How to Disable Flash Hardware Acceleration on Google Chrome

Unable to Disable Flash Hardware Acceleration on Google Chrome

Unable to click anything in flash settings

Use chrome://flags/ as workaround

Symptom: 

1. When you right click on any flash video to get settings menu up, the checkbox for hardware acceleration and any other flash menu tab cannot be clicked.
2. You have already tried my steps to disable Flash Hardware Acceleration at HERE but it still doesn't work.

Solution:

1. Open a new tab in Google Chrome.

2. Type in "chrome://flags/" on the URL address box.

3. Scroll down and look for "Disable hardware-accelerated video decode".

4. Click once to "Disable".

5. Click "Relaunch Now".

6. Once you've relaunched Google Chrome, all flash videos will start playing normally again.

Note:

I've previously disabled flash hardware acceleration on Google Chrome by right clicking flash settings. But somehow after Windows update and resetting Google Chrome browser, the flash checkbox menu no longer is clickable. This is the workaround that I could find to play all my flash videos normally once again on Google Chrome.

How to Bypass Maxis Technicolor TG784n Router DNS Lock Down

Unable to Change DNS Server Set When Using Maxis Fibre Broadband on Technicolor TG784n Router

Symptom:

Have changed the DNS server sets from router's GUI but still unable to use custom DNS server sets for Maxis Technicolor TG784n Router.

This is because Maxis had hard coded the router. Whatever changes you made for DNS server sets from GUI will not take effect.

Solution:

You've to use telnet/ command line to configure the router's DNS set.

Download any free Telnet client from Internet and connect to your gateway.

Popular clients are Putty and Microsoft default Telnet client.

Assuming your default router IP address is 192.168.1.254 if you've never changed this.

1. telnet 192.168.1.254

2. Use "Administrator" for username. It's case sensitive.

3. For password, you've to refer to the access key sticker on your router.

4. Copy and paste the following texts into telnet client.

dns server config state=disabled

dhcp server config state=disabled

dhcp server lease flush

dhcp server pool config name=LAN_private primdns=4.2.2.2 secdns=8.8.8.8

dhcp server config state=enabled

dns client flush

dns client dnsadd addr=4.2.2.2

saveall

exit

5. After this flush your local PC's DNS cache. In windows use ipconfig/flushdns or reboot your PC.

6. You will now be able to access websites blocked by MCMC/ SKMM on your Maxis fibre broadband.

Note:

Basic knowledge of PC IP addressing/ networking is required for these tasks.

Facebook Flash Videos Showing Green Screen

Green Screen When Playing Any Flash Video

Symptom:

After updating to the latest flash player version, when  you play any flash video, you get a screen screen with no video but with audio.

Solution:

1. Right click on the flash video, select "Settings".

2. In settings's display tab, uncheck "Enable hardware acceleration".

3. Refresh your flash page, it should start playing.

Note:

You must have the latest graphics drivers installed on your computer too. I've tested this on all 3 browsers of mine: IE, Chrome, and FireFox. All worked fine after applying this setting.
If after performing this steps, it still doesn't work you may refer to Google Chrome's fix to it at HERE.

How to Make YouTube Videos Auto Repeat?

Ever wanted to keep on repeating that favorite music video of yours in YouTube?
Well here's the solution to that.

Solution:
1. Just add "repeat" in your URL box after "youtube".
2. Hit Enter and this will bring you to Listen On Repeat site that will repeat your YouTube video indefinitely until you close it.

FileZilla FTP Client Error: Unknown Certificate

Command: MLSD
Error: Connection timed out
Error: Failed to retrieve directory listing

Unknown Certificate

Connection timed out. Failed to retrieve directory listing.

Symptom:

After updating to latest version of FileZilla client, all FTP sites stopped working. Getting error unknown certificate, connection timed out, and failed to retrieve directory listing.

Solution:

1. Click on File > Site Manager (or use shortcut key CTRL + S).

2. Click on New Site.

3. Inside new site's General tab, enter your FTP host IP/ domain and FTP port accordingly.

4. In Encryption option, select Only use plain FTP (insecure).

5. For security measure, in Logon Type, select Ask for password (I never trust saving down passwords).

6. In User field, erase out the anonymous username.

7. Hit OK and you're done.

8. To connect to your FTP site, click on Open the Site Manager button (bellow File menu), and select your desired FTP site to connect.

Site Manager Configuration

Open the Site Manager Button

Note: 
I wouldn't recommend saving down login credentials. Be it just username alone or both username and password. In the even of PC being compromised, affected by virus/ malware/ hack, your login credentials still have a chance to survive

FTP transfer is insecure and not encrypted (No security at all). For more secured data transfer, consider using SFTP or FTPS, where data is encrypted.

Hyper-V Error: An error occurred while attempting to start the selected virtual machine(s)

The virtual machine saved state has compatibility issues, delete the saved state in order to start this VM.

Hyper-V Error Message

Delete Save State

Symptom:

After Windows update, Hyper-V VM stuck at saved state. Unable to power off/ resume VM successfully. Kept on getting error.

Error:

An error occured while attempting to start the selected virtual machine(s).

The virtual machine saved state has compatibility issues, delete the saved state in order to start this VM.

Resolution:

1. Open Hyper-V Management Console

2. Right click on the affected VM and select Delete Saved State

3. Power on VM

Note:

You will loose some last configured stuffs from the previous VM state of after deleting the Saved State. Recommended to restore from backup after that. Equivalent to power cycle desktop/ server without saving last configurations.

How to Add a Facebook Like Button to Your Web Page

Adding Facebook Social Plugin Like Button

Facebook Like Box

Facebook Like Box code after <body> tag

Facebook Like Box code to appear on web page

Scenario:

Ever wondered how people include Facebook like button or box on their web site?

Here's the solution to it.

Instruction:

1. Browse to Facebook Social Plugins site at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins

2. Select which type of Facebook Like button or box you wish.

3. Click Get Code to generate the HTML codes.

4. There should be 2 sets of code. First is to be pasted immediately after <body> tag and second is to be pasted where you wish the Facebook Like to appear on web page.

Note:

You must have some basic knowledge in editing HTML using HTML editor such as Dream Weaver or plain text editor.