I updated the site to focus strictly on technology. All of my personal and photography related content has been moved to http://www.seigafuse.net. I also installed a new theme to freshen the layout and colors a bit.
Feb
2
2010
2
2010
Dec
19
2009
19
2009
Windows 7 Upgrade
I upgraded my home PC to Windows 7 this week. Vista was giving me issues (what else is new), so I decided to do the Windows 7 upgrade sooner rather than later. I don’t usually adopt a new OS this quickly, but given I was on Vista it seemed like a good idea.
The upgrade process was pretty simple, and other than a few annoying items (having to deauthorize the computer in iTunes prior to the upgrade, and having to deinstall ATI drivers) it was mostly painless. The upgrade did take several hours for me, as I do have a good amount of data (around 130GB).
I had to reinstall Roxio Easy Media Creator suite afterwards to get rid of an annoying messages about the Roxio Cine Player Media Decoder being missing. Also, the screen seems odd. The resolution setting is set the same as it was under Vista at 1440×900, but it looks like it has an odd aspect ratio. I was hoping to install new ATI drivers, but it appears Gateway has NO drivers at all for Windows 7 yet (see screenshot below).
No Windows 7 Drivers
So far the upgrade has been fine other than the look of the screen. New features are nice, I like the sticky and the fact that sleep mode works, peeking at the desktop, and the photo support for the desktop background and screensaver, but I like stability and reliability even better. Time will tell if Windows 7 delivers, but so far so good.
Dec
4
2009
4
2009
An update to OCS Diff Scripts
Here is an update to the OCS Diff Scripts courtesy of Dioni Vidal. Dioni is from Brazil and speaks Portuguese, so some of the messages are in Portuguese. If someone takes the time to translate, let me know and I will post the translations as well.
The installation remains the same as the original version, and you can find the details here. Dioni’s version adds reporting of sound and video changes to the hardware script, and adds software change reporting (added or removed) via ocssoftware.php.
Don’t forget to change the email addresses in ocshardware.php and ocssoftware.php on lines 15,16 and 17.
Once you are done the related cron jobs are likely to look something like this:
10 * / 1 * * php * apache / usr / share / ocsinventory-reports / ocsreports / ocssoftware.php
10 * / 1 * * php * apache / usr / share / ocsinventory-reports / ocsreports / ocshardware.php
Oct
22
2009
22
2009
Problems displaying source code
I had a few issues with displaying source code using the All Your Source plugin, but they are now resolved. Source code is visible on the site again.
Sep
8
2009
8
2009
Use your cell phone as a PDA without the PDA price
I used to use a Palm Pilot (a long time ago) as my PDA and I really liked it. But I really didn’t want to carry a PDA and a cell phone. I’ve always wanted to be able to use my cell phone’s calendar applicaiton to keep track of my appointments, but I didn’t want to go the Blackberry route and since I use Thunderbird for my home email my options were limited. At least they were until I found SyncCell. SynCell works great with my Verizon LG ENV3 and Thunderbird 2. I am using the Lightning 0.9 extension to add calendaring functions to Thunderbird and this combination is perfect for me. I can add my appointments on my PC or on my phone and SyncCell keeps them synchronized for me with just the click of a button. I just connect my phone to the PC with the USB cable, click on the One Sync shortcut in the quick launch bar and away it goes. I had tried to do this previously with my Razor and Motorola Phone Tools (MPT), but that never worked out since MPT didn’t support Thunderbird. I don’t have all the bells and whistles of a full PDA or a Blackberry, but that works for me since I don’t really need all those things and I didn’t want to have the platform dictate which email system I had to use. Check SyncCell out it might work for you as well.
