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So I opened up my Lenovo Ideapad 430 touch today because I wanted to check whether my new SSD drive would fit in. When I reassembled it to transfer the data, I connected it to power and nothing happened. Not even the A/C light came on. Since I didn't screw back all the screws, I opened it up again and put everything back into place (suspecting it was something to do with anti static precautions, but what do I know of physics...) Well, it didn't help, and I got kind of freaked out. I googled and found nothing, except a fairly old entry about ThinkPads mentioning the Power Button. Out of some kind of weird thought I pressed the Power Button for like 15 seconds - and a light came on. Pressed it again, and the machine came alive. [I'll spell the Power Button with Caps from now on since it is the HOLY Power Button obviously.] Tech guys will most likely laugh at me now, but since I read nothing about this (and since I'm really glad I don't have to get a new Laptop...

For a while now I've been having annoying trouble with my wireless adapter (Intel N 7260 - yes, I know it is known to cause trouble...). Not only did it not connect properly, it broke the wifi and the internet connection of the router in a way that no other device in the network could access the internet any more. I might just have discovered another possible cause: And guess what, Windows took me there. I know, right? So, this is what I did (I am on Win 10 right now): - It did not connect properly, as usual (for me this only happens when at home, where I am using a Speedport W 504V router) - so I ran Windows "troubleshooting" (right-click on the wifi icon in the task bar to get there) - It told me that there was an issue with a network protocol missing on my machine (which is rather ridiculous) - BUT at the bottom of the window it offered me a link to detailed information about the issue, which took me to a quite detailed troubleshooting report - This report lists...

Disclaimer: getting anything wrong with flashing might brick your device - this is not a manual. I am not responsible for any damage to your phone or data...  -- So I finally checked the software update availability on my Samsung Galaxy S5, and guess what - the Android 5.0 update was available. Finally. I cleared up some space on my phone (it claims that it needs 3 GB of free space for the installation) and started the update. It is a big image (1.4 GB), so it takes a while to download, then the phone shuts down, restarts, and starts to install. I started wondering when the installation process started at 25%, went down to 1, up to 20, 30% and then - "error". Phone restarts, everything OK except for the fact that I still have KitKat on my phone. Tried again. Same result. Tried again. Same result. Googled it. No results. Nobody seemed to run into that same error. There was indeed an error message after the phone restarted successfully - "Try it again, try Kies or go...

Well, I tried a long time and this is mainly a note to myself: go here first: http://blog.sip2serve.com/post/38010690418/raspberry-pi-access-point-using-rtl8192cu then go here: https://learn.adafruit.com/setting-up-a-raspberry-pi-as-a-wifi-access-point/install-software you do not need to fix the Invalid Argument error, just apply the WPA-Supplicant fix from here: http://forums.adafruit.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=47716&start=15

Currently I am writing a paper in LaTeX, using Eclipse as an editor and jura as the document type. The paper is restricted to 20 pages, and both the page format and the tracking, as well as the line spacing, are defined and cannot be played with. I spent some time fiddling with the jura files to get more space, and I came across some interesting possibilities (at least I think they are). As I found nothing on them on the internet I thought I'd share it with you, even though this might be very specific to the _old_ jura package which still had the alphanum.sty file (just found out that there is a newer version of the jura package which even has comments, the alphanum.sty is included in the jura file - you can obtain it here - the regular jura package is part of the texlive and miktex distributions). As a result of my research, I found out how to achieve so called runin headings: old: A.I.1.b. This heading likes to stay in the text and this is the content. It used to st...

I let my users upload files and link to them in their articles. As I want to force them to download the files directly (and don't want them to view it in the browser), I am using a file called download.php which I include in the URLs. Thus, instead of " /myfolder/myfiles/myfile.pdf " the href attribute of the link will be like " download.php?filename=/myfolder/myfiles/myfile.pdf ". In download.php I declare headers and do some things about the filename. It was always working fine for pdf or doc files, but there seemed to be something wrong with the "new" file formats of Office (docx, ppsx etc.) - if a user clicked on that file, it would be downloaded, but could not be opened (the message said something like "cannot read file"). A comparison of the original file and the downloaded file showed no difference except for one character which was not even visible. Fun fact: OpenOffice could open the file without any problems... Lots of pages su...

This is about (front end) creating / editing an article. I have been looking for a way to save (apply changes) in Joomla's front end for a really long time. What I needed was just a button which would let me save changes without redirecting somewhere else... Recently I came across this page . I applied all suggested changes to my page, and it works! On the downside you need to edit Joomla core files, and the changes made to them will probably be lost after the next update...