Here are the steps to fix the issue where windows 10 won’t wake up from sleep mode:

1. Settings > System > “Power and Sleep”
2. Select “Additional Power Settings”
3. Change the settings for the currently selected plan (i.e. “Balanced”)
4. Now select “Change Advanced Power Settings”
5. Select “Hard Disk” and set the value to a higher value than the default 20 minutes.

In case you’re looking for a way to call lawnchair from angularJS, here’s a handy service factory:

  .factory("LawnchairFactory", function($window, $log, $parse) {
    return function(name, config) {
      var collection = {};
      var array = [];
      var isArray = config && config.isArray;
      var idGetter = $parse((config && config.entryKey) ? config.entryKey : "id");
      var transformSave = (config && config.transformSave) ? config.transformSave : angular.identity;
      var transformLoad = (config && config.transformLoad) ? config.transformLoad : angular.identity;
  
      function getEntryId(entry){
        try {
          return idGetter(entry);
        } catch(e) {
          return null;
        }
      }
  
      function lawnchairBucket(callback) { return new Lawnchair({name:name}, callback); }
  
      function saveEntry(data,key) {
        key = key.toString();
        if(angular.isObject(data) && data !== collection[key]){
          collection[key] = collection[key] || {};
          angular.extend(collection[key], data);
        } else {
          collection[key] = data;
        }
        var update = {key:key, value:transformSave(collection[key])};
  
        try {
          lawnchairBucket(function() { this.save(update); });
        } catch(e) {
          if (e.name === "QUOTA_EXCEEDED_ERR" || e.name === "NS_ERROR_DOM_QUOTA_REACHED") {
            $window.localStorage.clear();
          }
          $log.info("LocalStorage Exception ==> " + e.message);
        }
      }
  
      function updateArray(data){
        array.length = 0;
        _.each(data,  function(o) { array.push(o); });
        return array;
      }
  
      function updateCache(obj,key) {
        if(obj && angular.isObject(obj) && collection[key] && collection[key] !== obj){
          angular.extend(collection[key], obj);
        } else {
          collection[key] = obj;
        }
      }
  
      function updateCacheFromStorage(cache, storage) {
        if(storage){
          if(angular.isObject(storage.value) && angular.isObject(cache)) {
            angular.extend(cache, transformLoad(storage.value));
          } else {
            cache = transformLoad(storage.value);
          }
          updateCache(cache, storage.key);
        }
        return cache;
      }
  
      function allAsCollection(callback){
        lawnchairBucket(function() {
          this.all(function(result) {
            angular.forEach(result, function(o) { updateCache(o.value, o.key); });
            if(callback){
              callback(collection);
            }
          });
        });
        return collection;
      }
  
      function allAsArray(callback){
        return updateArray(allAsCollection(function(data){
          updateArray(data);
          if(callback){
            callback(array);
          }
        }));
      }
  
      function removeEntry(key) {
        delete collection[key];
        lawnchairBucket(function() { this.remove(key); });
      }
  
      function getDefault(key) {
        if(collection[key]) {
          return collection[key];
        } else {
          var  d = {};
          idGetter.assign(d,key);
          return d;
        }
      }
  
      var lawnchair = {
        collection: collection,
        save: function(data, key, clear) {
          if(!data){
            data = collection; // if nothing is set save the current cache
            key = null;
          }
  
          if (angular.isArray(data)) {
            angular.forEach(data, function(e, index) { saveEntry(e, getEntryId(e) || index); }); // Save a Array
          } else if(key || (data && getEntryId(data))) {
            saveEntry(data, key || getEntryId(data)); // save one entry
          } else {
            angular.forEach(data, saveEntry); // save a collection
          }
  
          if(clear) {
            var newIds = angular.isArray(data) ? _.chain(data).map(getEntryId).map(String).value() : _.keys(data);
            _.chain(collection).keys().difference(newIds).each(removeEntry);
            // remove entries wihtout ids
            _.chain(collection).filter(function(entry){ return !getEntryId(entry); }).keys().each(removeEntry);
          }
  
          if(isArray){
            updateArray(collection);
          }
        },
        batch: function(keys, target, callback) {
          var cache = _.chain(keys).map(function(k){ return getDefault(k);}).value();
          if(target && angular.isArray(target)){
            target.length = 0;
            _.each(cache,  function(o) { target.push(o); });
          } else {
            target = cache;
          }
  
          lawnchairBucket(function() {
            this.get(keys, function(result) {
              if(result){
                for(var i = result.length - 1; i >= 0; i--){
                  target[i] = updateCacheFromStorage(target[i], result[i]);
                }
              }
              if(callback){
                callback(target);
              }
            });
          });
          return target;
        },
        get: function(key, callback) {
          var value = getDefault(key);
          lawnchairBucket(function() {
            this.get(key, function(result) {
              if(result){
                value = updateCacheFromStorage(value, result);
              }
              if(callback){
                callback(value);
              }
            });
          });
          return value;
        },
        all: isArray ? allAsArray : allAsCollection,
        remove: removeEntry,
        nuke: function() {
          lawnchairBucket(function() { this.nuke(); });
        },
        destroy: function() {
          for (var key in collection){
            delete collection[key];
          }
          lawnchairBucket(function() { this.nuke(); });
        }
      };
      return lawnchair;
    };
  })

Last year I was the head coach of my son’s hockey team and volunteered a great deal of my time to minor hockey.  The year started out great, and I really enjoyed things, until toward the end of the season.  After that, well, let’s just say volunteering just isn’t worth the grief we take sometimes.

This year, instead, I’m going to focus on what I do best. All things computer wise.

So, ask me anything.

• Got a problem with your Mac or PC?  
• Is your Windows box giving you grief?  
• Has your PC slowed down to the point where you want to throw it against the wall?  
• Need some advice on what antivirus and/or internet security tools to buy?
• Having trouble getting onto your wireless network?
• Trying to understand how Netflix works?
• Wondering how to use your iPhone or Android device?

If you’re having trouble getting the new HTC One Android Jelly Bean 4.3 to work (it gets to about 20% and then restarts repeatedly), I discovered a problem with the updater.  It won’t work if you have GO Launcher (or any launcher that matter) aside from HTC Sense as your default launcher.

So… TURN OFF the GO Launcher or whatever one you’re using.

Here’s how to turn off GO Launcher:

From your desktop click on the “…” button, and go to Preferences, then turn off as the default launcher, and EXIT the app.

Now it’ll work just fine.

I was having all sorts of problems with the OUYA and OUYA Console drivers in windows, and I wasn’t using ADB because I’m working with GameMaker Studio.

Timothy Graupmann’s tutorial on how to get things working worked for me.  In my case, I had to install the SDK not the ADB, and so it’s important to set the PATH to point to the tools and platform-tools folders after install, but once this is done, everything else works if you follow his tutorial step by step.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=454JFvFTxww

If you get the error “xinput1_3.dll not found”, whether you’re using GameMaker Studio or any other application, the answer is simple, you need to fix your DirectX install.  The link below works great.  I had this issue and after running the following (it’s a simple install) things worked great for me.

In my case, I couldn’t get GamePad support in GameMaker Studio, I was getting the error message “xinput1_3.dll not found. Gamepad support disabled”, so that’s what I did to fix it.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=35

The following TSQL statement will modify the employees table and set the LAST used seed value for the identity column on the table to 99. The result, the next insert to the employees table will create a record with an identity value of 100.

DBCC CHECKIDENT(‘Employees’,RESEED, 99)

1. In Windows 8, press [Windows Key]+[8], and type REGEDIT. 
2. Navigate to the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Setup/OOBE 
3. Change the value of MediaBootInstall to 0 (it’s default value is 1) 
4. Go to the Start screen and start typing “Command Prompt” (this will cause the search for apps sidebar to open up and on the left the [Command Prompt] application will appear. 
5. Right click on [Command Prompt] and choose “Run as Administrator” from the bottom 
6. Type: slmgr /rearm and press [Enter] 
7. Click OK when the window comes up to tell you that windows has been rearmed. 
8. Type: shutdown -r and press [Enter] 
9. Once Windows 8 has restarted, login and run activation again. 

Your Windows 8 Pro will now be activated. Enjoy!

So this happens to me every now and again.

Here’s are some workarounds I’ve used:

1. Simply shutdown Visual Studio 2010, restart and rebuild.  This seems to fix the problem most times.
2. If option #1 doesn’t work, do the following:
1. Remove the offending project(s) from the solution
2. Go to the folder where the project lives and delete everything except the project itself.
3. Re-add the project to the solution
4. Rebuild.

Ghandi, an extremely spirtual person, who walked barefoot to the extent that he had heavy callouses on his feet, and whose poor diet resulted in extremely bad breath, soon became known as the super callous fragile mystic, plagued with hallatosis.