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Windows 7 on an HP DV9000 (DV9292EU)
I've been having a bit of an install fest this weekend with Windows 7 Ultimate on my HP DV9292EU, Windows 7 Enterprise on my Work laptop and Android (!) on my trusty ASUS eeePC 701. All went fine except the HP laptop which had three unknown devices in Read More...
D-Link DCS-6620G - HTTP 400 Bad Request
After the install of Silverlight - My D-Link DCS-6620G camera started returning HTTP 400 Bad Request errors. After a bit of investigation, I found this: http://silverlight.net/forums/p/7452/77779.aspx Locating the key, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Read More...
VMWare Server v1.0.3 unable to bridge to wireless network on Vista
I've been trying to test some printing configurations on SLES 10 SP1 but I couldn't get my laptop running Windows Vista Ultimate and VMWare Server v1.0.3 to successfully bridge onto the wireless adaptor. I could use NAT but then it was difficult to test Read More...
Linux NIC Bonding
I had a query on how to setup NIC bonding in RHEL4 so thought I would document it for the blog. I'll start with a standard server with 2 NICs, eth0 and eth1. Here is the output from 'ifconfig': The configuration scripts are found in /etc/sysconfig/network/network/scripts: Read More...
Disgusting Keyboard
When my keyboard has got really bad in the past I just bought a new one. Today I decided to clean it: After I took all the keys off After I cleaned it All back together again Read More...
XGL on Dell Inspiron 5100 with SUSE 10.1
This documents my attempt to install XGL on my Dell Inspiron 5100 laptop using Suse 10.1. I first tested it with the Kororaa Xgl Live CD so I knew that it would work. I had some problems with the login screen (seen this reported elsewhere - but I don't Read More...
SUSE 10.1 Wireless on Dell Inspiron 5100
As always I had to use ndiswrapper to get my wireless working but this time was the easiest ever. I followed the following proceedure: Downloaded the latest drivers for my minipci from here . Bear in mind that I am in the UK so these are the non US/Japan Read More...
PC line PCL-RP100 Rumble Game Pad
I always like to install the latest drivers but when buying OEM hardware it proves difficult to track down the drivers. For this particular device it proved to be a company called Ruling Technologies . I am also informed by Glen that: http://www.rockfire.com.tw/ Read More...