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Since upgrading to Vista have had a few problems syncing my Palm Treo 750v with the mobile center. Read lots of places that upgrading to Mobile Center 6.1 helped well I dont think thats really the problem, the problem seems to be that the (or at least mine) Treo seems to have a mind of its own and gets stuck… Continue reading Vista, Palm Treo 750v and Windows Mobile Center 6.1
Since upgrading from xp windows media center to vista home premium I have been unable to get Napster to work using its media center plugin the one that allows you to download and listen to music through the media center with the tv remote. The normal napster application works fine but not the plugin. It was provided free with windows… Continue reading Napster Media Center Plugin on Vista
Vista, A Microsoft Wireless Mouse And Intellipoint Ok since I installed Vista Ultimate about 2 months ago my microsoft wireless optical mouse 2 and keyboard has behaved strangely. I run dual screens and when clicking from one screen to the other it would sometimes have to be a four or five times double click before it recongised that I wanted… Continue reading Trouble with that Pesky Mouse
Ok I previously blogged how to get visual studio 2003 talking to cvs using putty and pushok. This is an update to that, which can be found previous to this entry. Pre-cursor to this is that you have putty working with your linux / unix machine and that you can open a session using ssh without using a password. I… Continue reading Visual Studio 2005, Pushok and CVS on Vista / Linux
Ok system variables in vista can be found by going to the control panel, hitting “system and maintenance” then clicking “system” and “advanced system settings” then on the system properties click the advanced tab and then the big button “environment variables” bottom left….
Well it all started about two months ago, when my mate Chris reckoned to go to Berlin for a weekend. As soon as he said that I thought “YES” but instead of flying I would suggest driving, I thought it would be a blast and due to my last excursion in Brittany France was well up for it. We left… Continue reading Mini Adventure to Berlin – May 2007
Right was after some 3.5 mm socket savers for my media center and found FEL Communications in Sunbury. Think they are about the only people that do them as couldnt find anything like it else where on the net. Very nice chap and collected them personally from his house which incidently was down the same road my friend from Brooklands… Continue reading Quick Plug For FEL Communications and Nick Roast
Just bought a new machine and decided to put VISTA on it. Now biggest problem was accessing the shares via smbclient or Samba. Hunted high and low on the net couldnt find anything not specific for VISTA and smbclient. I then looked for windows xp and smbclient and found a post about changing a registry entry. Up to this point… Continue reading Accessing Vista with smbclient
Well for all those fans of Scruffy, unfortunately he died back in February. He was breathing deeply one day and turned out he had a tumor in his lungs so had to have him put down. Very sad day indeed as he was my mate. Here is a nice picture to remember him by…
Right havent blogged for ages as was getting loads of spam under the old .text blogging software. But just upgraded to SubText and looks very good, I think the guys on this project have done extremely well. Was a fairly easy upgrade from .text only problem I did have was primary key violations on the conversion scripts. After lots of digging… Continue reading Upgraded to Subtext 1.9