Here is a true story about the unspoken tale of Palm Pre JR and his magical journey to become the greatest pancake maker in the known lands.  How did it happen, you may ask?  Well, let me inform you of the epic tale. It all started one fateful night that a ninja, Palm Pre, lost in his way stumbled upon a web programmer named bekabug.  Bekabug, had always loved ninjas and when she saw the lost Palm Pre, she just knew what her calling would be, she would take him home and care for him.  She al... Read Full Story

I have a virtual windows machine on a ubuntu host and I wanted to print something.  Before, I would move the file to ubuntu and print it from there, but that is difficult and annoying.  Instead, I did the following and it works great!  It took me all of 10 minutes to do! The Print Server is the Ubuntu computer that is directly connected to the printers. On the server machine (the one the printer is attached to) open up printer manager with by going to System in the top toolbar panel, then ... Read Full Story

As I write this entry, I am on the phone with RIM technical support.  Let me tell you the story of upgrading my BES server to version 5.0. *NOTE: The second time for this issue, the issue was DNS related insofar, the entry had gotten changed with the wrong server name through replication. I have been working with BES for a long time (since version 2) and my current environment is 4.6.  I downloaded the 5.0 upgrade media and kicked off the install.  I was pleased with the progress and the ins... Read Full Story

Another day, another walkthrough. Today’s walkthrough? You only live once! DISCLAIMER: This game is harsh insofar that once you die, without doing evil things to your flash cache, you cannot play the game again.  Instead, I have found this fun youtube clip of the game and what happens when you win!  I must say, dieing in a pit kinda has a better ending… I really liked the effort that was put into this game, but I don’t like the fact that you can’t play it again (wi... Read Full Story

I recently rolled out Rightfax 9.4 to a client that uses novell as their default email client.  When they open up Faxutil, they receive the following error: “Either there is no default mail client or the current mail client cannot fulfill the messaging request. Please run Microsoft Office Outlook and set it as the default mail client.” 1. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CLIENTS\MAIL. 2. Find key called PreFirstRun. 3. Rename this value to “PreFirstRun.Renamed”... Read Full Story

Using Google SMS. One of the best ways to get information via the mobile phone for those of us that don’t have a Blackberry or internet-enabled, data-ready phone is to send a text message to Google, or 466453. If you have free texting, this is an excellent way to get information while on the go. Phone Numbers Syntax: “marks pizza penn yan ny” Probably the easiest thing to find is phone numbers. The syntax above will get you the number for Mark’s Pizzeria in Penn Yan, New York t... Read Full Story

Well, I love it when buy.com is completely random in its weekly ads.  I still remember when I could buy a deal on condoms and a wireless router.  Just what every geek needs.  Now, you ask, what did they do now?  Read em and weep… TRENDnet TV-IP422 Day/Night Pan/Tilt Internet Camera Server w/ 2-Way Audio SAVE $150.00 FREE BUDGET SHIPPING Buy.com price: $199.99 (Expires 7/31/09) List price: $349.99 Mens Brushed Finish 6mm Tungsten Band Ships from and sold by Buy.com Marketplace FREE BUDG... Read Full Story

Travian.com is a fun webgame that I have been playing to fill my time.  One of the annoying things though, is when you are in a large alliance, they use weird terminology and never explain wtf it means.  For example, lets use the term “Hammer” Since my alliance is going to war, they have been saying, everyone post your hammer and let us know the size of it.  Well it would be nice if SOMEONE had a termonology page or something… regardless, after much reading, here is what a ... Read Full Story

For the life of me, I could not get my netscreen vpn software to connect.  No matter what I did to the virtual windows xp, it just would not fly.  I kept receiving the following errors: 6-24: 07:18:55.296 My Connections\wvenezia@bitxbit.com - Initiating IKE Phase 1 (IP ADDR=160.79.51.201) 6-24: 07:18:56.108 My Connections\wvenezia@bitxbit.com - SENDING>>>> ISAKMP OAK AG (SA, KE, NON, ID, VID 6x) 6-24: 07:19:11.239 My Connections\wvenezia@bitxbit.com - message not received! Retran... Read Full Story

Well, it seems that in the latest attempt for google to take over the world, one browser at a time, their toolbar is calling such files as gtbe12.tmp.exe.  Can you make it seem more spyware than this google?  I mean, come on! Well, I logged into my work computer this morning and it seems that everything was crawling.  Since I do not login to this computer very often (2 times a week) this behavior is not very surprising.  During this time, I check to see what processes are running and where t... Read Full Story