Archive for the 'Technology' Category

I have been very busy of late with coding changes to my various website - particularly my forums InvestEd and ZooBeat.
Earlier this week I was horrified to discover that somehow the font had changed for the display of some of the code display in the vBulletin admin area (specifically the template editor). It was now a fuzzy [...]

Bit of a drama earlier in the week - our digital set-top box got fried by its own power supply.
I have a Topfield TF5000PVRtMPB (5000 Masterpiece) digital set top box and PVR, and apparently this model has a known problem where the power supply sometimes puts out a much higher voltage than it is supposed [...]

I have a couple of Thecus N2100 NAS boxes (Network Attached Storage), which I use for bulk data storage and backup purposes. They are basically just hard drive enclosures with a built in computer to handle file serving requirements - not much larger than two 3.5″ hard drives. They have two drives so you [...]

The last of our gear for the trip which had been ordered online arrived today - ironically, it was also the first stuff that got ordered.

This time it was an 8GB memory card for the DSLR - I can now take 515 photos before having to download … although I will also take the 4GB card [...]

My laptop battery had nearly ran out, the two hour session limit on internet access here at Gloria Jeans was up, and my 2 hour car park was nearly expired, so I decided to go home and recharge.
I’m back at GJ’s now, I had to come out to pick up Leanne a bit later anyway [...]

I’m moving up in the world. I now have a fancy office on Willoughby Road in Crows Nest. It’s a nice serviced office suite with comfortable chairs and an interesting vibe. The name of the office is called “Gloria Jeans” and they also serve good hot chocolate and iced chocolate here - which is convenient. [...]

Having major withdrawal symptoms at the moment - a Telstra tech cut our phone line yesterday afternoon while in the process of trying to fix a long running problem with our next-door neighbours phone lines. Unfortunately he couldn’t fix ours - we now have the same problem our neighbours do. Apparently we share the same [...]

Leanne’s new 3rd generation iPod Nano arrived today. We’ve been looking at buying a new iPod for her for a while - I originally bought her a 2nd generation iPod with dock connector, but it now suffers from poor battery life (this was a problem with early iPods) and has been relegated to [...]

The memory upgrade for my old T41 arrived today - an extra 1GB of RAM to take it to a total of 1.5GB. It’s a small module (less than 5cm long and only a couple of millimetres thick) … ThinkPad memory typically comes in a 10cm long cardboard box, and they had packed this in [...]

download latest video drivers from ATI
download DriverHeaven’s DH Mobility Modder.net tool and follow the instructions (as summarised here)
uninstall current drivers supplied by IBM / Lenovo
install new drivers - this step will most likely fail, but should at least copy the driver files to the computer
unzip Mobility Modder zip file and [...]