Thanks to this posting Installing Ubuntu 8.04 under Microsoft Virtual PC 2007, and specifically the comment from Helge, (F4 and F6 plus some command line incantations) I have Ubuntu working on Virtual PC.
After installing, the comment on editing the kernel boot params is also required reading.
After attempting to install a dual channel Hauppauge card into the General, with the associated software installs/deinstalls – Windows Media Center could no longer see any TV Tuner Cards. This had been bugging me all week.
As always, I am determined not to go the de-install/re-install of Windows solution to problems. I’d much prefer to logically think through the problem, and learn along the way.
I found that the ehRecvr service was failing to start with a “file not found†error (check in the logs in
C:Users<username>AppDataLocalTemp) … and further checking showed ehRecvr was attempting to read a value from the registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionMedia Center
Comparing this branch of the registry with a known-good version, I found that something had lopped significant sub-branches off such as “…Start Menu…†– in fact, only 3 branches existed in my registry.
I suspect that one of the de-installs in the swapping from Hauppauge to/from DVico caused this, and a quick export/reimport and all is well. Subsequently, components of the Windows Media Center software were set into a strange half-state of working.
Hope this helps someone.
DG gets into the Live Mesh craze.
Nic Fillingham, Aussie in Seattle for on10.net, goes Hands on with Live Mesh
Jon Udell interviews Ray Ozzie.
(more videos on the team blog, here)
This has to be the technology of 2008. Live Mesh.
I’ve installed it on General Melchett (home), Captain Darling (work craptop) and little PrinceEdmund (EEE PC) – and the ability to share files “in the mesh†is just easy.
Right click on a folder, add to the mesh (I’ve done this with my Favourites folder)
Go to second machine, right click and add to the mesh – and Live Mesh recognises the similarities and allows you to synch the two directories.
Yes, Mac OS X client and Windows Mobile client are on their way, too.
(thanks to Paul for pointing this out)
Are you a final year Medical Student looking towards an Internship with the NSW Health System in 2009? Then come along on the 22nd May and get the information that you’re looking for!
Thanks to Nicholas Rayner for getting Microsoft involved in this info night.
It seems people are missing my tweets.
I say stuff, and very few people can see me.
Other people are missing.
As Allison blogs: “The day that twitter diedâ€
Thankfully, today was a busy day. Productivity level good.
Time to save some electrons. On yet another whim, I purchased a new Intel Q9300 processor for General Melchett, replacing the venerable Q6600.
The CPU temperature seems to have dropped by 9degC, whilst the performance (12Gb video encode using Expression Encoder) is within a margin of error the same. The Q9300 is 4% faster. I think there might be something else at play as the benchmark results from xbitlabs seems to show 11% or so improvement.
Installation: 10 minutes; and 6 minutes of this was spent chasing screws around before I relented and grabbed a magnetised screw driver. The Zalman fan makes CPU replacement a little more difficult.
I expected that the General would have dust throughout. None. The first rear fan’s filter has grabbed the dust bunnies and holds them steady. w00t!
The strategy is to overclock the new Q9300 a little; with a lower temperature starting point it’s all upside from here!
As a recent fan of micro-TV stations, and live podcasting audiences; and as an owner of an ASUS EEE PC, it was time to join the dots.
After installing the Bigpond Next G software for the USB card I own (note: this is the slower NextG as well) over to ustream.tv and broadcast away.
This makes an ultra-small, ultra-inexpensive and ultra-mobile micro TV broadcast system in-a-box.
Below is a 6 minute sample recording from earlier today.
Bandwidth use? About 1Mb/minute upload video+audio.
Laurel, Australia’s expert on Social Networks has appeared on Australian Morning TV
Don’t forget us little people when you become famous, Laurel!