Archive for the 'General' Category

Nail, head.

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

No one is disputing that smoking constitutes a health risk. But a society that gets into more of a strop over fictional characters puffing on pipes, cigars and cigarette holders than people blasting each other to kingdom come, is surely one which has lost all sense of perspective.
Amen.

nVidia Forceware 175.16 RDPDD.DLL error

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

I recently install Windows XP Service Pack 3 on my system and, while tinkering decided to have a go at using Remote Desktop. Upon trying to connect the RDP connection dialog simply tried to connect and then dropped out with no error message at all.
I investigated on the target RDP server and found the following […]

Custom ADM Templates don’t apply registry settings…

Friday, May 16th, 2008

.. and you receive the following error:
Windows cannot create registry key <registry key>. (The parameter is incorrect. )
Usually preceded by an error indicating the offending registry.pol file
I’ve found, through a bit of digging, that the above error occurs when you use custom ADM templates imported in to the Group Policy which you subsequently remove. There’s […]

Windows XP SP3 Now available

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

Microsoft Windows XP SP3 Download
Seems that Microsoft have ironed out the issues with XP SP3 and their Dynamics CRM package that caused a release delay a couple of weeks back.
I’m just downloading now. I’ll let you know how I get on.

:(

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

Hosting

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

I’ve decided to move my website off my own home system and actually put it on some proper (linux based) hosting. This will perhaps give me an incentive to actually post a bit more than I have been doing!
The lucky host is… me actually. I’ve purchased a reseller account at a well known ISP along […]

Turkey was excellent. Best holiday of my life…

Monday, September 17th, 2007

Daniel keeping us all entertained while he attempts to set up the auto time feature on his camera.

The final evening before heading back to blighty. Our smiles show the good time we had.

Internet Radio goes quiet for a day

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

In protest at the Copyright Royalty Board’s decision to increase royalties payable by Internet Radio broadcasters by a massive amount and retroactively impose them back to June 2006, a very large proportion of the Internet’s radio stations have gone quiet. Live365, Pandora, DI.fm and ultimately, Shoutcast.com.
Although the quietness only lasted for 24 hours, it won’t […]