Then, of course, as soon as you do that, Google can just change a gear in its system and you’re dropped right out again. I’ve been going down this road with my game server hosting startup HostedGameServers.com. I have a great service on servers that perform great. I ping 16 to my server and I’m over 1,500 miles from it! We’ve got a few clients and its the best we can do with manual promotion while we work to get listed in Google. Right now we’re about position 408… except if you typo the search.

First, search ‘Game Servers’ in Google. Not listed. Well, we are, but we’re on page 48 or something stupid.

Next, search for ‘Game Severs’. Note the missing r. Yep, we’re first page.

Our keyword significance is perfect. It’s #1 Game #2 Server #3 Hosting and our backlinks aren’t bad (about 125). Our site does nothing against the Google laws of sneaky code, either. I feel like I also have plenty of content.

My best guess as to what is going on involves the proper term ‘Game Servers’ being too valuable to list me, even if I am perfectly relevant. This search term gets a lot of hits, so Google has some high requirements for who gets listed. I’m not sure what those are exactly.

Other searches, like the typo’d ‘game severs’ get much less volume. So much less volume that I show up right on the front page. Why? Because I’m relevant but just not trust worthy enough for some reason. I have never had ’severs’ anywhere in my code base. I grep’d it.

I have no idea what Google wants form me. We provide a good service and our site is relevant for the right terms. We’ve even spent hundreds of man hours trying to get out there and spread links. Man its a hard world with Google!

Our does work just as well as advertised! Thee are things that need improvement but overall its a really great experience!

All you have to do is point your Android browser at http://droidmuff.in/downloads/swype-preview/ and install the apk by running it. Just make sure you have 3rd party apk files enabled.

I actually wrote this entire posting from wptogo and swype on my Android!

First, you’ll need to install the exif tool:

su -c 'yum install perl-Image-ExifTool'


Then, I ran the following command:

screen -S sort nice find ./Pictures -type d -exec exiftool '-Directory

./Pictures being the location of the stuff I wanted to sort relative to my working directory, and Orginized/ being the dir I want to move them into.

The screen -S command starts up a screen session so you can press Control-A then d to background it and keep doing other work. The nice command makes my pathetic little Pentium 1.6 not explode into flames. Don't you hate it when that happens???

This worked on Centos 5.4, i386.

Apparently you can use the .des files from the Chinese version over top of yours and it works fine.

Found the solution at the bottom of this thread.

But, because you don’t need to go chasing links… here’s the .des file in the form of a .rar as linked on the forums (no registration required to download for this site!).
CLICK HERE

Open up this folder for 64bit:
C:\Program Files (x86)\NCSoft\Aion\bin32
For 32bit, AION will just BSOD in Win7 right now, I’m assuming this is going to be fixed by Aion later.

Then rename GameGuard.des to GameGuard.bullshit and copy in the one from the rar supplied here. Presto, it works! You’re Welcome!

If you appreciate, please drop a comment thanks!
Oh.. and if you can’t extract it, download winrar from www.rarlabs.com

(written from windows live writer)

It looks like IE7’s fault – like normal – because Chrome and FireFox do it right. Taking out either lightbox’s javascript or Adobe’s makes it work… but no combination of the two I see does.

Anyway, If i have both of these javascript files in the header of any web page, I get the following:

Line: 3975
Char: 9
Error: Object doesn’t support this property or method
Clode: 0

The image then comes up as if it were linked to directly.

Total crap!!! Anyone else getting this out there?

Sounds kinda stupid, but I was unable to find a trigger with du or dh to show the size of the directories in my current directory. If i did du -h it showed me the size of the file, but also showed me the size of every file within. I just wanted a high level overview of the total size of each folder I had in front of me.

I noticed du -h DirName showed the size of the dir or file on the last line….

A quick for loop solved the problem! Maybe it will be useful for someone else, too!

for d in *; do du -h "$d" | tail -n 1; done

This comptuer does not meet the minimum requirements for installing the software.

Long story short, when you search some Dell computers by their service tag, the correct drivers for that sysetm are not always displayed. When downloading drivers via the service tag I was faced with the error seen above: “This comptuer does not meet the minimum requirements for installing the software.”. Searching by service tag is supposed to only display drivers that work for that specific system, as shipped. However, I had this problem on two seperate C521s. The real driver is on the website, but you’ll have to browse by product name and look at the full list of options to find your driver. this problem could be happening on other systems, but so far I’ve only seen it on a Dell C521

The process is two fold. First, install and register a Dropbox account from www.getdropbox.com. Dropbox lets you sync up to 2G of files for free across all of your computers. It reminds me somewhat of an automated version control system that all your computers are constantly watching for changes. Just change a file on any of your computers and the change is synced across all of them.

Once you have installed Dropbox and registered for an account, create a folder named ‘Torrents to download’ within the ‘Dropbox’ folder you now have in ‘My Documents’. Repeat the sign-up and download process on the computer you want to host the torrent downloads and link it to the same account. Try putting files in from one computer and watching them pop out on the other end. You can also use the online web interface by logging in at www.getdropbox.com to upload a file into your Dropbox… or pull one out.

Install utorrent from the official site here; then open the preferences screen (options -> preferences). Choose directories from the left side menu and then check the box labeled ‘automatically load .torrents from’. Specify your Dropbox folder you created earlier: ‘Torrents to download’. Click the ‘delete loaded .torrents’ too if you like. It’s a neat feature.

Now, go to any computer where you have dropbox and just plop a torrent file in there. You’ll notice that if you checked the ‘delete loaded .torrents’ option it will go away moments later. Your other utorrent computer will catch the change, load the file into utorrent then delete it… that well then be synced back to you and the file will be removed right before your eyes. I strongly encourage looking at some of the other options within utorrent, too.

It’s true utorrent does have a web interface, but that would require you to open up firewall ports – ew! This method bypasses all that madness and your torrent files start instantly. I use it!

I did some quick Googling and found this helpful site that explains just how to boot UBCD off of a thumb drive. It’s actually quite easy.

Step 1:
Get a microSD or SDHC card that is at least 500Mb and install it in your G1. For newbies: the slot flips open just below the green call button, you’ll have to put the keyboard up to see it.

Step 2:
Get a USB cable and hook your G1 into your computer. Slide the notification pane down and select the item named ‘USB Connected’ then choose ‘Mount’ from the popup options.

Step 3:
Download and install UBCDfix2.exe which I have re-hosted on this blog here. If you don’t trust me, an alternate location is listed on the pendrivelinux.com post. Run the EXE and extract the files to a folder named UBCD on your desktop.

Step 4:
Download the most current UBCD image. Here’s a link. Move it into the root of the UBCD folder you created on your desktop and put the UBCDfix2 files in.

Step 5:
From the UBCD folder on your desktop, click fixubcd2.bat and follow the onscreen instructions.

DONE! You should now be able to reboot into your thumb drive. Be sure your motherboard both supports booting from a USB device and has the priority for that set above the normal hard drive. On a newer Dell, you can hit F12 to directly choose what to boot off of. Not only can you still save data to your thumbdrive from your G1 like usual, but you can get to all the stuff on your G1 via the UBCD you boot off of too.

Boot UBCD from your G1 Phone

Oh yeah, and for all you guys who think the USB headset was stupid on the G1, consider USB headsets a blessing. Your headset can now talk back to the phone. Did you know you can press the button on the headset to switch songs or start playing music without even unlocking or touching your phone? You can also do all this over Bluetooth 2.0 once Cupcake releases this month too. I picked up a Voyager 855 just for that.

EDIT: Though it’s possible to install UBCD4Win onto your G1, I do not have the steps outlined here yet. I will return in the future and post them. UBCD4Win lets you browse the web with firefox, use a full featured GUI and run tons of programs.

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As a side note, my friend pointed out that any gadget that works with Google desktop can be converted to a windows gadget to run natively: Amnesty Gadget Converter

More to come.