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Youtube.com Causes Computer to Crash —

I had such a weird problem with Adobe Flash Player. Everytime the user would visit youtube.com and start up a flash video the computer would just crash, or shutdown and reboot. What a weird issue I thought pc had a virus. But boy was I wrong, the problem was the Adobe player itself. It was trying to use hardware acceleration and crashing the pc right when it tried running the Flash video from youttube.com.

Here is the fix to this problem:

1. go to http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/

2. right click anywhere on the flash animation moving

3. click on settings

4. Uncheck use ardware acceleration

That’s it you can forget pc crashing when playing flash video.

Let me know if this helps you out

Thanks for stopping by

SCOTT


How to Backup A Sybase Database With Powershell and Send Syslog MEssage With Powershell —

#Scott Alvarino
#01/28/2011 Version 3
#This is script to backup Sybase db to 2 other different locations.
#It also notifies the user through email, plus leaves a syslog message and a winEvent message.

#add-pssnapin NetCmdlets # Remove the comment if pssnapin is not in the PS profile

#Variables Section That is configureable
$ftptimeframemin =”-8change_me” #How many minutes back do you want the file to be copied over so that it does not copy everything.
$DeleteAfterMonths = “-15change_me” # How many months to go back before deleting the old dump files
$maindump = “/scott_backups/UAS_BACKUPS/” #Unix Server Directory to save db Dump File
$server = “10.128.2.change_me” # Put Sybase Server here
$db = “change_me” # Put DB to backup name here
$dsn = “change_me” # Put DSN name here
$port = “9100change_me” #Put port number for sybase server here
$sybaselogin = “sachange_me” #Put Sybase login here
$sybasepw = “change_me” #Put Sybase User pw – make sure script is in encrypted file system with correct user access
$user = “change_me” #Put UAS UnixID pw
$emailUser = “change_me” #Put email User
$pw = “change_me” #Put email User PW
$too = “change_me” #Put email of recipient of notification
$cc = “change_me” #Put Carbon Copy of another recipient to be notified
$from = “Automated Backup<change_me@miami.gov>” #Put the From email address
$subject = “**UAS SUCCESSFULL BACKUP**” #Subject of Email
$mailserver = “smtp.gmail.comchange_me” # Email server remember if not gmail place a comment# in front of the -UseSSL parameter
$syslogserver = “aplserver003change_me” # Name of Syslog Server
$remotefile = “/change_me/UAS_BACKUPS/UAS_Backup-*” #Put remote location with wildcard to ftp file
$localfile = “S:\change_me\uas” #Put the directory you want to save file to
$CopyLocalfileto = “F:\change_me\” #Copy the file to another directory on a different hardrive to have 2 copies

$body = “Goodmorning,
The UAS has been backed up.
Here is the folder it was put in \\change_me\!backups\uas

Please let me know if you have any questions.
Thankyou, ”
#Variable Section Not Configureable – OR should not
$date = get-date -uformat “%Y-%m-%d_%H%M” #Get the date back in a workable format
$dumpfolder =$maindump+UAS_Backup-+$date+”_.dmp” #Prepare dump file folder and name
$dest = $CopyLocalfileto+$date #Copies dump file to another Drive
$Min = (get-date).AddMinutes($ftptimeframemin) #How many minutes back do you want the file to be copied over so that it does not copy everything.
$YearBack = (get-date).AddMonths($DeleteAfterMonths) # How many months to go back before deleting the old dump files
$facility = 1
$Severity = 6
$eventid = “6969″
$eventtype = “Information”
$logname = “Application”
$eventsource = “Desktop Window Manager”
$sysMessage = “UAS DB SUCCESSFULLY BACKEDUP at $(get-date)!!”
$query=”DECLARE @BACKUPNAME varchar(100) set @BACKUPNAME = ‘$dumpfolder’ dump database $db to @BACKUPNAME”
#Setting Up My PSCRedentials###############################################################
$secpasswd = ConvertTo-SecureString $pw -AsPlainText -Force
$mycreds = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential($emailUser, $secpasswd)
####################################################################################

$conn=New-Object System.Data.Odbc.OdbcConnection
$conn.ConnectionString= “driver={Adaptive Server Enterprise}; dsn=$dsn;db=$db;na=$server,$port;uid=$sybaselogin;pwd=$sybasepw;”
$conn.open()
$cmd=new-object System.Data.Odbc.OdbcCommand($query,$conn)
$cmd.CommandTimeout=0
$ds=New-Object system.Data.DataSet
$da=New-Object system.Data.odbc.odbcDataAdapter($cmd)
$da.fill($ds)
$ds.Tables[0] #| format-table name,ID
$conn.close()

#this part FTPs the file to the server for backing up and deletes the file from the server
get-ftp -server $server -user $user -password $pw -binary -remotefile $remotefile -localfile $localfile
if($?)
{remove-ftp -server $server -user $user -password $pw -remotefile $remotefile }

If (Test-Path -Path $localfile) {
new-item -path $dest -type directory
$Container = ls $localfile | ? {!$_.psiscontainer}
ForEach ($file in $Container) {
IF ($file.creationtime -gt $Min) {
cp -Path $file.fullname -destination $dest -recurse
}
Else {IF ($file.creationtime -lt $YearBack){
rm -Path $file.fullname -force }
}
}
}
if($?){

#Send email using send-mailmessage
send-mailmessage -to $too -from $from -subject $subject -body $body -smtpserver $mailserver -Cc $cc -credential $mycreds -UseSSL
}
if($?){
#Send to Syslog
send-syslog -server $syslogserver -facility $facility -Severity $Severity -message $sysMessage
#Write a WinEvent
write-eventlog -logname $logname -source $eventsource -eventid $eventid -entrytype $eventtype -message $sysMessage
}