I installed 2 updates today,
Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool x64 – March 2010 (KB890830)
Microsoft Security Essentials Client update package – KB2019198
After installing my mouse failed and then the whole computer locked up. I rebooted thinking that would clear it. about 3 minutes after the reboot the system BSOD’d.
I restarted in safe mode and used the [...]
I have now made the final push to go opensource on all my windows 7 applications. Although I would say the overall project has been a success there are one or two areas of failure.
Here is a list of tasks and software I use to complete them.
Web Browsing – FireFox
Email – ThunderBird
Office – OpenOffice
FTP – [...]
My DVD drive stopped working. I use a piece of software called AnyDVD by Slysoft which allows me to put my DVD’s onto the hardrive of my media center. I was blaming this software and tried everything on their website and nothing worked. I then tried uninstalling it and the DVD drive was still not [...]
Introduction
Here is the step by step instructions for installing Eclipse PDT, Zend Community Edition, Zend FrameWork and getting it all working.
Goal
To have a full install of Apache, PHP, MySQL, Eclipse PDT, XDebug and Zend Framework. The software will be installed to the standard place in a windows install (windows [...]
I have just installed Windows 7, and being an MS hater I was expecting the usual install problems. You know the ones, Install Windows, Reboot, 2nd Stage install, find driver disks, install one driver reboot, install another driver reboot… Oops driver doesn’t work, reboot search the internet. Can’t search the internet as network driver didn’t [...]
I am finally ready to make the big break. I quite like the idea of running KDE as I love linux on the servers I manage.
Unfortunately it doesn’t run iTunes even under Wine. So Dual boot is an option.