Posted by essjae on January 28, 2010
I’ve got 3 identical monitors: Dell e248wfp (1920×1200), 1 ATi 5870, and 1 Accell DisplayPort to DVI adapter, two profiles with hotkeys to switch from 3 as 1 to 3 separate displays, and pictures of Far Cry 2 in 1920×1200 and 5760×1200, and a small box of Dramamine.
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Posted by essjae on January 27, 2010
I have this cheapo web-cam that works great, but doesn’t get along with Aero in Vista or Win7. When I forget and access it via IE on my Win7 box instead of a VM or via RDP on my server, it switches me back to the basic theme (yuck!). Normally, all you need to do fix it is a) switch to another aero theme, then switch back, if that fails b) search “aero” and run the troubleshooter. Both fixes failed me tonight. I found the hack to enable Aero on a non-Aero system, but all I really need to do was:
net stop uxsms
net start uxsms
Bingo! Aero is back! Original info from: Hack to force Aero
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Posted by essjae on January 22, 2010
While this should work technically and legitimately for Win7P,E,U according the the info on the MS site, it doesn’t. The issue is that you’re asked to activate but the MS supplied key for XP Mode won’t auto activate. I haven’t called the MS activation line, but other have and have not had any positive results…yet.
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Posted by essjae on January 21, 2010
After working with someone in the TechNet forums for a week trying to figure out why she couldn’t get the physical NICs to appear in WinVPC, she was finally able to track down that it was the Kaspersky Anti-Virus NDIS 6 Filter blocking them. “After unchecking it on my host’s Local Area Connection, the Settings for the Networking adapter on my VPC’s had the physical adapter available.”
Thanks Loretta!
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Posted by essjae on January 8, 2010
Is it just the Bay Area? What is the obsession for this rumored tablet, people keep saying to me that they’re going to purchase it , and use it do this and that on it, etc., etc! Jobs distortion field must really be expanding.
There’s no official announcement from Apple. There are no specs on the CPU, RAM, etc, so how can you already have made a purchasing decision on vaporware?
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Posted by essjae on January 6, 2010
Just stumbled across this site: http://www.cooperativegamers.com/
Its got lists of co-op games for XB360 and PS3:
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Posted by essjae on January 6, 2010
Not exactly breaking news, but VBox 3.1.2 was released 12/17/2009. Its a maintenance release with the following fixes:
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Posted by essjae on January 5, 2010
I’m am always surprised at the perceptions about iPhone apps? Really? Didn’t Windows Mobile phones have apps 8-9 years ago? Are there really less than 100,000 Windows Mobile apps after what nine years? Handango lists 6247 “apps”, PocketGear lists 9201…but what about all the little guys that have some random “app” like the “flashlight”, “lightsaber,” and thousands of other freeware WM apps, SonicWall WinMo only VPN client, ViewCommander WinMo only app, etc?
Can we ever know? There’s no central place for WinMo apps…but googling for a specific function almost always yields a WinMo app.
One iPhone app I’d really like to see on Windows Mobile is AT&T’s app for no coverage.
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Posted by essjae on January 5, 2010
Despite it’s name, this little app doesn’t stink. I just used it to clean up my PST file that had gotten duplicate and triplicate emails from moving my PST to a new profile under Outlook. ODIR successfully removed 357 duplicate emails from my POP account’s PST file.
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Posted by essjae on January 4, 2010
Anyway, my company just moved to Google Apps Premier for their email solution, sorry MS. I’d been using the IMAP client for quite a while, but now that we’re Premier we get access to this new too to sync your Outlook info with Google, which I then sync to my phone.
But, after importing 1GB of email I closed Outlook to come home, upon restarting Outlook, I got a gsync.dll error.
Fortunately, the solution is simple. I copied the “C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Google Apps Sync” folder to “C:\Program Files\Google\Google Apps Sync” and added this path, ”C:\Program Files\Google\Google Apps Sync,” to the system environment variables. Note that the path for the (x86) folder was in the path, apparently Google Sync just doesn’t like 64 bits.
Thanks to the Google forums for the pieces of info I needed for this.
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