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Post author By Vivi The Mage
Post date June 18, 2011
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If you’re interested in this blog, you would probably enjoy Midnight in Paris, Woody Allen’s new movie. Lots of awesome people are characters. I won’t say any more.

Tags i see... a rhinoceros!, just sayin'

Air Cards

Verizon Pantech UML290 Disconnects Fix

Post author By Vivi The Mage
Post date June 15, 2011
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We recently have been getting a bunch of these Pantech UML290’s in, and some users have experienced disconnects in 3G areas.

Fix :

Open up VZAccess
With VZAccess selected type CTRL + D
That should open up a window asking for a password, which is diagvzw
At the next screen, hit settings
Change Mobile IP to OFF
Set connection to Auto CDMA
Save settings and exit the VZAccess application
Shut down, remove aircard
restart, reinsert aircard with VZAccess already opened

This has reportedly boosted 3G and 4G performance, and much more sustainable speeds.

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Jimi Hendrix backstage with The Rolling Stones (submitted by Ferdinand and Andrew)

Post author By Vivi The Mage
Post date June 12, 2011
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Tags jimi hendrix, musicians, the rolling stones

Hard Drives

Lenovo X220 IDE vs AHCI comparision with SSD Sata 6GB/s

Post author By Vivi The Mage
Post date June 6, 2011
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I accidentally formatted my new x220 as IDE, so I ran some benchmarks of before :

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and here are some now AHCI benchmarks.

[zp src=”m4-crystal-ahci.png” album=”blog/CrucialM4/” width=”600″]

resolution : AHCI + 6GB/s = faster then IDE!

Operating System Deployment

Convert SATA IDE to AHCI aka – STOP 0x0000007B INACCESSABLE_BOOT_DEVICE

Post author By Vivi The Mage
Post date June 6, 2011
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I recently formatted my IBM x220 into IDE on accident, and wanted to change it from IDE to AHCI. This was a simple procedure, noted by MS :

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922976


Exit all Windows-based programs.
 Click Start, type regedit in the Start Search box, and then press ENTER.
If you receive the User Account Control dialog box, click Continue.
Locate and then click one of the following registry subkeys:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Msahci
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\IastorV
In the right pane, right-click Start in the Name column, and then click Modify.
In the Value data box, type 0, and then click OK.
On the File menu, click Exit to close Registry Editor.

Now as you reboot, make sure to change it to AHCI in BIOS, and voila, all should be working.

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Craig Ferguson and Stephen Fry “There are some British people who are cool [Mick Jagger, for example], and then there are people like me who seem to be made of tweed.”

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Post author By Vivi The Mage
Post date June 2, 2011
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Disabling submissions for a little while in order to organize the posts.

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Verizon Mifi 2200 charging via USB cable – turn off tethering

Post author By Vivi The Mage
Post date June 1, 2011
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We decided to roll out a few mifi’s, and we did not like the fact they decide to go into tethering mode when plugged in, and not wifi. So I pulled one open, browsed settings and came up empty.

I backed up the configuration and looked through a few of the settings, and one stood out : routeroverusb, changed that from 0 to 1 and presto!

FIX :

1) Go to IE while connected via Wifi and not hooked up to USB, punch in your Mifi device IP (default 192.168.1.1)
2) In the top right, put in admin as the password (unless you changed it), and hit enter.
3) Click on Advanced > Config File
4) Back up the config file
5) Make a duplicate of that file, and open it up with wordpad/notepad (note MS WORD).
6) Find the line : 0 and change it to 1
7) Save the file, and go back and upload it.

While you are at it, boost the maximum transmit strength from 13 to 25. In the same configuration file, find the line 13 and change it to 25 I do not know where they came up with 25, but I wouldn’t try it myself, might drain the battery on the device more, or cause it to be unstable. I have not tested that.

Now, back in the web administration page, select the File, browse, and then upload file to add the new configuration file. Wait for the upload to complete, you will get a popup/progress bar. The device will then reboot itself. If it doesn’t hard shut it off yourself, and once it’s back running, hook up via wifi (not usb tethered yet), make sure it works, then plug it in.

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