Month: June 2008

Cannot share printer between Vista and XP within a network

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…

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Unlock Seagate ST310211A Drives

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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Unlock Western Digital WD80EB Drives

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…

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How to cancel a Gmail account

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. Inspiration: http://digg.com/

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Recolored: How to colorize an old black and white photo

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…

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WordPress Site Update Widget

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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