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Foxconn audio driver Realtek AC97 problems [solved]

Nik — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 01:06:56 -0600

Recently I formatted a system. The system specifications where nice though it had a Foxconn motherboard.

I don't know if you are aware of that company but I wasn't.

So after installing Windows Xp with Service pack 3 integrated.

After the installation, windows did not recognize the onboard audio device. The specific Foxconn motherboard uses a Realtek chip with AC97 high definition audio.

So I tried everything, re-install, format and install but that did not solve it.

I installed UAA windows drivers but neither that solve the problem.

The sound device was unknown and windows device manager showed it with questionmark.

So I tried again with something I read on a forum. I downloaded the Realtek AC97 drivers from the Realtek website.

Then installed them, rebooted and TADA!! there was sound!

Keep in mind that before that I downloaded the drivers that where on Foxconn's website.

Conclusion: Don't buy Foxconn motherboard :-)

WAG200G Remote Management Problems [Solved]

Nik — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 04:54:01 -0500

If you try to manage remotely your Linksys WAG200G adsl modem and router then you have to notice the following things:

Enable remote management from the administration of your linksys router (it's located by default at http://192.168.1.1 and username and password is admin)

Check if your ISP (internet service provider) is blocking any ports.

Go to http://www.canyouseeme.org/ and see if port 8080 is open. (Change the port for more security)

If the port is open then you can visit your router with the following link https://your ip here:port

Firefox or Internet Explorer will not load the administration until you grand access of the certificate. Trust the certificate and Voila! A popup dialog will ask you for username and password.

Change username and password for security reasons.

That's it!!

Also from Applications&Gaming page you can forward any ports you want. For example web server, ftp server, remote desktop etc.

Hope it helped!

Make Money Online Ebooks ... NOT!

Nik — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:00:15 -0500

Do you know that the most blogs out in the blogosphere are advertising books about how to make money online ?

So do you think really that you gonna make money by selling ebooks about making money.

I mean we have to be in sort of idiots to believe that.

Although I haven't bought anything yet, I have downloaded many "free" reports as they call them about making money online etc etc...

The free reports are full of ads, affiliate links and no valuable information.

Ok we forget that.

Now lets go to the real ebooks. What do you think they sell? Secrets ... perhaps, Ideas ... maybe, Tutorials ... could be, the same information you can find through little research ... Yes! how did you find it??

The real story is that when you buy an ebook about making money online you will find exactly the same information in articles, blog posts and newsletters, with a little research.

Web Hosting Pad free coupon

Nik — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:19:01 -0500

Web Hosting Pad offers very good web hosting service for the lowest prices.

An account at Web hosting pad has the following benefits:

Is Entrecard a good way to increase my traffic ?

Nik — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:18:15 -0500

In this post I'll try to answer to that question because there is a lot of buzz around Entrecard and I don't know if it's worth the time.

I explain how the hole system works, and how you can use it to drive traffic to your site or blog.

What is Entrecard?

Simply put, Entrecard is a system where you place a widget (a portable chunk of code that can be installed and executed within any separate HTML-based web page) on your website and others can drop your card in it.

What is a card?

The card is a significance. Dropping the card it is as if you leave in your stain. In each cast you you take ec (entrecard credit) and another the user in which you drop it.

With ec you can buy advertisements.

The cost of ec of each website advertisement depends on how much advertisements has this user-website in it's cue.

A large cue means high cost, which means large popularity.

The Entrepreneur Story Finally Published

Nik — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 09:29:21 -0500

Finally Carolyn Duncan has published the Entrepreneur Story which is one of 100 dollar business project.

Although the publication was postponed numerous times, I am happy to announce that it's finally there.

What is a 100 dollar business project ?

Well it's an idea that with only $100 it maybe could get profitable and make a good business startup.

And what is the Entrepreneur Story?

The Entrepreneur Story was a project of publishing 100 stories of successful businessmen and businesswomen. Each of them would write their story and it would be included in the Entrepreneur Story.

You can get more information and of course a copy from the site http://theentrepreneurstory.com/

Web Design Part #3

Nik — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 11:47:15 -0500

Search Engine Marketing: Timing of SEO in the Web Design Process

By frankexr

If you’re just starting to build your website now is the best time to start planning your search engine optimization and search engine marketing strategy. The best time to introduce the SEO planning of a website is when the site design ...

Persuasive Web Design

By cre8pc

Branding is more than a logo or web site design. It’s the customers’ experience with products or services that counts and contributes strongly to word of mouth advertising and repeat sales. The customer experience doesn’t need to be a ...

Skype Guide

Nik — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:36:03 -0500

Ubuntu Proftpd very slow: how to speed up

Nik — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:16:01 -0500

I have installed proftpd in my Ubuntu.

When I was downloading it was slow enough to make me searching for some answers...

Well I found some.

Here they are:

#UseReverseDNS — Toggle rDNS lookups UseReverseDNS off #IdentLookups — Toggle ident lookups IdentLookups off

Placing these lines at your /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf

you will get more speed at your file transfers.

Desktop Publishing Tips

Nik — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:26:33 -0500

Desktop Publishing Tips
By Michael Russell

Online publishing is not so difficult. You can just make a Blogger or Wordpress account and suddenly become a self-published author or you can use software like FrontPage to create a nice web page or you might as well start publishing a periodical newsletter. It's your call. The more you surf the Web and collect ideas from other sites, the more skilled you become.