BROWSER BEING RE-DIRECTED

Have you ever got your browser redirected? Meanings that when you open your browser, IE or Mozilla, it opens not in the default page you set it up, but to a particular web like www.oursurfing.com, www.qboo.com, www.findfast.com, or whatever but the default page you wish? I’m sure you have and you wonder how to get rid of this annoying thing.  We can call it malware, because it’s not actually a virus, but just a script which somehow embed to our browser application, so every time you open a browser or application, it will force it to open their web first.

There are some cases which the same symptoms like this, but I want to show you one of them.

What you have to do is do right click on the browser, and click on property.

See if the target address is compromised and injected with address. Just delete that address and your browser will open using default page you set on browser option. Simply just delete address after "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe"

And usually your browser can open normally, again ever after.

I hope it works, but if it doesn’t, just leave a comment and I’ll be happy to solve it out together.

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NETWORK CABLE SEQUENCE

If you have to connect a network cable to outlet or to computer, you have to connect the cable to a connector (RJ-45) with particular sequences.
There are 2 ways of connecting the cable to connector which actually just a simple A or B combination. Those both combinations are basically in the same sequences but only different on how you decide where the first one is. For example the cable number 1 in type A will be number 8 in type B.

 The picture in left shows the type B cable sequence, which mostly used and compatible with most peripherals ( I wonder why it's B). The side with pin is up, and the sequence number start from left. The type A will be the same sequence but the pin side will be upside down than type B.







The sequence itself is : White/Orange – Orange White/Green – Blue White/Blue – Green White/Brown – Brown (ex. White/Orange means cable with white and orange cable, etc.) Do this for the both ends of the cable to make a straight cable. There are 2 types of cable ends combination, straight and cross. Straight means both ends is in the same sequence while for cross cable, one end sequence has to be twisted with combination as :
Cable 1 to 3
Cable 2 to 6 








Other cable stands as normal sequence above. While the use of those 2 types are a little bit different as well. Straight Cable; used for connecting between Lan Card to Switch Hub, or normal use, as from client to server connection using switch hub. While Cross cable is to connect between client to client without using switch. 

Well it’s rarely happen, but maybe someday you’ll need to connect 2 computers and you don’t have a switch at the moment, you can just use a cross cable, instead.

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PROBLEM PRINTING WITH LEGAL PAPER

 Maybe you have experienced that you had to print using legal paper, and you found out that the result was not as what you expected. Well, for your information, the size of legal paper mentioned in software sometime different with the actual size of the paper.
Just take a time to measure it manually. The legal paper in application like Microsoft Word is 8.5” times 14”, so measure your paper using ruler and make sure that the length is the same, because in some countries the length for legal paper is 13”.

In some new printers, there is a choice for US Folio which is 8.5” x 13”, so if you’re paper is 13” length then you can use this type instead of legal. And if you don’t have US Folio type in paper choices you have to create a custom size, you can do this in paper selection and click on more. Type the size to 8.5”x13” and name it what you want, and make sure you select this when you print in legal paper with 13” length paper.

Well, I hope this will help you to figure it out.

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FINDING AN UNKNOWN DEVICE DRIVER

Sometimes you have to reinstall your PC or Laptop, right? and often you just don't know where's the hell is your driver disc. It happens a lot, and it's very annoying when you can't find the driver you need.

When the driver is not installed correctly, there's some problems could occur such as not optimal the performance of your pc, and even crash the whole system, which I’m sure not the first idea you reinstalling. Well, although most of the driver is can be loaded and detected by Wndows 7, but still sometimes you find some peripheral just not recognized. Usually you’ll see in the device manager as an unknown device, with yellow punch mark.

Device Manager Propery

There’s a simple way that you can try to solve this problem after trying some other things like opening the manual for the device type or ask the dealer to look for the correct driver, and when it’s all done and you still have the problem you can try to what I want to show you here.

First, just right click the device marked yellow in device manager, and simply click property. The propery block should be show up, and then click on Detail tabs, and scroll for hardware Id.

You will find some information there, and then you can just copy the first line or any line there, and paste it in google navigation box to search it. Usually, it will come up with information you need to find out what the type and brand of the device, where will make it easier for you to find and download the appropriate driver for that device.

Hope it works for you.

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PROBLEM INSERTING AFFILIATE JAVA SCRIPT CODE

Have you ever got the problem with inserting javascript code into your blog? Well, if you are doing online affiliate business, you will find tools which is a javascript code that you can embed to your website or blog. If you look at the tutorial, the process of inserting this code until it appears in your web or blog can’t be more simple, but still, sometimes you get the problem with it, and you are not a javascript expert, and the answer you found in internet forums don’t give you any solution. Well, this could be your frustrating moment, right.
It happen also for me when I tried to embed an affiliate java script code from Lazada into my blog. I tried it few times, but nothing appears in my blog. I’m sure that the script they gave me must be perfect and tested, so I kept looking for the answer in the internet. Tried to change some code in script without knowing what I’m doing, and ended with no progress.
So finally, I came out with the idea that maybe the code is wrong, broken linked, or down, or something, because I see that the code is referring to a particular address.
For example :

<!-- Javascript Ad Tag: 331 -->
<div id="lazada331ZsZrk0"></div>
<script src="http://lazada.go2cloud.org/aff_ad?campaign_id=331&aff_id=32354&format=javascript&format=js&divid=lazada331ZsZrk0" type="text/javascript"></script>
<noscript><iframe src="http://lazada.go2cloud.org/aff_ad?campaign_id=331&aff_id=32354&format=javascript&format=iframe" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" width="160" height="600"></iframe></noscript>
<!-- // End Ad Tag -->

This script is reside in a server with address http://lazada.go2cloud.org..., so the script is not really written in that code itself but hosted in an address elsewhere, so why don’t we tried to check this address instead.
Copy that address : http://lazada.go2cloud.org/aff_ad?campaign_id=331&aff_id=32354&format=javascript&format=js&divid=lazada331ZsZrk0 (without the apostrophe )and paste it in your browser navigation, and go to it. If the page come with a result like :

document.getElementById("lazada331ZsZrk0").innerHTML = '<iframe src="http://lazada.go2cloud.org/aff_ad_creative?creative_id=21766&campaign_id=331&aff_id=32354&format=javascript&format=js&divid=lazada331ZsZrk0&url=http%3A%2F%2Flazada.go2cloud.org%2Faff_c%3Foffer_id%3D91%26aff_id%3D32354%26creative_id%3D21766%26source%3D%26aff_sub%3D%26aff_sub1%3D%26aff_sub2%3D%26aff_sub3%3D%26aff_sub4%3D%26aff_sub5%3D" width="160" height="600" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>';

 Or anything like it, then it means that the java script is there, and it should be working, but it if it doesn’t come up with anything or page cannot be displayed message, apparently, the script is linking to an address which is broken, or the script cannot be reach, or anything making that script is not functioning. So that’s the problem. And instead of trying to figure it out, maybe we can just complain it to the provider to have it fixed.
Well, happy affiliating…

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META TRADER 4 KEEPS RESTARTING IN WINDOWS XP

If you work in forex business you must be familiar with application MT4 (Meta Trader 4), this application is used to do all of things in this business online. You can buy or sell stock or currency, just with one click. Very effective and great application, that’s why it is now become one of a standard application used for forex company in the world.

This application is updated automatically as most great program does, and for last week something happen with all of the computer running Windows XP. I know, it’s a little weird, but some people just can’t let go this Windows XP for some reasons. Some people think Windows XP is so light and they don’t want to buy new version of Windows, or they don’t want to upgrade their PC, or sometimes they just don’t care about anything but this application running. Well, about last week, I don’t know which update triggered it, but all of the computer using Windows XP keep restarting when try to open MT4 application. At the first I thought that this must be a problem with hardware, until I found out that all computer is having the same issue. It keeps restarting once you click to run MT4. Well, after some effort I tried and information from Metaquotes, finally I found the solution for this problem, which what we have to do is just upgrade the service pack to version 3 or SP3. You must download the offline installer version though, since Windows XP is no longer supported by Microsoft, where you can’t update it online.

Well, after you upgrade it, everything is running normal again with MT4, although I’m not sure how long, so still, upgrade the Windows version is the best way to anticipate another problem like this in the future.

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