HOT TIPS: Dan the Man shares Insider tips on doing AWESOME product video reviews

So you got your hands on the latest Lenovo product and can't wait to do a video review on it.
But... wait. Just how do you do so, and where do you start?
Founder of the Dad Does website Dan Nessel and Lenovo Insider, who has done numerous reviews through this medium on some of the products we seeded him with, shares these invaluable tips on how to capture the attention of viewers to keep them engaged, while you show off your knowledge of the latest gadgets.
Enjoy!

Hi All, I had a great time making the video, and while I could have gone on for hours I didn't want anyone falling asleep and hitting their head on their beautiful ThinkPad Seriously, if you have additional questions about making product review videos, I will do my best to answer them. Thanks,Dan

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I've never heard of this happening before.
If you are unable to remove it then you should take your phone to a nokia care point. They will be able to remove it without damaging the phone.
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Canada • Middle East and Africa
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I need the help of an experienced scripter, I'm in the
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Tip regarding the "systemd[1]: Failed to start Journal Service" error

Just a tip regarding the well-known
systemd[1]: Failed to start Journal Service
error (which I ran into last weekend) to maybe save one or two among you a couple of hours of your time:
The error is described here https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=151012 as well as in several other threads in other language boards / in other forums etc. It is usually (as in the linked thread) 'solved' by reinstalling the system - good old Windows magic, also useful when dealing with systemd.
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In this case you will see that the problem actually lies in
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Usually, it seems, the /etc/machine-id is set by /usr/bin/systemd-machine-id-setup during installation or system upgrade. It is not documented anywhere that this is a rather important step and that you should better check if this was or was not actually done before rebooting. Obviously (but for no apparent reasons) systemd fails to run this (or to run this successfully) sometimes.
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The solution is, obviously, to create this file /etc/machine-id ... You probably want to do that from a livesystem (if you want to try it from the emergency shell, you would need to remount / (i.e. root) as rw and hope that systemd will not punish you for that) by just running the program that was designed for creating this file manually: /usr/bin/systemd-machine-id-setup
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Jristz wrote:
ackalker wrote:Sorry for necrobumping this.
Generating the machine-id in a consistent way is very important when working with KVM and containers, where the machine-id can be set for the VM or container. See `man systemd-machine-id-setup`.
Again, _don't_ just put some random UUID in there, especially not in the systemd package install script, this makes provisioning Arch Linux containers a PITA.
If you thing that the way that arch is handlynbg the machine-id is wrong or can be improved, then file a bug.
He already did.
Jristz wrote:Anyway, I thing if reinstalling systemd package or if systemd have a command to reinitialize the machine-id file.
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Tip power cord broke off inside outlet.

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Hi all,
We have an odd happening in one of our video labs here at work. When launching AE CS3 (ver 8 i believe?) the tip of the day window pops up after the program launches, but it's blank. This happens on all but one of the machines in the lab. Nothing had been installed lately - and oddly was working up until late last night. I have been googling - searching this forum and only found one entry that was on the windows side and it was deemed an OS problem - i.e. no help
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all machines are the same
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located user prefs and deleted - no go
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Apple states in its tip of the week
"Tip of the Week
Two Seconds to Sleep
Want the fastest way to put your Mac right into a deep, sleepy-bear hibernation-like sleep (no whirling fan, no dialogs, no sound — nuthin’ — just fast, glorious sleep). Just press Command-Option and then hold the Eject button for about 2 seconds and Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz. It doesn’t get much faster than that."
at URL http://www.apple.com/pro/tips/quicksleep.html
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Thanks.

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