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Treat Your Power Cord Right!

This is Tech Leader Farzin. Today were going to show you how to keep your Asus netbook charger in good working order. All the time at the Help Desk, we see students come in with broken chargers, and when we look at the chargers, we see that theyve been shoved into backpacks without proper wrapping.

This causes the internal wires to fray. Students with AC adapters in this condition have to pay for new adapters. So, save yourself some money and wrap your charger the right way. Well also show you how to do this for the other two kinds of chargers, so watch the video thats right for you.

If You Have an Asus Netbook



If You Have A Dell Two-Piece Charger



 


If You Have A Dell One-Piece Charger

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Treat yourself to DB2 this holiday season

Earlier this year, Oracle acquired MySQL. They have since significantly hiked up prices across the entire MySQL line. Today, it costs more to get a years subscription to MySQL than to simply get IBM DB2 Express Fixed Term License (FTL).


What surprises me is how much more value you get by going with IBM. DB2 is 60% cheaper than a comparable MySQL edition. You can set up a cluster of two DB2 servers for the price of one MySQL server and have change left over.

Keep in mind that MySQL Enterprise limits you to four processors, which is comparable to the DB2 Express limit of four cores across two processors.

DB2 Express FTL, which is built on exactly the same code as all IBM DB2 editions, comes with official IBM 24x7 Support, High Availability Disaster Recovery clustering, SQL replication, backup compression, Optim Development Studio, Optim Database Administrator, DB2 fixpacks, and access to older DB2 releases through IBM Passport Advantage.

DB2 users

• Read more about DB2 Express subscription 
• Buy DB2 Express FTL
  

 New visitors

• Download the free DB2 Express-C
• Free book: Get Started with DB2
• Read the "Move from MySQL to DB2" link round-up

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Treat Your Battery Right

Hi guys,

We get a lot of questions about netbook batteries here at the Help Desk.

Your battery has a lifespan, and it will eventually need to be replaced. Theres a lot of misinformation out there about batteries; if you go to ten different websites, you may get ten different types of advice.

The main thing is to develop good habits to extend the life of your battery. From our research, there are really four basic things you can do to for a battery like the one in your netbook. TL Sunny has the information:




Just to sum up...

1. Dont let your battery go all the way down to zero on a regular basis. Use it until it gets down to about 25%; then charge it up to 100%.

2. When your battery meter starts to get inaccurate, then go ahead and run it down to zero. Dont do this more than once a month.

3. Avoid heat! Heat will reduce the life of your battery. Dont leave your netbook in a car on a hot summer day.

4. If youre going to store your netbook over the summer, you can extend the life of the battery by running it down to about 40% and storing it in the fridge. For real!

Source

Video by TL Farzin! Hat tip to TL Sunny for recording a complex video in a noisy room!

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Trick or Treat Beat

Que tal um joguinho para comemorar o Halloween? Trick or Treat Beat � um jogo meio antiguinho do Cartoon Network. Lembro que eu tinha uns 9 ou 10 anos quando o lan�aram e naquela �poca ainda valia pena assistir o canal e acessar o site.
O jogo em si at� � bobinho, voc� tem apenas que andar pelo cen�rio procurando por moedas, balas e b�nus.
As instru��es e v�deos do jogo est�o depois do pulo.


http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/games/cc/trickortreatbeat/

Have fun! o/



Objetivo: Pegar todos os itens do jogo para conseguir o m�ximo de pontos. O jogo consiste em 20 n�veis com tempo divididos em 5 "vizinhan�as". Para passar de n�vel voc� precisa pegar todas as moedas. As balas e o b�nus n�o s�o obrigat�rios, mas valem mais pontos. Todos os itens podem ser encontrados pelo cen�rio, em po�os, casinhas de cachorro e casas ou dados pelos "astros" do Cartoon Network.







Controles: Basta usar as setas para andar e a tecla espa�o para usar o poder.







Monstros e poderes: Os poderes variam de acordo com a fantasia que voc� est� usando. Para trocar de fantasia voc� precisa passar pelos quadradinhos que giram com o desenho do monstrinho desejado.





























 A bruxa transforma fantasmas em sapos.










O monstro da �gua pode mergulhar na �gua e nadar. (nunca que eu ia imaginar isso)











V�deos: N�o sei se isso pode ser considerado um "detonado", mas eu tava sem nada pra fazer e resolvi gravar o jogo. Lembrando que como o jogo � dividido em vizinhan�as ao gravar dividi do mesmo jeito, s� o v�deo da �ltima vizinhan�a que ficou muito grande ent�o tive que dividir em 2 partes... a� vai:

1� vizinhan�a:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWSk3QwYOVE

2� vizinhan�a:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtzLSfGzi78

3� vizinhan�a:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VydPglwUM8M

4� vizinhan�a:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppdVuQTIQWg

5� vizinhan�a (parte 1):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z_EGdtn5pk

5� vizinhan�a (parte 2):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNpGnEDNtiM

Feliz Dia das Bruxas! Doce ou Travessura? ;D

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Dear friends,

If you wish an overview of our Koln/Bonn trip, here are the articles/posts I wrote about that:

• What Would You Visit In Koln - thoughts upon what one could see in Koln, ideeas at the beginning of the journey
• Germany, Ich Liebe Dich - Koln/Cologne & Bonn through BB pictures + 2 dear pictures that my best friend Dana took :) - a short intro to our trip in Germany
• The Flight Travel Bug - or how I love to fly and I am glad my husband choose Lufthansa for our trip to Koln/Cologne 
• Krakow-Cologne. How do I get there? - on how we managed to get from Poland to Germany: flight + ICE Train, and a little extra on the side: chinese food for dinner :) 
• A Dark And Gloomy Cathedral - a very extensive post on the awesomeness of the Cologne/Koln Cathedral. I fell in love with her at the first sight!
• You Love Me. Real Or Not Real? - the wonderful Hohenzollern Bridge with its love locks, right next to the Koln Cathedral was a wonderful stop :) 
• A Walk Along The Rhein - a short stroll from the Hohenzollern Bridge to the Chocolate Museum, close to the  Severinsbrucke. 
• 3D Golf - Now Thats Something New! - a little bit of our 3D party + a short detour at  Metzgerei & Salon Schmitz
• Sweet And Quiet Bonn - more about our travels in Germany and the wonderful little town called Bonn, where the yumyum Haribo gummy bears come from :) 
• A Top Notch Bonn History Museum - the post about the wonderful German National Museum Of Contemporary History

 ** I wrote this post out of love and DD did not repay me in any way. But the taste of the donuts are totally worth it! They are the best ones I ever ate - except the ones made by my granny ;) **
 
Yours truly,
A LadyBug That Loves Dunkin Donuts :)