tips&tricksI was pleased at how easily Ubuntu 11.4 installed on my old Dell Latitude D600, but the wireless didn’t work immediately. Thankfully, I just had to search for “firmware-b43-installer” in the Ubuntu Software Center, and that did it! By the way, I had to reinstall it after letting the software upgrade tool upgrade me to [...]
Upgrading our Vostro 2510 to Windows 7 was surprisingly painless. It seemed to have good video, networking, and audio drivers from the start. However, I couldn’t adjust the screen brightness with the special keys. I tried looking for Dell Quickset for this hardware and OS combo, but no luck. It turns out that installing the [...]
I’m testing a Polycom IP 321 with OnSip.com, and the calls kept dropping. It was probably a consistent call duration, somewhere around a minute or 90 seconds. We’re behind a Cisco 871 router. I was about to start timing the calls and packet sniffing when I found this thread that suggests the command no ip [...]
A week ago, my power, network, and volume icons disappeared from the tray area of Windows 7. When I chose “Customize notification icons” and then “Turn system icons on or off”, the choices were grayed out like the image to the left. I tried the Group Policy and registry solutions that I found online, but [...]
I was excited to see the Boxee Windows Media Center Integration, especially since there doesn’t seem to be any other way to get Pandora on a Windows Media Center. Unfortunately, my Harmony Remote, emulating an MCE remote through streamzap, can’t navigate Boxee very well. You need to be able to send a backspace, which doesn’t [...]
I was creating a facebook app and trying to host the canvas URL on my 1and1 hosting account. Even though I could browse directly to the index.html and it would render fine, I would get an error when trying to browse to it via apps.facebook.com. “Method Not Allowed. The requested method POST is not allowed [...]
Or, “When Zap2It Disappoints”. I’ve been frustrated by Windows 7 Media Center not finding listings for the broadcast stations in my zip code. I have an antenna and Comcast cable, and would like to be able to record from both. When I program Media Center with my zip code, the broadcast listings show 3 channels [...]
Thanks to some people on the DNN Forums, I discovered that the Windows login error “Login Failed. Please remember that passwords are case sensitive” can also mean “you typed your Windows password correctly, but it’s shorter than the DNN default minimum password length of 7″. The situation was confusing, because some people could log in [...]
Awesome Drop is cool. You want to copy some files to your Android phone, but don’ t have a cable handy. Browse for the Awesome Drop app in the Android Market. Install it an run it. It tells you the URL and code to enter in Chrome on your computer (it uses some HTML 5 [...]
I didn’t realize until this week that you can’t use the Amazon S3 web console to transfer files larger than about 300 MB into S3. In fact, sometimes files less than 300 MB will fail to transfer. CloudBerry S3 Explorer is a free tool that lets you transfer files to and from S3, and it [...]
