Freeview – final installment
The Freeview reception was so much better with a freeview box than with the computer, but it still wasn’t perfect. On very windy days we would get some signal drop out on TVNZ channels, but it was close enough to …
Author: Dave
Freeview update
I ordered an HDMI cable to go between the Freeview box and the HD ready TV, and plugged it in today. This finishes the job off nicely, wonderful reception and images (even on our 32in TV). It also frees up …
Freeview in Whitby
Not really an SOS post, but technical anyway! We have been experimenting for a year or so with Freeview through the TV card in our Acer Entertainment PC, and despite a couple of different antennas, the latest being a rather …
FIT PC2i and Ubuntu
I have just has an exciting few days. I finally got some time to myself and my new PC, and I have been making it the way I want it. One of the things I wanted was to dual boot …
Outlook will only start in safe mode
Had a desperate phone call from a past client a few weeks ago. He could only start Outlook up in safe mode, and in safe mode he could not send emails from word or excel. As he is a builder, …
GMA 500 graphics drivers
If you look around the web at the blue screen issue with this graphics chip and its drivers, you can see that many people are frustrated by it, myself included. I now have it to the point where it runs …
Been a while again!
Lots of technical stuff too, difficult to remember it all. The biggest item is I finally replaced my aging (10+ years) workshop desktop with something a little different, namely a FIT PC2i. This device is about the size of the …
Hotbar
Beware anything called Hotbar. I have no idea where it is downloaded from, but it my be something targeted at younger girls. It may be connected to i-Tunes related sites. I have had two clients in the last 24 hours, …
Telecom T-Sticks again
The mother of a friend of my wife brought her laptop and T-Stick around yesterday, and asked me to get it working. The Telecom connect software was installed, but no connection was being made. In addition, when I shut down …
Spam
I was getting the odd spam comment on my posts in this blog, and they were starting to irritate me, so I added an anti spam feature to the blog. It is Block-Spam-By-Math by Alexander Grau. It appears to work …