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Lately in my logs I've seen some Amazon IPs visiting my sites and clickbombing them like mad. The IP addresses are never the same, but they always have an amazonaws referrer.

I'm adding this to my htaccess file and hoping it stops them. Basically it will identify any Amazon AWS referrer and redirect it to the Amazon home page. It seems this will be more effective than reporting abuse to Amazon Web Services.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST} ^(.*)amazonaws.*
RewriteRule ^(.*)|(.+) http://www.amazon.com/$1 [R,L]

I will reply to this post to confirm if it works.

UPDATE: That didn't work.

I went with something much more simple:

order allow,deny
deny from amazonaws.com
allow from all

Problem solved!

The fix is quite easy. Most likely the problem is not with the charger, the motherboard, or the battery, but rather the software that Windows Vista or Windows 7 is using. This software is called the power management software and is easily fixed. To do so do the following:

In order to correct problems with the battery's power management software, follow the steps below.

1. Open the Device Manager

2. Select the Batteries category.

3. Right-click the Microsoft ACPI Compliant Control Method Battery listing and choose uninstall. Do not remove any of the other battery entries.

4. Scan for Hardware Changes

Windows will then automatically detect that your power management software is missing and install the newest working version.

After completing these steps you should now see the battery being charged in the system tray.

Since the Niban site at Weebly doesn't seem to work very well, here's the menu as it used to appear (prices may have changed in the meantime):

Niban Restaurant

Appetizer

Edamame $2.15
Seaweed salad $3.15
Chicken katsu salad $3.95
Green salad Sm....$1.25 Lg....$3.50
Fried calamari (5 pieces) $4.25
Shrimp tempura (4 pieces) $4.95
Fried shumai (6 pieces) $2.75
Steamed shumai (6 pieces) $2.75
Fried gyoza (6 pieces) $3.25
Steamed gyoza (6 pieces) $3.25
Egg roll $1.00
Croquette $1.25
Miso shiru (soup) $1.25
Steamed rice Sm....$1.25 Lg...$1.45
Seafood (served with rice and salad)

Fried seafood mixed (6 pieces) $6.75
Fried or baked salmon (2 pieces) $6.95
Ginger or teriyaki seafood (6 pieces) $6.95
Fried jumbo shrimp (5 pieces) $7.95
Shrimp tempura (5 pieces) $7.95
Meat . Fowl (served with rice and salad)

Chicken teriyaki, or beef, pork $6.25
Chicken ginger yaki, or beef, pork $6.25
Tonkatsu (pork) $6.25
Chicken Katsu $6.25

Combination

A $7.95
Bento B $9.95
C $9.95
Chicken, beef, or pork teriyaki with $6.95
(F. seafood mix, egg roll, or Cal. roll (6pcs)
Ginger Chicken, beef, or pork with $7.50
(F. seafood mix, egg roll, or Cal. roll (6pcs)
Chicken teriyaki & fried shrimp (3 pcs) $7.95
Chicken teriyaki & shrimp tempura (3 pcs)

Noodle (Dine in only)

Stamina Noodle $6.25
Shrimp tempura noodle $6.25
Katsu curry noodle $6.50
(chicken, pork, or shrimp)

Vegetarian

Vegetarian teriyaki or ginger yaki $5.95
Vegetarian sukiyaki bowl $5.75
Vegetarian noodle (dine in only) $5.75
Vegetarian roll (5 pieces) $5.25
Bowl (served with miso soup and salad)

Chicken teriyaki bowl $6.25
Katsu don (chicken, beef, pork, or shrimp) $6.25
Oyako don (chicken) $6.25
Beef or chicken sukiyaki $6.25
Curry ( served with salad)

Curry $5.50
Katsu curry (chicken, pork, or shrimp) $6.50

Nigiri (price per piece)

Tuna (maguro) $1.60
Yellow tail (hamachi) $1.60
Eel (unagi) $1.60
Smelt roe (masago) $1.60
Albacore (seared white tuna) $1.50
Salmon (sake) $1.50
Shrimp (ebi) $1.40
Squid (ika) $1.40
Octopus (tako) $1.40
Egg omelet (tamago) $1.30
Crab (kani-kama) $1.30

Combo

Mixed sushi (14 pieces) $8.75
(4pc. Cal sp R., 4pc S Tuna R & 6pcs nigiri)
Sushi Combo $10.95
(1pc. Cal sp H, 1 pc. S Tuna R & 6pcs nigiri)
Sashimi plate

Tuna (5 pieces) $6.95
Yellow tail ( 5 pieces) $6.95
Albacore (5 pieces) $6.25
Salmon (5 pieces) $6.25
Octopus (7 pieces) $6.25
Sashimi mixed $11.75
(15 pieces or 12 pieces all fish)
Roll sushi

6 pcs......$2.75 18 pcs........$6.95
California maki
Tekka maki (tuna)
Kappa maki (cucumber)
Mixed maki (18 pieces)
(Cal., Tekka, and Kappa maki)
Hand roll ( $3.50 each)

California special
Spicy tuna
Spicy albacore
Spicy yellow tail
Spicy salmon
Spicy scallop
Spicy octopus
Shrimp tempura
Fried shrimp
Special roll

Garden roll (8 pieces) $3.25
California special (8 pieces) $3.95
Eel roll (8 pieces) $4.25
Salmon skin roll (8 pieces) $4.25
Philadelphia roll ( 8 pieces) $4.25
Duo roll ( 4pc. cal s and 4pc.s tuna roll) $4.25
Spicy albacore roll (8 pieces) $4.25
Spicy tuna roll (8 pieces) $4.50
yellow tail special roll (8 pieces) $4.50
Vegetable roll (8 pieces) $5.25
T.J. roll (8 pieces) $5.25
Spicy grilled california (6 pieces) $3.50
Spicy grilled yellow tail (6 pieces) $5.95
Spicy grilled salmon (6 pieces) $5.95
Fried shrimp roll (5 pieces) $5.95
Soft shell crab roll (5 pieces) $5.95
Shrimp tempura roll (8 pieces) $6.25
Crunchy roll (8 pieces) $6.25
Dynamite roll (grilled) $6.25
Lion king roll (10 pieces) $6.95
Rainbow roll (8 pieces) $7.95
Caterpillar roll (8pieces) $7.95
Baja roll (8 pieces) $7.95
Hawaiian roll (8 pieces) $7.95
Albacore supreme (8 pieces) $7.95
Alaskan roll (8 pieces) $8.25
Fried calamari roll (8 pieces) $8.25
Dragon roll (8 pieces) $8.25
Chef special jumbo roll (5 pieces) $6.25

A lot of times I'll see people having trouble logging in to their GoDaddy database and getting an incorrect password. Especially when they're trying to access phpmyadmin through the hosting equivalent of the control panel, using the Starfield page. It has happened to me numerous times.

The problem is that the wrong language is selected. Rather than using the default option of English iso, use English UTF 8. You should then be able to log in without a problem.

Not sure why I was getting a blurry transparent GIF in Firefox, since I wasn't attempting to resize it, but for some reason my image was quite blurred. It looked fine in Internet Explorer (that's a switch - usually it's the reverse and Firefox is the browser displaying as I intended! :). Safari and Chrome were fine too. To solve the issue, one can add:

style="image-rendering: -moz-crisp-edges;"

Voila! Problem solved.

For when setup tools says Python Version 2.7 required which was not found in the registry

http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/

Instead of using " as a delimiter, use $ or some other rarely used character. This will preserve your quote marks without causing a field number error when you try to import it back.

After spending some time mucking about with Wordpress, I've finally been able to remove those troublesome /category/ and /tag/ folders from my urls.

To do so, first add the following to .htaccess file:

RewriteRule ^category/(.+)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Make sure to put this before the www/no-www redirect section -- this is what tripped me up before.

Now, your urls will be of the type http://example.com/category1 instead of http://example.com/category/category1.

You may notice however, that the category links under the posts still show the /category/ tag. For this, we go to the permalinks section and change the permalink structure to

/%category%/%postname%/

AND

change the category base to

./

Save it like that and you should be in business -- the url links under posts will no longer have /category/ or /tag/ appended to them (for the purposes of removing /tag/, just follow the above instructions while making the substitution for /category/.

I recently started a Wordpress blog with some lengthy posts, so I wanted to use Wordpress's built in pagination feature to make it more readable. Basically, all you have to do is put in nextpage with some code before and after it < !- -nextpage - - > (without spaces) and it will create a page break at that point (make sure you're using the html not the visual editor for this).

I wanted to use this along with the wp-pagination plugin, but when I activated it, I found that the sidebar had been moved to the bottom of the page. Oddly, it appeared that way only for some of the pages and not all of them. After looking through the wp-pagination help files and not finding anything, I decided to deactivate the Wordpress plugin. But the problem remained!

I looked at the page code and figured an extra div would explain the problem. I edited the various loop files, but to no avail.

Eventually I realized that Wordpress itself had added a div tag at the top of my post, which was copied from Microsoft Word. I haven't any idea why Wordpress did that.

As you may have guessed, deleting the stray div tag solved the problem and the sidebar returned to it's normal place -- on the side, and not on the bottom of the page. Hope this helps you all out as I looked and looked for a solution online.

- Open Nero Burning Rom

- Select 'Extras' from Menu Bar

- Under 'Extras', select 'Save tracks..."

- Select Disk Drive from Pop Up Menu

- Wait for Nero to access disk

- Change output file format from .nrg to .iso

- Select output path

- Press 'GO'

If you're looking to have some fun online and make a few bucks, look no further than Centsports. I'm not getting paid to promote them or anything like that, I just wanted to give them credit for running an honest business. It is tough to gamble on sports online these days; the government has cracked down and a lot of places are stiffing U.S. customers. In my opinion it's really not safe to gamble anymore online as an American citizen (Europe and the rest of the civilized world has no such problem).

Anyway, the way Centsports works is that they start you with ten cents which you can bet with. That money, and your eventual payout, is all funded by advertising. So in effect, you're never gambling with your own dough. You can not deposit your own money. That's why it's legal, and also why it's safe. Once you check them out you will be happy. Oh, and for a while they were letting you cash out to Haiti to help with the relief effort there. Great job Vince.

Here's proof of my winnings -- one of two checks I've received thus far from Centsports.

IF you do want to give me some love, sign up with this link and I'll get a small percentage of your bets. http://www.centsports.com/?opcode=538425

Good luck with your bets!

I've noticed as I've run Vista I'm getting less and less free disk space, even though I'm not installing new programs. Tracing the source of the growing problem, I found my Windows Folder was 30 Gb! Huge, giant, and ridiculous. It turns out that about half of that, 15 Gb, was the winsxs folder. While it's true that this folder shouldn't be messed with by people who don't know what they're doing, Windows does include a clean up tool with Vista SP2. They hide it, why I don't know. Do a search for compcln.exe or run it from the System32 folder. It will clean up your Windows folder (I recoved about four gigs at least) by deleting duplicate files and making your SP2 install permanent (e.g. you can't revert to SP1, but why would you want to?). Small price to pay to avoid having to reimage, in my opinion.

Lately, my Photoshop application has been crashing every time I open it. I tried reinstalling and repairing it, but to no avail. As it turns out, the problem is with the TWAIN menu. If you watch the popup box as Photoshop open, it will say something like "Building TWAIN menu..." shortly before crashing. To fix the problem, simply add a tilde (~) to the TWAIN plugin. For CS3 on Vista, this is located at C:/Program Files/Adobe/Adobe Photoshop CS3/Plug-Ins/Import-Export/Twain_32. If you're having trouble finding it, just do a search within the Adobe Photoshop folder for Twain.

For Windows XP:

Emails:

Install the Outlook Express on the new computer. Find the Outlook Express folder on the old computer by selecting 'show hidden files' (under tools, folder options), then navigating to:

C:\documents and settings\username\local settings\application data\identities\(series of numbers and letters)\microsoft\outlook express

Copy the entire Outlook Express folder from the old computer to the new, putting it in the same location.

Address book:

Keep hidden files visible as before. Open Outlook Express, select import and then address book. In the dialogue box navigate to:

C:\documents and settings\username\application data\microsoft\address book

Inside this folder will be a WAB file that, once selected, will populate your new address book with your old contacts.

Got a batch of VOB files you want to play in PowerPoint? Convert them to a format Power Point can use by doing the following.

1. Open up Windows Movie Maker (included software on XP / Vista machines)

2. Select "Videos" under Import (on left column in Vista)

3. Navigate to folder with your VOB files and change file type to "all" in selection window.

4. Select your VOB file.

5. Drag to storyboard

6. Select "Publish Movie" under File menu

7. Follow the prompts and select "publish movie to this computer", choose name and location for file output, and select "best quality for playback on my computer".

8. After selecting Publish, your computer will process the video

9. You will now have an AVI file

10. Go to PowerPoint, select insert movie and select your AVI movie

If this does not work, an alternative is to download VirtualDub-MPEG2 from:

http://fcchandler.home.comcast.net/~fcchandler/stable/index.html

and use this program to convert VOB to AVI