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So i grabbed an Xbox wireless receiever last week - so i can play PC games with a 1/2 reasonable wireless controller... for those that are better with controller. Plugged it in, no PNP recognition (and its an MS devce - thats kinda odd...) - so select the device driver manually as is documented about…
Continue readingGreat to see this has been renewed already - obviously huge ratings help.... and the first two episodes of season 2 have been good. When i see a story like this, it makes me think back to "firefly" and "better off ted"..... firefly.... well i think the lunacy of cancelling that has been well and…
Continue readingSo have run into this intermittently while doing HP server builds over the past month, but havent really paid it the attention it deserves until today... - utilising the HP PSP 8.7. I have also found some other people now having this issue too - http://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2011/03/hp-network-interface-does-not-start/ Unfortunately, my builds are via SCCM - and if…
Continue readingi finally grabbed this all-in-one remote the other day.... it happened to be there as i was grabbing some other stuff.... so that reminded me... (and Bayls' previous comment on my other blog post about crappy HDMI compat) Anyhoo - i grabbed it, got it home, grabbed my make/models and plugged it in to the…
Continue readingIt's been many many years since i played games online.... i used to play a lot of Quake 2 online, many years ago. I also got into Starcraft 2 when released - great game... and very addictive multiplayer. I stopped playing it for a few months, as i found i was addicted! Re-installed it and…
Continue readingThis pearler popped up today. We started getting a few delays messages from various clients.... at first didnt think much of it.... but after telnetting into one clients and recieving the following error: 554 Your access to this mail system has been rejected due to the sending MTA's poor reputation. If you believe that this…
Continue readingI work from home for stints... and then at client site for stints.... the duration can vary wildly.... but this comic pretty much hits the nail on the head. http://theoatmeal.com/comics/working_home
Continue readingWindows "8" server beta got released the other day, as im sure every nerd-type person knows... There are some cool features in the beta release, around Hyper-V in particular.... as usual (for me) - i always focus on the other stuff that could be in there.... (its not a good personaility trait - i am…
Continue readingSPAM is an unfortunate fact of life... whether or not it be random religious whack jobs, penis enlargements or nigerian bank managers who have found an error which will end up in me getting $50 million, all they need is a little good faith money - its all as annoying as each other. Fortunately when…
Continue readingI think most sane people, i looked at the US in dumb-founded amazement when SOPA was being seriously considered.... but, there wasn't really a need to say anythying because so many others were... the upside of it, was all the humour that came out of the lunacy.... here's one i missed earlier but just saw…
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