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Windows 7 x64 on Dell XPS M1210

Well with the end of semester it was time to move on to the latest offering from Microsoft. With that, it was also time to have a crack at moving onto x64, as the issue (drivers) which prevented me from doing so several years ago on Vista should have now been mostly resolved. The process [...]

Tuesday November 3rd, 2009 in Blog | 1 Comment »

Messing about with some Mapping

The topic of mapping has caught my interest recently. Eighteen months ago I had investigated what options were available for offline GPS on my Nokia N95 and found that the offering were very limited. Furthermore, the free coverage of Brisbane on things like Openstreetmap was quite limited. It would seem however that things have changed [...]

Tuesday September 29th, 2009 in Blog | 5 Comments »

Alternative to Picasa Email dropbox

The problem: Spending money on extra capacity with Google (for use with Picasa) and, at the same time spending a few bucks a month on web hosting with Hostgator. There was plenty of spare place for all my photos as well as quite a bit more. I also decided that it would be good to [...]

Friday July 31st, 2009 in Blog | No Comments »

Added CD30MP3 Line-in project

A while ago I set out to modify my car sound system to give it a line in as well as give me the ability to bluetooth to connect my phone. I have been using it for some time and been really happy with the results so thought I would share what I had done [...]

Wednesday July 29th, 2009 in Blog | No Comments »

Site migration

Well I finally decided that Dot Net Nuke may not have been the best patform for what I was seeking to do and that the previous hosting provider I had was not really the best value for what I wanted either. I have now moved everything over to Hostgator while switching my CMS to Joomla [...]

Wednesday July 29th, 2009 in Blog | No Comments »

TPG Voip Settings for Linksys SPA3102

Long time, no posts. Been quite busy with end of uni semmester & etc, plus been postin a bit on facebook. Anyway… Given that TPG have recently enabled ADSL2+ in our local exchange, we decided that it would be a good idea to make the move away from Netspace. Basically we will be getting double [...]

Friday December 21st, 2007 in Blog | 3 Comments »

More Nintendo Wireless Wierdness

While the solution of sharing a common BSSID between two AP's was working nicely for the Wii, the more I thought about it the less of an ideal solution it seems to be. The issue that would be arising would be that during handover, there would be all manner of problems each AP having a [...]

Thursday October 18th, 2007 in Blog | No Comments »

Nintendo Wii Wireless Wierdness

Hmm, long time with few posts. Have been getting stuck into facebook a bit. That said, I have found something odd in configuration of our Nintendo Wii that may be of assistance to some. But first, a bit of background information: At home, we have a wired network with a number of devices hanging off [...]

Sunday September 30th, 2007 in Blog | No Comments »

Enabling Avivo codec in Vista Media center

After running the Cyberlink Codec on Vista media center to avoid a problem where I got a green screen in HDTV playback, I noticed that it doesn’t seem to handle deinterlacing very well at all. The problem was getting quite annoying so I set about to see whether it was possible to use the ATI [...]

Thursday August 23rd, 2007 in Blog | No Comments »

Media Center PC musings

Well after messing around with our Media PC for a bit, I believe that I have finally got it doing everything that I want. It is now hooked up and running with full HDMI goodness. Some of the set up issues were: Playback of HD content within Vista Media Center (VCE) The first bit of [...]

Saturday August 18th, 2007 in Blog | No Comments »

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