.com hassle

For some reason, www.jaimeyu.com gets a Google error since I moved my blog to ask.aimeyu.com domain. I use Blogger to power my blog and I followed their guide (probably incorrectly) to setup custom domains.

In a feat of irony, I went to GoDaddy (my domain provider) for help. Hopefully, they can help educate me on the problem. Its actually the first time I've played with DNS and all that.

Update:
YAY! I fixed it. I think I did. I played with it and waited for the changes to occur (takes anywhere between an hour to 2 days to happen). Just now, GoDaddy is saying that my domains are forwarding properly now.

As a short note, GoDaddy's tech support is very FAST and it works on weekends.

Capstone 490

I am currently setting up our CAPSTONE 490 project's blog. We're going to try to document our latest updates and share them with the world. We intend to make it an open platform so our data will eventually be in the public domain.

Oh, what is our project? Briefly, its a flying robot. Don't take my word for it, please go visit our project's blog.

How does technology make my life better? Alarm Clock

My girlfriend and I have different hours to wake up to. She used to have to go to work earlier than I had to go to school. We used to use our cell phones to wake us up but that was cumbersome at best. Eventually, we just got used to the ringers and ignored the alarm. Worst, often the phone would fall under the bed and we'd waste time trying to find it.

I wanted to get a radio alarm clock since it will wake us up with something different every day. This way, we don't get accustomed to the ringers. What I wanted was a clock radio with dual alarms at a reasonable price.

I did a little research and found this guy at the Radio-Shack/Source.

For sale at Amazon.

Its a Sony dual alarm clock radio. I don't know the exact model number (its up in my room) but you can find it at the Source Canadian Tire, and Amazon.

Its a great piece of kit and does a good job at waking me up. The greatest feature of this alarm clock is the built in time synchronizer. The clock will sync itself to atomic time every night. This is just amazing. I never have to worry about power outages taking out my alarm settings. I also don't have to worry about daylight savings either since it will catch that update as well. Best of all, dual alarms.

I have always been intrigued by the atomic clocks and its great to know that at least one of my clocks is sync'ed to one of the most precise timing units available today.

Picture from Amazon.

Annoyance

I was trying to install an old PCI video card into my PC, only to find out it doesn't work. It really isn't my night.

I tried to shove the video card into the slot but it wouldn't take it. The motherboard is not aligned correctly with the case. The bottom is closer to the case than the top end. This made inserting a video card into the lowest slot impossible. The next slot above it was doable but not really.

I had to take the mounting bracket off in order to fit it into the slot. With the bracket, the video card was 1-2mm off from the slot.

Once I got the bracket off and turned on the machine, I got a blank screen. I thought the card was dead so I switched the cable back to my on board. Only, it was more blankness. The LCD was saying no input. I thought I had burnt out my PC at that point.

So I double checked my cables and found the LCD's port was empty. The cable fell out. Figures.

Once I got everything connected, the PCI video card still wouldn't work.

So I gave up.

Weird display error

Hi I know this is a dumb question ,well maybe to you lol I can not get the text box that keeps popping up under my pointer to go away.Every time I get close to a link a box will pop up and tell me what the link is and sometimes its about one I was just on not about the one I am on now. I have been through the control panel to the pointer settings but nothing I know about has worked its just really annoying. Thank you for your time.

This is an interesting problem and I asked her to take a picture of the problem when it happens. The above picture shows the error that she got. I told her to reinstall her graphic drivers since its most likely a graphics issue. I have had this happen to me a few times but I don't remember what I did to fix it, if I even did fix it. I reinstall my OS too often to remember. Nonetheless, I would like more information about why this bug happens and what is the real fix.

Free Windows 7 for Concordia ENCS students

Hi

I was looking for information about windows 7 student price and I found your site. I am a civil engineering student at concordia and I am having a hard time finding out if the site you linked to your website really allows me to download windows 7 for free with no strings attached. I am usually a full time student but this semester I am part time. Do I need pay anything and do I still own it after I graduate?

Thanks for any help

Hey zzz,

The direct link is: http://www.encs.concordia.ca/aits/sec/msdnaa

Log in with your ENCS account.
There are no strings attached.
The software is yours to keep.
And yes, its free. All of it.

The only thing is that you cannot use some of their applications to
design commercial products (like Visual Studios). I don't think this
is an issue really so don't worry about. You can read the EULAs that
come with the software you are downloading if you are unsure. I don't
think Windows 7 comes with any restrictions for student use.

I hope this helps and enjoy your free copy of Windows 7.

Student Discount on Windows 7

I am a concordia student too and have been ripping my hair out since thursday. I am in dire need of windows 7 and hoping now to go the illegal route and get the student deal at 40$ available but MSFT will NOT recognize my email! Have you found a workaround for this? I send MSFT an email and called the Win 741 customer support to no avail! Let me know what you found out and great blog btw

Are you an ENCS (engineering or Computer Science student?). If you
are, go to http://www.encs.concordia.ca/msdnaa/ and log in with your
ENCS account.

Otherwise, you're stuck with the ultimate steal promotion for 40$
(make sure its the Canadian promotion) :
http://www.microsoft.com/student/discounts/theultimatesteal-ca/default.aspx

The version of Windows 7 they have is
the UPGRADE, not the full stand alone version.