910 ESENT Problem Anyone seeing piles of ESENT (id 910) warnings in Application log and/or experiencing random freezes that only seem to be fixable by cold reset? While it happens again on the next boot? Troubleshoot / investigation Some smart pants suggest it has something to do with ESET Anti-Virus: NOD32. Not the case. Thorough […]
Got a Toshiba C660-U25 laptop from a customer infected with the KLPD / Police / Ukash virus. Easy to fix … right? No Troubleshoot: Trial & Error Customer attempted to restore a previous version of Windows himself, and than after 90 minutes of waiting (which is indeed too long) aborted the process. Result: totally messed […]
I have an interesting time synchronisation issue whenever I switch from Mac OS X to Windows 7 (on Bootcamp partition). The timezone settings are correct, and Windows time scheduling is enabled. Yet I end up with a time difference of 2 hours in Windows. The time.nist.gov time synchronisation seem to be correct and manual synchronisation […]
I’m pretty sure I’ve got this covered somewhere on my blog, but unable to find my own blogpost :-) Must be because of switching domains for my blog and Google’s indexi not having caught up yet. Ah here it is. Hmz. Anyway … I finally found my old tell-a-few.com 2010 blog SQL dump with blogposts going as far back as 2001! However […]
When you don’t know what this title is about? Then this information is not for you. Sim-ple. MP3pro1986 is the nick of the uploader, who has uploaded some amazing OEM slipstreamed Windows images over the years. Checkout: http://torrentz.eu/search?f=mp3pro1986+windows I’m a long time user of the Windows XP Home SP3 OEM images, as it accepts official OEM licenses […]
I’ve had this problem a few times now. For a very odd reason, my sounds stops working. Restarting ‘alsa-utils’ won’t help. The only thing that did seem to help is rebooting. But hello … that’s such a ‘windows solution’! The proper way to go about it is: Open a terminal. Type: “sudo /etc/init.d/alsa-utils stop” and press […]
My Logitech C200 (el cheapo) webcam is detected in Linux, but it doesn’t seem to work. So let’s dig a little deeper. The built-in Mic works in the Skype test calls, but I don’t get a visual, neither do I see anything — except a white page — in Flash. Yet it seems properly detected […]
