DOPEJAM::The Tariq Ahmed Experience
Tariq Ahmed

Greetings! DopeJam is my personal website aimed at keeping family and friends up to date with what's going on, but also serves as a communication vehicle to express thoughts, opinions, and experiences regarding the stuff I'm into (technology, home theater, movies, high end car audio, bass, electronic music, web applications, etc...). I also use DopeJam to host ideas that I experiment with. Read the profile if you're interested in knowing why the site is called DopeJam in the first place.

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Technology & Business (141)
Server Virtualization specialists needed at AndSpot
Posted on Jun 26, 2009 08:30AM | Comments (0) | Permalink | 99 Views
Android App Store AndSpot is looking to scale out their infrastructure and are looking for server virtualization experts to team up with. If you've got the skills to pay the bills, drop their main guy Faisal Abid a line at Faisal [AT] AndSpot.com.
Adobe Drive CS4 crashing Windows XP File Explorer
Posted on Jun 15, 2009 03:53PM | Comments (0) | Permalink | 214 Views
Wow, I'm on a roll with breaking technology. Two weeks ago one of my monitors at work died, the remaining monitor this morning wasn't receiving a signal from the video card, yesterday my laptop couldn't run Word, a month ago one of the memory modules in my MacBook Pro became corrupted... what's next!

Well today I couldn't right click, rename, or delete a file/folder. The Windows File Explorer would crash immediately. I tried un-installing a bunch of things, rebooting, etc... but with no luck.

I came across a funky free tool called Shell Extension Manager for Windows. It allows you to see all the extensions (plugins) into the file explorer, and disable them while not having to actually uninstall things.

This is great, because it allows you to easily do a process of elimination... and what it turned out to be is Adobe Drive CS4. Which makes sense as the day before I re-installed CS4 Master Collection (because of course...I break technology, and everything in CS4 worked except for Dreamweaver, it said my license was expired, even though all the other CS4 products worked fine).

Anyhoo, the simple fix was to disable the Adobe Drive CS4 file explorer extension and all will be well.

...what issues are in store for tomorrow? :)

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Personal (218)
Dub FX the amazing beatboxer
Posted on Jun 28, 2009 09:06PM | Comments (0) | Permalink | 20 Views
Wow I have to tell you guys about this Dub FX dude. He's a beat boxer, and he uses a sample station to record loops of his voice doing an instrument, and he builds up the whole bank of instruments in real time... and then sings to it. Pretty awesome. Check out this song. Though I like the first one the most, this one shows more of the process.
DirecTV - Issues with recording....
Posted on Mar 30, 2009 09:39PM | Comments (0) | Permalink | 403 Views
Over the last couple of days something happened to my DirecTV DVR (R16-300) where it suddenly stopped recording series. It'll record scheduled one off's, but if it's a series - it won't record. The guide will show that it will record, and will show its recording, but doesn't actually happen.

I checked the DirecTV help forums, and it's flooded with people having the same issue. People are saying they tried calling support and haven't gotten anywhere.

I really wish DirecTV maintained their relationship with Tivo. I have an older DirecTivo, and it still works awesome (and thankfully is acting as backup for critical shows). Also thankfully, all the major networks post the shows online.

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Technology & Business
Adobe Flex (74)
ColdFusion (50)
Companies (1)
General (5)
Management & Business (4)
Products (4)
Usability/User Experience (2)

Personal
Dreams (2)
General (114)
Golf (4)
Health & Fitness (15)
Investing (16)
Movies (9)
Products (10)
Project Acura CL (3)
Zafira (40)
Zombies (5)

Points of Interest
Honda Prelude SRV:: My now destroyed second car
Memories:: Photos and Old Sites
Zafira:: Our daughter

BMW 745i AC Schnitzer Bodykit

Trance/DNB Stations
DanceHance Digitally Imported
Philosomatika DNB Radio
BassDrive JungleTrain.NET
UK Bass Radio Kunnin Mindz

Coldfusion Contributions
CF_ParseOfficeCSV
Parses Office/Outlook CSV files
ReplaceURLText (UDF)
Changes/Replaces links in text whose display text is the url to something friendly.
DualSelect (CFC)
Create multiple dynamic context sensitive dropdowns/comboboxes
Session (CFC)
Working with Sessions like finding out how many Session instances exist.
convertActiveDirectoryTime
Converts Active Directory 100-Nanosecond timestamps to a UTC Local timestamp CF can use.

Movie Comments
Spirit
Kinda boring...almost fell asleep. 5/10
Blindness
wow that was crazy. 8/10
Bridewars
unoriginal. 4/10
The Wrestler
awesome. 8/10
The Day the Earth Stood Still
loved the concept. 7/10
Seven Pounds
Will delivers. 9/10
Australia
boring. 3/10

My Sites/Domains
Community Adobe Flex
CFLEX - Empowering Adobe Flex Development
Flex In Action
Become Effective Fast w/Flex
FlexCoders.NET
The International Registry Of FlexCoders
Zafira's Site
Pictures and News of my daughter
GoodBye Canada
The Resource for Canucks heading South
afterSHOX
Freelance Website and I.T Services
NIL8
An Online Gaming Team (obsolete)
X-TIB
Community of Ex TIBCO Finance Employees
Coming in the future...
accesstracy.com - Tracy City Portal
nexilo.com - Knowledge Management
nuclearbass.com - Car Audio

Friendly Links
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Tracy's Best Landscaping
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Cool & Unique Kids Toys
KambohTech
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Sith Sigma
Business Management Sith Style
SilvaFUG
Silicon Valley Flex User Group
ORHP
Get your home protected with Old Republic
Amcom Technology
Enabling companies to succeed through an I.T competitive advantage.

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