A GTA V windows theme pack has been added to the downloads page.
Currently it consists of 20x1920x1080 images.
Extract the contents and double click to install the windows theme.
30Oct
Archives
A video I put together in memory of the tragic event.
Please donate here – http://www.google.com/crisisresponse/japanquake2011.html
For higher res images change to 480p or higher.
Testing Epson EMP-600 with DVI connected Xbox. Projected on to a dull painted wall with roughly 12ft throw distance.
The game in the video is London 2012 with the Archery blitz event.
As some of you may have already noticed, the 1.5.0 patch is now available. To save people trawling round various different websites to find the information everyone wants, i have posted the updates/changes below.
StarCraft II Patch Notes
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty – Patch 1.5.0
General
- New Battle.net UI
- The Battle.net user interface has been completely refreshed with a new look and feel.
- The StarCraft II Arcade has arrived! To make way for this new feature, significant changes have been made to the StarCraft II user interface. Two new buttons have been added: the Arcade button, which will act as a portal to a brand new custom games experience that features dramatic improvements in finding, rating and playing custom games, and the StarCraft II button, which will provide access to classic single player and multiplayer experiences, including the StarCraft II campaign, multiplayer ladder, melee maps and more.
- Arcade Button:
- A new Arcade button has been added to the main Battle.net navigation panel at the top-left of the user interface. Custom games once found in the Custom Games interface will now be found (more…)
- Arcade Button:
Come across some excellent open source disk encryption software today.
•Creates a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mounts it as a real disk.
•Encrypts an entire partition or storage device such as USB flash drive or hard drive.
•Encrypts a partition or drive where Windows is installed (pre-boot authentication).
•Encryption is automatic, real-time (on-the-fly) and transparent.
•Parallelization and pipelining allow data to be read and written as fast as if the drive was not encrypted.
•Encryption can be hardware-accelerated on modern processors.
•Provides plausible deniability, in case an adversary forces you to reveal the password:
Hidden volume (steganography) and hidden operating system.
Visit http://www.truecrypt.org/ to download!
02Sep
Today we have had servers and workstations fallen over left right and center. After some investigation it looks like the cause of the issue is ESET NOD32 AV. It’s affecting server 2003, Windows XP up to Windows 7.
Many users are experiencing the issue and are expressing their annoyance here – http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?p=1741364
ESET state that a simple reboot may fix the issue temporarily, but have stated that they will definitely have a new update ready by the morning.
All fun and games at the zoo.
Managed to get this working today, i can now call any number from within my Outlook contacts or via a manual input from dialer.exe
Check here – http://www.ipcom.at/en/telephony/siptapi/
SIPTAPI itself is not a complete SIP phone, but acts as a “3rd Party Call Controller” on your SIP devices, instructing them to call the desired phone number. Grimesy
I came across this website when researching an issue i had with Exchange 2007.
From this website you can troubleshoot ActiveSync issues, Outlook Anywhere issues and Autodiscover issues.
Click the link to take a look - https://www.testexchangeconnectivity.com/
14Apr
Hey Guys,
Came across this great tool today which allows you to view/edit/remove/export entries stored in your .nk2 file!
For those pondering what a .nk2 file is, it’s the file that stores previously typed in email address within Outlook. A big annoyance for most users is when the .nk2 file will cache an old or incorrect email address, this tool will help you if you are in that big boat!
Tool can be found at this site – http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/outlook_nk2_autocomplete.html all credits go to the orignal developer.
Hope some peeps find it useful.
Dan Grimes
Just installed Vista/Server 2008 on a new ML115 and experiencing complete system crashes?
Recently i had the task of building and prepping a new Proliant ML115 server for a customer. The server was to be running Server 2008 standard.
So i installed this perfectly fine, all drivers except VGA installed all ok, so i thought great!! But no… not long after this i experienced my first crash, the mouse wouldn’t move and nothing would respond. So i forced a hard reboot and decided to carry on with my build. Viola! again it happened a few hours later, so after seeing it twice i checked the system log to find Event ID 129 caused by “nvstor”!! The server seemed to crash when heavy read/write activity was going over the storage controller.
Called HP because this server was under a new 1 year HP carepack and logged a case. But before they could get back to me i dug a little deeper and found that the storage controllers were using a microsoft driver but not only that, they were out of date too. Microsoft update would also not update these drivers because it stated that the current driver was already the latest one.
After finding out that the controllers were of the nForce series i went straight to the Nvidia website and found the latest nForce drivers. Below are the links to the 32 & 64 bit versions.
http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/nforce_vista32_15.51b_uk.html - 32Bit
http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/nforce_vista64_15.51b_uk.html - 64Bit
They do state as being Vista drivers, however i have installed these drivers on 5 ML115′s running Server 2008 now with the exact same problem and this had fixed each and every single one.
Hope this article comes to help others and save time that i lost! :)
Dan Grimes