Last weekend we were away at my cousin’s wedding. On the Sunday morning we took a walk through the garden at Morpeth (or Castle Morpeth to give its full name). The gardens were a fantastic display of colour and I took loads of photo’s. I was able to stitch about 8 of them together to make this panoramic shot of the gardens. Clicking on the thumbnail will load a popup which will take some time as the picture is 500K.
The rest of the wedding photo’s are in the process of being uploaded and titled and will be linked on here shortly.
Sorry the sites not been updated for about a week – last weekend we were at my cousin Neil’s wedding. Then Monday-Wednesday I was involved in doing some disaster recovery for a client, Thursday was a night in together relaxing and today’s Friday!
A useful resource for Manuals and guides for Hewlett-Packard mono laserjet printers in pdf format.
Microsoft have released ActiveSync 3.7.1 again – this is the third time it’s been released. Come on microsoft – update your version numbers.
Finally figured out a way to get my Nokia mobile synched with outlook 2003. As Outlook normally runs in cached mode, the nokia software keeps prompting me for a password when it synchs (and it doesn’t have a password). However, by setting a profile up on the machine to be online all the time and then telling nokia pc sync to use this profile, it doesn’t prompt me and everything synchs. I do still get the “this program is trying to use outlook – do you wish to allow it” prompt but this is bypassed using ClickYes
FeedOnFeeds 1.3 has been released. The best thing about this version is that it has a “mark all read that i’ve actually read” feature. In other words each item has a mark read above this item so that if you are really busy and have to go and do some work instead of reading your feeds, you can click to mark all the items above the current one, and then click mark as read. That way all the ones below the current item are still unread. Without this feature you ended up reading the same item a couple of times as you tried to catch up with your feeds.
I put again in the subject as I seem to have already downloaded 1.3 in the past.
There is a new release of coppermine available (beta though) which is pretty important to download and install as it fixes several new vulnerabilities discovered recently.
Update This is only relevant for the version that integrates with phpnuke. Fortunately my version doesn’t as there have been several successful hacks. More details on the support forums
There are some useful utilities at Nirsoft including ones that show hidden asterix’s in all sorts of applications (including in w2k/xp), port status’s and installation routines for applications included in zip files without an installation routine. Well worth a browse for the administrator techie. Some of them I’ve seen similar utilities, but these all come from one location.
The post arrived today with the UV filter that I purchased from 7dayshop on the 12th May. Not impressed with the service at all. Also the uv filter when fitted to the lens adapter means that you can’t actually use the lens cap as it won’t clip to the filter. I know you could argue that you don’t need a lens cap as the uv filter is protecting the lens, but whats protecting the uv filter from getting scratched? Not sure if this is Fuji’s design fault or the filter – I suspect the former. So that was £7 down the drain as I’d rather have a lens cap on the camera than a scratchable filter.
I also got my voting papers in the post today – we’re part of the country that is trialing paper voting. The system seems clear enough, BUT you have to get a witness to sign the paperwork to say that you are the person that you say you are – how that is preventing fraud I don’t know and what if you live on your own and don’t know your neighbours?
Tried to watch Independence Day on the XP laptop via the projector screen tonight and failed dismally. At first it wasn’t showing any of the video on the external monitor – just the panel of WMP9. I tried the preview for shrek2 and that did the same thing until I downgraded the hardware acceleration to medium and that worked. Back to ID and that still failed. Did the same thing in WinVideo too.
Then I found a patch for WMP9 that sounded like it would do the trick. Except the patch told me I wasn’t running version 9 or the patch was already installed. GRRRR. Now its too late to do any more digging so its off to bed for an early night. (The weird thing is that its worked before although it might have been on another projector…..)