Go to (Site -> General Configurations ->Server)

1. Make sure that Mail Settings are correct

(Mailer, Mail from, Sendmail Path, SMTP Authentication)

2. Go to Site Tab

Set all settings under SEO Settings to NO

3. Go to you website and try to submit a form to see if it works with out SEF (SEO Links)

If it works then go to step 4 if the contact form is not working and you get Error go to step 1 and make sure all your email configuration are correct.

4. If the Contact Us Form Works and you don’t get Error 500

Then the issue could be in your template not in Contact form or SEF Extension.

You have to download from your website following file default_from.php the file is located in

templates/YOUR-TEMPLATE-NAME/html/com_contact/contact/default_form.php

5. Edit the default_from.php

a. Find <input type=”hidden” name=”view” value=”contact” />

b. Add before the line a <input type=”hidden” name=”option” value=”com_contact” />

If your default_from.php file had line b missing then the Error 500 issue will be resolved once you save the file and upload back to your server.

6. Go to  Site -> General Configurations ->Site

Set all settings under SEO Settings to Yes

Now if you submit your Contact From on your website with SEO setting enabled your form should work, and you would not get Error 500.

Since Windows 95 it always took couple steps to get to the “Add or Remove Programs” in Windows XP or “Programs and Features” in Windows Vista or Windows 7. Here is the quickest way to access the Add or Remove.

Sometimes it is easier to ask somebody to press couple keyboard shortcut and enter panel name to get to a panel then to walk then trough the process of start -> control panel-> … etc. Plus Microsoft keeps changing the way you access it.

Here is what I use most of the time; it should work for Windows XP, Windows Vista and the latest

Step 1
Press this combination of keys to bring Run dialog box (Windows Key + R)

Step 2
Type appwiz.cpl into the Run dialog box and Click OK

Once you clicked OK the “Add or Remove Programs” or “Programs and Features” will appear it depends on the operating system that you are running.

Getting to the Panels from command prompt.

Step 1.

Repeat Step 1 Above.

Step 2.

Type cmd to bring command prompt window then Press OK

Step 3

Type appwiz.cpl in the command prompt and it will bring the Control Panels.

Windows XP

Windows 7 and Vista should look similar this is screen shot is from Windows 7.

Post your comments and question in the comments.

Nothing is better then saving some Bucks but still keeping the cool features of mobile SMS. Google Voice is the hot topic around VoIP companies and many consumers. I don’t text that much usually people text me if they can’t get hold of me etc. So seeing a $.40 per message is not a big thing but it can add up, plus I started to give my Google voice number to people, but i didn’t enabled the feature to forward text messages to my phone(I don’t want to pay for SMS). So looking around in the settings of my Google Voice Account I found out that they have this really cool feature. SMS to your Gmail account, this is how it works

1. You need to sign up for Google Voice (right now it is available only by getting an invite)

a. Google Voice invitation request

2. Once Logged into your account go to
a. Settings -> Voicemail & SMS (Tab)
b. Place a Check mark on SMS Forwarding (Make sure to save changes)

Now whenever someone sends you a SMS message to your Google Voice Phone number, you will get an email to your Gmail account.

The best part about Google Voice SMS Forwarding is that once you got the SMS Text as email you reply to the email and you send a SMS message to the sender.  This is a great feature for those who are using Google Voice and Pay only for Internet on their cell phone but don’t want to pay for texting.

This is a free way of getting SMS Messages to a phone that doesn’t have a Google Voice Application, but has email client and internet connection (Only feature it is lucking is that you can’t send new SMS Message from your email but only reply to a received SMS message).

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I have just Virtualized a Server and I when I tried to assign the same IP Address it had when it was a Physical machine I get an Error:

The IP address XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX you have entered for this network adapter is already assigned to another adapter Name of adapter. Name of adapter is hidden from the network and Dial-up Connections folder because it is not physically in the computer or is a legacy adapter that is not working. If the same address is assigned to both adapters and they become active, only one of them will use this address. This may result in incorrect system configuration. Do you want to enter a different IP address for this adapter in the list of IP addresses in the advanced dialog box?

Doing some google search I get results:

Vmware.com -
Networking Error, IP Address Already Assigned to Another Adapter

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1179

Microsoft.com - Error message when you try to set an IP address on a network adapter

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=269155

The problem that I had is that when I go to View and click Show Hidden Devices I can see the Intel(R) PRO/1000 MT Network Connection but when I try to uninstall it I get Error Message:

Failed to uninstall the device. The device may be required to boot up the computer.

Well I can’t Uninstall network adapter and I can’t assign the IP Address to the VMware Accelerated AMD PCNet Adapter. Even when I disable the Driver from the Physical NIC (Intel® PRO/1000) I still can’t assign IP Address the the VMware Network Adapter.

This is what I had to do in order to remove the Physical Network Card from the Virtual Machine and I was able to Assign the IP address with out any problems.

1. Run > regedit

2. File > Export - Do a backup of your Registrty Settings.Will have to delete Registriy settings of the Intel Network Adpater

3. Ctrl+F or Edit > Find - Search for you Network Adpater Name in my case I did a search for “1000 MT” it is unique I would not do a search for just Intel because there is of other Interl componets.

4. If you find the Network Adpter Name with other adapters delete just the key with “Your adpter’s name in the Description”

Sample:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\NetworkCards\9]

“ServiceName”=”{256CX651-7274-XXX-A797-XXXXXXAAXXXX}”

“Description”=”Intel(R) PRO/1000 MT Network Connection”

I deleted just the key “9″

5. Then Press F3 to contiue the search.

In this case

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Class\{4D36E972-0000-0000-BFC1-00002bE10000}\0007]

“ChangeProperties”=dword:00000001

“LogLinkStateEvent”=”51″

“DmaFairness”=”0″

“FirstTime”=”1″

“PciScanMethod”=”3″

“TxIntDelay”=”28″

“MulticastFilterType”=”0″

“MWIEnable”=”0″

“CustomMessages”=”1″

“VlanFiltering”=”1″

“QtagSwControlled”=”0″

“WaitAutoNegComplete”=”2″

“ReduceSpeedOnPowerDown”=”1″

“AutoPowerSaveModeEnabled”=”0″

“SavePowerNowEnabled”=”1″

“AutoNegAdvertised”=”47″

“TaggingMode”=”0″

“CoInstallFlag”=dword:98000001

“ITR”=”65535″

“AdaptiveIFS”=”0″

“Characteristics”=dword:00000084

“BusType”=”5″

“ComponentId”=”pci\\ven_8086&dev_1076″

“ChecksumRxIp”=”1″

“ChecksumRxTcp”=”1″

“ChecksumTxIp”=”1″

“ChecksumTxTcp”=”1″

“EnablePME”=”2″

“FlowControl”=”3″

“MasterSlave”=”0″

“MaxFrameSize”=”1514″

“NumRxDescriptors”=”256″

“NumTxDescriptors”=”256″

“SPDEnabled”=”1″

“SpeedDuplex”=”0″

“TcpSegmentation”=”1″

“WakeOnLink”=”0″

“WakeOn”=”246″

“InfPath”=”oem0.inf”

“InfSection”=”E1076.ndi.NTx86.5.1″

“ProviderName”=”Intel”

“DriverDateData”=hex:00,00,00,00,00,d0,c4,01

“DriverDate”=”11-22-2004″

“DriverVersion”=”8.4.21.0″

“MatchingDeviceId”=”pci\\ven_8086&dev_1076″

“DriverDesc”=”Intel(R) PRO/1000 MT Network Connection”

“NetCfgInstanceId”=”{256CX651-7274-XXX-A797-XXXXXXAAXXXX}”

I will delete now only the key, but the sub key. It might give you an error so inorder for you to delete it.

Right Click on the Sub-Key in my case “0007″ > Permissions.

Under Group or user names: Select Everyone

Uder Permissions for Everone mark Full Control Ceck Box > Hit Ok

Now you will delete the regestry Sub-key with out any problems.

6. Hit F3 Again and process the same steps from Step 4 to Delete All the Keys and Sub-Keys that are assisiated with your network interface configurations.

7. Once you have your network adpater registry settings reboot the system.

8. Once the system has been rebooted Check Device Manager if the network adapter that you were deleting is there. (Make sure to go to View and click Show Hidden Devices) If the interface that delete from registries is not in Device Manger.

9. Go to Network Connections and Assign the IP Address to the VMware Adapter. You should not get any errors and your system should be on the network.

Good Luck people.

Virtualization Rocks!

gdgt.com has VMware Image, VirtualBox Image and a USB-bootable version of Chrome OS.

I am downloading it right now. I will be working on transfering the image to a physical HD. I will post how the process is going. Good Luck on getting those Images and testing the Google Chrome OS.

Download Links

VMware Image

VirtualBox

USB-bootable

Microsoft has hidden and moved locations of some settings configurations, since Internet Explorer 6. I know it take a little of digging to and you will find it. But for people who don’t want to send time but need it to be done, I have this Step by step tutorial on how to Delete not only Temporary Internet Files, but Cookies, Internet Explorer History, Form Data, the important one Delete Save Passwords and the last InPrivate Filtering Data from Internet Explorer 7 and Internet Explorer 8.

Follow the step by step tutorial below.

1.Go to Tools

Internet Explorer - Tools

2.Internet Options

Internet Options

3.Under Browsing history click the “Delete button”

Browsing History

4.In the “Delete Browsing History” windows place a check mark next to the item that you would like to delete. Then Hit Delete Button.

Delete Browsing History

5.A window will pop-up with a progress bar going across and scrolling text of the current deleted items.

Deleting Progress Bar

6.Click “OK” To close Internet Options Window

Closing Internet Options Window

You are Done Deleting , I hope that was helpful.

I just upgraded my Virtual Center to vCenter 4 and I am using vSphere to connect to the vCenter. Everything looks good but when I go to check Performance > Overview I get Error Message

“Perf Charts service experienced and internal error.”
Message: Report application initialization is not completed successfully. Retry in 60 seconds.

Quick fix that worked for me.
1 . Close all sessions of vSphere Client.
2. Go Start > Administrative Tools > Services
3. Find VMware VirtualCenter Management Webservices
a. Right Click Stop (Don’t do a restart, wait for the service to stop)
b. Right Click Start (This will stop and start the Tomcat Server)
4. Don’t close Services.mmc but find a service SQL Server Browser
a. Right Click > Properties
b. Change Startup Type: Automatic
c. OK
d. Right Click and Start the Service
5. Login into vCenter and Look at Performance > Overview you should see Nice Graphs of CPU, Memory, Disk. You have options to pick between History Graphs and Real-time Graphs.

“VMware the Power of Virtualization in your Hands.” RemotExpert

Personally I like a hands on experience to configure, fix, setup etc, but if it is not available i prefer screen-shots. I understnad that there are all lot of people like me so let’s jump to the wireless setup.

1. Make sure your wireless is turned on

2. Right Click on Wireless Network Connection -> Left Click View Available Wireless Networks

3. YOUR-HIDDEN-NETWORK-NAME Wireless is not visible under Choose a wireless network.

• Under Related Tasks Click Change advanced settings

4. Wireless Network Connection Properties will open,

• Go to Wireless Networks Tab
• Under Preferred networks click Add

5. Enter Following Information

- Network name (SSID) : YOUR-HIDDEN-NETWORK-NAME (Case Sensitive)

- Network Authentication: WPA2-PSK (Must be WPA2 not WPA)

- Data Encryption: TKIP

- Network key: (Your Wireless Network Password)

If under Network Authentication you don’t have WPA2-PSK your systems will need to install Windows XP (KB893357) Update Download KB893357 Update.

You will need to restart you computer after the Update for WPA2 to be enabled.

6. Once you have Entered Correct Information

• Click Ok to Close Wireless Network Properties
• Click Ok to Close Wireless Network Connection Properties

7. Your Computer Should Get Automatically connected to YOUR-HIDDEN-NETWORK-NAME

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About a week ago I was thinking how hard would it be to add my location to Google Maps and I was asking myself why Google is not adding it to Google map. Most phones that have GPS and Google Maps installed are able to use my location feature on their phone.

Well Google is not sleeping. Yesterday I was looking for directions and I have notice a new button on Google Maps I clicked on to see what it does and it showed my location on the Google map. Finally they have added the feature to Google maps.

Next I think they should make it available to tie my location on Google Maps to Google Latitude this way people can update their location without their phone.
Good Job Google, you always surprise me with the updates to your products.