Thailand’s limited international bandwidth tends to lead to somewhat slow bittorrent transfer speeds especially during peak internet usage hours. This short guide shows you how to uses Vuze with the Ono plugin in order to prioritize Bittorrent connections to peers closest to Thailand thus reducing bottlenecks and increasing upload/download speeds.
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Joomla installation on hostgator fails with a “Database Error: Unable to connect to the database: Could not connect to MySQL” it has been discovered that this issue goes away when I change the mysql password from a whole range of characters (including special ones such as ” >
As you can see, a flashcd downloaded from bootdisk.com boots up fine, but Intel’s BIOS Update CD just dies.
Original blog post is here
I downloaded the bios ISO for the Intel DP43TF motherboard and didn’t boot giving the error that implied that the cd was invalid. I opened up the iso file in magiciso and this is what I got:
The Image does not say “Boot” like it should and the iso image name has a bunch of invalid characters, I think something messed up in their ISO build process.
I was trying to install 64 bit vista on harddisks attached to Adaptec 1220SA adapter but was having issues where the installer was not detecting the drivers that I had inserted on to a USB thumbdrive. Apparently, it worked when I used the 32 bit drivers instead, even tho the installation was 64 bit.
A favour was asked to compile all 2922 pages of the clinton donor’s list into a single text file for easy access when doing research. I used this as an opportunity to compare the performance of BeautifulSoup and lxml for scraping.
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Here’s a guide I found that gives some useful information on what blue screens are all about and what to do when you get one.
The memecode guys on the other hand have instructions on how to quickly retrieve and analyze the dump information from the blue screen.
These should be pretty much sufficient for solving the problemnext time that you get a BSoD.
Update: A program called WhoCrashed seems to be the easiest way to perform this task nice and easy.
Welcome to the blog of Mishari Muqbil. This is where you will be able to find snippets of information about various things that I’ve been working on at the time.