Meter Reading Date Correction

4/10/2007 9:47 43,522 000107u.dat
4/10/2007 9:47 31,772 000110u.dat
4/10/2007 9:48 18,988 000125u.dat
4/10/2007 9:48 8,836 000126u.dat
4/10/2007 9:48 27,354 000120u.dat

Justine Gabionza likes Linux?

While searching for a name associated with someone who has kept texting and sometimes miss-calling me since Feb 23, 2007, I came across Justine Gabionza's name (she's a Filipina Beauty Queen) so I wondered what she looked like.

I found this picture of hers. I wonder if she uses Linux? :-)

Payment correction

Modified a payment record for Agnes/Soc: Made them cancel the misposting and made Soc post it on another date so I can just modify the date.

Windows Vista validation

Hmmm... so it was another firewall (iptables) issue that prevented the Neo notebook PC from connecting outside our LAN. Sheesh!

Was finallly able to VALIDATE Vista after I put the SQUID entry for it BEFORE all the other SQUID entries in iptables.

I guess I'll have to research on iptables limits...

Windows Vista activation and validation

Yesterday, JTL asked for my help in activating Vista Home Premium on his newly purchased Neo QNote Core 2 Duo.

I didn't want to connect it to the office network, just as a precautionary measure. So I opted for the toll-free telephone activation.

I got an "invalid Installation ID" from the robot. Duh?!?! Then I noticed that there's some text on the bottom-right corner of the screen saying "... This copy of Windows is not genuine." OOPS!!!

I thought it was a pirated copy, until this morning when I got to research on it. Seems like there've been plenty of FALSE ALARMS regarding this activation/validation thing.

I told JTL that I'll try activating over the net (by connecting it to our office LAN), but I decided to avoid any detection of a potential pirated copy coming from our network, so I tried the telephone activation again. Voila! This time, it worked! Sweet, Microsoft, just sweet. Duh!!!

Wait a minute!!! Why is the "this copy is not genuine" text still on the corner of the screen?!?! Oh, so I still need to validate it, huh? Sheesh!

Will get there later... "Network Access: Local only" is now my problem. :-(

Payment misposting

Posted adjustment due to misposting by Nette to #14118 (should be #14115), amounting to Php 1,384.59.

Canon lIDE scanner

MCAJr asked me to install the scanner mentioned and its accompanying software on his john2 workstation.

First I booted into safe-mode to get rid of the VBSilly-B virus(es).

I then spent about 2 hours trying to force the installation of the scanner software, to no avail. (I had to set up security for "c:\Program Files" and give FULL access to Administrators, but I couldn't access "c:\Program Files\installshield installation information" !!!

I eventually gave up.