How to set Maxtor Central Axis as a Time Machine or Time Capsule

If you read my last post, you will see how did I set up the drive on Mac, so that I can access it, even though it will not appear on your system as a mounted drive. If you are now able to access the folders the next step is to set it up as a time machine.

There are crude ways of doing it and then there is a very easy way of doing it. I will list the easy way first but if you want to do it the hard way you can do it. All you have to do is to download the automator script and run it. When it asks for the size of the time capsule, just specify the capacity that you want to use. For instance, if your hard disk is 1 TB and you want to use all of it you can definitely use it. This script will create a file (sparsebundle) on your desktop. You need to copy this file to one of the folders on your network drive. To access these folders go to "Go -> Network" and copy this to any of the folders.

Seagte Maxtor Central Axis drive icon does not appear on MAC OSX

I recently bought a maxtor 1TB central axis drive from Seagate outlet to use it as a Time Capsule. I unwrapped it the day I received it and connected it to my router; installed the software and everything worked fine. I created users and set up security and everything that the manual said. However, I was supposed to see icon for a new mounted drive but I do not see it. It took me a little while to figure out what was wrong. Actually, I was not able to figure out what was wrong but I was able to access it to copy files back and forth from my computer and this new network storage server.

If you are at the same position as me, what you need to do is to go to the "Go->Network" menu and you will see your network drive. Open it and you will see the folders; folders are nothing but the users that you created. You can use any of the folders to copy files to and from over wi-fi. I will explain in my next post how to set this drive up as a time capsule.

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Get AT&T $30 iPhone unlimited Data Plan or Get Rid of one

After the newer versions of iPhone was launched people were hesitant to switch to it as AT&T no longer offered the unlimited data plan for $30 per month. All you could do was to go for $15 per month plan which lets you use 200MBs or the $25 Pro Data plan that lets you use 2GB of data per month.

If you already had $30 data plan then you are still good as you can continue with that. If not than you can still follow the instructions below and get $30 unlimited data plan (This method can also be used to get rid of data plan):

1) Find an ordinary phone or buy it off craigslist or e-bay for few bucks. Note down its IMEI number.

2) In the general settings of your iPhone see the ICCID which is the sim information.

3) Call AT&T and talk to a representative. (You might dial 611 and then press 1, 0, 0 to talk to a rep without listening through the recorded messages)

4) Ask the representative to change your data plan to $30 unlimited plan as you are no longer going to use your iPhone.

OR

4) Ask them to take the data plan off as you are moving to a non-smart phone.

5) If they say that you can not use your iPhone sim on any other phone tell them that you have a sim adapter that works on your non smart phone.

6) They should confirm the changes to you now and you don't have to do anything. You might receive some texts from AT&T but in a few hours you will be good with unlimited data plan for $30 a month or no data plan.

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Learn Latex in 20 minutes - Latex Tutorials for beginners

I had tried to learn Latex from books, tutorials and websites but nothing has ever worked. Finally, I found John and he helped me learn Latex starting at the very basics and then taking me to the advanced features of Latex. Lest I forget I have it recorded in Video and I feel all of us can benefit from this video therefore I am putting it up here. Hope you all will like it. 

Drupal crashed after update.php run

I recently had an issue with my Drupal installation. After I run the update.php script my installation crashed. I only installed a few modules but then that should not have crashed it as the modules run fine on my other websites. Being an optimistic person I did not have a backup of my database to fall back on. I was totally royally screwed as that was a website for school and it should not have gone down at any cost. 


It took me some time to get back to my senses and think calmly as to why Drupal will behave so erratically. I tried running the update.php script again but the error would not go away. I tried deleting the module and updating but even that wouldn't help. 


Then I looked into the settings.php that resides in sites/default folder. I changed my memory limit for php by changing the line ini_set('memory_limit', '32M'); to have 64 Megabytes of memory for my installation. I ran update.php again and the website worked fine. 


Here, I would like to tell you that the update.php script was running fine every time I tried it but just that it wouldn't let me access my home page or any other admin page for that matter. Hope this will help someone.