Solving tech problems

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25.04.2014

Fixing Iconia W700P WI-FI unstable connectivity (losing connection)

System Administration

(source: menspsychology.com) After my laptop died I was forced to work on Acer Iconia W700P tablet which is great piece of hardware (I wrote about it here) and after fresh installation I come to the problem that WI-FI network adapter was losing connectivity every 10 minutes. It was a real frustration so I searched for solution and found in one forum that you should try to do these two things: Control Panel > Network and Sharing Center > Change adapter settings > Find your WI-Fi network adapter > Right click…read more

12.04.2014

Protecting your Linux server from Heartbleed bug

System Administration

I have got at least 20 emails from different sources about OpenSSL vulnerability, known as Heartbleed bug It allows anyone on the Internet to read the memory of the systems protected by the vulnerable versions of the OpenSSL software. More details about this (how to reproduce and fix) can be found here. To check if your server is vulnerable use this online tool. At the end, in order to protect your server’s Linux OS you need to do this few steps: Login through SSL (you can use Putty from Windows)…read more

How to get list of sequential dates in MS SQL Transact SQL and cursors alternative

Databases

Let’s imagine that we have table where we store some service prices and that this price can vary regarding period of the year. You would then have something like this in your table: $50 from January 1st to May 31th $70 from June 1st to October 31th $60 from November 1st to December 31th What we want is to get all daily prices for given date region. So, if we give range from May 15th to 15th June we want to get this: May 15th $50 May 16th $50 May…read more

14.03.2014
05.03.2014

Instagram crashes on start – when big company make things wrong

Thoughts

I am having iOS 6 installed on my iPhone (intentionally didn’t want to switch to ugly iOS 7) and yesterday on March 4th 2014 I installed the Instagram update. After doing this, the application is crashing on start. It doesn’t open. On opening the background graphic is showed very quickly and then everything disappear (crashes). It is the perfect example how big company can make a mess making millions of users angry. I thing they are aware of this. What is surprising for me is that the new update is…read more

02.03.2014

Geek weekend with Acer Iconia W700 tablet

System Administration, Technologies, Thoughts

Acer Iconia W700 is great piece of hardware for Windows type technical guys.  It can be a helpful tool when you are on the road or out of the office and need to get things done (no matter if you are a developer, system administrator or company owner). It is basically a PC tablet with a touch screen, with i5 IvyBridge processor  (3337U at 1.8GHz) and with Toshiba 128GB SSD disk. It has 11,6″ 16:9 screen with great, full HD resolution 1920x1080px and it has great battery life – maybe…read more

Download or upload link speed – why should you care?

Technologies

Bandwidth allocation is usually measured in Megabits per second or Mbps but you want more to know how much is this in megabytes/second or kilobytes/second so math is: 1 Mbps = 1024 Kb (kilobits) / 8 bits = 128 kilobytes/second If you have fibre-optics access you have usually symmetrical upload and download speed. Download/upload speed starts often at 10Mbps/10Mbps (price around: 20€/month) and it can to 200Mpbs/200Mpbs (price around: 200€/month) or more. With 100Mbps/100Mbps you can host various stuff with reasonable speed quality for your consumers. Download Speed This is…read more

14.02.2014
12.02.2014

What you see is what you are

Thoughts

Look quickly at this picture and remember what you saw first. You saw the young girl The girl is looking into the distance and you see her profile on the left – there is the nose and eyelashes. Her ​​hat has the white veil and she is dressed in luxurious fur coat and on the neck she is wearing a necklace. Explanation According to popular interpretations, which, however, is not confirmed by the psychologists, you have the bright nature, youthful spirit and you have an optimistic view of the world….read more

11.02.2014

How to do marketing?

Marketing

This is the great graphic presentation how to do internet marketing from strategy and research to final implementations and choosing the channels of communication. (source: Elance)

04.02.2014

Market research sources and links

Company stuff, Decisions, Learning

When you starting a new business you need to find your customer and solve his pain and you need also to invest your time in research to see if your business fits into the market. (source: fastf.com) Priority tasks before starting your business Identify your customer Identify market segment / niches Take a look and research macroeconomic changes, demographic changes, psychographic changes, technical changes, societal changes, political changes and governament/regulatory chanegs Useful links that can help you in your research https://www.crunchbase.com/ (Crunchbase – tech company database) https://www.findthecompany.com/ (Find the company)…read more

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