Wednesday, November 26, 2014

A nation divided against itself - The Ferguson Michael Brown Shooting

Here are some of the articles and quotes from around the United States that I have read, I'm not going to give my personal opinion on this issue but wanted to share some of the things the media is putting out there:

"I want to give the residents of ‪#‎Ferguson‬ the knowledge that there are some police that do support them.”


Largely peaceful marches took place in cities around the country from New York City and San Diego. Vandalism broke out in Oakland. The latest on ‪#‎Ferguson‬:


City Hall windows were smashed, a police cruiser was torched and at least 44 people were arrested in ‪#‎Ferguson‬ last night.
It was "generally a much better night," St. Louis police chief Jon Belmar said.


Read: ‪#‎Ferguson‬ ruling: the key documents from the grand jury's report.‪#‎MikeBrown‬
- Anonomys Facebook user

“Real change comes but it comes from people who work, who stand up...and work toward a vision of justice that inspires others to work with them.”
Juan Williams explains why the street violence and riots in ‪#‎Ferguson‬won’t incite the type of change America needs.

Violence Erupts in ‪#‎Ferguson‬. Post your thoughts about protester's reactions!
- Anonomys Facebook user


‪#‎NationalGuard‬ reinforcements helped contain the latest protests in‪#‎Ferguson‬, preventing a second night of the chaos that led to arson and looting after a grand jury decided not to indict the white police officer who killed ‪#‎MichaelBrown‬.

He was in fear of his life. It was Michael Brown or him', says relative of‪#‎Ferguson‬ cop Darren Wilson.

Watch ‪#‎Ferguson‬ live stream here

A place that Michael Brown’s family loved dearly has been burned to the ground. ‪#‎Ferguson‬

Police kill. They get away with it. They kill again. ‪#‎Ferguson‬ is yet another example of this system.-VICE

The evidence from the grand jury investigation reveals mistakes and holes in the investigation. ‪#‎JoeMadison‬ ‪#‎SiriusXM‬ ‪#‎UrbanView‬ ‪#‎GrandJury‬‪#‎Ferguson‬ ‪#‎MichaelBrown‬ ‪#‎DarrenWilson‬ SiriusXM Urban View

Quotation of the Day: "People who try to stop these things are heroes, in my mind. I was disappointed that some members of the community resorted to violence." -- Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., on arson and vandalism by some after a ‪#‎Ferguson‬ grand jury decision.

#‎Ferguson‬ – Did you ever wonder why race hustlers champion victims such as Trayvon or Michael Brown?


Dozens of calls of shots fired, looting, police cars on fire, an AR-15 stolen from a police car. ‪#‎Ferguson‬ is erupting.
Here's a post of multiple live feeds broadcasting from the ground.

Circle of blood that convinced ‪#‎Ferguson‬ grand jury NOT to indict Darren Wilson.





System Restore for Windows 7 HOW TO GUIDE & FAQs

Using the System Restore Tool in Windows 7 is Easy! 
FAQ:
What can it fix?
Registry issues, Driver installation problems, Corrupt downloads or Installations.
What can it improve? 
system restore can solve problems that are making your computer slow.
When should I create a system restore point and what is it set too by default?
Depending on the settings you have setup or haven't set up for system Restore you can pick a restore point, many applications will prompt you to create a system restore point before installing just in case something goes wrong, by default windows creates  system restore about ounce a month, and for the past few days or normally when there is a major change or installation. 
HOW TO DO IT in Windows 7:
  1. Navigate to the Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools program group.
     
  2. Click on the System Restore program icon.
     

  1. Click Next > on the Restore system files and settings window.
     
  2. Choose the restore point that you want to use.

    Note: Check the Show more restore points checkbox to see more than the most recent restore points.
     
  3. Click Next >.
     
  4. Click Finish on the Confirm your restore point window to begin the System Restore.

     
  5. Click Yes to the Once started, System Restore cannot be interrupted. Do you want to continue? dialog box.
     
  6. System Restore will now restore Windows 7 to the state that was recorded in the restore point you chose in Step 4.

    The restore process can take a few minutes or up to an hour depending on the speed of your computer 
TIP: You can also click the option to see what programs will be effected



Wednesday, November 19, 2014

SPF Record error when sending mail 551 5.0.0 Rejected

If you get the following error when sending a message, as a bounce back NDR notification
Remote Server returned '<mx.mail.google.com #5.0.0 smtp; 551 5.0.0 Rejected, look at http://www.openspf.org/why.html?sender=al@topel.com&ip=69.84.129.239&receiver=mailin1-trm.thomsonreuters.com>'

This means that the recipient server is doing an SPF record check and it doesn't match. 

What needs to match? 

The IP of the server you are using needs to be added to the SPF record also known as a TXT record in your DNS you can perform an SPF look-up by going to: 

http://mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=spf%3a&run=networktools





Explained: 


Sender Policy Framework

Why

Why did SPF cause my mail to be rejected?

What is SPF?

SPF is an extension to Internet e-mail. It prevents unauthorized people from forging your e-mail address (see the introduction). But for it to work, your own or your e-mail service provider's setup may need to be adjusted. Otherwise, the system may mistake you for an unauthorized sender.
Note that there is no central institution that enforces SPF. If a message of yours gets blocked due to SPF, this is because (1) your domain has declared an SPF policy that forbids you to send through the mail server through which you sent the message, and (2) the recipient's mail server detected this and blocked the message.

mailin1-trm.thomsonreuters.com rejected a message that claimed an envelope sender address of al@topel.com.

mailin1-trm.thomsonreuters.com received a message from zixvpm03.reflexion.net (69.84.129.239) that claimed an envelope sender address of al@topel.com.
The domain topel.com has not published an SPF policy. It is possible that the receiving mail server refuses all mail from domains that do not have an SPF policy.

How can I reference this web page for explaining SPF results?

This web page is a public service of the SPF project. SPF implementations can (and do) use it to help explain the results of SPF checks by presenting to users a parameterized link to this page. See the "Why?" page documentation for details on how this works.

Edit text of this page | View other revisions
Last edited 2008-04-04 13:27 (UTC) by Frank Ellermann (diff)

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

This is about the Massachusetts KENO lottery GAME

We often think we can beat the odds or some how think of how we can place a bet that would make us rich... so I started to study KENO gaming, and learned a few things from other avid, players their tips and tricks.

opinion 1: Some said: The odds of you picking the right numbers doesn't matter theirs always 1/2 basically 1-40 and 41-80 and they pick about  8 and 8 from each side.

I applied this strategy thinking if I pick 2 from the top and two from the bottom regardless of the numbers that I would win... that was an epic FAIL the numbers I picked never came out!

opinion 2: Some said: don't pick a lot of numbers just pick 1 or 2 that increases you odds, so I played 1 number bet $25 a few times i would hit some times but never enough to make any real money

Then I started creating a database that would tell me how long a number has not played this should surely increase my chances of wining i noticed that after a number goes missing 16 times it normally would come out on game 17!

I applied this rule and it worked a few so i increased the bet over and over going as far as 18 times and the number never hit eventually I gave up and lost.

I noticed that a number can go missing over 30 times from the board and KENO will not play it that doesn't seem very random to me!

THE TRUTH!!! well my opition 3: so my conclusion is that "IT IS NOT AT ALL RANDOM " the computer takes in all the bets and then gives back the minimum PAY OUT! so the more you bet the more you know the less chances you have of actually winning anything over a few $100 bucks....


Wordpress Hangs on Adding new Menu Item

ISSUE:

When you go into the admin panel of your wordpress site and try to add a new link to the menu, after hitting "Add to Menu" it just sits there loading and nothing happens.


When I disable ALL plugins and try again it works but I wanted to pin point the plugin that was causing the issue....

SOLUTION:

I found that the plugin creating the error is:
Web Ninja Auto Tagging SystemThis plugin will automatically make tags with the tagthe.net and yahoo yql services when you save or update a post. Also has the option for re-tagging all post.
Disabling that plugin will allow you to start adding new items

Wordpress Site Google search microformat update errors (Error: Missing required field "updated".)

A few weeks back around October 15th 2014 I noticed that all my websites were loosing their SEO Ranking fast almost dropping to nothing.


I had no idea what was going on so I started to do some research. 

One thing I noticed I had Thousands of crawl errors so I cleared them up. I also re-submitted my site (using Fetch as Google in Webmaster tools) things looked a little better but the Search Quarries were still dropping in addition the amount of traffic I was getting to my sites was also at an all-time low.

Then I noticed the exclamation mark next to STRUCTURED DATA I did some more digging and turns out Google uses microformats to understand the content of your site, all of my posts were generating the following error:

Error: Missing required field "updated".

I'm using the latest version of wordpress and many different plugins and themes on several sites, so I was looking for the quickest and most simple solution to the issue and here is what I found: 

Adding this line of code after the Header tags on the following .php documents (depending on your theme you might not have all 4, just add it to all the .php files that start with the word "content") 
TIP information on how to get to the editor on wordpress (from the admin panel it's under Appearance > Editor > click on the .php document you want to edit on the right) 

content-page.php
content-single.php
content-summary.php
content.php

 <p class="post-date date updated"><?php the_time('j M, Y'); ?></p>

After entering the line of code going back to the STRUCTURED DATA tester 
link: http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets

All the "update" errors were gone!




Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Removing http://www-search.info homepage browser hijack

Recently my IBM Running Windows 7 Pro, all my browsers open up to the following homepage
http://www-search.info/?aih=3 
I didn't set this to be the home page as I would like google.com to be my default homepage and also for new TABS here are my attempts to get this matter resolved: 

1. Went into the settings in Google Chrome and set the Homepage to be Google.com 

However when I closed the browser and open it back up returned to: http://www-search.info/?aih=3 

2. Check all extensions in google chrome and disabled all of them and also set the search engine to google.com. 

However when I closed the browser and open it back up returned to: http://www-search.info/?aih=3 

3. Went under Uninstall Programs made sure there was no apps that matched the www-search.info or any suspecious software that was recently installed (some sites reported having this issue when an application called search module is installed) I looked around but didn't find anything. 

However when I closed the browser and open it back up returned to: http://www-search.info/?aih=3 

4. Opened up Internet Explorer then under the Internet Options Tab went into advance and clicked on "reset" and also checked the box to Remove personal settings also did the same for Google chrome

However when I closed the browser and open it back up returned to: http://www-search.info/?aih=3

SOLUTION:
5. download and Ran a scan using AdwCleaner utility from the below link.
ADWCLEANER DOWNLOAD LINK (This link will open a new web page from where you can 
 ADWCLEANER

THAT DID THE TRCIK! I DID HAVE TO RESTART MY COMPUTER AFTER RUNNING THE SCAN BUT IT SEEMS THAT THIS SMALL ADWCLEANER DOES THE WORK






Monday, November 10, 2014

Finally Google Chrome Resolving Host issue resolved!!!

I came across this issue a few weeks ago, were Google Chrome just sits on "Resolving Host" I would see this at the bottom left hand corner, for over 20 seconds sometimes even minutes. I tried everything to Resolve this issue, here is a list of all the things I tried:

1. Change DNS settings to Google 8.8.8.8 secondary  8.8.4.4
2. Tried changing DNS to Comcast (my local ISP) 75.75.75.75 secondary 75.75.76.76
3. Ran AVG Virus scan and Optimization
4. Ran Norton Virus scan and Network Check
5. Tried diffrent Internet Connections Timewarner, and Comcast 
6. MalwareBytes Scan
7. Uninstalled many applications that I thought my interfere with my connection
8. Reset the default settings in Google Chrome
9. Checked the Proxy settings in Chrome and tried several configurations 

Solution: 
None of this worked Here is the only thing that seems to fix it after several frustration hours trying to get this to work. I decided to set a Static IP instead of a dynamic IP inside my connection settings. After doing this my browser went back to Normal or maybe even faster its extremely fast!!! I'm running on a T1 line, Windows 7 with 8GB of RAM I didn't see this type of solution anywhere online so I hope it helps anyone having this issue. 

Overall I don't know exactly what caused the issue, but setting a STATIC IP was the only fix that did the trick. 





Translate