Friday, May 18, 2012

Computer Suddenly Turning Off

My laptop suddenly turned off, losing all of my unsaved data as a result. I googled the problem immediately, but I found the same problem instead of a concrete solution of this computer-turns-off issue. Here's an example of what I gathered:


"Some would say it's overheating, but I don't think so, since it has a nice cooling and it didn't change from some time to now. I (just wonder, no clue) think it could be some voltage issue, some hard disk problem, power cable issue, possibly some wire overheating (!?!), maybe too many devices connected to the power socket. Could his be caused by any BIOS configuration? By the way, it's running with no memory or processor overclock."


A friend of mine told me that laptop's battery is sometimes problematic. In fact, the power icon of my laptop has a red "x" mark indicating that it is not charging. The reality however, is that it is functioning normally and useful within 20 minutes.
Annoyed, I made an experiment: I removed my laptop's battery and my laptop-turns-off-suddenly problem found a solution. It never went back.

Sunday, May 13, 2012

How to remove Chrome's insecure content alert

I am developing few sites using https://sites.google.com, but was so annoyed just recently of Chrome's "This Site has insecure content (Don't load, Load anyway)" alert in the pages of all my websites. One blogger wrote that I need to press CTRL+SHIFT+j to see what was causing it. Surprised, it was caused by google sites themselves.


Can you imagine the following causes--it's almost all google's or at least the word "google" such as "http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js...show_ads_impl.js".


The page at about:blank displayed insecure content from http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/ads?client=ca-pub-5117933205504599&format=728x90_as&output=html&h=90&w=728&lmt=1336946874&host=pub-6693688277674466&ad_type=text_image&color_bg=FFFFFF&color_border=FFFFFF&color_link=000000&color_text=444444&color_url=0033CC&flash=11.2.202&url=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2Fsite%2Fstrengthenedbythisverse%2F&dt=1336975683109&bpp=4&shv=r20120502&jsv=r20110914&prev_fmts=120x600_as&correlator=1336975683106&frm=20&adk=1335628509&ga_vid=1546748914.1336975221&ga_sid=1336975369&ga_hid=1490068524&ga_fc=1&u_tz=-480&u_his=13&u_java=1&u_h=768&u_w=1024&u_ah=728&u_aw=1024&u_cd=32&u_nplug=7&u_nmime=13&dff=arial&dfs=12&adx=199&ady=358&biw=1008&bih=667&oid=3&ref=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2Fsite%2Fstrengthenedbythisverse%2Fsystem%2Fapp%2Fpages%2Fadmin%2Fappearance%2FpageElements&fu=0&ifi=2&dtd=642&xpc=XvnqvfMIXT&p=https%3A//sites.google.com.
The page at https://sites.google.com/site/strengthenedbythisverse/ ran insecure content from http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/r20120502/r20120410/show_ads_impl.js.
2The page at https://sites.google.com/site/strengthenedbythisverse/ ran insecure content from http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/expansion_embed.js.
The page at https://sites.google.com/site/strengthenedbythisverse/ ran insecure content from http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/r20120502/r20120410/show_ads_impl.js.
The page at about:blank displayed insecure content from http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/ads?client=ca-pub-5117933205504599&format=300x250_as&output=html&h=250&w=300&lmt=1336946874&host=pub-6693688277674466&ad_type=text_image&color_bg=FFFFFF&color_border=FFFFFF&color_link=000000&color_text=444444&color_url=0033CC&flash=11.2.202&url=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2Fsite%2Fstrengthenedbythisverse%2F&dt=1336975683114&bpp=4&shv=r20120502&jsv=r20110914&prev_fmts=120x600_as%2C728x90_as&correlator=1336975683106&frm=20&adk=30073298&ga_vid=1546748914.1336975221&ga_sid=1336975369&ga_hid=1490068524&ga_fc=1&u_tz=-480&u_his=13&u_java=1&u_h=768&u_w=1024&u_ah=728&u_aw=1024&u_cd=32&u_nplug=7&u_nmime=13&dff=arial&dfs=12&adx=431&ady=983&biw=1008&bih=667&oid=3&ref=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2Fsite%2Fstrengthenedbythisverse%2Fsystem%2Fapp%2Fpages%2Fadmin%2Fappearance%2FpageElements&fu=0&ifi=3&dtd=1430&xpc=ZFB4wjTJQx&p=https%3A//sites.google.com.
The page at https://sites.google.com/site/strengthenedbythisverse/ displayed insecure content from http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/abglogo/adc-en-100c-000000.png.
The page at about:blank displayed insecure content from http://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/drt/s?v=r20120211.
The page at https://sites.google.com/site/strengthenedbythisverse/ displayed insecure content from http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/abglogo/adc-en-100c-000000.png.
The page at about:blank displayed insecure content from http://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/drt/s?v=r20120211.
3The page at http://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/drt/s?v=r20120211 displayed insecure content from http://google.com/pagead/drt/ui.

I also followed "googleads.g.doubleclick.net" where one author (see hubpages) wrote in his page a blog entitled "What is http://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/ pagead/test_domain.js ? (By ) that his Kaspersky alerted him that this site was blocked due to password and credit card issues; but that an email from Kaspersky confirmed that it was just a false alarm, since this site was already bought by Google.

In one forum I followed the instruction of inserting the command-line option "--allow-running-insecure-content" and the message alert "insecure content" went away. (The reverse command in case you'll be interested is "--no-displaying-insecure-content"--if you want Chrome to go with its insecure content routine).

To insert the --allow-running-insecure-content command, go to Chrome's icon on your desktop (or at the start menu), right click, then go to Properties -> Shortcut, then Start in, and you'll find something like this: C:\Users\yourcomputername\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application...at the end allow one space then paste or type: --allow-running-insecure-content.

Not the end of the story yet: Chrome continued to place a red mark on my "https" indicating that it just allowed, but the problem known as insecure-content is still there.

Others testified of a fully normal webpage browsing and total gmail insecure-content solution. But I was not as lucky. Of course, I will continue digging for other concrete solutions yet to this very annoying Chrome's security feature.


Friday, May 4, 2012

Full screen mode in Windows 7

I am no expert, but I have an experience about forcing your Windows 7 to display a full screen mode particularly on DOS programs. Windows thrust of forcing the world to obey it is always unacceptable. Time will come when Windows will see that the computer world is now slowly going against its submit-to-Windows-whims philosophy.

I love writing programs through using a DOS editor for long years. I have no problem with Windows XP; but Windows 7 is getting more unfriendly. I went to the Web and someone said that I needed to change the DISPLAY ADAPTER PROPERTIES. In short, all this trouble is adapter-related. I followed the instructions. He wrote that I have to "right click" at desktop and to PERSONALIZE -> DISPLAY -> ADVANCED SETTINGS -> ADAPTER -> PROPERTIES -> DISPLAY ADAPTER PROPERTIES -> BROWSE MY COMPUTER FOR DRIVER SOFTWARE, then click on LET ME PICK FROM A LIST OF DEVICE DRIVERS ON MY COMPUTER and select: STANDARD VGA GRAPHICS ADAPTER. Bingo! It worked.

But big problem. When I reinstalled my Windows 7, and have all these so-called updates in place, I could no longer find the "LET ME PICK UP FROM A LIST..." and no more SELECT STANDARD VGA GRAPICHS ADAPTER. Perhaps, such an option was no longer allowed in the newest updates.

Since my theory of Windows 7 not allowing full screen mode is adapter-related, I went directly to DEVICE MANAGER,  and disabled that very-controlling adapter there to see what would then happen. It worked.

Having no expertise, I could only say that doing so crippled consequently the good purpose (if it is really invented for the good - better ask Bill Gates!) for which the modern adapter was developed. To me, I have freed myself from my utter dislike with Windows 7 and that is the intentional crippling of full screen mode.

Good news: to disable your Windows 7 modern adapter is as easy as to enable it should your games or other programs be affected in the process. To do it, just right click at the COMPUTER icon on your desktop, then click DEVICE MANAGER, then look for DISPLAY ADAPTER. Depending on the device installed in your system, but in mine, I found under DISPLAY ADAPTER, "ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5000 Series". Double clicking it will lead you to a window and a prompt (click it!): DISABLE DEVICE.