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Zune Error - No Device Connected

I have an HTC T8788 Mobile phone which has the OS Windows mobile 7.
When I tried to connect it to my PC Using Zune software it didn't got detected by the OS(Windows 7).
I have been struggling  reinstalling the software and trying all suggestions on the web but had no luck.
But today I realized the problem, It was from powerDVD 12.
If you have a similar problem try this,
go to task manage (Alt+Ctrl+Del).
Go to processes tab.
End all powerDVD processes.(There will be 2)
Try reconnecting.

For general information,
Always download latest zune software from microsoft.
Always get the latest device Driver.
And use windows update to update your system.

This worked for me.
Hope anyone reading this may have the same luck.

Installing Homefront 2011 from Steam Installer

I have downloaded home front 2011 from links provided by awsome. The total size was 7.6GB. By the time I downloaded there was no SKIDROW release. The following discribe the difficulties I faced when installing home front 2011.

First Try -- Didn't work
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1. To install homefront from steam Downloaded the Phioneix 1.5 beata 3 first from here
2. In menubar goto Instruments -->UpdateContentDescriptionRecords --> Internet
3. Wait for the update to complete.
4. Then goto Instruments --> SID unpacker.
5. Select SIM file from the downloaded game folder.
6. Click Scan a Sim-File button.
7. Select Content.ncf and English.ncf and click Unpack button.
8. Take some time but the game will be unpacked in to a folder.
9. Then I downloaded SKIDROW crack only from here. Its a torrent so you may need a torrent client.
10. Copy the content in to the folder and run the launcher.
11. It starts the geme right but cannot proceed after start screen.

Second Try - WORKED
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1. Downloaded the installer for home front from here. Its a torrent so you may need a torrent client.
2. Downloaded msvcr100.dll from here.
3. Copy it to steam download folder.
4. Run the installer file.
5. It will unpack the game in to a given folder.
6. Then downloaded the new crack from here. And copy the files into the required folders.
7. Run the launcher and the game started and can be played.

Uncertainty
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There seem to be some problems still.
After level 1 you may have to copy the crack again to work.
If still you cannot pass start screen download the crack from this link and try it.

Hope this information help anyone.
Help the software developers. Buy the game If you can.

Vampier Diaries Finale smells Warewolfs in season 2

After watching Vampire Diaries season finale it indicated that ware wolfs may be comming to town in next season.

Prototype :: Windows 7 XAudio2 problem




Prototype is a game about a man changing shape. It is very enjoyable game. I got prototype while I was using vista. So after installing it in to my PC I haven't encounter any problem. However this might be because I had both service packs installed in my PC. So I recommend if you are a vista user please install service packs or you might have troubles.

However after I got Windows 7, I installed Prototype again this time there was an error saying 'XAudio2 cannot be found'.

After searching for a while I found a directX version which contain this file.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=2DA43D38-DB71-4C1B-BC6A-9B6652CD92A3&displaylang=en#QuickInfoContainer
Here is an article for further details,

http://www.programmerfish.com/how-to-fix-prototypes-could-not-find-xaudio2-error-on-windows-7-and-vista/
My problem was solved after installing the directx version. So try it.

Hitman Bloody Money : windows 7 crash on 1st mission problem

I am a big fan of hitman game series. So I recently started playing the fourth game of series Hitman Bloody Money. But it crashed after 1st mission. Then I found there were two patches introduced. You can download them by following links,

patch 1.1
patch 1.2

But after installing the patches my no cd crack was not working. A massege prompted saying to insert the original DVD to DVD drive.
Then I found another crack in following link,

http://rapidshare.com/files/70024483/Hitman.4.Blood.Money.Crack.MasteR-Moo.Warez-BB.org.rar
This is a no cd crack for patch 1.2. After installin it the game worked fine on windows 7.
So if anyone face this problem try it, and enjoy the game.

X-Men Origins: Wolverine Finished




Finally I finished X-Men Origins game. It was not a difficult game. But with the little time I had It took me ages. I loved this game. My be because I like wolverine since I first saw X-Men cartoons. So to walk in his shoes was very great. And it kept the originality of the character. The story is like the movie with few exceptions. Moves in the game specially some finishing movers are pretty cool.
Some cutscene were lack of quality and there were some glitches in the game. But over all I really enjoyed playing X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

Year of Silance....

For a year couldn't post any thing but now hopling to start posting...

By Saying ....

Happy New Year......

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Site with Sri Lankan Postal Codes

I Found a simple site with Sri Lankan Postal Codes on the Net.

Here is the link..............

http://srilanka.tamu.edu/postcode.html

Happy New Year.

Happy New Year to Everybody............

Prison Break Season 4

Prison Break is gone to is 4th season and I love watching it.

Configure a printer using cups in Linux LPR/LPD pool (CentOS,Redhat)

This is a problem recently I've come across configure a network printer using LPR.
I have successfully added the printer.Here is the steps I followed. Hope it will help anyone who is trying to do the same.
The printer here has a separate IP and its listening on the port 515.You should find out this in your network.

First open web browser in your machine. My linux box has mozilla fire fox.

type following address http://localhost:631/
Then go to Administration tab.(Figure 1)

Figure 1

Enter a
name : printer1
Location : (as you wish)
Dscription : (as you wish)

Click continue.
On Device select the printing device. Here, since we are using LPD/LPR printer, I select it from the list.(Figure 2)


Figure 2
Click continue.


Figure 3
Now you have to give a Devicre URI. There are many Examples shown down the input box.
I will give an example. You can use any format shown in the (Figure 3)
device URI : lpd://12.137.53.120:515/tcp

here lpd automatically added by previous selection page.
12.137.53.120 is the IP address of the printer.
515 is the port the print server is listening to.
tcp is the LPR Queue name of print server.

You have to give these configurations of your own network, To find out ask the ntwork admin.

Click continue.
Then you have to select manufacture of the computer.(Figuer 4)

Figure 4
If your printer manufacture does not shown in the category go to Generic.
If it is shown go to that category.(Figure 5)
Select it.And click continue.


Figure 5
Then you can select the model of the printer.
My problem was The printers anufacture was on the list but the printer model number was not. So I went back and select Generic and from the model list select
Generic PostScript Printer Foomatic/Postscript (recomended) (en)

This works fine.

Then click Add Printer.

Figure 5

The printer added successful. (Figure 5).
Then goto printers tab and click print test page.
Then goto jobs tab and click show all jobs tab.
It will show the print job has been done. Go to printer and collect the printout.

So this worked for me. Hope it helps.

පහසුවෙන් යුනි කොඩ් ටයිප් කරන්න.(typing in unicodes)

If you can't see the above text in sinhala. You should install the unicode pack in your computer. To get sinhala unicodes visit http://locallanguages.lk/ .

ඔබට සිංහල යුනි කොඩ් පහසුවෙන් ටයිප් කිරීමට පහත වෙබ් අඩවියට යන්න.

http://www.ucsc.cmb.ac.lk/ltrl/services/feconverter/t1.html

A python file access sample code.

#!/usr/bin/python

#This is a simple file access program
#Created by Dls

s='\n \nThis is a simple text editor.\nCreated to learn python file access methods.\n\n'

print s
print ('What do you want to do ?\n')

print ('r -- press to read a file\n')

print ('w-- press to write to a file or make a new file \n')

print('q-- Quit')

while True :

res=raw_input('Enter your choise (r/w/q)?')

if(res=='r' or res=='R'):

print('Welcome to read a file.')

fp=raw_input("Please enter a file name :")

print fp

f=open(fp,'r')

print f

print f.read()

f.close()

elif(res=='w' or res=='W'):

print('Welcome to writer')

fp=raw_input('plese enter a file name :')

wr=raw_input('Enter your data to write to the file :')

f=open(fp,'a')

f.write(wr)

f.close

print('The writing to file is done.')

elif(res=='q' or res=='Q'):

print('Bye')

break


To run this you need python interpreter.This has basic file access methods of Python...
I'm also still learning python.


Lightning Bolt

Bolt put up a world record in both 100m and 200m without any effort..
I like this..

This is the best web site...


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Wanted is a best action movie with great camera angles.
Best preformance from anjaleena jolie and morgan freeman.

I hope you will watch and enjoy as I did.