I recently got a new pc with an Asus P5K motherboard, after reformatting it the built-in sound card was not working anymore.

This is how I fixed it:

1. From control panel, add/remove, remove these 2 softwares if they are installed, “Realtek High Definition Audio Driver” and “High Definition Audio driver Package - KB888111″.
2. Restart Windows
3. Get the latest Realtek drivers from here.
4. Install it, and reboot.
5. Should be working now!

I think this should work on all Asus Motherboards that have a built-in HD Realtek Soundcard.

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Author: Hussam Al-Tayeb

The following tutorial illustrates how to install and run a Squid proxy server.

First off, a little info about Squid, Squid is a fully-featured HTTP/1.0 proxy which is almost (in progress) HTTP/1.1 compliant. Squid offers a rich access control, authorization and logging environment to develop web proxy and content serving applications.

You will need the following programs installed. ‘openssl’ ‘pam’ ‘perl’ and any ‘cron’ daemon preferably dcron. A recent gcc version is also needed.

Installing Squid:

First you need to download the following source tarball.
Open a terminal window and cd to the folder where you downloaded the file
run: tar -jxvf squid-2.6.STABLE14.tar.bz2 && cd squid-2.6.STABLE14

The next step is to run the configure script.

./configure –prefix=/usr –datadir=/usr/share/squid \
–sysconfdir=/etc/squid –libexecdir=/usr/lib/squid \
–localstatedir=/var –enable-auth=”basic,digest,ntlm” \
–enable-removal-policies=”lru,heap” \
–enable-digest-auth-helpers=”password” \
–enable-storeio=”aufs,ufs,diskd,coss,null” \
–enable-basic-auth-helpers=”getpwnam,YP,NCSA,SMB,MSNT,PAM, multi-domain-NTLM” \
–enable-external-acl-helpers=”ip_user,unix_group,wbinfo_group” \
–enable-ntlm-auth-helpers=”SMB,fakeauth,no_check” \
–enable-delay-pools –enable-arp-acl –enable-ssl \
–enable-linux-netfilter –enable-ident-lookups \
–enable-useragent-log –enable-cache-digests –enable-referer-log \
–enable-async-io –enable-truncate –enable-arp-acl \
–enable-htcp –enable-carp –enable-poll –with-maxfd=4096
Then run ‘make’ and hope for the best.
After it is done compiling, type ’su’ then enter your root password and run ‘make install’
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Author: Raymond Abdallah

It’s been a long while since I’ve been thinking to change my Windows Live Messenger account from my old Hotmail account to my Gmail one! I wanted to migrate totally from the Microsoft Corp (not totally since in the end I’m still using WLM)! I searched the net over and over to know how to export my Hotmail contacts to import them into Gmail, but none of the sites had a clue about what the new Windows Live Mail was hiding since you can find many sites on how to export contacts from the old Hotmail service!

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I recently changed my home network configuration, because of some weak wifi spots and I was amazed to see that my Jamin was going nuts from the change! Although I was able to ping it from within the network, I wasn’t able to access the internet from the pocket pc. At first I thought the board might be going bad, but the fact that the I was able to ping it from my laptop gave me some hope. Therefore I started to mess around with the settings of the router, I removed wep, the problem still remained, I removed dhcp, again nothing, then I searched for the latest firmware, installed and nothing… The last thing that popped in my mind was to make the network only work on G mode instead of mixed mode, and that finally got it working again. I’m not sure if the imate Jamin is only compatible with G mode, since it clearly states that it supports B and G modes, but if you own a D-Link Wireless Router (mine is DI-524) and you’re having problems connecting to the internet, try this and it might work!

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