Monthly Archives: April 2008

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Using a Vigor 3300 to connect multiple ADSL lines for load balancing

This entry was posted in Gadgets Tips Web on April 17, 2008 by HAL

If you are one of the unlucky sites that gets a very poor adsl service and you decide to put in additional adsl lines to give more capacity you should look at the Draytek 3300 as an option for your business. The idea of connecting adsl lines through an intermediate device (a draytek 110) to […]

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Using Slax from a USB key on a TC1100

This entry was posted in Software Web on April 9, 2008 by HAL

Sometimes you needs tools that can indirectly allow you to verify that a machine is working. In this case I wanted to boot a HP Tablet TC1100 to allow me to check that the hard disk and the files within are accessible (ie the disk is working to some extent). So I used slax 6.10 […]

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We’ll have none of that slacking (slaxing actually).

This entry was posted in Software Web on April 9, 2008 by HAL

After a meeting yesterday I rebooted my HP Tablet TC1100 to install some updates. This machine has given virtually no trouble in all the time that I’ve used it and its travelled with me much more than any other machine. I didn’t notice that the machine was constantly rebooting until much later and then began […]

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Give me a slice of that browser ( with extra pepperoni )

This entry was posted in Software Tips on April 4, 2008 by HAL

IE 8 to be precise. The Beta 1 is available and offers some interesting ideas – for me the first one that jumps out is Webslices. Kind of like marking up your pages for consumption (in pieces) rather than in seperate places like RSS (is from static html). Of course this could lead to further […]

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Sco Far Sco Good

This entry was posted in Software Virtualisation Web on April 4, 2008 by HAL

Following on from the article about getting Sco up and running as a VMWARE machine – I can also confirm that running it on Vista 64BIT Vmware workstation – the graphical interface works !! I suspect that this is due to the underlying hardware and graphics capabilities. The next challenge will be in migrating the […]

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50 ways to fix your printer

This entry was posted in Web on April 4, 2008 by HAL

The problem is all inside your head She said to me The answer is easy if you Take it logically I’d like to help you in your struggle To be free There must be fifty ways To fix your printer Apologies to Paul Simon (Writer of : 50 ways to leave your lover) There is […]

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Wot – no 64 bittedness (thats not a real word) ..

This entry was posted in Software Web on April 4, 2008 by HAL

Now that I’m using a Vista 64bit machine I’m more conscious of the issues that plague any new os (even after the bedding in period is over). The lack of drivers – new versions of software being required and the failure of software suppliers to test their apps in the new environment within a reasonable […]

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A code 39 and a non-working DVD drive on a Toshiba Eqium portable

This entry was posted in Software Web on April 1, 2008 by HAL

Machine is a portable running Windows Vista Home edition and the device manager shows a yellow exclamation point beside the drive, noting error code 39: Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. The user advised that they believed the problem occurred when they had installed a […]

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