Outlook 2010 repeatedly prompts for Gmail password

ISSUE: When you try to add a new IMAP/POP3 gmail e-mail account in Outlook 2010 (or 2007) you are repeatedly prompted for a password.

SOLUTION: Enable 2 step verification in Gmail and ADD Outlook as a connected application


Open google's: Authorised Access to your Google Account


1. Generate a new password for you Outlook



 2. Verify if Outlook has been added to the list of applications

3. Use the new password in Outlook 2010


More information can be found here:

http://support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1070455

 

Microsoft support

I'm creating a new section where I will write about the issues and solutions related to Microsoft products. If anyone has an issue with Windows, Office and Office 365 products, he or she can post a comment or write and I'll try to find an answer.

Got Mail?

I sure do, 306.000 e-mails. Exim sure was busy :)

Interesting spam

Call me weird but I like to read spam. I like knowing what the spammers are doing every currently  and today I received an e-mail from the wife of the former Yugoslav/Serbian president (war criminal/ass hole) Slobodan Milosevic. I've included a screen-shot of the e-mail below.

See, this is more interesting to us who live here in this region, because that man has made quite an impression on everyone, even though it was 100% bad.  And this probably comes from Nigeria or some other African country considering the spelling and everything. But you've got to hand it to them, they are smart, did their reading on our history and everything...  Aah, those Nigerians, what will they come up with next :)

Good FREE software that I use on a regular basis

    Skype: online chat, voice call software, very functional, secure and stable

ImgBurn: is a lightweight CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray burning application

CDBurnerXP: my new favourite recorder, does the job and it's functional

    Putty: is a free SSH/Telnet client that I use almost every day to connect to remote servers

Notepad++: is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages

TeamViewer: TeamViewer is a tool that let's you connect to a remote computer which is also running TeamViewer and offer remote support. Quite handy, lot's of functions. I've been using it since it came out, and haven't looked back since.

IrfanView: is a tool that I use to resize photos, save screenshots etc. Small and useful.

VLC:  is a media player that can play almost anything, even RAR'ed movie chunks and damaged files. Very useful if you don't like installing codecs and that kind of crap.

µTorrent: is a tiny and fast BitTorrent client

TED: Torrent episode downloader - does exactly what it's names states

ShutDown Timer: ever wanted to lay down, watch a movie and fall asleep without worrying about your computer being turned on all night. With shutdown timer you set the timer and that's it. Your computer turns off after the set amount of time.


Well, these are my most used applications at the moment.

Flashing my NEC ND-3520A DVD/RW drive

So I've been having some issues with my DVD recorder lately. Well not lately, for quite some time now, but I never got around thinking about it. Today I wanted to backup some files and guess what, the recorder didn't want to record the DVDs. It worked OK with some, but not with others. So I decided to flash the damn thing.

I downloaded the NEC ND-3520A flash tool, ran it, and It said that my firmware version was 1.04 - the current was above 3.07. So I had a way too old firmware.

Once I flashed it, powered down my computer and turned it on again, everything worked like a charm. I guess the firmware was so old it didn't have any information about the new media (DVD's,CD's) that were out there. My 100th post, Yay.

Well, I did something good today, now I can go out and make a snowman :)

Posting from my mobile phone

So I wanted to test this feature. Here goes nothing :) Oh yeah, it started snowing yesterday.

Re-doing my workspace

I've started with my desk and cables. I'm trying to hide the cable clutter by using some advanced cable management techniques.
Also, I'm putting my card reader and a new USB hub under the table, so I have quick access to some USB ports, those are always welcome.
I've ordered a 7 port Akasa USB hub. It looks slim enough to fit under my desk. I already mounted the card reader which has all the necessary slots, like SD, MS/MS pro, CF etc.
The next step is mounting my LED screens to the wall. I'll probably make a custom mount because the commercial ones are way too expensive.

Soltek SL-75FRN2 motherboard drivers + download

Hello there!

So I haven't written much lately (no time) but here is something useful for all you people who are looking for soltek sl-75FRN2 motherboard drivers.

I have been looking for them for about an hour and got really frustrated. The company seems to have died or something so you can't find their drivers anywhere.

Everywhere I went they wanted money for the drivers and their stupid driver update programs (fuck you, you dirty bastards) but I still managed to find this one for free. Well they wanted me to pay them but it's a long story.

I finally managed to get my hands on one the drivers packs for this motherboard and decided that I must share this.

So I uploaded the drivers onto my box.net account for you to download. Hope this saves you a lot of time (and money).

Here is the link

Best regards!

Skype 4 + IrfanView 4.25 slovenian translations

I get asked a lot if there are Slovenian translations for Skype 4 or IrfanView 4.25.
Little googling always helps because I found these 2 in less then a minute.
Anyway, if you need them, they will be on my blog all the time. I will try to constantly update these language files to the newest versions. On the right side of the blog, you will find the section with the downloads.
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Ljudje me velikokrat sprašujejo glede slovenskih prevodov za IrfanView in najnovejši Skype. V primeru da jih boste potrebovali, bosta ta dva prevoda vedno na voljo na tem blogu. Potrudil se bom da bosta datoteki vedno sveži. Na desni strani bloga boste našli okence s prevodi.

Rollerblading

You know how it's like when you have something and never use it. Well my girlfriend bought me a pair of Rollerblades for my birthday a couple of years ago but I rarely use them. So last night I decided to try them on, for good times sake :=) It was dark outside so my embarrassment of falling on my ass was slightly lower, none would recognize me anyway ;)
So I visited my girlfriend who lives about 3km away and my feet were killing me. But when I went home I realized that the way over was slightly uphill so when I was rolling back it was much easier. I actually had a lot of fun. So tonight I'm gonna put them on again and cruise around town.

So long uncle Veletanlić Husein

This week me and my family suffered a tragic loss, my uncle Husejn has passed away after one week struggle in Banja Luka hospital.

He was a strong and energetic person, one who often visited his relatives and friends and used to help others a lot.

When we first came to Slovenia, he picked us up at the train station. We stayed with him and his family for about two years.

He always joked, you could never tell when he was joking or being serious. Even if he said something stupid or harsh, you could never hold it against him because he would always say something that would make you laugh in the end.

He was also very street smart. He was raised in the old ways and was introduced to the harsh reality of life at young age. Therefore he adapted to situations very fast. He used to tell me things about life which I discarded very fast thinking: "what the hell do you know old man", but he was mostly right on the spot.

On September 21st, he was returning home just as he would do every day. There is an unsecured railroad crossing about 30 meters from his home in town of Bosanski Novi(Novi Grad) in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Right when he was about to cross it with his car, a train came and you know the rest. His view was obstructed by a truck that was parked next to the railroad. Doctors fought for his life but in the end he lost the battle. May Allah almighty forgive him for all his sins and grant him the passage into paradise.

We were very close so these were on of the hardest few weeks of my life. Daily visits to the hospital which was 90 kilometers away, bad roads and greedy doctors who wanted more and more money. All that takes it's toll. Now I'm back in Slovenia and trying to move on with my life.

I will miss you.

Goodbye Jessy

We had a goodbye party from a friend of mine the other day. It was fun.

SSD Raid

So I bought these SSD drives right, but I had to wait for some time in order to get the raid controler. It's finaly here, now I can test the speed of this beast.
This image below is not mine, my phone screen broke so I didn't take any photos, but it gives you an idea of what it looks like. It's a 4 x 256GB raid field. It should kick ass with my new 100mbit fiber-optic internet connection.

Bajram Šerif Mubarek Olsun - Eid Mubarak

Listen to some late night cool tunez

Today's betting picks

Liverpool FC - Debreceni VSC (0:1) (Handicap) 1 1,25
Blackpool FC - Newcastle United (under/over 2.5) (Under/Over) 1 1,65 2.06

Flash ping pong

Here's a cool game I like to play every now and then.

pure-ftpd and tcpd_wrappers

Have you ever had to deal with fuckz0rs from all around the world trying to put shit on your server. Well I know I have to. Some of my customers got infected with some key-loggers and managed to get their ftp passwords stolen. Now I have to deal with that. This happened to me once before and the smartass datacenter admin was so thrilled to say: "you were 0wned, you were h4x0red, you were rooted, etc etc".
And Idiot that I was, I believed him. I started scanning my server for rootkits and that kind of shit instead of looking for the real thing. Just thinking about it makes me angry.

I've downloaded the binary and csv geoip database, managed to crawl through it via php module. I've got all the Slovenian IP ranges.Now I just have to configure pure-ftpd to work with tcpd_wrappers so I can get it to work with hosts.deny. Enough about that for now.

Any-who, I've ordered a new computer for myself today, it's been a long time since I've bought something for myself. For about two years now, I was only selling stuff ;) It's a quad-core with 8GB ram and 2TB hard drive, a kick ass graphics card and a big screen. All I have to do now is wait.



This is my current computer configuration

Cool, beautiful, pretty, sci-fi nature wallpapers - PART 1

I was digging around my old files and found some HQ sci-fi nature wallpapers. I thought some of you could use them.