Here is a true story about the unspoken tale of Palm Pre JR and his magical journey to become the greatest pancake maker in the known lands.  How did it happen, you may ask?  Well, let me inform you of the epic tale.

It all started one fateful night that a ninja, Palm Pre, lost in his way stumbled upon a web programmer named bekabug.  Bekabug, had always loved ninjas and when she saw the lost Palm Pre, she just knew what her calling would be, she would take him home and care for him.  She also thought it would earn her credits on forums where everyone claims they own a ninja, now she did!

As the weeks moved on, bekabug realized why no one actually harbors a ninja.  For one, he always leaves the seat up on the toilet, I mean, is this really ninja like?  Then, one day, as she is doing ninja laundry, she starts getting sudden cravings.  She does not understand, but she yearns for pancakes.  Yes, pancakes of all things.  It then dawns on her that she has become pregnant and when she goes to confront Palm Pre, he is no where to be found.

Damn Ninja!

With the ninja, gone, her pancake needs are still left unsatisfied.  She needed to find a pancake restaurant to meet her needs.  She had spent the next several months searching for a pancake restaurant but it seems that pancakes in TN have vanished.

She tried the huddle house but they only had waffles.  WAFFLES!  Clearly, the terrorists have gotten to the huddle house.  Who would serve waffles over pancakes.

Next she tried IHOP but the international house of pancakes makes horrific pancakes.  She knew this when patients were playing Frisbee with the pancakes.  Clearly she will get no satisfaction there.
As she got to the waffle house, she clearly realized that the pancakes would be sub par.  This has left her in a zombie like stumper for 9 months eating waffles.  Fucking waffles.

When Palm Pre JR finally came to light, his goals were clear.  He would bring pancakes back to TN.  The terrorist will not win, they will not force waffles on us anymore.  Bekabug sent him to the finest pancake schools and he graduated with high honors.  He rushed home to share his new found recipes with his mother.  Tears of joy were streaming down Palm Pre Jr’s face as he raced home only to find bekabug in a comma.  A waffle comma.

This is a tragic ending to the epic tale of Palm Pre Jr and his search for the pancake!

I had a user ask me today how to import rightfax phonebook from outlook.  I told him to first, export the contacts from outlook to a txt file.  Then to follow the following directions:

1) Log into FaxUtil.

2) Expand the user tree to the first user account that you want to update.

3) Highlight either the user’s ALL or MAIN folder.

4) Choose Tools -> Phonebook Import.

5) Select the import file

6) Change the Field Delimiter to Tab.

7) Leave the other settings at default.

Click Import.

9) You are Done!

Well, first of all, I am not a doctor at all, and just took a few minutes to read some of the symptoms from some other websites.  I have two reasons to worry a bit more than the average person.

1. I work in NYC where the highest American outbreak has occurred so far (28 people)

2. I have a business trip to singapore in the works and really want to go but do not want to risk my health for the chance to see singapore, go figure right!

First, lets list the side effects of the swine virus.

• Cough
• Congestion
• Nasal Congestion
• Body aches
• Joint Pains
• Fevers
• Sore throat
• Headaches
• Fatigue
• Decreased energy
• Rarely death

These facts were taken from this website, a good read but the people posting the comments are a bit strange.  Now, before everyone panics, these symptoms are the same exact thing as the “normal flu” and treatment is not much different.  The one thing I would do differently is if you fit a few of these symptoms, it wouldn’t be a bad thing to see a doctor.  Obviously, if you fit all of the symptoms (especially death….) you should definitely see a doctor.  The disease can spread to human to human contact, so you would want to make sure that you see a doctor if you think you have a chance of having this thing.  Walking around with this thing will just make the spread worse.

The good news?  Well, I don’t know if I would classify this as good news but the people highest likely to get infected with this are pregnant women, immune suppressed, and the elderly.  So basically if you are not old, pregnant or already weakened by another illness, the chances of you having the swine flue decrease.

The end story, if you are not feeling well, go see a doctor and lets not have this thing spread.  I REALLY want to make it to singapore this year….

So I just had a user go to activate their handheld and it had a server address field.  I have done several thousand enterprise activations before, and none of them ever had asked for a server address.  I found it rather surpising that today, one did.  How to get around this?
Just ignroe it.  It is used to do enterprise activations over wifi.  This feature might be cooler once more devices have wifi, but at the moment, I like using the tride and true way.  Here is the KB from rim that goes into more information on this.

The answer is a resounding YES!  I figured this out the hard way.  Part of my strategy is defense.  Nothing more rewarding than taking out those raiding parties one soldier at a time…am I right?  So what I have been doing is I randomly plant my hero in a village and let other players raid it.  This gets experiance to my hero and makes my raiding grounds stronger!
The downside?

Remember where you planted your hero.  I was not thinking and raided a village and my hero wiped out my troops!  It sucks that I lost all of those presious resources, but my hero got more experiance!  All in a days work…

DISCLAIMER: If you actually use this to deliver mail, you should be shot and killed.  For those people that need to support this due to legacy demands, I have been able to figure out how to reset a password when using POP3 service with windows.

winpop changepwd         Changes the password of a mailbox account.
username@domain_name     Specifies the mailbox account for the password you want to change.
new_password     Specifies the new password for the mailbox account you want to change

To perform this procedure, you must be a member of the Administrators group on the local computer, or you must have been delegated the appropriate authority. If the computer is joined to a domain, members of the Domain Admins group might be able to perform this procedure. As a security best practice, consider using Run as to perform this procedure.
To open a command prompt, click Start, point to All Programs, point to Accessories, and then click Command Prompt.
Depending on your authentication method there are other ways you can change a user’s password.

If you are using Active Directory integrated authentication you can use the Active Directory Users and Computers snap-in to change a user’s password.

If you are using local Windows accounts authentication you can use the Computer Management snap-in to change a user’s password.
FW: How to change the password of a POP3 mailbox

To save myself and others the effort of having to locate the manual for this radio: http://www.dewaltservicenet.com/documents/English/Instruction%20Manual/Vector/VEC438.pdf

Adding DVDs and video files to your iPod that aren’t in iTunes.  I don’t have an iPhone, but I imagine this process could work for that too.

Want to add your favorite DVDs to your iPod, but don’t want to pay to download content from iTunes that you already own? The process is surprisingly simple. I’ve done this with both videos on my computer, and commercial DVDs. You need a program that can convert video files to the iPod format, and I use Xiisoft Video Converter 3 and Xiisoft DVD Ripper Platinum 4 to accomplish this.

Converting a DVD.

1. Insert the disk into the disk drive.

2. Open Xiisoft DVD Ripper.

3. Goto File->Add DVD Folder. Select the drive you put the disk in.

4. All the videos are loaded onto the screen. Make sure you check only the ones that you want. You can tell by the duration of the file. The others are title screens and special features, which you can preview and check if you so choose. (If you’re ripping television shows, there will often be a ‘play all’ track thats a couple hours long)

5. At the bottom of the window, choose a destination, and select ‘iPod Video2(640×480) MPEG-4 Movie (*.mp4)’

6. Click the button with the red circle, or select ‘rip all checked’ from the file dropdown.

7. Add to iTunes and your iPod the usual way. If you sync, ripping these files to the proper folders should be enough. If you don’t, you need to goto File->Add Folder to Library in iTunes, and then move those added videos onto your iPod.

Converting an existing video. Perhaps something you’ve downloaded.

1. Open Xiisoft Video Converter

2. Click Add and select the files you want to convert.

3. Select a destination. (Perhaps your iTunes folder) Make sure profile reads ‘iPod Video2(640×480) MPEG-4 Movie (*.mp4)’. Make sure all videos are checked.

4. Click Encode. Or File->Encode.

5. Add to iTunes and your iPod the usual way. If you sync, ripping these files to the proper folders should be enough. If you don’t, you need to goto File->Add Folder to Library in iTunes, and then move those added videos onto your iPod.

Listen/Watch and enjoy.

The next game up for walkthroughs is Panda Tactical Sniper 2!

http://www.addictinggames.com/pandatacticalsniper2.html

NOTE: This walkthrough was taken from BubbleBox…

To get an awesome rating on any mission you will need to fire as few shots as possible and do the mission as quickly as possible.

The ducks are hidden on the levels (one per level) but they will hide when you use the scope hide ability so you will only be able to spot them when in firing mode.

Level 1: Basic Training

There are 4 targets that appear at intervals above the wall. Just make sure that you shoot them all. It really shouldn’t be too hard.

Level 2: The Construction Site

Get rid of the guard by shooting out the bolt holding the girder that he’s standing on in place. After that it should be pretty straightforward. The levers for the crane and the forklift control their movement so use them to get the girder to the top so that Mr Brown can walk over to the ladder. Then shoot the ladder so that he can climb down to Panda.

Level 3: Prison

Shoot the first grill in front of Panda and then use the walkie talkie to get him to move into the vent. Then get the guard to go outside by shooting the satellite and disrupting his football game. Shoot the second grill and use the walkie talkie again to lower a rope for Mr Black to get out. You will then need to shoot the satellite dish again to make sure that the guard goes back inside as the bears make their getaway.

Level 4: Ice PrisonGet the guard to go outside by shooting the two milk bottles. Then trap him out there by shooting the door to the igloo. Shoot the rope to release Mr White and then shoot the ice beneath him to complete the rescue.

Level 5: Obstacle Course

The treadmill is easily stopped by shooting the two wheels that are keeping it running. The second obstacle is a bit trickier but still shouldn’t cause too many problems. The machine on the right of the screen controls the movement of the platform. To get it running, first shoot the middle of the small cog so that it drops into place. Then shoot the lever. You will see the platform start moving. To get the bears across you will need to stop it in the right place so shoot the lever again at the right time (it may be easier to hide the scope so that you can see where the platform is – if you have unlocked this ability then you can use the space bar to activate it).

Level 6: Grand Theft Auto

First get the guard into the toilet by shooting the drinks machine, causing a can to fall and the guard to go and drink it. Then trap him in there by shooting the lock on the door. Now you can open up the garage by shooting the padlock off it. This will reveal a mini on a platform that Panda plans to steal. To help him achieve his cunning plan, shoot the green button to raise the car up and then shoot the choc out from behind its rear wheel so that it rolls back into the waiting van.

Level 7: Blueprints

Pretty tough level this one because you don’t have a lot of time to think things through like you usually do. Shoot the traffic lights to stop the van over the manhole cover so that Mr Black can sneak in. This will only give you a limited amount of time though because the lights will turn green again soon so once they are stopped at the lights shoot the sign holder above the billboard so that Panda Cola smashes into the car below. Job done, right? Sadly not – the recovery service is very efficient and will be along shortly to tow the damaged car away. Stop it doing its job by shooting the towing arm. Now it’s just a case of waiting for Mr Black to finish stealing the plans and you’re away.

Level 8: Mission: Impossible

Use the walkie talkie to lower Panda down to the computer but be careful to steer him safely past the laser beams. He will break the code for you (at last Panda doing something useful!) and then will give you instructions on what to do next. Shoot the squares that appear on the screen like he says and then use the walkie talkie to hoist him up (again taking care not to hit any lasers). You will need to do all of that before the guard comes back.

Level 9: The Heist

This level boasts a pretty tricky laser grid that is actually impossible to disable completely. You can use the walkie talkie to radio in Panda and Mr Brown but take care because they will both move forward at the same time so you will need to disable the lasers in front of them before sending them forward. Each laser will affect itself and another laser when you shoot its panel. You will need to find out which lasers to shoot to disable the lasers in front of the bears but also being careful not to turn on the lasers where they are standing as that will set off the alarm.
If you’re still having trouble then the exact order to shoot the lasers is as follows (although there are other solutions). After each step use the walkie talkie to get the bears to proceed:
1. Top right
2. The one just to left of that (still on the top row)
3. The one just to left of that again (still on the top row) and then the one slanting down in front of Panda
4. Top right and then bottom right
Once you have got past the grid Panda will disable the alarm on the diamond case and you can shoot off the lid. Then you can use the walkie talkie one last time to get Mr Brown to lower a device to grab the diamond.

Level 10: Escape

Shoot the painting where there is no guard first and then move Panda along the ledge once the guard has gone to check out what’s going on. Then shoot the other painting to get him to move back. The second guard can be rendered useless by shooting the shutter on the window above him. To get past the camera just time it so that Panda hops down when it is looking the other way.

Level 11: The Bus

Shoot everything off the right hand side of the bus (4 objects to shoot off in total) to stop it from rocking and gain some balance. This will allow you to get panda off the bus using the walkie talkie and he will trot off to fetch a recovery vehicle that you can use to secure the bus in place. Plain sailing from here. Radio in Panda one last time and he will hop onto the bus and reclaim the diamond.

I will say, this is not the best sniper game out there.  It did fill a void though, so without further ado, I bring you the Mort The Sniper Walkthrough!

http://www.addictinggames.com/mortthesniper.html

Level 1

Go all the way to the left and shoot the guy in the tree

Level 2

Shoot the black guy in the right window above the window cleaner

Level 3

Wait for Tiny to walk close to the limo driver.  Shoot tiny, reload, and shoot the limo driver

Level 4

Shoot the police offier that is with the dancers.  Wait for a clear shot of his head.

Level 5

Shot them all.  It takes a bit to get used to their little jump run thing.  Shoot them on the down step.

Level 6

The pickpocket is coming from the left to the right.  Wait for him to pick pocket a guy, and shoot him in the head.

Level 7

The pimp is hiding behind the red brick wall.  Wait for a hooker to walk by him, and he will go to smack her.  Take him out when he does.

Level 8

Shoot them all. I went from left to right…