School Of Hard Knocks

In a quick update / nutshell / insane I forgot I had this page update... My older brother just had his first kid, that's a bit insane, the whole family bit, you know? I got put on another team at work, enterprise storage and network vendors, oh my! I finally bought my first USB drive, up until now I've been living off the stupid 512mb - 2GB drives I've gotten free over the years, and I decided that I wanted to try to load multiple OS installers and make a boot menu. I later found that there wasn't an easy way to do that, here is what I have done: Things you will need: * Moderate to advanced computer knowledge, specifically some kind of command line experience in anything OS will make things smoother. :) * GImageX can be found at: http://www.autoitscript.com/gimagex/ OR * imagex from Microsoft (free! -- More info here - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc722145(WS.10).aspx) * Your Windows Vista / 7 media * Multiple Windows Vista , 2008 , 7 images (your MSDN acc...

The first thing I needed to do to get my M2N-E to support the new chip was to upgrade the BIOS, this was a FIASCO mainly due to AsusTeK support not being properly trained (Don't get me wrong, the Level 2 and 3 guys are awesome, but the level 1 guys are just.. not)  I talked to them about upgrading my BIOS and getting a flash utility, but the L1 tech was unable to assist, I got on with a L2 (By chance) and he was very informative, and we ended up talking for a long while. In the end I basically had to throw the new BIOS on a thumb drive, tell the BIOS to upgrade from the thumb drive and that's it! After I upgraded the BIOS, and the system doesn't boot because (I believe) it loads the old configuration data and the new BIOS tries to read the data in resulting in some kind of corruption. After a bit of googling I realize the only chance I have is to take out the battery from the motherboard and see if it'll boot. Sure enough it does (WHEW!) and then I put in the RAM (Which...

This is part of a longer thread in a quest to get some more FPS out of ARMA2. I played ARMA 2 demo (http://www.arma2.com/arma-2-demo_en.html) on my old system (AMD 6400 + 2GB of ram + Nvidia 8800GTS + 3 Drives in RAID 0) but it felt a little big sluggish, the guys at Bohemia suggest a "fast" dual core for the recommended settings (http://www.arma2.com/support/support-2_en.html), I figured I should be fine, to be honest the results weren't that bad, but I felt that the mouse just felt a bit sluggish. I upgraded to an AMD Phenom 9950 (Black Edition) and 8GB of ram, but to take advantage of the RAM, I needed to upgrade to Windows Vista (After my bout with Windows 7, I was somewhat impressed) Fast forward to the future, only 6GB of RAM works, and ARMA 2 is running at a 200% fillrate at about 25 FPS. Not bad... I think (for me) the RAID 0 helps out HUGE with stuttering (There isn't really much of it, one day, I'll get 4 matched drives and then the fun really starts) Mo...

So I decided to break down and try out this new fan dangled Windows 7 (Build 7100), I must admit it does *look* nice. As I use WebEx for support purposes, I happily then fired up IE and tried to start a support session. This didn't work. :(  After the fact, I found some blogs that describe how to run IE as administrator (Shift + control), but for some users this didn't fix it.  For me, I tried to fire up WebEx in Opera 10 beta and that led me to a direct download of atscie.msi (For me, this was https:// .webex.com/sc<#####>/supportcenter/site/download.do?siteurl= &Rnd<####>=<####>&type=direct&file= an 8667KB file).  After firing up IE in Windows 7, all was well. A happy side note, after installing Java 6, then realizing that Opera doesn't like the new java installation directory, I copied the msvcr71.dll from /Program Files/Java/jre6/bin to /Windows/System32 it was happy (But still didn't work).  (Thanks to http://my.opera.com/communit...

I get this from time to time when re-installing windows (Like after a trojan say..) Usually when I try and delete the windows folder I get an Error Deleting File (Macromedia something or other) Cannot delete FILE: Access is deined. Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use. [OK] Right click, Properties (Trying to take the "Read Only" flag off will result in an Error Applying Attributes message and say Access is denied.) Click on the Security Tab (If it's missing you need to disable Simple File Sharing) Remove "Everyone" from the list, and click OK Delete the file Guessing here, I believe windows uses the most restrictive permissions and the permissions for everyone (from the last installation) were locked. I don't have another file to test this with unfortunately, so I'll check that some other day

My car got broken into over on Thursday at this roach motel I live in, so I was looking into a few car alarms, and I'll regale to you SOME of my experiences... Car Alarm: The two big brands (AFAIK) are Viper and Compustar, both Viper and Compustar have a nice model that will (supposedly) go 1 mile or longer. Compustar: http://www.compustar.com/products/P2WSSR.htm http://www.compustar.com/products/P2W9000FMR.htm Viper 5901: http://www.viper.com/P-5702V/Viper+5901+Responder+Lc3+Supercode+Sst+2-way+Security+And+Remote+Start+System There's also this no name brand Carvox CX-2300 (Goes by many other names) it's from China, here's a link: http://carvox.en.alibaba.com/offerdetail/212958541/TWO_WAY_CAR_ALARM_REMOTE_STARTER.html Installers local to me: I live in Hamilton, but I'll go as far as Toronto to save some cash, almost all the installers I found were WAY over priced, and when asked WHY, they simply couldn't give me a good reason. The actual alarm itself is usually...