24 May 10 How to find Make, Model and Serial Number on your computer or server

Well, as I have mentioned before, I would introduce another category on my blog, because my profession is actually sometimes linked with computer tips and tricks. I was thinking about naming tips and tricks and now here it is.

Nowadays, all over the world, we no longer use much of clone computers, because brand name computers are as cheap as clone computer. Moreover, branded ones can customize the specifications so easy, some companies even offer you online customizations. Anyway, having a computer means we sometimes run into some computer and hardware/software issues more or less & it is important to know the make, model and serial number of the hardware components of the computer to provide to the supplier or the company. Because sometimes you are at remote connection or lost your labels on your machine or calling to customer support, you will more or less need to identify what product or model is you are referring to.

This applies only in Microsoft Windows machines

1. In the command dos prompt… (start) and (run) and type “cmd”
“wmic bios get serialnumber”

In addition, You can use the command “wmic csproduct get name” to retrieve the local computer model or brand in same command DOS prompt.

2. Using a vbs script: you can use notepad in your windows and Save as “getSN.vbs” after you copy and paste into notepad that’s bold letter below. And then after you save it, just double click it to display on your screen.

On Error Resume Next
Dim strComputer
strComputer = InputBox(“Enter the name of the computer:”)
Set objWMIService = GetObject(“winmgmts:” & “{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\” & strComputer & “\root\cimv2″)
Set colSMBIOS = objWMIService.ExecQuery (“Select * from Win32_SystemEnclosure”)
For Each objSMBIOS in colSMBIOS
MsgBox strComputer & “: ” & objSMBIOS.SerialNumber
Next

Well, that’s all about it, it’s pretty neat and useful for me. I know people will need to use this command because it will come in handy one way or another. Oh, Another reminder, this is only for windows based computer. Below are the operation systems that are applicable to commands and script above. Hope you find this blog post useful and I too hope to post more useful stuff like this in the future as well.

Above commands and script are applicable in.

• Windows Vista Enterprise
• Windows Vista Business
• Windows Vista Ultimate
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise x64 Edition
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard x64 Edition
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition (32-bit x86)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition (32-bit x86)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition for Itanium-based Systems
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition (32-bit x86)
• Windows Server 2008 Datacenter
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Web Edition
• Windows Server 2008 Datacenter without Hyper-V
• Windows Server 2008 Enterprise
• Windows Server 2008 Enterprise without Hyper-V
• Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-Based Systems
• Windows Server 2008 Standard
• Windows Server 2008 Standard without Hyper-V
• Windows Web Server 2008

Tags: computer, model, Number, serial number

11 May 10 Twitter’s twists and turns

Twitter’s poor bug “accept” is probably taking its toll on the most popular micro blogging site. It has been so popular with “accept” key people are able to force and make other members of known ID to become their follower with the parameter “accept username” where username is a user who you want his/her to follow you automatically.

At the moment, all concerned members are now resett to zero, which would be a really painful process if you had built your account 3-4 years ago. However, there’s a little light in the tunnel at the moment, but I don’t really know if it is going to be sure. At twitter’s official blog,

“We’re now working to rollback all abuse of the bug that took place. Follower/following numbers are currently at 0; we’re aware and this too should shortly be resolved.”

So, hopefully, this thing will be resolved very soon. As a matter of fact, I can see many people will be leaving Twitter for this matter because of easy exploitation in security matter. It was just a coincidence of this bug when an “ACCEPT” fan (German Rock Band from 80s) typed “accept xyz“, and he suddenly had the follower with the login “xyz”, that’s when he posted this strange behavior on his blog and finally come to this as a bug. At the same time, hundreds of people are abusing like, they force and let high profile celebrities to follow them without their consent. Celebrities include Aston Kutcher, Oprah W. and Justin Bieber.

Luckily, I have not practiced that bug and I was not added by force from others, so my account is still working well and not being reset. So, at this moment, if your account following/followers are currently zero (0), don’t panic and give it a few days, I am very hopeful that it will come back to the normal soon.

So, what do you think about this massive bug from Twitter? I definitely they would have prevented this issue because twitter has been using # and @ signs since it is started, I think this “accept” is actually their shortcut to auto-follow when a command is triggered. The question is, for Twitter to find out, who abused the system and who were abused, so that they can differentiate and restore back to normal, if not, there will be heaps of disappointment from honest users, in my opinion.

Tags: accept username, auto follow, bug, turns, twists, twitter

06 May 10 New MISC category to be introduced

I will be introducing new category tips and tricks of whatever it is. I actually like to tweak and use some short cuts whenever possible, so I thought why not introduce new category because this is what I love to do.

I also like to review some websites as soon as I have some times as well. I love to visit new websites and review them, and yes, I will do that so regularly from now on.

Actually, reviewing website is quite interesting, because it is actually SEO with viral approach to the WWW. As far as I am concerned, I don’t really care about my link juice being good or bad, I actually even allow do-follow links in my sites, so that whoever visits my site and leave a legitimate comment, they will be awarded with backlinks.

Okay, back to the topic, yesterday, I was actually trying to disable the notifier in my AVIRA antivirus program, because whenever it is updated the virus signature or used scanner, it will pop-up the notifier and it’s quite annoying for me. I must admit it’s a freeware but regular pop-ups are not really helping. So, I had to find a way and solved the issue. After a while, I thought why not share what I have learned today with my visitors, so that everyone has a chance to solve problems. Besides, things that are good to share should have been shared anyways.  So, I hope to have more useful posts in the future, and yes, more frequency.

Thanks for reading.

Tags: antivirus, do-follow, new category, pop up, review

23 Apr 10 TubeMogul: Review

This week, I allocate myself to a few hours of reading time for tech blogs, and I am thankful for that, it’s been a while I have been reading blogs regularly and the improvement of my blog has been slow and poor. So, I decided that I will try to read 4-5 blog posts a day so that I can improve my blog as well as add more knowledge to myself as well.

So, today, I signed up with TubeMogul, which is a video uploading site that will enable other websites to synchronize the upload as well. I will test it and will get back to you with more details, but I feel happy that I don’t have to upload my videos to many places of course many times.

Upload a video once and easily deploy it to one or all of the top video and social networking sites. Track real-time viewership, performance and engagement analytics.

So, what are the features that’s included in TubeMogul???

TubeMogul OneLoad Supported Sites

 

Pretty neat? Huh? I actually like it and I will be updating how this will help me with my youtube files, SEO and SEM. So, if you haven’t given a try, I think it’s time to give it a try too. Thanks for reading.

21 Apr 10 Windows XP System Restore

System Restore Problem arises sometimes especially when you had virus cleaned up or scanned.

Regarding your “system restore” unable to check, you may try the following.

To boot in to Safe Mode:

1. Go to Start>> Turn off computer>> Restart.
2. When you see the Computer Logo screen, please press F8.
3. Using the arrow keys, highlight the option ” Safe Mode  or Safe Mode with networking” , then press Enter.

To enable/disable system restore:

1. Go to Start>> Control Panel
2. Double click the System icon
3. Select the System Restore tab
4. Place a checkmark in the box titled: Turn off System Restore on all drives. To turn the feature on, remove the checkmark.
5. Click OK

It is pretty easy but sometimes we just missed the fact that we can use SAFE MODE to restore and fix alot of things.

Tags: safe mode, xp