I needed to edit the file associations on the pocketpc so that a click on jpg files would load it into a graphic viewer. A quick search on google and I discovered that PocketTweak would do the job for me. Although its not a fully fledged registry editor (Rescoe’s one is trial ware and PHM’s registry editor wouldn’t load on the pocketpc)
Month: May 2004
Kristen has just watched Brother Bear on dvd. I spent the entire time catching up on my rss feeds. After she finished the film, she realised that the canadian moose provide a commentary for the film which we are now watching/listening to. It’s really funny and the best thing is that I don’t need to watch the screen – I can just listen to it.
Not that I am planning to go to London in the near future, but the advice given at London on the cheap website looks pretty good – probably best for students. Thanks to postcardtimes for the tipoff
Even though BT are not admitting responsibility for the fire in Manchester, the Register reports they will compensate customers which is what I was told by a BT employee over a week ago. As yet I’ve received no information on how much or how long it will take.
Saw a mag with mandrake 10 on it in WHSmiths, so purchased it to upgrade….bad decision! At least in september I was able to get Mandrake on the laptop but this time its installed and working – but not in a gui interface (and the wifi card still doesn’t work). When I try to run startx I get “failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module”. The weird thing is that there is a nice 10 with a star logo in the right hand side of the screen, and it is using a graphical logo to boot up……
Update Turns out I needed to install the latest driver, so a wget http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-5336/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run downloaded the file.
Then a sh NVIDIA…..run complained it couldn’t find a kernel and that I needed it compiled or something BUT I didn’t have the kernel sources loaded.
rpm on kernel-source said that I needed gcc and a few more dependencies loaded.
Once I had loaded them all, ncurses, gcc, nlibsomethingorother I was then able to startx and get a graphical screen! Talk about complicated!
Kristen’s sister-in-law gave birth to a healthy 5lb and 14oz baby girl at 1am this morning, red curly hair and blue eyes. So we are now an Aunt and Uncle!
Damon’s got some post it notes after a buddy played a prank. Thanks Memoirs of a geek