Gmail NOT WORKING it’s UNAVAIABLE USE IMAP
Ok, flash post today.
Today at 1:30 AM PST Gmail suddenly stopped working. It seems it is unreachable. Google Apps linked applications are also NOT working.
Or simply anyone who’s receiving this :
FIRST A NOTICE FOR EMAIL ADDICTS : PLEASE STAY CALM . DO NOT WORRY. EVERYTHING IS GONNA BE ALRIGHT
The Google’s Gmail support team says the following :
“We’re aware of a problem with Gmail affecting a number of users. This problem occurred at approximately 1.30AM Pacific Time. We’re working hard to resolve this problem and will post updates as we have them. We apologize for any inconvenience that this has caused.”
Anyway, for all those who are experiencing technical problems accessing Gmail or Gmail is absolutely not working, there is a simple workaround :
USE GMAIL VIA IMAP
What, the hell, is IMAP ? Just don’t care ! Using gmail with IMAP means : use gmail with Outlook Express, Thunderbird, Mail, Iphone MAIL or any otherIMAP client.
These are some useful links to configure the main mail clients with GMAIL via IMAP:
Anyway, to configure any client with GMAIL the required settings are the following:
| Incoming Mail (IMAP) Server – requires SSL: | imap.gmail.com Use SSL: Yes Port: 993 |
| Outgoing Mail (SMTP) Server – requires TLS: | smtp.gmail.com (use authentication) Use Authentication: Yes Use STARTTLS: Yes (some clients call this SSL) Port: 465 or 587 |
| Account Name: | your full email address (including @gmail.com) Google Apps users, please enter username@your_domain.com |
| Email Address: | your full Gmail email address (username@gmail.com) Google Apps users, please enter username@your_domain.com |
| Password: | your Gmail password |
Anyway I’m pretty sure everything is gonna be alright in a couple of hours…
YOU, CRAZY EMAIL ADDICT STAY CALM ! STOP HITTING THE REFRESH BUTTON ! SAVE THAT F5 !
As usual hope this is helpful to somebody.
How To Boot and Run Linux from a USB Pen Drive [Easy Way]
Hello,
this time I’m gonna show you two easy ways to install and run two common linux distributions from a pen drive using both Windows Xp or Vista or a Linux Distribution, and wizard procedures. It’s like a “Live” distribution, but from a USB drive. The two distributions are Fedora Core 9 (or 8 ) and BackTrack (what is BackTrack ?!? Take a look at this ), both with the persistence feature…what is the “persistence feature” ??? Well, is the possibility to store the changes you’re making to the system (in fact, it’s NOT exactly like a Live distribution)…anyway…
Fedora Core 9 (2 Gb Pen drive is enough, 4 Gb is better )
The Windows’s Way…
1. Insert the pen drive, and make sure it’s empty
2. Download the lastest version of the “liveusb-creator” from here then extract the zip file to a directory and run ” liveusb-creator.exe “
3. Choose the Fedora Distribution you prefer ( the 9 is really better ! ), choose the USB Drive, then the dimension of the “Persistent Overlay”, the space left to store the modifications to the system, or the files you make. (for 4 gb units, “choose the greatness”…2047 Mb, for 2 Gb… 1024 Mb…less or more… )
4. BUTTON : “Create the Live USB”
5. Wait a couple of hours…
That’s all…now you should have your distribution full working…
The Linux’s Way…
1. Insert the pen drive, mount it and make sure it’s empty
1b. Install YUM if you haven’t got it yet… (your system probably has it already installed…)
2. Open a terminal windows or get a shell, go to an empty directory ( you need a couple of Gb’s free storage space), and give
# yum -y install syslinux PyQt4 git $ git clone git://git.fedorahosted.org/git/liveusb-creator # cd liveusb-creator # ./liveusb-creator
3. Choose the Fedora Distribution you prefer ( the 9 is really better ! ), choose the USB Drive, then the dimension of the “Persistent Overlay”, the space left to store the modifications to the system, or the files you make. (for 4 gb units, “choose the greatness”…2047 Mb, for 2 Gb… 1024 Mb…less or more… )
4. BUTTON : “Create the Live USB”
5. Wait a couple of hours…
That’s all…now you should have your distribution full working…you SHOULD…this is still beta version software…so no one is really sure about that…
Backtrack 3 Final (2 Gb Pen drive is enough, 4 Gb is better )
The Windows’s Way…
1. Insert the pen drive and make sure it’s empty
2. Download the [ USB Version (Extended) ] from the official site
3. Extract the whole .iso file to the USB Drive (feel free to use Winrar )
4. Then open the root folder of the drive (ex. G:\ ), go to “boot” folder
5. Run bootinst.bat and follow the onscreen istructions (just press ENTER if everything is ok )
6. That’s all…. should be working…
The Linux’s Way…
1. Insert the pen drive, mount it and make sure it’s empty
2. Download the [ USB Version (Extended) ] from the official site
3. Extract the whole .iso file to the USB Drive (feel free to use the extractor you prefer…like Ark)
4. Then open the root folder of the drive (ex. /home/media/usb1 or /mnt/sda1 ), go to “boot” folder
5. Run bootinst.sh (double click on the icon or “./bootinst.sh” to the shell) and follow the onscreen istructions (just press ENTER if everything is ok )
6. That’s all…. should be working…
Hope this was useful…. Happy Holidays…
How-to Install Windows Xp on HP Pavilion dv6236EA
Hello,
this one is a VERY BRIEF guide about the installation of Microsoft Windows Xp on a HP Pavilion dv6236EA system…
now, first of all you need to DISABLE the “SATA Native Mode” into the BIOS (press F10 at computer boot)…
then you can make a common XP installation…then…this is the *needed* drivers list:
(Ah, the Softpaq packages are the installation programs for the drivers coming from HP)
VIDEO
GeForce Series Video Driver (Softpaq)
AUDIO — MODEM
Microsoft UAA Driver (Softpaq)
then
Microsoft KB888111 Hotfix (Original Microsoft Hotfix)
then
Conexant HD Audio DRIVER (Softpaq – comes with the MODEM driver )
CHIPSET
Intel® Chipset Software Installation Utility
WI-FI
TOUCHPAD
ETHERNET (LAN)
Lenovo Package (It uses the same interface)
CARD READER (SD – XD – MMC)
Ricoh 5-1 Card Reader Driver (Softpaq Package)
WEBCAM
QUICKPLAY BUTTONS
Driver & Application (Softpaq)
After the installation of these drivers, EVERYTHING is working fine for me…
Every device is correctly working…
Hope it was useful…
P.S.
Q: Why you are not talking about Linux?
A: Because, I dont’want to be stuck in a moment I can’t get out of…
Guide : How-to Install Microsoft Office 2003 in Linux
Hello,
this time we will talk about the installation and the use of Microsoft Office 2003 in whatever linux distribuction…
It’s a brief and fast guide ! Dont’worry ! 
First of all I need to be thankful to the REVIEW by Twickline, one of the useful, but IMHO uncorrected guides about the installation of Office 2003 under Linux I’ve found surfing; so this lack of “easy knowledge” made me create the guide you’re about to read…but now…stop talking around…let’s start !
First, what will work using this procedure:
Word 2003
Excel 2003
Power Point 2003
Publisher 2003
Than what will NOT work
Access 2003 (IMHO anyway it’s USELESS)
Infopath 2003
Outlook 2003 (Useless this one too.
So let’s start:
Download, or install Wine 0.9.37 DO NOT install the lastest version of Wine, because is NOT working…
So DO NOT use your packet manager, (Apt, Synaptics)…but download this “old” version…
For Example at this link you can find the .deb (Ubuntu & Debian Packages) files.
1_
Go to your home folder (aka /home/sorcerer01) then go to .wine/drive_c/windows/system32
EX : “cd /home/sorcerer01/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32″
2_
Rename richedit32.dll and richedit20.dll to richedit32.bak and richedit20.bak
EX:“mv richedit32.dll richedit32.bak” & “mv richedit20.dll richedit20.bak”
3_
Make richedit*.dll “native”
EX: give “winecfg” to bash, go to “Libraries”, insert the dll names, into the mask
4_
Download the richedit30 update to desktop
Download Link
5_
Install richedit
EX: “wine richedit30.exe”
6_
Download the XML Parser
Download Link (only msxml3.msi)
7_
Install the XML parser using wine
EX: “msiexec /i msxml.msi”
8_
Follow the on-screen instructions
9_
Set “msxml3″, “msxml3″ and “msxml3.exe” to native
EX: use “winecfg” as before described
10_
Add Owner and Organizaion Informations to Wine
EX: give “regedit” to bash,
go to [HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version]
add your name to the keys “RegistredOwner” and “RegistredOrganization”
then go to [HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\Current Version] and
and proceed as before
11_
Mount the Office 2003 CD with the option to see the hidden files…
EX “Insert the cd-rom into the drive”
“Make sure it is not auto-mounted (umount /dev/cdrom as root)”
“give this or something similar to bash (it depends on your distribution…you probably should know the right command if are reading this guide)
“mount -t iso9660 -o unhide /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom”
14_
Start the installation procedure
EX: go to the cdrom directory and give
“wine setup.exe”
15_
Follow the onscreen procedure to install Microsoft Office 2003
16_
Try to start an application
EX: ” Probably you got into a new main menù voice called “Wine” where you can find the Office programs, anyway the bash command is…
“wine “/home/sorcerer01/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Office/OFFICE11/winword.exe” “
and so on…
FGA (Frequently Given Answers)
YES, you really need that old version of wine. (newer version are not working…at least up to 0.9.48)
Yes, you have to change “sorcerer01″ to your home directory name…(usually it’s you user name)
Yes, if you’re using Ubuntu the installation works with the “sudo” command…
You shouldn’t need be root for make wine running and – or – install MS Office…
You just need to be root to install wine and maybe to mount the cdrom…
I am not sure, I’ve heard of people activating Office 2003 in linux…probably you should know what to do about the problem….
No, Wine-doors CAN make it working…but only if you’ve installed Wine 0.9.37
No, Wine programs, are NOT shared between different users
No, If you are using Beryl or Compiz, you probably DON’T NEED to disable them.
No, I don’t know how to run Access 2003
No, at this time I don’t how to make Office 2007 running
FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
Q: Why to install 0.9.37 and now the lastest one ?
A: The problem is a common error, probably related with the implementation of the msi.dll into the newer and older versions od Wine; this error makes EVERY Office Application to hang up with this error code
“Microsoft Office Word has not been installed for the current user. Please run setup to install the application”
more informations about the bug are here , here , here, and here.
The only, current, solution is to downgrade to 0.9.37
Q: I’ve already got a newer wine installation, what to do ?
A: Well…It depends…simply try to remove the program…and install the old one…(all your files wil be kept), If everything is working anyway…you’re okay… !
If your applications aren’t working anymore you probably need to keep two different installations of wine..but I think this is really OT…
As usual, hope this was helpful…to someone…
YAHT, Yet Another How-To Install webcam on Pavilion dv6000 & dv9000 series
Ok,
just installed the new Ubuntu 7.04 “Feisty Fawn” on my laptop (HP DV6236EA), everything worked fine…except for the installed webcam…
UPDATE: after installing Gutsy Gibbon….everything worked fine…except for the installed webcam
so…after…a LONG (10 minuts) hard searching session…I’ve created this how-to…hope it’s useful…
HOW-TO Install Ricoh webcam 05ca:1810 and others to Ubuntu 7.04 and, probably, other, Debian based, Linux distribution; this webcam is a part of HP dv6000, dv9000 an Sony…
First of all, make sure You got a Ricoh Webcam so from a terminal give:
sudo lsusb
the output should have a line like this
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 05ca:1810 Ricoh Co., Ltd
Different ricoh webcam’s ID (05ca:1810) requires different drivers,
but the driver for 05ca:1834 is mostly compatible; in fact you can use this how-to and this drivers for these ID:
05ca:1830 Sony Vaio SZ (Sony Visual Communication Camera VGP-VCC2 )
05ca:1832 Sony Vaio UX (Sony Visual Communication Camera VGP-VCC3)
05ca:1833 – Sony VAIO AR webcam (“Sony Visual Communication Camera VGP-VCC2)05ca:1834 – Sony VAIO AR webcam (Sony Visual Communication Camera VGP-VCC2)
05ca:1835 – Sony VAIO SZ webcam (Sony Visual Communication Camera VGP-VCC5)05ca:1836 – Sony VAIO FE and AR (Sony Visual Communication Camera VGP-VCC4)
05ca:1870 – HP Pavilion built-in webcam
05ca:1810 – HP Pavilion built-in webcam
so to install the drivers follow this two step guide :
IF USING 7.04 Feisty Fawn
follow this link to download the first .deb package, open & install It using your package manager (in Ubuntu is
Synaptic)
IF USING 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon
follow this link to download the first .deb package, open & install It using your package manager (in Ubuntu is
Synaptic)
Then, for Both
follow this link to download the second .deb package, open & install it using your package manager.
If everything is okay, your wecam is Up & Running…maybe you can try it using Gaim…
The original post where drivers were presented is : http://lsb.blogdns.net/ry5u870/
Many issues report problems with the Kopete application…it’s a Kopete problem…
two steps….COOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLL…………..
Playing Manowar – Carry on
