TruXter Tech

Judge Made bad post on Bulliten Board

Posted on2009/08/17AuthorTech News

I myself do not get it, if the crowd depicted in the picture are not of one single race then why is it that having a picture of people who are into one particular political party, considered racist ? channel 13 Houston

Sure I understand that if the judge had stated that “look 75 percent of the people in this picture are one race therefore they are the cause”. But because 75% of the people in that picture are wearing the shirt of one political party does not mean that a race is a cause of the issue. It means one’s political blindness and theory, following like he is the pied piper and feeling that you are lawless or at least above the law because you show support for the leader, Could be closer to depicting what the Judge is saying by posting that Bulletin, than to accuse him of racism. See I think Obama has great intentions , I Hope he can pull this off. He is not my Jesus, He is not my temporary fill in until Jesus comes. He is the president, and well from since before my time, Media has made fun of the president and political stances. All presidents have faced ridicule and disbelievers. So let’s not act like it’s new (says it in his best Ronald Regan Voice While holding his fingers up in a peace sign like Nixon with a stupid look on his face like Bush with a Lewinsky dress over his shoulder).

See I don’t like racists any more than you may, In fact I may like them a whole lot less. I’m pretty sure if I analyzed you close enough I could find a reason I find you to be racist. I wouldn’t hate you. I would want to educate you.

There is a whole lot more going on in life than pointing at someone and calling them a different race.

There are more colors in the world than just black and white. Heck the ones you call black are not black and the ones you call white are not white. So quit being a pig about it.

Back on topic, I think a political rant site needs to get hold of what trail that judge was onto and straighten this whole mess out.

Is Ebay Gone Yet ?

Posted on2009/08/16AuthorTech News

Did you ever get a PayPal account ? Buy much of anything on Ebay ? Got charged for doing the express pay and the guy collecting at the other end got charged to receive the payment, Meanwhile the person selling the item had to pay for holding the auction. In one year, It was 04 or 05 when I last cared to hold an auction on eBay, but in that one year I got 3 notices of price raises and a free three days to hold an auction. See the issue is, they make plenty of money buy us paying for the auction, and the 7 percent (if it’s still that low, I doubt it) to sell out items using their bandwidth) to make plenty of money buy just maintaining the servers, but no, they keep trying to come up with ways to collect more money from what they already offer.

What two months ago Ebay blamed social networks on their downfall. Really? a social site?? The only way a social site can cause an issue with a a company is the freedom of speech. What I mean by that is, telling everyone how you got done wrong. Well dang the ability to speak your mind. Others blame it on a weakening economy. Yes it’s the fact that we do not want to give up our physical possessions that we earned and once put our hands on in trade for 7% or more fees to sell on a network full of people who have mastered the system of gaming that site.

If it was not for the over price auction and every fee they can tax to the system, it would be because the 50/50 chance of getting hit by a scammer. you auction off your item and some guy wins at a nice hefty price you ship the item, eBay contacts you and says “wait payment is not complete and has been reversed due to A STOLEN ACCOUNT” …. ehh crap. Meanwhile the scammer sends out hundreds of emails from fake email accounts like emailer1.ebay@yahoo.com and the emails look like legit eBay emails saying ” Item paid for you must ship item now” . Go to your PayPal account and see the money was reversed and you never received, then you get fake PayPal emails Confirming the item was paid for.

How the person won the auction was to bid $40000000 over the actual value of the item assuring no one will win but him/her. Basically killed your chance to get money for what you earned, then to complete the screwing, tries to steal the item from you.

If you get scammed and fall for anything from an eBay scammer you are at a 80% chance of eBay saying ” there is nothing we can do about this at this time but we are looking into it” .. Great.

See for a place that actually has very little to offer, no 100% assurance, they sure do keep raising their prices a whole lot.

Oh for a heads up.

Never ever buy a car remote from eBay. You get the remote, you set your car to match it, he just mailed it to you so he has your home address and the matching remote.. 20 bucks and a car for $45 worth of gas.. Nice.

Tech Podcasts to start out August Work Schedule

Posted on2009/08/03AuthorTech News

Every week every day I have to start out listening to my shows. I start with sdr then move to the tech guythen caffination and then twit. Through out the week I pick out the rest. Following week, I start all over. Occasionally I get lucky and Jobacle has a new episode. If you send topic requests, he might actually research the topic and hook you up. Really well done program, just not enough of it there. The unsigned musicians portion of the show really is good stuff, most of time!

Twit This Week In Tech, a network created by Leo Laporte. Shows I highlight that I must listen to every week.

The Tech Guy, Net@Nite,TWIT.

Tech Podcast Network Place to hear tech podcasts and select from a few. sdr, linux news log, Mike Tech, CaffiNation,

Podnutz A gathering of tech podcasts on one network. pretty good stuff.

At the top of every page on the tech news site, there is a tool bar, you don’t have to use it but it does already have the podcasts I listed here in the rss feed and the radio player. I use that tool bar on my bootable linux thumb drive, my home pc, my laptop, my work pc , scanned a million times over there is nothing to fear from that bar it really is very useful. but again, you o not have to use it to try the podcasts I listed.

I phone hacked… Again

Posted on2009/07/31AuthorTech News

Get Square font sent to your Iphone as an SMS, you are compromised. Time to shut down.

Well This goes to show you, that it is not a perfect company. The one device they make that

actually hits the masses, Gets hacked fast and easy one simple text message font From what I gather, the font will look like the blank font looks on a machine that does not support it, it will just be a square. One single square that locks up your cell phone. Mashable says that when your phone locks up, they are hacking you. Really I doubt that, locked up is locked up, unless you are locked out and the lock up is just a spoof.

Make you think twice about yoru twitter ap…..

Employment Resources

Posted on2009/07/23AuthorGame News

When searching for a job you can get frustrated and worn out by stumbling into all the quick money postings. The types of junk that lead you into paying money because they say you can make money, and you end up shorter on cash and worse off than when you started. Well there is a job search website that claims to prevent such postings.

The owners of that site also run some chat rooms and forums, so they know a few things about automated postings. They point out that people use Bots or automated posting programs to post the same stuff on forums as they do on job search sites. They say they see them all the time when they do research at other job search sites. Now as forum and chatroom owners, the trick is to make everyone who chooses to submit a job to wait for site team approval. If you know how lazy bot owners are, you know they do not create 100000 email addresses, so if they use one at all, it is the same one. So the crew at http://iworkwithpeople.com simply do a google (the magical mystical device) search on what information is givin, and if the applicant comes up within the list of internet badness, they refuse the applicant.

So far the site has been up for a few weeks, and well, all that has found them so far is spam bots and one single company. I liked what they did so I am posting a heads up on what they do. If you are looking to post a job, and do not use a spammers email address and or i.p. address , feel free to post a job at http://iworkwithpeople.com .

If you are looking for work, post a “work wanted” ad on there. Some one will respond. The level of privacy is amazing. Take a look around.

Oh yeah, did I mention the site was 100% free to all users? submit/search/resume the whole thing is totally free.

And inspired as I am from this “help the world find a job” post go listen to the podcasts at jobacle.com He reminds you that you are worth more than the job you think you are, and inspires you with motivating suggestions. Great podcast for getting the cubicle monkey out of you :-P

How To Sell A Domain Name

Posted on2009/07/15AuthorTech News

If you are following this from the day I posted it, you are to soon. I am working on this for a few days to get the site I am selling , sold. as I progress I will come back to this page and post a link to the next. You might want to book mark this. It’s not a fast process.

In 2008 I added a domain name iworkwithmusic.com . to my set of websites. I also have IWORKWITHTECH and IWORKWITHPEOPLE.COM . My intentions where to allow musicians to advertise their band and music so people would know how to find their content or when the musicians would have a show. The goal was to make it totally free for the musicians to do what they needed to get their content seen. The goal was to make that website the place scouts would eventually go to so they could look for bands or people to sign to their label. Sorry to say I could not come up with the money it takes to advertise such a site. I wanted to make sites that show I work with certain fields and I want to help people get known in certain categories that these people want to be known. So I was lucky to get a site that stays with my theme.

With all the chatrooms all over the internet with a dj this and dj that as screen names. Not one person would sign up. Either that means my site is not attractive, It’s hard to understand what it is, Musicians just do not get on the internet much, 90% of the people who call their selves a dj within social networks, Really are not.

Maybe I am bitter. It really felt like I was doing this from the heart, but it failed.

So I have been scouring the internet studying how I can sell my website. There is a large number of sites that talk about buying, selling, auctioning websites. I will not be auctioning. That of course is like eBay, you could end up selling your plasma tv for a dollar. I will hold out, and I will try more ideas on iworkwithmusic.com until the site is sold for a fair price. It has great potential.

I looked at godaddy’s auction, there is no way you will get me to post my site on there for $5 plus 5-7% . That place is for domain squatters. What is a domain squatter? people who buy a site just to sell it. like the 90000 people who buy up websites with the name of a dead star Right after tragedy hit and try to sell it and become millionaires. Go to eBay and look at all the Farrah and Micheal sites for auction that no one is buying. It’s disrespectful and we all know that people like that do not deserve to profit from that. There are others who just steadily type all sorts of ideas and park them with a for sale sign on them. See if you have not tried to unload a good website, you do not know that it is an option to auction or sale them. You just go to the website you normally go to and type in the domain name you want for your great idea, and if the site is available you get it. If it is not, you try something close. In that case you end up with a domain like 1111iworkwithpeople1111.com and really that is completely unattractive and leaves you unmotivated.

Searches I have done.

evaluate my website That turns up a bunch of websites that you pay to tell you what your site is worth to them as a buyer. You will not be happy unless you own yahoo or google or msn. it turns up crap. They want to charge you to tell you that your site is worth about 25 bucks. They get these prices by counting the letters in your site, not what the domain name means. Many of them also look at the content on the site and do their evaluation by the relevance of the name to the content, cool, if I was selling the whole site. Sorry I amusing a free php script from e107. Their works has nothing to do with the value of the domain by by it’s actual value.

what is my Site worth

Ok this one is a little bit more fun. but I have to warn you, it’s like playing a flash based video game… it’s not reall. but they do tell you how you rank in search engines.

Most of them use Google and Alexa.. Alexa??? really ??? Wasn’t Alexa considered bad news?? Well if it was, I guess that does not matter when you are checking the value of your sites traffic. Needless to say I failed all the alexa tests, because I refuse to put their software on my site. Most anti-spyware programs go nuts with anything with eth word alexa in it, sooo I will not be making my visitors uncomfortable.

This one Did not please me at all. I tried all my sites, every single site I typed in was the exact same value. $10 . I even tried the domain name for the company I work for, it’s a few years old (google way back machine). and it came up the same. A company that makes 2G a day from that website.

I have no idea what this site uses but it valued my site at …. $0 hmm. not cool so far BUT it does see truxtertech.com at a much better price. So that one is real, well at least the prices changes a bit more often at a much more broad range. Still have no idea what it does. It might read page count, since the page count is on the main site truxtertech and since iworkwithtech is a sub-directory there really are no stats to offer.

Websiteoutlook Sees the site as being worth $255 and says it gets 35 cents a day in ad revenue, hmm I have no advertisements on it, and it shows an old screenshot. May have been that long since I had advertisements. I removed them because I thought they might have been a turn off to visitors.

dnscoop Sees the site as about 120 bucks.. Alexa is it’s biggest focus. Selling a domain name, not a cache cookie farm.

This piece of work Saw all of my sites as 77 dollars. their php script is mis configured , but shows a nice price for it’s own domain. LOL! no thanks… on top of that, they use technoroti to evaluate your site. it almost looks like they are using dnscoop through an iframe.

So far I am not impressed much by any of those. but we will see as this process continues.

Testing out wordpress/Twitter App

Posted on2009/07/07AuthorGame News

So far all of the sign up part was easy and fast, but I do not know if the posts are automatic from the blog to twitter. I also want to know if it will summarize them and fit a link in, or will there be some other crazy method

as of now I am uncertain.

For your help the programs is called “tweetable.1.0.7”

Make sure you have php5 or greater. 4 will just not work.

and if you are on the same service as I am, you have to wait a few minutes after

updating your php from 4 to 5.

Oh crap, I have to check all of my other sites.

Ok checked the rest of my sites.

php 5 made them a little bit faster. Maybe I should have upgraded a while back.

Amd Clock and Windows &

Posted on2009/07/05AuthorGame News

I have used amd clock 2.01 since I first heard about it back when I was on windows xp.
The thing always shows how much of my processor is being used. It did not show me what I kind of wanted to see
like how much I have and how much is left ( cpu resources).

Well I am now on Windows seven after trying many variants of xp and many variants of vista.
So far windows seven is “Alright” but really. I have many issues with the O/S.

Amd Clock On Windows 7

Just a three weeks ago, on vista it would show 1.9 ghz until I would actually utilize some of the
resources of the cpu. Then it would crank up to the max. I find this weird now
That it shows my min as greater than my max, and when I use my processor it shows I have greater
cpu power.

Amd And Overclocking on Windows seven, hmm might = POP

I have an AMD 5600 processor, it’s a 2.9 cpu.
I think amd needs to update it’s clock tool, or windows seven is doing weird stuff.

Windows Update Keeps Re-directing To Google ?

Posted on2009/07/02AuthorGame News3 Comments

Yep this also happened to me. While at work. AT WORK !!! sorry had to say it like it is supposed to be said, yelling.
Now at my job, I am not “The Tech Guy”. I am the drawings and images guy. I mean I know plenty, but they already have a “resident nerd” and well, he is pretty good at it. So by my wandering around on the internet doing things “my way” and stumbling into an ” Oh dang!” moment isn’t the best thing for my career. First warning was ” Microsoft is ready to install Explorer 8″ Yep you guessed it, I installed it . Not thinking one time that I was on Firefox the whole time.
Ok I started with the on board Symantec end point. It caught either 8 viruses , or the same virus kept trying to rescue it’s self. lol I have no idea, I was panicking and hurrying , I saw the word ” Trojan” in the pop up warning from Symantec, and freaked out. I decide I better go check Windows update site and see if I ever downloaded Internet Explorer 8, The page would not load, I run to another computer on the network and all is fine, I head back to mine, still nothing. So I headed to the first place I could think of. Bitdefender’s online malware scan. It never lets me down. Well this time it surely did. I take it up a notch and head to “Malware Bytes” and start doing a search in Google and search the term “windows update takes me to Google” and started reading all the people praying and begging for help. The ever so faithful “tech guy forums” turned up an unanswered request for help, wow that was surprising. After about 45 minutes of reading, I find nothing (well I actually found the right thing but over looked it like 10 times) and malware bytes is done scanning, It found nothing, nothing at all, I try and update it, will not let me, along with anything else I tried to scan with.
So now I break out A-squared, not the worst thing in the line up for sure, but it did not find anything either. Ok now I am feeling like I am losing my mind. Well as this is going on I am still reading threads in forums about the issue. I go back to this thread . The first link in the first and only response, well tried that. Second link I click it it takes me to Super AntiSpyware. First thought is ” Well crap, this place looks like it’s just going to make the issue worse. I figured that it really couldn’t get much worse if I scan the file first. So I wander off to the download area for the free version. All was fine until I get to the point that I actually try and download it. Another dead link.. “hmmm, the link is dead, it is blocked, it must be what I need” is exactly what I thought. Ok also another thing about that name, just kept making me think about power rangers. It really sounded like the slogan from some kid’s show “super anti-spyware free trial go team action go!!!” is what I kept saying and giggling.
I walked over to another one of the computers in the office and download the file and slip it onto an open space on the server.
Walk back to my computer and here comes the I.T. guy, just in time. I let him fumble through it like I did. He made a lot of the assumptions I did at first, I walked away to the store next to the office and get a soda while he does exactly what I did. I get back into the office and there he is, lol just like me.. Reading the forum posts for a second time. We agreed that super action malware scanner was the way to go. Well we install it while Spybot S&D or something was finishing it’s scan.
We reboot to safe mode administration by pressing F8 after the bios scan, just before the windows logo. Yes I was just sitting there hitting the F8 button repeatedly till I got the boot menu.
In administration mode we ran the quick scan. Within seconds it finds 3 Trojans and a dns changer, by the end of the scan Super AntiSpyware found two root-kits and two registry key modifications.
We rebooted after the scan and checked to see if Microsoft Windows Update worked, all was fine but still could not update any of the virus scanners. So we reboot to safe mode administrator, and do the full scan. Nothing came up.

So far not all of the issues are resolved, I will go through my “hosts” file and see if there are any changes there. Probably not but hopefully there are. I know how to change that. and I will add the link that I got the file from in the first place to the list of blocked sites. I may even email a heads up to the guys from mvp’s hosts file website (google it).
This is the help I have for you. I hope it works for you. Heck I’m going to run that goofy named program on my home pc now and see what it finds. http://www.superantispyware.com/
Hope it helps you get un-hijacked. I promise that program actually works, just the name is stupid and their web designer is cheesy.

Also that “Google” page I kept getting redirected to was not regular google. it was an affiliate page. Google English. So the freak was making money off of each search we did while we tried to resolve the issue. Google needs to ban that account.