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Dirty Operating System
Computer stupidities - part 1 Operating Systems
I open here a new series of topics regarding “Computer stupidities”. Many of them comes from http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/ or from other sources.
… collection of stories and anecdotes about clueless computer users. It’s a baffling phenomenon that in today’s society an individual, who might in other circumstances be considered smart and wise, can sit down in front [...]
Wordpress - How to convert database to unicode UTF8
Currently in Wordpress 2.5 + UTF8 is enabled by default, but usually after installing of Wordpress the MYSQL database use another collation.
Here is the MYSQL script that will transform your database.
ALTER TABLE `wp_comments` CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;
ALTER TABLE `wp_links` CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;
ALTER TABLE `wp_options` CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET [...]
microSD WiFi Cards
Everybody expect the new microSD WiFi Cards for our smartphones without WiFi included.
Since now, the following products are announced.
SDW 823
Special Features:
World First microSDIO WiFi 11g Card
UltraLow power consumption
Pocket PC/PDA Phone (Smartphone)
Skype Compatible
Key Specifications:
Network Standard Support IEEE 802.11b/g
Network Architectures Infrastructure, [...]
View high resolution youtube videos
Normal resolution
Normally the youtube url looks like the one below which gives you low resolution 320×240 videos.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=XYZXYZ
High Resolution
Simply add &fmt=6 onto the end of url
http://youtube.com/watch?v=XYZXYZ&fmt=6
Now you should see high resolution videos. If no change is observed, then it means the video has not been converted to the higher resolution yet. View the video in full [...]
