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Hardware, Microsoft Windows, Software, Technical March 15, 2009

Front USB Ports not working on my Shuttle running Vista x64 Ultimate

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

Mini-ITX, Software, Technical May 26, 2008

Getting Rsyncd, Vista and Backuppc to work

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

Technical March 1, 2008

Broadband Slamming – www.broadbandchecker.co.uk

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

Hardware, Technical February 5, 2008

Scythe Kama Connect 2

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

Software, Technical September 3, 2007

DBDesigner4, Windows and MYSQL 5

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

Hardware, Software, Technical July 23, 2007

Vista, Palm Treo 750v and Windows Mobile Center 6.1

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

Hardware, Software, Technical June 11, 2007

Trouble with that Pesky Mouse

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

Mini-ITX, Software, Technical June 10, 2007

Visual Studio 2005, Pushok and CVS on Vista / Linux

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

Software, Technical June 10, 2007

Environment Variables in Vista – Where are they ???

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….

Hardware, Technical May 20, 2007

Quick Plug For FEL Communications and Nick Roast

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