This article originally appeared on my Steemit blog
Just yesterday a co-employee of mine called me because her computer kept on entering UEFI interface. When I arrived at her computer it is indeed entering UEFI at its own after I pressed Ctrl + Alt + Del.
But I did not immediately notice that a thick folder is on top of the Enter key in her keyboard's Number Pad.
I immediately removed the folder then I restarted the computer again, and voila, her computer booted normally.
Her computer's motherboard is ASUS that mostly uses the "Del" key to access UEFI interface. But I was surprised that the Enter key in the number pad triggers the UEFI interface.
I know that most of the time Windows or the CPU itself will not be able to boot normally whenever a key on the keyboard is stuck.
This is the first time that I saw a stuck Enter key was able to trigger UEFI interface.
So, guys, whenever you turn on your computer, be it a laptop or desktop make sure that no foreign object is on top of your keyboard.
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
Thursday, February 20, 2020
Steemit Sold to Tron Founder Justin Sun
This article originally appeared in my Steemit blog
Now that Steemit, Inc. was sold to the popular and controversial Tron founder, Justin Sun who himself made big waves to the crypto community by acquiring BitTorrent and famously won a dinner with billionaire Warren Buffet the Steem community is very anxious as to what it may bring.
I admit I fell in love with the Steem community. To be honest no one recruited me to join this promising blockchain technology. I just found STEEM and Steemit out of being a crypto enthusiast that started with Bitcoin.
I am trying to think about how the union of Steem and Tron will going to mesh with each other. For some, both the blockchain platform offers somewhat the same services (correct me if I am wrong).
I am afraid that Steem will be dissolved and Steem token will be converted to TRX (the native token of the Tron blockchain.
Again to be honest I can't see how the marriage of Steem and Tron will work out in the future. Who knows we might be off to a very good surprise or disappointments.
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
VirtualBox Failed to start the virtual machine Windows XP (VERR_SSM_INTEGRITY_FOOTER) Delete the saved state prior to starting the VM
This article originally appeared in my Steemit blog
If you are getting the error just like the in screenshot below then the saved state of the virtual machine is the culprit.
Here's how to fix it.
Step 1
Open Oracle VirtualBox Manager (not the Virtual Machine itself, but the VirtualBox wherein you are adding your virtual machines.
If you see "Saved" in this screenshot we have to delete or discard it.
Step 2
Rigth click inside the red rectangle
Step 3
After you press right click choose "Discard Saved State", just agree if
it is going to ask to confirm the discarding of the saved state. After
discarding try to start your virtual machine again.
That's it, it's done
Tuesday, February 18, 2020
I just noticed that sometimes if you double clicked an OpenOffice
spreadsheet file it doesn’t open (or you click the file then you pressed
enter).
DO NOT TRY TO DOUBLE CLICK IT AGAIN or else OpenOffice Calc will go
rogue. Double clicking it again will just file up the program calc.exe,
soffice.bin or soffice.exe in your computer (you can check it in Task
Manager).
HOW TO FIX IT:
Open Task Manager. If your Task Manager looks like the one below, click
"More details". Look for any of these running program calc.exe,
soffice.exe or soffice.bin. After you find any of them select them by
clicking then click “End task”. If you double clicked the file at about
10 times then you should look for 10 instances of the program then close
all 10 of them. If you are currently closing them and suddenly the file
opens up then you can stop closing the said programs.
That's it's done.
Monday, February 17, 2020
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