How to repair your motherboard

I had stopped repairing PC motherboard  since i left my former computer distributor company back in 1994. Those days the famous motherboard board were the 486sx, 486dx and the Pentium. I was provided with every model of the motherboard schematic diagrams,  Chipset (all range of IC’s), SMD desoldering tools, troubleshooting notes and even the POST diagnostic card. Repairing PC motherboards on those days were quite easy but i doubt nowadays it will be easy unless you are working in the motherboard manufacturers or you have the sources for all kind information related to motherboard.

Occasionally i do have motherboard sent for repair by my friend who deal with selling computer systems. Most of the time was the electrolytic capacitors bulged and quite simple to fix it. Nowadays PC motherboard is quite cheap and less people want to repair it and prefer to buy a new board unless if the motherboard is in the higher range (branded). As mentioned, if you can’t source for the parts it would be very difficult to repair the board. Those days the boards were only using normal SMD IC’s (spider IC’s) but most of the motherboard now are using the BGA IC’s which is very difficult to extract unless you have the special equipment to do the job.

It will be very time consuming to do this precision job unless the profit that you gonna make could cover your cost otherwise it would not be economical to repair the motherboard. If any of the readers in my blog repair motherboard i would like to listen to what you have to say about motherboard repairing business-thanks 

POSTED BY admin on Jun 23 under motherboard repair

How to Fake a Google Page Rank 10 . . . or any PR you want

So you want to get into link exchanging, but no one wants to trade with you because your page rank sucks.

Guess you need to spoof a reasonable Google PR like a 5, 6 or 7.

Well the good folks at SEOdarkteam (among others) demonstrate how you can spoof or fake a PR 10 or any Page rank you want.

Here’s how you Spoof a Google Page Rank:

1. Buy a domain.
2. 301 Redirect the domain either in you .htaccess, PHP header (anything server side) to a page with the desired page rank. It’s better to redirect to something relevant. For example, if you are doing a mortgage site, redirect to a mortgage site.
for php the code is:

header(”HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently”);
header(”location:http://www.seoblackhat.com”);
exit;
?>

3. Link to the page with the redirect from another of your sites that gets regularly spidered by Google. Since you use the Alexa Toolbar, you should have several sites that are spidered daily by google.

4. Wait for google update. Google Updates happen about every three months. The last update occured the week of July 15th, 2005.

5. Now you use cloaking software that says:

if(ip is in list) (list of google IPs){
header(”HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently”);
header(”location:http://www.seoblackhat.com”);
exit;}
else
{
header(’Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1′);
//Show your site
};
?>

The main drawback is that your site will not actually be indexed by Google as long as you are redirecting the Googlebots to your competitors site, so it’s really only good for link selling / trading.

BTW, don’t claim to have a certain PR when you are selling – that’s fraud.

This further illustrates how useless Page Rank has become in measuring a sites importance.

Buyer Beware.

Google Wi-Fi privacy row: Eric Schmidt admits search engine 'screwed up'

In an interview with the Financial Times, the search engine’s boss admitted the company could have gained access to the personal details of millions of unsuspecting internet users.

Google is currently at the centre of a global privacy storm after it admitted that its Street View cars had mistakenly collected information sent over unencrypted Wi-Fi networks.

The company, based in Mountain View, California, is currently facing a series of international investigations over the crisis after it admitted recording information broadcast via unsecured wireless networks in family homes.

In his most frank statements on the privacy storm that has engulfed the search engine giant, Mr Schmidt, 55, admitted on Friday the company had blundered in the row.

He also said he could not rule out the possibility that personal data, such as bank account details, was among the data collected by the its controversial 360 degree electronic picture mapping vehicles.

“We screwed up. Let’s be very clear about that,” Mr Schmidt told the Financial Times.

“If you are honest about your mistakes it is the best defence for it not happening again.”

He appeared to blame a Google engineer who inserted a rogue computer code in the Street Car software system in a “clear violation” of the company’s code.

The engineer, who has not been named, is currently facing disciplinary action.

The company has faced a series of embarrassing questions over its harvesting of the data, which UK authorities said appeared to be in breach of the Data Protection Act.

But in a desperate attempt to diffuse the growing row over its latest privacy blunder, Mr Schmidt said officials would begin handing over to the rogue data to European regulators within the next two days.

It will initially hand over the data to German, French and Spanish data protection authorities.

It will also publish the results of an external audit into the practice, where the private information it obtained over families' use of the internet.

His comments contrast with those he made recently at a round-table at the Zeitgeist conference in London.

"It's highly unlikely that we've captured any useful data in that," he told the conference.

"And nothing has been done with that data."

Mr Schmidt told the Financial Times that the company would conduct an internal review into all its privacy practices.

He insisted that despite the series of controversies the company culture, which allows engineers freedom to create new products and services, would not change.

He said the so-called “20 per cent time”, where employees could pursue personal projects would continue.

“It would be a terrible thing to put a chilling effect on creativity,” he said.

“You are better off having a company operating on a set of principles, that you can at least model, than a political process, which clearly does not produce rational outcomes.

“Google is big and Google is disruptive by design. We are trying to do things that are new and when you disrupt things, the people who are being disrupted complain.”

He added: We are in the information business and everyone has an opinion about information. But the laws [covering these areas] are inconsistent.”

“The arrogance comes across because we try to do things for end-users against organised opposition from stakeholders that are unhappy – and they paint us as arrogant.

“But I am sure that all successful organisations have some arrogance in them.”

The company will not, however, face any action in the UK because the Information Commissioner is satisfied with the company's promise to delete the data "as soon as reasonably possible”.

The ICO has ordered Google to destroy all of the personal data.