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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
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
Was getting the error #1030 – Got error 28 from table handler on one of my customers boxes realised that the partition was out of disk space.
always wondered how to exclude from up2date finally got off my backside and looked into it… for all you out there that dont know its up2date –update –exclude=
On some flavours of linux errno is a macro rather than an int so you need to alter the error.h file for it to compile You need to do the following…. mv error.h error.h.orig sed -e ‘s/extern int errno;/#include /g’ error.h.orig > error.h
Right this is the what I got up to on Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Looked at vonage http://www.vonage.co.uk and asked them twice before launching into it if I could use my own hardware and both times yes and yes. Bought my own hardware which is a Cisco ATA 186 £80 ish trade price. Then signed up for vonage… Continue reading Just got into the VOIP world here….
Took delivery of my new machine yesterday. Rather swiss, this is my first Mac, they tell me once you taste Mac you never go back !! First thing I needed to do was to get it on my encrypted wireless network ugh oh !! Couldnt for the life of me get it on, I use a manual 128 bit key… Continue reading Taking Delivery Of A MAC Powerbook G4 15 inch
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… Continue reading Shuttle XPC-SK41G with XP2600+