I dont know how i got in to this but finally landed in a page which said “Canon Hack development kit“, CHDK in short.

After a couple of struggle i finally managed to activate the CHDK firmware on my canon. It says firmware but this will not modify your existing firmware on the camera and can be deleted or removed simply by formatting your SD CARD using a PC/laptop.

The following time lapse is my second test using a intervalometer script from Andrew Hazelden’s Blog. (spend some time on his blog. he has a very good CHDK articles)

The youtube URL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEPc68D0h6E

this instructions will apply only to the computers which runs with single hard disk and windows 7  installed in Drive C:

this instructions will apply when windows 7 fails to fix the issue automatically.

Please leave your message if you required an additional guidance to fix your problem. I will try to help at my best.

what are required to fix this?

a windows 7 DVD or a windows 7 recovery CD.  Please google around if you have questions working with recovery CD since there are lot step by step instructions available in the internet.

Once you are in the windows 7 recovery mode

1. go to the “command prompt” (see below screenshot)

2. once you are there, run the command DISKPART. follow the screenshot and type the command as it shows.

3. type exit to come out of diskpart.
4. type the following commands one by one. dont mind about the results.

bootrec /FixMbr
bootrec /FixBoot
bootrec /ScanOs
bootrec /RebuildBcd

5. now go to the “system recovery option” screen again and click on “startup repair“.
6. Once done, restart your computer.

Starting Windows !!!!!

VLC Player is the popular open source video player software among a lot of computer users.  Recently HP laptop users facing a inbuilt speaker problem, which is often getting malfunction across the users. The official HP service center executives advicing the laptop users to stop using the VLC player to watch, play media files. They reporting that playing a media files using VLC Player causing the damage to the built in speakers.

As an additional information the official HP service center executives informing the customers bring the laptop to service for the build in speaker problem that , “the laptop will not cover under warranty if its identical that the diagonse report finds the user used the VLC player.”

The “Elevated mode” error pops up twice and and shuts down the program completely when pressing the “close” button. Disabling the “User Access Control” will help you to run the program successfully without any errors.

Follow the blow steps to make the changes.

Please read the Microsoft advisory before performing the following settings.
Link: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc709628.aspx

step 1:

Go to the control panel and open User Accounts.

Step 2:

Click on the “Turn User Access Control on or off” (highlighted in red on the above image)

Step 3:

After step 2, you will get the following window on your screen.

uncheck the check box saying “Use User Access Control (UAC) to help protect your computer” and press “OK”.

Step 4:

After step 3 the system will ask you to reboot your computer.

Reboot the computer the computer and start the Nuance Dragon NaturallySpeaking.

Have Fun..

Let’s start,

Scenario 1:

You need to send a email from the linux command prompt with the log file attached.

The log file name is myprogram.log and located in /var/log/myprogram.log

The log need to be send to someone@mycompany.com

Make sure your linux box having the “uuencode” tool installed. Also you need a “Mail Transport Agent”. in this example am using “mail” (like mutt,mailx)

Step 1:

Am creating a file automail.sh

Command:

vi automail.sh

Step 2:

Am adding the following script to the newly opened file

#!/bin/bash

MYFILE=/var/log/myprogram.log

(echo “Please find the attached log”; uuencode $MYFILE myprogram.log;) | mail -s “My Program log” someone@mycompany.com

(above script highlighted in red is a full single line)

Step 3:

Save the file and exit from vi editor

Step 4:

Change the permission of the file to executable

Command:

chmod 700 ./automail.sh (assuming the file in current directory and the login use is root)

That’s it. This script will send the log file attached in the email with subject “My Program log” and the body of the message “Please find the attached log”

Scenario 2:

You need to send a log file emailed to your boss every day from the linux command prompt.

The log file name is not same every day. The log file name stored in the following format myprogram_2008_03_28.log, next day myprogram_2008_03_29.log and so

on.

In this example, we are sending the log in the same day when it generated.

Let’s start,

Step 1:

Am creating a file automail-random.sh

Command:

vi automail-random.sh

Step 2:

Am adding the following script to the newly opened file

#!/bin/bash

NDATE=$(date +%Y-%m-%d)

MYFILE=/var/log/myprogram_$NDATE.log

(echo “Please find the attached log”; uuencode $MYFILE myprogram_$NDATE.log;) | mail -s “My Program log” someone@mycompany.com

(above script highlighted in red is a full single line)

Step 3:

Save the file and exit from vi editor

Step 4:

Change the permission of the file to executable

Command:

chmod 700 ./automail-random.sh (assuming the file in current directory and the login use is root)

That’s it. This script will send the log file attached in the email everyday with subject “My Program log” and the body of the message “Please find the attached log”

Wait a minute.

What happen if the file does not exist? No NUKE. The program simply fails to execute.

To avoid this, add the “if” condition to the program and validating the file can overcome the trouble.

The final program with the “if” condition below.

#!/bin/bash

NDATE=$(date +%Y-%m-%d)

MYFILE=/var/log/myprogram_$NDATE.log

if [ -f $MYFILE ]; then

(echo “Please find the attached log”; uuencode $MYFILE myprogram_$NDATE.log;) | mail -s “My Program log” someone@mycompany.com

(above script highlighted in red is a full single line)

else

mails -s “Log File is not Generated or Not found” someone@mycompany.com < /dev/null

fi

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HAVE FUN….