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Outlook 2010 Crashes on Startup

My Outlook 2010 kept crashing on start-up. According to the event logs, was due to faulting module mso.dll with Event ID 1000. Here's the steps I took to resolve it on win 7 Home Premium.

ran scanpst.exe in C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Office/Office 14/ folder - found some errors in the pst file so I repaired it. Outlook still didn't load.
Found that I had many Outlook related Windows Updates to run and install. Did that. No dice.
What worked:

Closed Outlook
Cut and pasted the mso.dll file over to the Desktop folder as a temp holding spot
Started Outlook and it reran the Microsoft Office Single image installer.
Let it complete
Started outlook and it finally gave me a handy error that the Exchange plugin kept failing - would I like to disable it? HELL YES
Voila!!! Outlook started up

PHP include_path not working on Windows

I had added some directories to my include_path in php.ini and was still getting failed to open stream or file or directory not found. It turns out that include_path should NOT have spaces in between the ; separator and the directory.

For example

Wrong:

include_path=".;D:wampbinphpphp5.2.5pear; D:wampbinphpphp5.2.5includes;

Right:

include_path=".;D:wampbinphpphp5.2.5pear;D:wampbinphpphp5.2.5includes;

Hope this helps someone

Apache Slow on Windows Local network

So I was having issues where I was accessing my Window 7 tower that has apache webserver installed. When accessing localhost on the box it was nice and fast. It should be for an i7 processor and 6GB of ram. BUT if I accessed the machine from my laptop within my home network, it was taking a LONG time for apache to return anything. Here is what I did to troubleshoot:

Pinged my tower from the laptop and response time was 3ms so network speed wasnt the problem.
Created a static html file and pulling it up was still slow so I knew it wasnt PHP or MySQL performance. had to be DNS, router, or something with Apache.
The first change I made on the server, was to say goodbye to DHCP. Gave the server a static IP address.
Disabled the IPv6 protocol on the server's network adapter.
Disabled DMZ on the Linksys wireless router since I didnt need it.

VOILA! Superfast web server response time now. Hope this helps someone

PETA

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Nintendo Wii now cheaper

A new low price for the Wii video game console from Nintendo has also recently been announced!

On September 27, 2009, Nintendo released the news that the price for the Wii console was dropped from the original $249.99 to only $199.99!

New PS3 Slim only $300!

Maybe I should have waited on purchasing a PS3...On August 25, 2009, Sony released the newest member of the PS3 family. Slimmer, lighter, and only $299, the PlayStation 3 120 GB has Wi-Fi and a Blu-ray player built in. Amazon now has the new Slim version of the PS3 and its much cheaper at only $299. Click Here to check it out.

Xbox 360s have also been price dropped. The Elite and Pro versions of Microsoft’s Xbox 360 console are also available at new, low prices on Amazon.com

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Another time-wasting game

I was introduced to MyBrute.com which basically lets you create a fighter and you can fight online. Problem is you can't control the actual fighter. You can just choose who you want to fight and sit back and watch. You are limited to 3 fights a day.

Check out my fighter:
http://djblade311.mybrute.com

Blu-Rays are Cheap now!

It's about time! Blu-Ray discs can now be had for as low as $13.99 from Amazon.com. When HDDVD's were declared as not the preferred format, Fry's was selling them for anywhere from $6 to $12 for fairly decent or recent movies. After I picked up a PS3 last year, I was so amazed at the quality of Blu-Ray. The only recommendation to the Blu-ray newcomers is that you shouldnt expect EVERY movie to be crystal clear. With Hi-Def experience, you start to see the graininess of the film/camera. The best movies to pick up and TRUELY experience hi-def/BluRay are computer animated films like: