Archive for 'General Software' Category
What I’ve been up to…
26 October 2008Not that anyone who finds my blog will actually CARE what I’m up to, but it’s my blog and I run this dog & pony show!
My projects as of late have mostly been electronic in nature. I’ve actually had three projects on the burner:
Replacement of the capacitors on my Mortal Kombat 2 arcade [...]
Does your Juniper VPN client keep disconnecting after you connect?
18 April 2008I had this issue a while back while working from home using my company laptop. Our company utilizes the Juniper VPN client software and up until recently it had been working just fine! One day while working remote my VPN connection kept closing with the error:
“The Network Connect session terminated. Do you want to reconnect? [...]
How to recover your Hyper-V Virtual Machines after installing the RC0 Update
1 April 2008Have you installed the RC0 update for Windows 2008 Hyper-V and have just found out that all your Virtual Machines will not start? Not to worry!
What happens in this update is that the Virtual Machine configurations are incompatible between Beta and RC0, but only the configurations That’s the catch. The actual virtual disk (.VHD) [...]
WWWinamp v4.2 Build 2990
9 March 2008Well, after about a week of off and on work the latest version of WWWinamp is ready!
I’ve taken the “beta” tag off of it as it seems the recode of the HTTP request processing seemed to work without issue and no bugs were reported (other than the ‘paging’ issue, which really was a defect in [...]
Can a Microsoft Virtual PC VHD work in Windows 2008 Hyper-V?
21 February 2008Yes…. kinda
It’s a bit tricky getting a Microsoft Virtual PC virtual machine working in the new Windows 2008 Virtualization Environment, Hyper-V. You’re going to run into several issues:
Because of a significant hardware change visible to the VM, you might need to reactivate your Microsoft OS.
You will need to uninstall the Microsoft Virtual Machine [...]
Expand A Virtual PC VHD File And Extend The Partition
7 February 2008I was setting up Team Foundation Server Virtual PC the other night and thought that my initial estimate of only 8GB being required would be enough, but turned out I was wrong. After getting SQL 2005 Standard Edition installed I had a mere 800MB of free space left!
After some Googling around a bit I was [...]
To All BBS Software Authors - Please Donate Your Artwork To The People!
29 January 2008I’m a child of the BBS generation. Well, to be fair to all the grey beards out there, I’m a child of the late BBS generation (1993-1998). I have many, many fond memories of my favorite door games, FidoNet threads and meet-ups.
I frequented a local BBS here in San Diego, California called Dream Net. Dream [...]
After a year with Windows Vista, I’m ready to switch back to Windows XP
2 December 2007This isn’t a blog entry where I’m going to analyze the technical differences between the two operating systems or give a list of pros and cons why you should or shouldn’t run Windows Vista. What I am to do here is catalog MY experience with Windows Vista and MY reasons why I’ve decided to return [...]
Discogs.com API Assembly for .NET Applications v1.0 Build 2876
16 November 2007Hello Everyone!
I’m very pleased to bring you the latest build of the Discogs.com API Assembly
This version bring more error handling reguarding the Cover Art routines as well as the ability to now specify your own Discogs.com API key This is not a REQUIRED field, and if you do not specify an API [...]
Discogs.com API Assembly for .NET Applications v1.0 Build 2871
12 November 2007Greetings Everyone!
I’ve been working on the Discogs.com API Assembly for .NET Applications now for a couple days and have been able to make some progress. It’s now a bit more stable as well a a tiny bit easier to use.
I took some time and added a DEBUG class. This class allows you to find [...]