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I'm back! It has been a while since I updated this blog, so I'm going to continue writing whatever comes to mind. I've submitted my resignation from the company that I currently work for. It's sad to leave a great company with great people to work with, but I have an upcoming project that has already been paid for in advance. I'm going to continue as a freelance web developer and also develop babygekko's CMS. We'll see where things will develop from here.

I've got a strange problem with the Exchange 2010 in my company - OAB 500 internal error as you can see in the log below. Outlook 2007 and 2010 both hang during "Sending and Receiving" and downloading the offline address book.

2010-06-14 14:59:18 192.168.111.13 GET  /OAB/90eba0b1-d8bd-46a6-8b29-42b101621094/oab.xml - 443 -  192.168.111.118 Microsoft+BITS/6.7 500 0 64 0

2010-06-14 14:59:20  192.168.111.13 GET /OAB/90eba0b1-d8bd-46a6-8b29-42b101621094/oab.xml -  443 - 192.168.111.187 Microsoft+BITS/6.7 500 0 64 0

2010-06-14  14:59:21 192.168.111.13 GET  /OAB/90eba0b1-d8bd-46a6-8b29-42b101621094/oab.xml - 443 - 192.168.60.121  Microsoft+BITS/6.7 500 0 64 140

2010-06-14 14:59:26 192.168.111.13  GET /OAB/90eba0b1-d8bd-46a6-8b29-42b101621094/oab.xml - 443 -  192.168.111.144 Microsoft+BITS/6.7 500 0 64 0

2010-06-14 14:59:26  192.168.111.13 GET /OAB/90eba0b1-d8bd-46a6-8b29-42b101621094/oab.xml -  443 - 192.168.111.187 Microsoft+BITS/6.7 500 0 64 15

2010-06-14  14:59:34 192.168.111.13 GET  /OAB/90eba0b1-d8bd-46a6-8b29-42b101621094/oab.xml - 443 - 192.168.60.121  Microsoft+BITS/6.7 500 0 64 124

2010-06-14 14:59:34 192.168.111.13  GET /OAB/90eba0b1-d8bd-46a6-8b29-42b101621094/oab.xml - 443 -  192.168.77.116 Microsoft+BITS/6.7 500 0 64 421

2010-06-14 14:59:34  192.168.111.13 GET /OAB/90eba0b1-d8bd-46a6-8b29-42b101621094/oab.xml -  443 - 192.168.111.168 Microsoft+BITS/6.7 500 0 64 0

2010-06-14  14:59:34 192.168.111.13 GET  /OAB/90eba0b1-d8bd-46a6-8b29-42b101621094/oab.xml - 443 - 192.168.111.74  Microsoft+BITS/6.7 500 0 64 78

Solution:

Set-OabVirtualDirectory -Identity "EXCHANGESERVERNAMEOAB (Default Web Site)" -internalurl http://yourlocalexchange2010.yourdomain.local -RequireSSL:$false

Today, one of the Windows XP machines in the network got compromised by a fake antivirus. I was able to get rid of this malware, which hid itself under C:Documents and SettingsAll UsersApplication DataMicrosoft, however I wasn't able to run taskmgr.exe. I googled for solutions on how to enable taskmgr.exe, some said that it was in the Group Policy. However, I couldn't find the entry.

Apparently, this fake antivirus also created a whole bunch of registry entries under [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows NT/CurrentVersion/Image File Execution Options].

To fix it, first delete the whole key and then merge the registry entry in this zipped file. Please note that this has only been tested with Windows XP 32-bit. Windows Vista and Windows 7 users, please don't use the registry file to fix your system.

OK so I just installed Ubuntu 10.04 with ATI's fglrx proprietary driver on my HP 6930p with Samsung 2443BW 24" monitor but the screen resolution got stuck at 1280x1024. Here's how I made it to work in its native resolution.

You can either use root or just add sudo before each command.

root@ubuntugekko:/# xrandr --newmode "1920x1200_60" 193.16 1920 2048 2256 2592 1200 1201 1204 1242 -HSync +Vsync

If you tested it and it works, then create a file in your home directory called .xprofile with the following in it:

prana@ubuntugekko:~$ cat .xprofile

xrandr --newmode "1920x1200_60.00" 193.16 1920 2048 2256 2592 1200 1201 1204 1242 -HSync +Vsync
xrandr --addmode CRT1 "1920x1200_60.00"
xrandr --output default --mode "1920x1200_60.00"

Done

Yippeee!!! I've finally migrated my blog to Babygekko (my own content management system) from Wordpress! This version is not available for download yet as I'm still testing it on this site.

Update ** - Ooops - apparently this server is still using PHP 5.2 .. commenting won't work since I have codes that use get_called_class() and I've tried the substitute and it doesn't work ...

Update ** OK finally removed the code..

Mov CX,Scx
Mov DX,Sdx
Add DX,Y
Add CX,X
Mov Scx,CX
Mov Sdx,DX
Mov AX,04F07H
XOr BX,BX
Int 10H

I was just looking at my old files .. Mwahahahhahah .. calling interrupt 10 .. poof. Whatever I wrote 12 years ago doesn't work in my Intel Core 2 Duo anymore.  It was 386, then 486 .. now it's Core-Quad or whatever.

Well worth it for this useful little proggie - only $10.00

http://www.mirc.com/register.php?coupon=MIRC-SWV0-MNKL

I've been trying to find a good date picker based on YUI for my web projects but haven't found any that meets the simplistic requirement - without having to attach it to events and whatnot. So I decided to made one for myself based on this: http://www.javascriptkit.com/script/script2/dyndateselector.shtml

• Demo: http://gekkocms.babygekko.com/yuidemos/datepicker.html
• Source code: http://gekkocms.babygekko.com/js/gekkodatepicker.js
• License: Creative Common

Wishing everyone a happy & safe holiday!

I can finally watch Bloomberg on OS X with only Quicktime & Flip4Mac installed, and the audio is working!. No need to run the old Windows Media Player 9 anymore.

Just open this link with Quicktime:

What's the catch? This is the stream from Hong Kong (Bloomberg Asia) :) The content is exactly the same, but you'll get different advertisements every now and then. At least you don't need to run a 6-years old WMP9 with Rosetta.