Monthly Archives: February 2009

Windows Vista and the CRCDISK.SYS error

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in most casses, you got this error due to a driver malfunction of a system device that is critical for booting your operating system.

You can always use Windows PE to get into the disk and play with the drivers, but it is really not that simple, Unlike Linux, Windows does not load files according to directories !

What about PostReflect ?

So i am having this problem after using TrueCrypt to protect an operating system , i did this because my most valuable data is my mozilla firefox passwords and files, and simply put, the best way is to encrypt the system volume !

So, right now, i need to access the disk on another computer, Run postreflect and come back with the results here, if this don’t work, the sollution will be much more lengthy, i will let you know what happens anyway

Jessica simpson disappoints Simon Cowell

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Simon Cowell and Jessica Simpson

Simon Cowell and Jessica Simpson

Simon says “Forget the words and you’re out”;

The British judge scared the life out of the contestants of “American Idol season 8″ on the Round 2 – Group day when he announced that forgetting the lyrics equals “directly out of the game”. A bit harsh, don’t you think? I wonder what Cowell has to say about a professional singer forgetting the words of her own song, on stage, and in front of a huge audience?

It is said that sweet Jessie mumbled her way through almost all of the words of her song “Come On Over” at Michigan Concert yeserday, then decided to give herself a second chance when minutes after, she asked the band to play it again after apologizing to the audience.

Paris Hilton explores England for a nameless best-friend

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“Well, best friends are not mobile phones! You cannot just buy a new one and ditch the other“; an old saying.

Hilton doesn’t believe in friendship proverbs, instead she decides to fly to England and find herself a brand new BFF. This proves that Paris was not entirely satisfied with Brittany Flickinger, and a new best friend is still on demand. Not shocking at all, just take a look at how many mobile phones the heiress has, it seems she never gets enough.

On the contrary, the young-rocker Brit revealed her true feelings of joy, she claims that it won’t hurt to have more than one BFF, specially that Paris gets to choose the up-coming girl. Sorry to tell you but that sounds a bit phony Brit, specially that one of the questions of the New BFF site application is; “What about you will make you a perfect replacement for Paris’ Ex BFF?” well that does not sound like you’ll be ever included again!!

Paris is currently staying in London to make sure that her “My New BFF” 2nd season call for casting is going as expected. She is also taking care of the up-to-the-minute preperations, she doesn’t want to end up with someone like Flickinger, does she?? By then she might fly to France for the 3rd season, and it would be time consuming for the partying-addict to learn a new language!

Mickey Rourke and his Fashion Dilemma

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Mickey Rourke seems to be emerging from a blind rainbow in that unstable fashion status. Isn’t being a celebrity demands a minimum level of a-fashion-sense?? Well if so, Rourke is wrestling hard with his wardrobe, and no matter how excelling his acting skills are, I’m sorry to say that he absolutely fails the celeb-101 exam.

An extreme makeover book should be the first thing this dude gets for his coming 57th birthday. So for all his fans around the world, you know now what to do.. And if you think that it is his personal issue, you might as well give Phelps his own break! Satisfy your sight with the ultimate tutorial on how to achieve a Rourke look;

Start with Sunglasses

Start with Sunglasses

First, Start with the sun glasses. Make sure that it would match nothing, and the more it is out of style, the more it would feel like Mickey.

The Smoke Effect

The Smoke Effect

Stay in touch with your smoky powers, and make literal. Grab a cigarette and make it your only companion. Make sure you light one on the streets and let a huge cloud of smoke choke those around you. The more you smoke, the more you get a Roukin’ look.

Perfect Hat

Perfect Hat

Search for the most disastrous caps and hats at the local stores and BUY them. But please don’t stop there, because you’ve got to WEAR them too. Like they say, it’s sad but true!

Now do your best to combine a glittery hat with a cloud of smoke and you’ll be almost done.

Hide your Hand

Hide your Hand

This is an extreme measure, and we only advise those who are full of self-esteem to follow the 3rd step of “achieving the Rourkey look“. Hide you left hand in a warm and dark place, try your nostrils for a better impact, sorry that was a bad joke! But you’ve got to give the impression of an indifferent attitude while performing the hidden-hand style though.

Final Touches

Final Touches

Finally we recommend high heal boots, patterned pajama pants, textured worn out shirt, and a couple of silver rings on each finger. I hope you enjoy the recipe, and good luck with the Oscars! Won’t you be nominated if you follow the look???? I guess so!

Michael Phelps turns out to be human!

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It was reported that the  eight-gold-medals-champion is indeed human after a collective  acknowledgments made by newspapers and the champion himself  “aka; accusers and victim”.

After the release of a picture that shows the YOUNG swimmer smoking bong, his life is no longer the same. The war started between those who say “what’s the big deal” and those who want Phelps to be “a media-scapegoat”.

Phelps has personally announced two days ago; “I engaged in behavior which was regrettable and demonstrated bad judgment”

Celebrities who admit their mistakes and even regret them like Phelps, should be at least respected for many reasons:

First, it is at last confirmed that even if you can swim like a fish, there might be a chance that you’re not a fish, on the contrary, you are originally a human being . But you still might be as stupid as a fish who lets anyone take a photo while smoking marijuana. “And I’m referring to the fish here”.

Second, it is no secret that 8 out of 10 “humans” smoked pot at least once, and 8 out 10 “celebrities” deny being engaged in any an-acceptable acts, though most are caught on TAPE!

Third, Lets not forget that we are talking about a 20′s old guy who is trying to live up to the media standard. If we apologize for all the stupid stuff we made in our 20′s then making choices would not be part of the growing process. Wouldn’t it be wiser to base your choices after a minimum amount of experience?

Fourth and most important, If the guy is not 100% sober and at the same time can participate in the Olympics and win 8-gold medals in a row, then he is one hell of an athlete!

Katy Perry and Lily Allen

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Lily Allen and Katy Perry

Lily Allen and Katy Perry

So, Singer Katy Perry started it by calling herself a “skinnier version” of pop star Lily Allen

Now to get back (You know, this is a major offense in a celebrities life), Lily Allen called Katy perry “crass” and to prove that she also wins on the crass front, threatened to post Perry’s phone number on Facebook.

Now are those celebrities nuts or what, i hope Katy Perry is not mad at me for forgetting to start Perry with a capital “P” some 2 lines ago.

So if i was to live by there standards, i would carry a shotgun around. you know, just in case someone thinks i am not very skinny, or just in case a friend of mine gives another friend my phone number and therefore asks for unconditional war.

To make things worse, people around the internet are blaming facebook since all of this happened on FaceBook, well, if you don’t like facebook then don’t use it, and if you think Cell Phones are polluting the radiowaves with microwave, then get some talkie walkies.

My Sony DSC-H50

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So , i finally got my DSC-H50, Although very dissapointed with how i lost my lovely 2 year old DSC-N2 and how easily the thing breaks (So much for portable if it breaks at the touch), i had to get another SONY when i really really like the cannon.

In Jordan the DSC-H50 costs $565 U.S.D (400 JDs), Every battery pack costs $70.5 U.S.D, i got a sony simply because i had extra battery packs, and now a spare USB cable, and charger.

The quality is not bad all in all, steady shot is not really good but it is ok, Capture when victim smiles (i mean person) is not so important, Auto face focus is good, the rapid setting adjustment with the wheel on the top is nice, No touch screen is dissapointing, Nightshot is ok (Even though any B/W camera can take photos with Infra Red), but all in all the thing is acceptable.

I will edit this into a complete review once i have tested this camer a bit more.

The motorola SM56 56K V92 FAX VOICE MODEM

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Hoping to find the $5 alternative (With a little bit of tweaking) i went and got the $5 Motorola MOT PCI 3
Q445DGEA32 56K V92 FAX VOICE MODEM.

If you are here to download the drivers for the Motorola Fax Voice modem, the drivers that shipped with it are here, they come in flavors for Windows XP, Vista, 98, and ME. i don’t think Motorola will object to me posting the drivers here, but if they ever do, i will take them out instantly. (Click to download Motorola modem drivers)

See specs and photos of my SM56 here

Under windows Vista this thing is called Motorola SM65 speakerphone Modem.

The querry modem command under windows Vista (Should be identical under Windows XP) returns

02-03-2009 02:59:44.717 – File: C:Windowssystem32tapisrv.dll, Version 6.0.6001
02-03-2009 02:59:44.719 – File: C:Windowssystem32unimdm.tsp, Version 6.0.6001
02-03-2009 02:59:44.720 – File: C:Windowssystem32unimdmat.dll, Version 6.0.6000
02-03-2009 02:59:44.720 – File: C:Windowssystem32uniplat.dll, Version 6.0.6000
02-03-2009 02:59:44.724 – File: C:Windowssystem32driversmodem.sys, Version 6.0.6001
02-03-2009 02:59:44.725 – File: C:Windowssystem32modemui.dll, Version 6.0.6001
02-03-2009 02:59:44.729 – File: C:Windowssystem32mdminst.dll, Version 6.0.6001
02-03-2009 02:59:44.729 – Modem type: Motorola SM56 Speakerphone Modem
02-03-2009 02:59:44.729 – Modem inf path: oem10.inf
02-03-2009 02:59:44.729 – Modem inf section: SM56_PCI_MODEM_INSTALL
02-03-2009 02:59:44.729 – Matching hardware ID: pciven_1543&dev_3052
02-03-2009 02:59:44.729 – Opening the modem device failed with error 00000020
ATQ0V1E0 – OK
AT+GMM – Motorola PCI Speakerphone Modem
AT+FCLASS=? – 0,1.0,8.0
AT#CLS=? – COMMAND NOT SUPPORTED
AT+GCI? – +GCI:B5
AT+GCI=? – +GCI:(B5,00,01,04,07,09,0A,0B,0C,0D,0F,12,14,16,1A,1B,
20,25,26,27,2B,2D,2E,31,33,35,36,37,3C,3D,3E,42,46,48,
49,4F,50,51,52,53,54,57,58,59,5E,61,62,64,68,69,6A,6C,
70,73,75,77,7B,7E,7F,81,82,83,84,85,87,88,89,8A,8B,8C,
8D,8E,98,9C,9F,A0,A1,A5,A6,A7,A9,AD,AE,B2,B3,B4,B7,B8,
BB,C0,C1,C3,C5,C6,C7,C8,C9,CA,CB,CC,CD,CE,D1,D2,D3,D4,
D5,E1,E2,E3,E4)
ATI1 – 000
ATI2 – OK
ATI3 – SM56 PCI III Rel. 6.12 SiSp Build 07
ATI4 – Built on Jan 29 2007 at 18:23:08
ATI5 – LAST DISCONNECT: NONE
ATI6 – United States
ATI7 – Motorola PCI Speakerphone Modem

Lengthy right ?

Now who cares what Windows thinks, My ultimate goal is to have it work with asterisk to make a very cheap BPX (You can make it from the Junkyard, that is how cheap it is).

The hardware Voice capabilities are ok, i tested them with Some Windows software called Advanced Voice Reorder, the software itself is not very useful but it does function as a proof of concept

So, let us see what zaptel has to say about this, i will update this post in a few hours to tell you about progress

What to hunt for when i go INTEL modem hunting ?

Although 537PU, 537PG and 537EP share the same driver bundle from INTEL, they are not the same, when you download the driver, it actually has the drivers for the 3, not a single driver for the 3.

The first 2 (537PU AND 537PG) should work fine (Low quality though compared to DIGIUM), 537EP will give you a hard time (If it works at all).



Sony Camera, how fragile

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So, my DSC-N2 does not work anymore, it was on the table up right, then it tipped forward, it didn’t fall, a simple very small shock, and i get the ability to see the photos on it but can not shoot pics with it.

Once you switch it on, it starts with the word “Access”, then wait a few seconds to see “Turn the power off and on again”.

I have seen many many people with this problem, the problem is actually with the mechanical lense.

Anyway, i really liked this camera at one point, but now it is dead, so should i buy another sony ?

I was thinking of
Sony Cyber-shot DSCH50 9.1 MP Digital Camera with 15x Optical Zoom with Super Steady Shot since i really hardly ever carry a camera around, i like cannon better, but then again, i don’t want to lose the batteries i baught for this camera (Or the Sony propertairy flash cards).

No touch screen is a downside, i liked that option :(

Any advice about my new camera ? Should i get it, or should i forGET it ?

Awaiting your comments

Smart people follow paris hilton

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Ok, don’t get me wrong, the point of this post is not to claim that paris hilton is not smart (You already know that), the point is, Why would i make a technology choice based on Paris Hilton’s choice.

Busy people like myself would probably better off knowing what Nigel Clifford of symbian is using since that could give them a hint on what symbian is up to or where symbian thinks the future is, but what could Paris Hilton be doing with a phone other than forgetting it at a club ?

A Star or Celebrity, What every phone manufacturer in the world needs.

the moto is “If paris hilton needs a smart phone, So do you” or if David Beckham can score with a Moto RAZR, then you can be a star 2 !

Either way, we have to wait and see if this advertisement technique will work for the Giant electronics firms like it worked for pepsi…

I don’t want to enumerate / List who has what phone etc… but you can see the blackberry dominance right here