do just that 1. AIDE
       2.SIGMA SCRIPT - lua scripts on android
       3.DROID DEVELOP

With a large enough screen you can have yourself a fully fledged android development platform.Something like a tablet on note. But smaller screens are ok.This coupled with some free android programming books and you are good to go.

Oh my God another update

   OH WINDOWS IS UPDATING .WOW. AGAIN! 
   I think all code on a software should come as a single package .No updates .What updates means is that we build software so crappy and bogous that we cant wait until the next major version or service pack to fix all the holes in our software. Take win 7 for example , all those security updates just render the machine slower and the likelyhood of being unable to start .Its the single thing that cursed windows 7. Nice that windows 8 is coming but its own problems. They seem to solve problems from the previous version then onto the next one.
      But dont be fooled  win 8 under the hood isnt that differrent from vista. What I mean is past the different interface . They learnt there mistake by marketing xp sp1 xp sp 2 xp xp 3 as the same product so the inovation was made to create more money by changing intefaces and making it seem like a completely different OS. But if you work with all three it feels the same and the undelying mechanisims are so alike.Anyway the problems of windows gives me a job figuring out whats the problem
:-)

disable the new tab pages

PROBLEM : When using Firefox 17.0 or any version that supports this, every time the new tab opens there is a tab of the most recent and most visited sites tab .This can be an intrusion on privacy.

SOLUTION:  In the address bar enter  about:config.click "I will be careful, I promise " then type in the search bar for the advanced preferences the following browser.newtabpage.enabled double-click to change the settings and you are set.

Microsoft office not showing thumbnails and icons are white and blank

PROBLEM :Microsoft office 2010 not showing icons .Both the program icons and files cant be distinguished without knowing their prefix (.doc .xls )They are all white .

SOLUTION : Uninstall the latest microsoft office update then restart .If not uninstall all the updates.Should solve the problem

network local domain (unauthenticated) .

PROBLEM : The laptop i use at work uses dhcp and NIC cards connection to the WiFi access point went from great to rotten . The link was showing that the domain link was unauthenticated.There's internet access and network is showing that its ok but no internet acess I had installed a proxy software called hotspot shield. Nice idea it shields every internet connection in your computer and passes it through a proxy server protecting everything that you do.I think it made my connection go bad.Only logging off then logging on to the machine would help .That's just like restarting . Tried solving it like it was an ip address conflicts so I treated it as such and tried resolving it that way.

SOLUTION : START -> RUN -> enter CMD.EXE -> ENTER
                       ipconfig  /release
                       ipconfig  /renew

resets the link and its good for now.If the problem persists these are worthwile commands i found after troubleshooting my laptop

netsh winsock reset catalog
netsh int ipv4 reset reset.log
netsh int ipv6 reset teset.log

then reboot this may work .Holla if it does nice to know.

after 30 min...........................
That didnt work back to trying to get this thing working again. Tried the three commands I found on the internet and so far so good.
And it actualy works .And thats what we call a great tutorial.

blank laptop screen

PROBLEM : I had a laptop with a blank screen when booting up .The fan would spin but the screen was blank.it would go on then reboot purpetualy.

SOLUTION :I downloaded the laptops correct bios.After a thousand cold boots,it finaly loaded the bios.I flashed it by running the bios utility, and problem was gone. Now she boots like a dream.

moving nokia contacts and editing csv files

problem : I have a .csv file (comma separated values ) that contained contacts from a nokia phone. The contacts were to move from one phone to the other . I was using the nokia pc suite to add the contacts onto the new phone. After extracting the contents from the previous phone  I was give the contacts in form of .csv file.Problem was that trying to import the contacts into the nokia pc suite the software was stating that the contact were the wrong format.
solution: This is where I personally got bored to my knees but someone had to do it .So I opened the .csv file in note pad it looked like this

Name,Mobile Phone,Home Phone,Business Phone,Company,Job Title,Car Phone
A,07000000,,,,,

Then we went to the nokia pc suit to the contacts section and exported one contact as a .cvs file so that we could get at what the difference was between the exproted .csv file it could accept and the one it was refusing to import.

The exported contact looked like this 

"Title","First name","Middle name","Last name","Suffix","Job title","Company","Birthday","SIP address","Push-to-talk","Share view","User ID","Notes","General mobile","General phone","General e-mail","General fax","General video call","General web address","General VOIP address","General P.O.Box","General extension","General street","General postal/ZIP code","General city","General state/province","General country/region","Home mobile","Home phone","Home e-mail","Home fax","Home video call","Home web address","Home VOIP address","Home P.O.Box","Home extension","Home street","Home postal/ZIP code","Home city","Home state/province","Home country/region","Business mobile","Business phone","Business e-mail","Business fax","Business video call","Business web address","Business VOIP address","Business P.O.Box","Business extension","Business street","Business postal/ZIP code","Business city","Business state/province","Business country/region",""
"","contact","","","","","","","","","","","","072222222","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","",""

so I opend it in excel thinking I had found the holy grail copy pasted onto the columns my contacts from the original faulty .csv then saved as .csv . Aching to import , then failure checked the .csv file format it looked like below.

Title,First name,Middle name,Last name,Suffix,Job title,Company,Birthday,SIP address,Push-to-talk,Share view,User ID,Notes,General mobile,General phone,General e-mail,General fax,General video call,General web address,General VOIP address,General P.O.Box,General extension,General street,General postal/ZIP code,General city,General state/province,General country/region,Home mobile,Home phone,Home e-mail,Home fax,Home video call,Home web address,Home VOIP address,Home P.O.Box,Home extension,Home street,Home postal/ZIP code,Home city,Home state/province,Home country/region,Business mobile,Business phone,Business e-mail,Business fax,Business video call,Business web address,Business VOIP address,Business P.O.Box,Business extension,Business street,Business postal/ZIP code,Business city,Business state/province,Business country/region
,A,,,,,,,,,,,,07000000,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

discouraged it tried to edit manualy to add the double quotes by copy pasting a proper contact and replacing the contact with another contact in its place so as to give the new contact the proper format contaning double quotes . After around 40 contanct it hit me there should be a software that can help and oley came cved. Awsome software by the way. All I had to do was to open the faulty .csv ,the one exported from excell with all the contacts but would not import. I went to options then set it to save with double quotes and voila I was able to import