Having setup the Xbox 360 as a media extender to Microsoft Windows Vista Media Center (VMC), I quickly noticed that the dashboard was slightly different and did not have the DVD Library that I had manually setup and is described in an earlier article that I had written. This article is a continuation of my earlier article and describes the…
Read More »Windows Vista as a media center, better known among many as VMC offers promising capabilites. A one-stop place for all your music, television, recorded televsion, videos, pictures, and radio. You can even play DVDs, a manual process. A great feature that must be modified / added manaully is the DVD Library. The DVD Library icon is added to the VMC…
Read More »The Xbox 360 is the only game system that instanly streams movies and television programs from Netflix. This feature is available to Xbox LIVE® Gold members who are also Netflix members and allows them to instantly watch movies streamed from Netflix via Xbox LIVE. According to xbox.com this is an exclusive partnership and the Xbox 360 will be the only…
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A Microsoft Windows XP workstation was presented with the STOP: (parameter, parameter, parameter, parameter) SESSION3_INITIALIZATION_FAILED blue screen message on boot. Microsoft does address this STOP message, however, for earlier versions of Windows. Microsoft suggests that the problem might be with a device driver. With that in mind, and knowing that no additional hardware had been added in recent memory, the…
Read More »There are many great WordPress plugins and Search Unleashed is no exception. It serves as a great replacement to the built-in WordPress search engine. Search Unleashed extends the standard search with a full text search across posts, pages, comments, authors, and meta-data. It even offers modules that support other plugins including NextGEN Gallery. The reason anyone should want to upgrade…
Read More »I had written a script that worked on one machine but not another Linux installation, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The script returned an error with “bad interpreter: No such file or directory” and referenced the first line of code. I could not visually see the error as it looked to be like any other script. The problem turns out…
Read More »A recent installation of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 went rather smoothly until the requirement to activate in order to complete the installation. The activation window presented itself with a nasty error, “Volume activation has failed” Description: DNS Server Failure and to contact the system administrator with error code 0x8007232A. After some research the resolution was found in a forum that…
Read More »Diskeeper 2009 (Build 13.0.835.0) has officially been released. We received notice in the morning of November 28, 2008 from Diskeeper, that as part of our maintenance plan, we may commence downloading. As part of this release, Diskeeper offers several updates and new features to their product. Having only tested it for a couple of days, I have not drawn any…
Read More »A situation developed where two independent installations of JIRA needed to be combined into a single installation. The problem, however, is no native built-in capabilities to allow for this. This would not be such a simple task, however, someone developed a process to achieve this goal. Still not a simple task. This process has not been updated in a while,…
Read More »In earlier versions of Microsoft Outlook, users could right-click an Outlook desktop icon and then click Properties, allowing them to create e-mail accounts, change profiles, and so on. Problem So that Microsoft Office Outlook® 2003 complies with Microsoft Windows XP certification requirements, the desktop icon is not installed with Outlook. Users can access the Properties option by clicking Start and…
Read More »There is a need to replace a value from within a text based file from one variable to another using a command line approach, as everything else in that process was automated. There is however, no native command line support within the Microsoft Windows environment that would allow for this to be accomplished. Someone in the Microsoft forums had written,…
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AVS DVD Player is a compact and easy-to-use program that has a simple user-friendly interface allowing you to start watching DVD movies with no additional software. It is offered for FREE by Online Media Technologies Ltd. In many ways it is comparable to the more popular commercial products offered by Cyberlink PowerDVD or Corel’s WinDVD. This FREE download and application…
Read More »Every now and again, I have had requirements to access shared drives on other domains on which I have an account and do not want to create a permanent network connection. A couple of years ago, I stumbled upon this visual basic script that I have been using without any issues. I have tested this script using Microsoft Windows XP…
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Beyond Compare® is the ideal tool for comparing files and folders on your Windows or Linux system. Visualize changes in your code and carefully reconcile them. Beyond Compare is available at Scooter Software. A license was purchased to support a large user community. I wanted a means to simplify the distribution of this application with the license file. I chose…
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A user has an Epson scanner using Epson Scan Ver. 2.75A. The scanner had been functioning correctly until recently. For some reason, the scanner will go through the motions of scanning the image and even present a preview, however, upon attempting to save the scan as an image, the Epson scanner software will now pop up an error message, with…
Read More »A recent request from a user wanted to customize the bar in Word 2007, at the windows symbol (upper left corner) > Save As > Save In. The user wanted to eliminate the default places from the list, since some of the places are never used by this user. After some research, it turns out that this area in Save…
Read More »Sockso is a free, open-source, personal music server. It’s designed to be as simple as possible so that anyone with a mouse and some mp3’s can get their friends listening to their music across the internet or intranet in seconds! Having tested the latest version 1.1.1, I have found that this application to be quite efficent and useful in it’s…
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