Information Technology

Windows 7 – Drag and Drop into Assembly Cache (GAC)

Apr 25th, 2013 | By | Category: Information Technology

And once again I wasted a good hour trying out all the suggestions for how to fix the Permission denied error on Windows 7 when trying to drag and drop an assembly into the pre-.Net 4.0 assembly cache. I can assure you that starting the Explorer with elevation, from an elevated command shell, etc all [...]



VMWare conversion – New VM does not boot

Apr 24th, 2013 | By | Category: Information Technology

Symptoms: You used VMWare converter to create a VM from a physical Windows machine. Everything completed correctly. Now you want to start the VM, but it throws a blue screen with a cryptic error. You get booted into Windows Startup Repair, and after some churning it tells you that it cannot repair the problem? And [...]



Garmin Forerunner and Samsung Kies: USB software incompatible!

Mar 25th, 2013 | By | Category: Mobile Devices

Last week I had to push out an update of my TripsNMiles Android application to Google Play. I had not used the development environment for about a year, and to avoid any issues I updated the Samsung Kies software on the development machine. The next time I wanted to upload 2 weeks worth of workout [...]



Click here if you don’t want to wait any longer.

Mar 14th, 2013 | By | Category: Web

That’s ok, BigCommerce, I love to wait – even though I don’t understand the concept of making people wait before you show them the search results.



I did business with Priceline and paid a big price

Feb 27th, 2013 | By | Category: Business, Consumer Protection, Featured, Security, Travel

I recently booked a rental car on Priceline.com, thinking I hadĀ saved a few dollars. I always make sure I uncheck any obscure checkboxes during the checkout process so that I don’t inadvertently provide legitimation for sending me unwanted emails. Today, hardly a week later, I got several hundreds of emails from Priceline.



How to (re)connect to a Bluetooth headset in Windows 8

Jan 8th, 2013 | By | Category: Hardware, Information Technology, Mobile Devices

One of the many things that have confused me for a while after switching to Windows 8 is the UI for the Bluetooth stack. The way one interacted with Bluetooth devices in previous versions was always a little haphazard. It became worse in Windows 8, because the Bluetooth Device Control dialog appears to have disappeared. [...]



OWC Mercury Electra 6G SSD and Lenovo Thinkpad T430s

Jan 6th, 2013 | By | Category: Hardware, Information Technology

Firmware udpate problems with an OWC Mercury Electra 6G SSD and a Lenovo Thinkpad T430s running Windows 8



XBMC – Possibly the last media player I will own

Jan 22nd, 2012 | By | Category: Streaming Media, Weekend Warrior

Part I – XBMC Live About 6 years ago I purchased my first media player – the then newly launched Pinnacle Showcenter 200. It was an exciting new device with countless possibilities. It helped defineĀ a market that previously had not existed. Alas, Pinnacle’s acquisition by Avid in 2005, the ensuing lackluster support and product management, [...]



Should I build on 6 or 7? (Drupal 7 Module Availability)

Jul 7th, 2011 | By | Category: Information Technology

Below is a list of my favorite Drupal modules and their availability of a stable/recommended version for the Drupal 7 platform. I merely assembled this information based on data from Drupal.org and I cannot provide recommendations based on personal experience with any of the modules. Modules in red are currently not available for Drupal 7 [...]



ASP.Net MasterPage: How to use the page name in CSS skinning

Jul 6th, 2011 | By | Category: Information Technology

Sometimes it can be convenient to create CSS styles that are unique to a specific page context, either because a page requires a special rule or override due to its features, or because some style rule must be applied based on the page context. I have used this for instance in Drupal skinning when a [...]