This is not a blog with many personal remarks. It is not a blog that tells you about the author’s day, or what he ate for lunch. It is not a blog that a sane person should feel the want to subscribe to.

This blog is only informational. It is met for Googlers all around the world trying to resolve their computer issues.

The purpose of the blog:
To provide answers to the “harder to find” computer questions related to Hardware, Software Programs, Windows and Linux Server and Desktop Operating Systems.

The purpose of comments:
Not for conversation, but to allow others to contribute to the solutions and let others know if it worked for them.

Should you find that your question be answered, lets us and others know “It worked!” or “It didn’t! Instead, I tried this…”

Commentors should be aware: Should they come up with a valid solution, or alternative suggestion altogether, their remarks may be integrated into the article. Credit will be given, of course.

The Administrators Stand on Windows vs. Linux:
Both are useful, and both have great advantages and disadvantages.
I use Linux because it does what I need it to do.
Others use Windows because it does what they need to do.
Some use Macs because they want to feel cool.

Overview: Recently while trying to test out the HDMI function on our JVC HD-56G886a, we found that it was in complete dysfunction. The only visible video were flashes when the screen resolution was changed or when the connection was disconnected and reconnected, and a dark green screen that would just stay on when HDMI was connected.

Cause: JVC HDMI is prone to this kind of  failure. The board can simply develop a temporary issue, resolved by resetting, or HDMI may get disabled due to a light sensor on the back of the television which disabled HDMI when light is shined on the back of the T.V. This is a safety feature, televisions should not operate with direct sunlight on the back.

Solution: Do an HDMI reset.

To reset HDMI on the TV, do the following:

Get your original JVC remote

Switch the television input to the tuner (as if you were going to tune into antenna TV).

Make sure that the remote selector is switched to TV.

Press the SLEEP button on the JVC remote until the SLEEP function shows 0 minutes (this should be the default sleep time)

After pressing the SLEEP button, press the Video Status and Display Buttons simultaneously.

A service menu should appear.

Press the number 2 on your remote for “Self Test”. Do not attempt to use any of the other menus.

Power off your TV. If you are using a projection TV, make sure the internal fans finish cooling and stop before the next step.

Unplug the TV for one minute.

Plug back in, power on the TV. This should resolve the issue, however some users report that they have had to repeat these steps once or twice.

Connect your device. HDMI should work.

If this fails, you may need to replace the board.

Resources and verifying sources:

http://www.justanswer.com/tv-repair/5r973-jvc-hd70fh96-hdmi-inputs-don-t-work-saw.html

http://www.justanswer.com/tv-repair/606pl-jvc-hd-55g466-tv-hdmi-needs-reset-power-failure.html

http://www.fixya.com/support/t213989-hdmi_input_failure

A little bird tells me that Connect Economics by McGraw Hill featuring the book “Essentials of Economics” by Schiller is terrible terrible software and to not bother with any class that plans on using it.

If you are stuck in such a class, the answers for a large amount of the questions can be found here:
Connect Economics (Essentials of Economics – Schiller) Answers

http://zylblog.com/economics/

Problem: WordPress is showing the wrong date and time on published posts and in the “Posts” list inside wp-admin.

Cause: UTC times are incorrectly set, or the server time is wrong.

Solution: Verify the timezone settings in WordPress. This is under Settings> General. You will specify your UTC time.
Eg: Pacific Standard Time is UTC-8. (Meaning: UTC time subtract eight hours)

If you do not know your UTC time, check out the chart on the bottom of this page:
http://www.scc-ares-races.org/utcchart.html

If this is not the problem, you need to check the local date and time on your server.
If you have a hosting provider, you may need to contact them if you suspect the time is wrong on their servers, however this is unlikely since hosting companies are usually very careful about these thing. Wrong date and times actually cause a huge amount of problems communicating securely over the Internet.

If it is your own server, research changing the time in your native operating system.

Did this help you? Let us know, and others, by commenting below.

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Most printer paper is 8.5×11″. (Thats inches…)
Or 216 x 279 mm

The name for this standard is “A (letter)”.

Other paper sizes:

(Chart Source: Wikipedia)

A ridiculous amount of information about paper sizes can be found here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_size

And another chart with more sizes can be found here:
http://www.dpandi.com/paper/index.html

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CLVL GPA only includes college-level classes. These are typically numbered 100 and up. (i.e. ENGL101)

CUM GPA includes all classes, including non-college level classes (i.e. MATH097)

GPA can be roughly calculated by taking the GPA point for your classes, and dividing it by the total number of classes you are taking.

GPA Point per Grade:
A = 4
B = 3
C = 2
D = 1
F = 0

Example: A grade of an A, B, and a C:
A 4
B 3
C 2
This added equals 9. Divided by the number of classes (3)
GPA = 9 / 3
GPA = 3.

For more accurate GPA, see this chart:
http://faculty.cascadia.edu/dwhittaker/percent2gpa.htm

Did this help you? Please comment.

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Remember: Please write in the comments area whether or not you had success with this solution, and share other ideas.

Issue: When clicking on “Older Posts” which brings you to the URL “page 2” (page2), you get a 404 error page.

Problem: Apache mod_rewrite is disabled –or– “AllowOverride” is set to “none” in your Apache configuration file for the virtual server.

Solution: In my case, the problem was with AllowOverride being set to none.

Simply look though your Apache configuration file, and change “none” to “all” for AllowOverride.

Here is an example of what this should look like:
DocumentRoot /var/www
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride all
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride all
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>

WARNING: You should only change AllowOverride to all for the web directory. (Exclude all other items, such as CGI or usr/share/doc). Leave these alone!

Solution 2: This second option works, but does not fix the underlying problem.
Go to your Permalinks settings page in WordPress. Under “Custom Structure”, add /index.php before the line.
Eg:
/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/
should look like this:
/index.php/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/

All links will go through index.php. If you change these links back to not having index.php, they will still redirect properly.

Solution 3: Go without custom permalinks structures.
The disadvantage is that Google doesn’t like these, since the actual link tells Google nothing about the page. For higher ranks in searches, you should avoid this.
Simply go to the Permalinks settings page in WordPress, click “Default” and save changes.

A general reminder: It’s usually a bad idea to constantly switch permalinks. It places you farther behind in Google because your links are always becoming broken. Choose a structure, and stick with it!

“Account Already Exists” error on Windows 2000, XP, and Windows 7/Vista indicates that Active Directory already has the computer listed. You can not have two computers of the same name, even if one is offline. (If the other is online, you will see: “Duplicate Name on Network”. More about this further down)

How you fix it:
Log in to your Active Directory computer, and go to “Active Directory Users and Computers”. Find the computer name you wish to use and delete it.
Return to the computer, and set the computer name as you normally would. (Sometimes, Active Directory changes can take a short period of time before actually taking place. Also, if you have multiple Active Directory computers, you may run across the issue of having to wait for them to synchronize the change).

How to avoid it:
Before changing the name of any computer, you should drop the computer from the domain. The best way to do this is to switch the computer from being on the domain to being on a workgroup. The computer says: “I’m leaving” to the Active Directory server, and Active Directory drops the computer from it’s database.

Duplicate Name on Network:
You must find the other computer name and change it before you can use the name without receiving this error. You should still be able to log in and use the computer with this error, but it is very bad network practice to do so.

If you are failing to get computers to show up in Ghost, and you tried the standard troubleshooting that Symantec recommends (turn firewall and AV scanner off, disabled simple file sharing, etc), here are a few things you may want to try:

First off, if you renamed the computer, Ghost doesn’t magically know about this. A point I should make is that Ghost’s directory of computers connected and Active Directory’s computers listed are completely separate. It may take a while for Ghost to actually get the name. What you can do is run a refresh of configuration and inventory on the old computer name. If you forgot the old name, you may just have to do a refresh on the entire network and wait a few hours.

Second, though the “client heartbeat” or whatever they call it now is usually 20 seconds, it’s not as if the client is giving data back instantly. It’s just saying: “I’m here”. Give it ten minutes, or so.

Third, tried these steps and got nothing? Did you exit Ghost Client and open it again? I’ve had instances where new computers just won’t show up until I do this.

Fourth, hit the Ghost server with an electro-magnet. This will disturb the contents of the hard drive, resulting in quick corruption, forcing you to start the whole thing over again.

Last, “In rare cases”, as Symentec says, it can take up to 24 hours for a computer to appear in the Ghost Console. I’ve had this happen, but you might as well try everything else first. And, if this fails (last last, I should call it!) reboot the Ghost server.

The very last of the last: If you are having trouble getting any computer at all to appear in the Ghost Console, first check to make sure you have enough licenses to connect all of your clients. Second, call Symantec. This is an expensive program with many minimum-wage tech support people desperate to talk to you. Third, consider uninstalling Ghost and reinstalling it. (First, reinstall the client, if that fails, reinstall Ghost altogether).