The Foley House

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 device manager after the install. One was labeled as a co-processor. I don't know what it was, ...

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 Settings\Accepted Documents, I removed a couple of ...

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 connectivity to the server. Having hunted around a bit I found this useful post: ...

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: eth0 is a static interface configured in ...

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

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 have it with SUSE 10.1) but overall it worked well. The following procedure works for me!First a ...

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 drivers.  Click here if you want the US or Japanese drivers. (If you don't want ...

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/ Is the manufacturer, drivers are by Padix (same company) Work fine with XP but not ...