But upon clearing my browsing history, the error disappeared.

Gmail Error 400 Using Google Chrome is a post from: wangarific

Instead, you’ll have to go to the Domains By Proxy site, log in, and cancel private registration from that side. If you don’t have your login credentials you can request it but it will add a few more steps, and headache to the process. I think it’s a little ridiculous that you are forced to manage private registration through another interface, especially since the two companies are owned by GoDaddy, but I suppose they do get a few customers each year willing to pay for private registration instead of figuring out how to turn it off.

Now wait… eventually it’ll percolate to GoDaddy and you won’t have to pay for Private Registration when you renew.

If you have a bunch of domains and want to do a “poor man’s” private registration, open up a PO Box and use that as your physical address. Depending on how many domains you may have, a PO Box could be a more economic solution… plus you get use of a PO Box.

How to Turn Off Private Registration for Domains on GoDaddy is a post from: wangarific

Change your settings here:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/settings/plus

Enjoy!

How To Stop Google+ Notifications is a post from: wangarific

With Faxzero.com, you can send two 3 page faxes a day, which is more than I’ve ever needed, for free. If you need to send a larger document, they can send it for $1.99. They pay for the free fax by adding an advertisement on the cover page. (the paid version has no ad on the cover page)

It’s a great way to save yourself a trip.

How to Send Free Faxes is a post from: wangarific

Fortunately, it’s easy to format an XBox 360 hard drive… or any storage device attached to the XBox.

1. Write down your console serial number, located on the back of the unit. You’ll need this to confirm the format, this is so you don’t accidentally format something.
2. Start the XBox without a disc so it goes to the XBox Dashboard.
3. Select My XBox, then System Settings. Then select Memory.
4. Select the storage device you want to format and then hit “Y.”
5. This will give you the option to Format the drive, which deletes everything. Accept the confirmation message.
6. It’ll ask you for that serial number, aren’t you glad you got that ahead of time?
7. Wait.

That’s pretty much it. It’s best to do this before you sell your console so you don’t pass along any information you don’t want to.

How To Format an Xbox 360 Hard Drive is a post from: wangarific

As I was looking through the Advanced section, which is normally all unchecked, I decided to check them all (except Wipe Free Space) to see how much I could save. Apparently I had 800+ MB of Hotfix Uninstallers that I could remove. What the heck are Hotfix uninstallers?

It turns out that every time you update Windows with a hotfix, it stores some data into an uninstaller just in case the hotfix breaks something. These are those hotfix uninstallers and they simply accumulate over the months and years. Chances are you have a few hundred megabytes locked up in these hotfix uninstallers. As long as you haven’t experienced any problems since the last update, you can safely remove them.

Keeping your system tidy is one way of helping it run faster.

What are Hotfix Uninstallers? is a post from: wangarific

The E74 error is a generic class of errors related to video output, which can mean anything from a bad cable to a bad graphics chip. If you’re lucky, it’s just the cable and you can just buy a new one. Chances are… you’re not lucky. It’s probably a failure in the ANA/HANA (for HDMI) scaling chip because the chip has come loose. When you run the XBox for extended periods of time, it heats up. Normally, this isn’t an issue, except in the case of this one ANA/HANA chip because of how it’s seated and mounted. After a while, the chip can come loose and you’ll experience an E74 error. This is what happened to me.

There are a lot of home-brew fixes, from wrapping it in towels to holding the chip down with pennies, but the only real permanent solution is to open it up, remove the chip, and reattach it. You can usually find someone nearby willing to fix it for around $40 (some guy in his garage) to $100 (a store).

One nice thing is that there is a three year warranty on XBox’s for this specific error. I bought mine refurbished last November (yes, it’s only lasted six months) and was researching local repair options (I’m really not that interested in opening it up and doing it myself), when I thought to check the warranty. It turns out that the person who previously owned it had it repaired last May… so I was within a one year warranty. I had until May 21st (yes, that’s in two days) to request a repair. I got off lucky.

If you have an E74 error, how do you check if you’re still under warranty? Easy, head over to the XBox Service Center, register your console, and then request a repair. You will find out if you’re still under warranty (at which point you can request a repair) or learn when it expired. Be sure to indicate it’s a E74 error, so they know that the warranty is for 3 years, otherwise you may not get the correct answer.

And do it now… the last thing you want to find out is that your warranty expired yesterday.

Microsoft XBox E74 Error Warranty is a post from: wangarific

Really Easy Temporary-ish Way

The easiest way to do this is to use the subst command. Just go to Start -> Run and enter the following:
subst [drive 1] [drive 2]
This will map Drive 1 to Drive 2. In other words, if your shortcuts say E:\filename.txt and the file now resides at F:\filename.txt, you would enter:
subst e: f:/

This now maps both E: and F: to that drive, until you restart your computer. If you want to make that permanent, you’ll have to create a batch file, dump a shortcut to it in your Startup folder, and then it’ll do it every time.

Easy Way

Since I want my drive to always stick with one letter and because I’d rather not create another file to throw into Startup, this slightly less easy way will assign the letter to the drive permanently. If you did the subst, you’ll want to undo it:
subst [drive 1] /d

You can confirm the mapping is gone by typing in subst
.
Now, right click on My Computer and select “Manage…”. This brings up the Computer Management window, find the Storage item and then Disk Management underneath. In the list of drives you should see your USB drive, right click that and select “Change Drive Letter and Paths…” Make sure you aren’t running anything before you agree to the warnings and the drive should be mapped.

That’s it!

Assigning Specific Drive Letters to USB Drives is a post from: wangarific

Whereas many airlines have gone the “ding you with fees” route, from fees for checked bags to RyanAir’s fees for talking to a human being, Southwest has gone another direction. They’ve taken their efficient “no assigned seating” boarding policy and given customers a way to spend $10 to get checked in early, and thus assigned a better seating order. They’ve given Business Select customers a perk of passing the security line at some airports, in addition to boarding first, since Business Select customers can’t really get better seats (all seats on Southwest flights are the same, no first or business class).

All in all, while it’s hurt their bottom line, they’ve built up brand support and been able to give people the option of paying more for these perks. It gets people to pay more without having them get angry (how many people would pay more to bypass the security line?).

Southwest Cleverly Upsells Perks is a post from: wangarific

Walken looks like he’s having a great time.

Christopher Walken Reads Lady Gaga’s Poker Face is a post from: wangarific