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Troubleshooting OSX Kernel Panics - Part 1

Posted in Macintosh by kevin on Wed, 03/07/2007 - 3:32pm

If you see the following on your Macintosh you are having a serious problem caused by a problem with your hardware and/or software.

 

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You should follow these steps to troubleshoot the problem:
  1. Go to the Finder, then to Applications, then to Utilities.
  2. Double click on Terminal.app
  3. Type in the following without the quotes "open -a /Applications/TextEdit.app /Library/Logs/panic.log"
    1. This is your starting point for seeing what has been happening.  In many cases this will tell you what is causing the kernel panic.
  4. The second part of this tutorial will address hardware and software troubleshooting.

 

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Sending mail from Outlook using your Gmail account

Posted in Windows by kevin on Fri, 02/09/2007 - 6:18pm

This tutorial will show you how to use a gmail account as the outgoing email server from Outlook.  This is most useful for situations when your ISP filters or blocks outgoing email.  Verizon will not allow any emails that do not contain an @verizon.com email address to originate from their network.   Another use for this is for people with laptops who need to send email from multiple locations and hence ISPs.

Here are the steps you should follow:

  1. Your first step is to go to Gmail.  After you are click on the sign up for gmail link.
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  2. 2 Fill in all of the required information including your cell phone number.  At the present time this is a gmail requirement.  Now enter the code that you will receive on your mobile phone.
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  3. You will be presented with another form.  Fill it out.  Remember that you need to use your everyday email in the secondary email field.  The other fields are up to you.
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  4. Great you have successfully setup your account.  Click on the "I'm ready - show me my account" link.
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  5. You are presented with another page showing a summary of what you can do.  Click on the "Sweet! Go to my inbox" link.
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  6. Phew!  You have made it to the main gmail account page.  Please click on the Settings link in the top right section of your page.
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  7. Click on the Accounts Tab.  Now click on the "Add another email address" link.
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  8. Enter in your real email address here.  Gmail will send a confirmation email to you.  Please go to Outlook and check your email.  Click on the link in that email which will take you to a gmail confirmation webpage.  From there go back to gmail by clicking here.
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  9. Click on Settings once again then go to Accounts.  Your last step is to click on the "make default" link to the right of your real email address.  The reason that you do all of this is so that people see your real email address in the sender and reply to fields.  If you did not do this when users replied to your email they would send it to this new gmail account.
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  10. In Outlook go to the tools menu then E-Mail Accounts.  Select the account that you want to change and then click here.

 

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Configuring Outlook 2003 for your Google Gmail Account

Posted in Windows by kevin on Fri, 02/09/2007 - 5:31pm

Configuring Outlook 2003 for your Google Gmail

 

 

  1. Click the Tools menu, and select E-mail Accounts...
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  2. Select Add a new e-mail account, and click Next.
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  3. Choose POP3 as your server type by clicking the radio button, and click Next.
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  4. Fill in all necessary fields to include the following information:
    User Information
    Your Name: Enter your name as you would like it to appear in the From: field of outgoing messages.
    Email Address: Enter your full Gmail email address (username@gmail.com)

    Server Information
    Incoming mail server (POP3): pop.gmail.com
    Outgoing mail server (SMTP): smtp.gmail.com

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Macintosh vs. Windows Comparison

Posted in Macintosh | Windows | Security | Spyware by kevin on Fri, 02/09/2007 - 10:48am

This is the beginning of a series comparing the Macintosh and Windows operating systems.

 

 See what Computer World has to say.

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Reading RSS Feeds with Firefox

Posted in Macintosh | Windows | Content Management Systems | firefox | rss | Security | webbrowsers by kevin on Wed, 02/07/2007 - 4:58pm
RSS which is Really Simple Syndication is a way to have information come to you automatically and easilly. 
RSS is commonly used to subscribe to news sites, podcasts, video casts, and on search engines, and portals such as Yahoo which collect information from multiple sources in a single place. Following is an explanation showing you how to use the power of this with the popular and secure Firefox webbrowser. Firefox calls RSS Live Bookmarks and describes them as

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Installing Asterisk on Fedora Core 5

Posted in Asterisk by kevin on Wed, 08/30/2006 - 7:03pm

This is a modification of the instructions found at http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/ATrpms

  1. rpm --import http://ATrpms.net/RPM-GPG-KEY.atrpms
  2. Add the following to /etc/yum.conf
    1. [atrpms]
      name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - ATrpms
      baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/fc5-i386/atrpms/stable
      gpgkey=http://ATrpms.net/RPM-GPG-KEY.atrpms
      gpgcheck=1
  3. run these commands
    1. yum install zaptel zaptel-kmdl-`uname -r`
    2. yum install asterisk asterisk-devel asterisk-sounds asterisk-addons libpri spandsp
  4. Run modified instructions found here
    1. Run the following commands to backup your current/sample configurations:
      1. mv /etc/asterisk/iax.conf /etc/asterisk/iax.backup
      2. mv /etc/asterisk/extensions.conf /etc/asterisk/extensions.backup
    2. Run the following commands to download VoicePulse sample configurations:
      1. cd /etc/asterisk
      2. wget http://connect.voicepulse.com/samples/iax.sample
      3. wget http://connect.voicepulse.com/samples/extensions.sample
      4. mv /etc/asterisk/iax.sample /etc/asterisk/iax.conf
      5. mv /etc/asterisk/extensions.sample /etc/asterisk/extensions.conf
    3. Edit the VoicePulse Asterisk configurations:
      1. cd /etc/asterisk
      2. pico iax.conf
        1. Login to http://connect.voicepulse.com
          1. Note device login and device password on credentials page
        1. Replace MY_DEVICE_LOGIN with your device login
        2. Replace MY_DEVICE_PASSWORD with your device password
        3. uncomment auth=rsa
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Apple Laptop Battery Recall

Posted in Macintosh by kevin on Mon, 08/28/2006 - 2:20am

Just saw this over at Small Dog.  Its pretty important to check your laptop.

 
Apple Battery Recall - EXPANDED INFORMATION
Posted 2006-08-25 17:44 in Apple-News by Ed Shepard

Apple has determined that certain lithium-ion batteries containing cells manufactured by Sony Corporation of Japan pose a safety risk that may result in overheating under rare circumstances.

The affected batteries were sold worldwide from October 2003 through August 2006 for use with the following notebook computers: 12-inch iBook G4, 12-inch PowerBook G4 and 15-inch PowerBook G4.

1.8 million lithium-ion notebook batteries will be recalled.

This is the second-biggest computer battery recall in U.S. history, after Dell’s recall of 4.1 million lithium-ion batteries. Both companies use batteries made by Sony Corp..

You can read all the information by clicking here.

You can also call 800-275-2273, 8:00 am to 8:00 pm, CDT everyday.

The recall is for batteries manufactured from October 2003 through May 2006.

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Funny Videos From The Big Boys

Posted in Windows | Financial Software by kevin on Mon, 08/28/2006 - 1:53am

IBM Mainframe Training Video

Microsoft Spoof

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The Wall Street Journal Reports that Macintoshes are Taking Over the Business World!

Posted in Macintosh | Windows | Security by kevin on Thu, 04/06/2006 - 2:18pm

Believe it or not the Wall Street Journal has reported that Macintoshes are replacing Windows at a major Japanese banks for multiple reasons including security.  See the article here.

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Tabbed Browsing in iChat is Here!!

Posted in Macintosh by kevin on Thu, 04/06/2006 - 12:13pm

You use tabs in Safari.  You use tabs Firefox.  Have you been itching to have them in iChat.  Well wait no more.  A donationware application called Chax has been released.  If you want to see the full list of features head on over to their website.  If you cannot wait download it here 

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