Information Technology

Trips’n'Miles Mileage Tracker Now On Android Market

Jun 6th, 2010 | By | Category: Mobile Devices

Trips’n’Miles for Android is available for download from the Android Market. Simply search for “tripsnmiles” on your device. Unlike with the Windows Mobile version, no separate database installation is required, which makes it much easier to install and use. Trips’n’Miles for Android has the same feature set as the Windows Mobile version and most of [...]



Android 2.2 Froyo – Love it

May 28th, 2010 | By | Category: Mobile Devices, Smartphone

I followed the upgrade instructions in this post. There were no issues with my Nexus One. Everything worked as described. Rebooting took a while, but once it was back up, I was blown away. The performance is much better. I am working on my first Android app, and while I use the emulator for development [...]



25/25 FIOS Upgrade

May 27th, 2010 | By | Category: Geek's Home, Information Technology

I upgraded my FIOS service at home from 5/1 Mbps to 25/25 Mbps for almost the same cost ($10 more). This was a while ago, but for the first time today I actually measured transfer rates close to the nominal speed. I am not using the ActionTec router, but a Netgate M1n1wall running pfSense that [...]



Alt-Tab in Windows 7: Aero-Peek

May 13th, 2010 | By | Category: Information Technology

Aero peek is the name for probably the most annoying feature in Windows 7. When you press and hold Alt-Tab, the task switcher pops up with little thumbnails for all your active windows.Unfortunately, after 1000 ms, aero peek kicks in, the task switcher disappears randomly and the currently selected window is shown in its full [...]



Windows 7 does not boot after I changed the SATA mode to AHCI

Apr 1st, 2010 | By | Category: Hardware, Information Technology

The SATA controller’s mode of operation cannot be changed to AHCI after Windows 7 is installed, because the AHCI driver will be missing and the system cannot boot. Here is how to address this without repairing or re-installing Windows. With the SATA controller still running in IDE mode, start the registry editor as administrator. To [...]



Gaming Rig

Mar 30th, 2010 | By | Category: Hardware, Information Technology

My last computer, purchased in January 2006, was a barebone kit from TigerDirect based on an Asus P5NSLI motherboard and a 3GHz Pentium D dual core processor. I added 2 XFX GForce 7600 graphics accelerators with SLI. It was reasonably fast back then and still is today. I am not a notorious gamer, but knowing [...]



Problems with Raid in Windows 7

Mar 28th, 2010 | By | Category: Information Technology

While building my new computer, I ran into a problem after I added 2 disks from the old one that were configured as a Raid array, after installing Windows 7 on a non-Raid disk and installing the Raid drivers from the MSI utility and driver DVD.  My new motherboard is an MSI P55-GD65. I found a pointer [...]



How to uninstall Windows Virtual PC

Mar 21st, 2010 | By | Category: Information Technology

Windows Virtual PC requires hardware virtualization support. If you installed it on an older machine without running the virtualization support tool first, you probably want to remove it again. But there is no uninstall link, and Programs and Features in the Windows Control Panel does not show an entry, either. Because Virtual PC installs as [...]



asp:ImageButton with PostBackUrl and OnClientClick event

Mar 16th, 2010 | By | Category: Web

When an asp:Imagebutton control is used with a client-side event, for instance to show a popup window, and the control is not in an asp:UpdatePanel, the client-side event does not complete because the ImageButton initiates a full post-back. In the browser, for instance with a ShadowBox popping up, it appears that the event fired and [...]



Partition cloning with Clonezilla

Mar 14th, 2010 | By | Category: Open Source

I got my hands on an 80GB Solid State Disk (SSD) and decided to put it into my new Thinkpad T410 as the primary (system) disk. I was running Windows 7 x64 Enterprise on my old laptop and wanted to avoid the hassle of having to rebuild a development system on this new disk. I [...]