How to fix show me as away when inactive in Skype?

Setting your Skype-status to away automatically when you are away from the computer is not really working anymore, is it? If that's the case it's easy to fix.

Go to Tools/Options and change Show me as away after X minutes to some other value. Like 4 minutes. Save it.

Then go to Tools/Options again and set it to some other value again like 5 minutes. Save it.

After you changed it twice it will work correctly. Stupid, isn't it? But at least it can be fixed.

How to play a Youtube playlist in random order (shuffle)?

With the recent redesign of Youtube they've taken out the randomize option, so you can set your playlist to autoplay, but it will always play in the same order. Boring, isn't it?

Luckily, there is a handy site which allows you to play/shuffle a Youtube playlist in randomized order. It does not have a fancy design, but it does the shuffling well.

You just give your Youtube user name, it lists your playlists and you can choose one to play in random order. It even have a Play Next button if you want to skip a number.

User javascript stopped working in Opera 10.50

Just use window.addEventListener instead of document.addEventListener

Eliminate PHP warning: strtotime() [function.strtotime]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings.

Uncomment and set the date.timezone value in your php.ini

E.g. date.timezone = Europe/Paris

How to fix atapi.sys Packed.Protector.C trojan warning by Avg?

I got some virus called av_dm.exe. Check your startup programs with msconfig to find where it is located, delete it from everywhere and untick these entries from msconfig startup.

It fixed the process which ate the CPU, but AVG still complained about a trojan in atapi.sys


I didn't know what to do with it, because AVG couldn't remove it, so I downloaded the service pack for XP manually (search for it on Google), and renamed it to .cab, so I can look into it. Renamed the trojan atapi.sys to .bak in case the fix doesn't work, copied atapi.sys from the service pack and rebooted.

This eliminated the warnings by AVG. Let me know if it works for you or if you have a better idea how to deal with this pest.

Opera not responding message is annoying

Installed Opera 10 and hoped the dreaded "not responding" message went away, but it happened again today. Unexpectedly Opera stops doing anything and if I click with the mouse the title says "not responding".

I don't know how long it stays this way, because after like 20 seconds I lose my patience and restart it to make it work again.

Anyone else experiences this bug? What is the cause of it?

exiap6415386.exe creeped into my windows startup

During browsing the computer suddenly rebooted itself. This was suspicious, I instantly thought some badware installed itself and rebooted, so it can hook into the boot process. When Windows restarted something started to eat the CPU. Windows firewall warned about Conficker.C. Downloaded Conficker cleaners, they found nothing.

Booted into safe mode, checked startup with msconfig and exiap6415386.exe was there. Removed it and also svchost which was added to startup, but it wasn't there previously as far as I remember. Is my svhcost infected? >:-/

Now things seems okay, but I checked online exiap6415386. It is some new variant, antivirus tools don't even recognize it yet apparently.

Update: Spybot says it's SmitFraud.C Or is it a different one which also creeped in? :P

Update2: Make sure you always have a Live CD at home for situations like this, so you have a clean system to get info from the net about removing the badware. Using the infected OS is not a good idea. I used an Ubuntu Live CD, but any other will do.


Also, check out the comments here. There is good info there.