I recently encountered a network environment where the user had two Windows XP Professional workstations on a network. Each sharing a printer with one another without issue. One of the workstations was replaced with a Windows Vista edition with SP1. The printer setup was easy on the new workstation, however, the other workstation (Windows XP) could not print to the…
Read More »I have a Seagate ST310211A 10GB hard drive that is locked. I am unable to access the drive to reformat it. I found a technique that suggests that by reapplying the firmware a side effect is that the drive becomes unlocked. Successfully tested June 19, 2008. The firmware is available at www.llamma.com as firmw.rar or at www.seagateunlock.com and click on…
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I have a few of these Western Digital WD80EB hard drives and understand there is a tool to unlock such drives. The tool is ATAPWD.EXE and may be found using your favorite search engine. I also understand that the master password is WDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWDCWD. However, the master password gave me error messages. I found this technique (using the ATAPWD.EXE and the…
Read More »I recently opened a Gmail account and discovered I no longer wanted to use that service. These are the steps I used to cancel my Gmail account. Click Settings at the top of any Gmail page. Click the Accounts tab. Click Google Account settings. Click Edit next to My products. Click Delete Gmail Service. Place a checkmark in the checkbox…
Read More »The purpose of this is to illustrate how easy it has become to colorize a black and white photo using paint.NET and Recolored and to demonstrate the result of the little effort it took to produce a finished colorized image. As a collector, I from time to time venture off into other aspects of collecting. There is a great photograph…
Read More »On one of my websites, I have older dated material, so it seems that the site is not being updated. I wanted to put a widget in place that would indicate that the “site was last updated” however; the native widget built into WordPress will not execute PHP code. I found a WordPress plugin called the Samsarin PHP Widget. The…
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