To enable developer mode, all you need to do is to enter webos20090606 at your home screen where the just type it field is. This will let you start the Developer Mode Enabler and flip the switch. Done!

So what next? Jailbreaking an iOS device comes with Cydia, so what’s the counterpart for WebOS? Well, the name is Preware. Just follow this step to step installation guide for Preware via WebOS Quick Install. Now start up Preware on your TouchPad and install the following Patches:

• Muffle System Logging
• Remove Dropped Packet Logging
• Unset CFQ IO Scheduler
• Unthrottle Download Manager
• Quiet powerd Messages
• Faster Card Animations HYPER Version
• Increase Touch Sensitivity And Smoothness 10
• Remove Tap Ripple
• Ad Blocker
• Advanced Reset Options

Whenever a client connects to the server, the server will look through all existing users and check if there is one that has the same account. If no, it allows the client to continue normally. If yes, it will send a “alive” message to the other client and first let the new client continue as usual. At the same time, it will wait for an answer from the other client. If a message is received, the new client will get disconnected, as the user is already connected.

This approach works very well on my server. To make this system work for guests too, a unique key would be needed for each user, which should get saved as a flash cookie (browser wide). That will also prevent the user trying to join by opening the chat in different browsers.

You will need to have kept the technet registration process window open from yesterday to get the key.

Maybe it’ll work if you are signed on Technet too.

UPDATE: Downloads are now possible too.

Here is the source:

Google Treasure Hunt Question 2 Calculation PHP Script

All you need to do is unpack the zip archive with the files in a folder named google, rename the downloaded file to google.php, change the last line accordingly to your problem and run the PHP script either via command line (you’ll need to have PHP installed for this) or via webbrowser, if you have some PHP-enabled webspace.

Anti-virus software protects your computer from viruses, but is it really that easy to get infected? In Windows XP, I’d say yes. There is nothing easier than getting a virus in XP by just using Internet Explorer. Whenever someone calls me and ask why his or her computer is extremely slow, I’d ask them if they use XP or Vista. If they say XP, I’d tell them they got a virus. Whereas when someone who using Windows Vista ask me that question, I’d say no problem, it’s just Windows installing updates. Vista doesn’t have many improvements, but there is one I find extremely important in this matter: User Account Control (UAC). Windows will always ask you if some application tries to access system files, so it’s very hard for viruses to get into your system because Windows will ask you explicitly whether you want that virus or not. But still, some installers might get infected, so there is still need for anti-virus software.

So what’s better? Something bloated with anti-spyware and prediction of whether some piece of software is good or bad? Or maybe something simple and fast which just checks against a small database? When an average guy installs anti-virus, they do it to prevent loss of data. Who would want their data overwritten by some stupid virus? So they go to the shop and want to best anti-virus software there is and live in their happy world where they think their data is safe… until the day their hard disk dies. And all their data is gone. Hard disks have an unpredictable life time. My Samsung hard disk I just sent yesterday in was produced April 2007 but still broke within one year usage! Luckily it was part of my RAID system. Come to think about it, anti-virus software even increases hard disk usage, making your hard disk break even faster. Under Vista, I’d even say it’s much more probable that your hard disk dies even before you would even get touched by a virus. So in the end, you still lost you data, paid money for nothing and wasted a tremendous amount of time waiting for your anti-virus to check through your files. So how do we solve that problem? Well, we need Backups and a failure tolerant system. And surprise! Windows does offer the backup part via Shadow Copy and a special backup tool, so the only thing needed would be a redundant system. A RAID 1 will do the trick, which might be even cheaper than the Super-Anti-Everything-Software. And it does what no anti-virus software can do: it improves the performance of your computer! Imagine that, your files safe and your computer faster! Wouldn’t that be great? So when you combine fast and simple anti-virus software with backups and redundant systems, you got the solution to keep your data safe.

So where is the simple and fast anti-virus software? Well, I use AntiVir Personal. It’s quite fast, and because it’s free, it has no useless junk like anti-spyware protection or whatever else other companies are promising their software can do better. Avira does it too by the way, with the bigger version, their anti-everything package. Did I mention that Windows Vista already comes with anti-spyware/malware software? It’s called windows Defender and does exact thing other anti-spyware software also do, only for free. So why should I run several different software which do the same thing making my computer even slower? Anyway, like I said before, any simple anti-virus software will keep your data safe. Why not use a free version if there is one available?

But because the software is free, it has a catch. Whenever the updater finishes, a Popup Window jumps out, advertising the paid version of Avira’s anti-virus software. This gets annoying pretty fast, which is also the reason I googled on how to make it disappear. And I found a solution, on Avira’s Support Forum.

A look in the file associations revealed the Previewer: It’s a DLLs function call. No wonder I couldn’t find any Executable. Anyway, if you want to use the Vista built-in Image Previewing tool with WinSCP, just associate *.jpg, *.jpeg, *.png as an Editor with the following command:

C:\Windows\System32\rundll32.exe "C:\Program Files\Windows Photo Gallery\PhotoViewer.dll", ImageView_Fullscreen !.!

The first issue is more PuTTY based. When you open a new connection, it will probably use your desktop encoding, which might not work correctly if your server uses UTF-8. It’s possible to change the encoding by right-clicking on the title bar, but then you would have to do it every time. The solutions is easy, open putty for itself, change the setting and overwrite the “Default Settings”. This will work for X11 forwarding, too. These settings will apply to all sessions. It you want to custom settings for one session, you will just need to give the session the same name in PuTTY and WinSCP.

The second issue is that I like PuTTY windows maximized. And maximizing it by hand every time is annoying, so I created a link to PuTTY in the PuTTY directory and changed the properties of the link to open PuTTY maximized. Next I changed the PuTTY Integration settings in WinSCP to %PROGRAMFILES%\PuTTY\putty.lnk. This opens all PuTTY windows maximized.

This saves me alot time, too bad they are not the default settings.

The reason is simple: Microsoft Internet Explorer is the built-in XPS viewer, but Firefox takes all Internet Explorer file assosiations when installed as the default browser. So all you need to do for viewing a XPS file is to right click on it, select “Open with…” and choose Internet Explorer. You can make it the default application for XPS files too, then you don’t need to worry again when you open a XPS the next time.