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Just upgraded my media center case to an Antec Fusion Remote. Now its a very well made case and has 120mm fans in them with variable speed control which is why it took my fancy. It has full size slots as well as my older case could only take half height cards which is always a problem finding them. I… Continue reading Antec Fusion Remote HTPC Case – Audio Control Doesnt Work
After taking the Cypress update my front usb ports stopped working. How did I fix it well if you go to the device manager (right click the computer icon in file explorer, click properties then click device manager [left hand side]) under Universal Serial Bus Controllers (right at the bottom) there is a device shown now called HX2LP kit (3.03.0000.2)… Continue reading Front USB Ports not working on my Shuttle running Vista x64 Ultimate
Just had a webchat with Barclays Bank, and it must be them embracing different ways to chat to customers that browse their website. So thought I would ask about dollar accounts and why not after all it popped up and they asked me. So here goes the conversation Customer: ok can you give me current exchange rates on dollar accounts… Continue reading Dollar Accounts and Barclays Bank
Last weekend took delivery of my Suzuki GSXR750 K7 it is very nice. Bit frightened have to be honest of it at first but after 2 bends I was smiling very big wide smiles its excellent. Unfortunately it broke down 2 days after getting it, the regulator went on it but Portman Motorcycles are fixing it. But until that time… Continue reading Got my Suzuki GSXR750 K7
Followed Eric Clapton last week on the roads around Ripley. He was in his Porsche turbo and I was in my little white Mini Cooper S, his Porsche was going well. Although I did have him on the roundabout under the A3 at Ripley, but lost it again on the slip road. At that point I thought I was going… Continue reading Race with Eric Clapton in his Porsche Turbo
Recently upgraded to vista and for the life of me couldnt get the vista to work with rsyncd running from cygwin. Would always stop with a code 12 error and not alot else. I just run rsyncd or rsync with the daemon option as I dont belive the cwrsync works as a service yet on vista. Now in the backuppc… Continue reading Getting Rsyncd, Vista and Backuppc to work
Well I sent back some drives in April 2007 and they say they never received them. Basically they were some old IDE drives that were just in warranty so I wasnt too bothered. Then this weekend May 2008 got an email saying they were sending me one of the drives repaired under warranty. The other they say they never received… Continue reading Returns / Warranty From Seagate
Well just when I was thinking of moving my broadband thought I would have a look around and tried a site called broadband checker on www.broadbandchecker.co.uk, only used that site and about a week later I got an email from my existing provider saying that I had been slammed. Basically there had been a manual cease put on the line… Continue reading Broadband Slamming – www.broadbandchecker.co.uk
Ok bought the Scythe Kama Connect 2 device from Quiet PC yesterday. Took delivery and at the same time as ordering it bought a Samsung 500GB SATA 3Gb/s hard drive to connect to it. The reason for buying this little baby is that I hate opening cases everytime I want to configure a new drive. Before buying looked everywhere, did… Continue reading Scythe Kama Connect 2
Ok thought I would have a look at DBDesigner4 as MyWorkbench seems to be taking a long time to get into beta. DBDesigner4 looks a great product but couldnt get it to connect to mysql 5 then realised that it the designer was designed for version 3 mysql and lots of the old mysql products need to read the myql.user… Continue reading DBDesigner4, Windows and MYSQL 5