Author Archives: Paul Farrow

Shuttle XPC-SK41G with XP2600+

Posted on by
Reply

Upgraded my little old Shuttle XPC-SK41G from an AMD Duron 1.3ghz to an XP 2600+ and couldnt get the speed up above 1150mhz after much digging about realised that the FSB is set to 100mhz by a jumper,

 it is jumper JP2, you need to remove it and the FSB then runs at 133mhz and got a speed of 1536mhz out of the new chip.  The jumper is located at the rear left, mine had a red jumper on it !!

Shame these old shuttles dont have 333mhz FSB then would get even more speed out of them ah well, when I completely upgrade the PC….

MP101 Latest Server running with 2 network cards on Windows 2003

Posted on by
Reply

Recently try to upgrade the server and firmware on my MP101 and came across the following..

Now I run the server software on a windows 2003 server on a VIA 1.2ghz machine, now its the only windows machine that is on all the time but for some reason I couldnt get the firmware to upgrade to the latest version on the client MP101 machine, when I have done before. 

Yes yes I know the server software isnt supported on 2003 server but it did work last time, with 4 calls to support in India somewhere and various answers to why I couldnt upgrade I did realise that it was the 2003 server element of it so installed the latest server on my windows 2000 box and upgraded to the latest firmware 1.3.7 without any hassles.

Plus just for the record you dont have to upgrade to all the intermediate upgrades, I upgraded from 2.11 to 1.3.7 contrary to what Netgear’s support say !!!

My next problem was that on upgrading to the latest server software they have removed the control on the system tab to bind the NIC to the server software and I run two network cards and hence two networks on my server.  The MP101 couldnt find the server with the software it connected to the network ok and was pingable but just couldnt find the software server with the music on, rang Netgear support again and was told that it now finds the application server automatically itself, even if it has two network cards – well I would like to say it doesnt !!.

After much playing if you have the network that the MP101 is on showing in the network connections first ie on the left in the row of NIC’s you have on your machine it will work, although when the MP101 tries to connect on mine it shows two of the same server, but if I have the MP101’s network as the second NIC ie on the right in the network connections it wont find it at all unless I disable the other network card.

After slagging the Netgear support previously I do actually think the software has now been improved as it was pretty poor before although they are still lacking the server software to be installed as a service so you dont have to have the pc logged in if you are running a home network like I do.

Unable to connect to newer mysql database – Client Does Not Support Authentication Protocol Requested By Server, Consider Upgrading MySQL Client

Posted on by
1

Kept getting the message ‘Client Does Not Support Authentication Protocol Requested By Server, Consider Upgrading MySQL Client’ after upgrading the mysql server to a newer version than the client odbc driver and after much trawling found that you have to update the mysql user table to hold the password in the old format like so..

UPDATE mysql.user
SET password=OLD_PASSWORD(‘somepassword’)
WHERE user=’someuser’
AND host=’somehost’;

dont forget to update each host and then reload your privaleges, should then work.

🙂

GD Lib with Bugzilla

Posted on by
Reply

Trying to get libpng and libjpeg support ??  You will need to install the developer versions of the libraries, on Fedora the easiest way is to use up2date ie. up2date libjpeg-devel and up2date libpng-devel this will install it then the configure for the makefile of libgd will pick the libraries up and install support for them.

Also dont use the ./configure.pl do make and then make install dont use the make install straight away this then works for me on Fedora Core 3.

Its Snowing Again Here In The UK

Posted on by
1

Was snowing heavily last night and the result can be seen below.  Now its still snowing here which means that the UK will be in turmoil as a little bit of snow makes it impossible to get around as us Brits are never prepared.  I have dug out (no pun intended) an old photo of the snow from about 3 – 4 years ago so we can see if we are getting more snow or less. 

4 years ago approx.

today

Mr May Comes and Visits

Posted on by
Reply

My old chum finally made it down to the Farrow residence to visit, first time in nearly 6 years of being here in our current property.

He immediately got on with Scruffy and both posed for a photo, although as you can see, Chris was a little distracted, he was busy hacking one of the neighbour’s wireless networks with his Psion 5 (has he still got that thing – time warp or what !!).

(taken with SPV C500)