Happy New Year!
New Year’s Eve 2013
Some parts of the world have entered 2014, while the Pacific Timers are still in 2013. I heard it is called “New Year’s Eve”.
Well, We will be joining the rest of the world celebrating 2014 in a few hours. Hawaii will also join later.
The End of 2013 is Nigh
In one day, 2013 will end and 2014 begins. A lot happened in 2013 and it is definitely not a lost year in Tech. We are looking forward to the next batch of 365 days.
“Still the fire burns”
Angry Birds Toons: Hiccups
Episode number forty-two and the last one for 2013 is now playing at Toons.tv and Angry Birds Apps. “Hiccups” features no pigs.
Stay Tooned for next episode.
Face the Boxes
After all these years, the boxes still make me laugh.
Taken with Canon EOS 60D and Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS II SLR Lens.
- ISO: 3200
- Focal Length: 55mm
- Aperture: f/5.6
- Shutter Speed: 1/10
Guess who wrote the OS for the Infotainment System.
Considering that it is a new car, I don’t think the diagnostic was correct. Besides, there’s nothing really wrong with the car. I had no trouble with the brake system or the contorl of the car. must be false positives.
I believe that the Infotainment System in this 2014 Mazda3 has a lot of Microsoft codes, just like Ford Sync.
The Malware that doesn’t take “No” for an answer.
Thursday morning, the day after Christmas 2013 I received a call from someone who needed help. “Fred” callously clicked on an attachment from a phising email purporting from Amazon.com.
After that, he kept seing Windows User Account Control (UAC) asking for confirmation to load some executable file.
Clicking “No” did not really help because UCA kept popping up subsequently.
I booted Windows 7 into “Safe Mode with Command Prompt” and launched Registry Editor (regedit.exe).
I located load command in the registry.
ComputerHKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionWindows”
delete the content from the “Load” key.