I got this app from madoco’s custom HERO rom HERE and although its a useful app there is one draw back, It seems to default to GMAIL contacts and not Exchange and there is no way to select it? So when I scan a buisiness card, it just goes to my gmail account. that sucks.
any ideas?
I actually like Sony, Alot of posts and comments are always bagging it, but if you can get one, I recommend it.
One thing I ALWAYS hated about Sony, is the lack of options in the BIOS, actually almost none. Then I discovered this Post. This will enable you to enable VT (which Sony disable citing some stupid reason) and typically me being the inquisitive type I wanted more.
I found another Post (Japanese) that had a similar option but with a new address. This will enable alot more options, I mean ALOT.
here is the run down.
*** BE AWARE ** THIS MIGHT DESTROY THE WORLD INCLUDING YOUR LAPTOP ***
This was only tested on my laptop, Sony Z21-mn and it works perfectly.
1.) Download EFI_BOOT
2.) Get a USB Thumb Drive
3.) Format USB Thumb Drive to FAT32
4.) Extract EFI_BOOT to the FAT32 Drive
5.) You should see this
6.) Restart Laptop with USB Drive attached
7.) Eventually you will see a GRUB screen
8.) At the GRUB screen type
***** USE ZERO “0″ not “o” (bad font) ******
setup_var (press enter)
type
setup_var 0x25a 0×1 (press enter)
Power Off
Power ON
Press F2
New BIOS OPTIONS AHOY!
It has been pretty hot these last few weeks in London (really..) and in my little room it gets even hotter.. So I decided to get some water cooling for my CPU. I don’t really need it but I wanted to try and over clock a little more and reduce the noise a bit, This is what I got and the installation.
- Domino A.L.C http://www.coolitsystems.com/index.php/domino-alc.html
The box is smartly packed and comes with
The installation is as follows. Attach rear bracket, Clean CPU from old thermal compound, Attach mounting screws and then tighten. Finally you need to install the FAN/Controller/Pump part. This means pulling the rubber mounts until they “pop” (you will know what I mean), The entire installation was easy enough and only took a few minutes ( I am installing an 850watt Antec next week so I will tidy up then).
The benefits were noticeable, Low temps even though I am running my 920 @ 4200mhz. On medium (auto) I will never go above 44 Degrees C. That’s MUCH better than before and I feel has covered the costs.
PROS
CONS
I have run Windows 7 on my Sony Z laptop since early beta versions and I have never had a single problem, especially BSOD. Microsoft recently released the final RTM on TechNet, so I decided now is a good time to test it out!
This is where it gets problematic; I am getting so many different errors, like
stop 0x0000000a
stop 0×00000019
BSOD BAD_POOL_HEADER
that’s the ones I remember, So what the hell is going on here? How could windows reject my computer so badly and so randomly? I have been able to get into safe mode only a couple of times and I have reinstalled Win7 about 10 times, Trying different combinations of RAM and Wi-Fi switch states etc.
This is a work in progress but I feel it has to be either the SSD or the WIFI. but being a laptop (Sony) its hard for me to disable/enable hardware before windows has even begun.
I will update..
Update:
I am doing a long extra extended wipe of the SSD, I am probably killing it but why not!
I used a Linux boot cd (Ubuntu server)
got to a shell and ran
dd if=/dev/zero of=dev/sda
so
dd (copy) if(source)/dev/zero (zeros) if(destination)=/dev/sda(SSD DRIVE)
also I am going to install from USB Key THIS ONE and not DVD..
Well that worked?
What was different form last time?
- I formatted the SSD (long)
- I Installed from USB Key
- I installed with the LAN Cable in
- I had the wireless switch off.
So far so good..
Etrust has expanded to a heavy resource hog. Even tweaked to exclude certain files/folders/processes it seems to lag the entire computer down..
Just check the services, count them 5 !
Crazy
Now I know I could most likely trim them down, but I don’t see the point now. CA Etrust is using way over 100mb of ram, that’s not acceptable in any situation and I can feel the computer being pulled into the pits of hell by Etrust, Its time to declaw and uninstall CA Etrust
What are my options?
For now there is only one. ForeFront (read up, Its actually good)
This is going to be a new install and deployment of Forefront to the entire domain, I am testing the rollout now and its actually working pretty well.
As I try to use Systems Centre Configuration Manager (SCCM) for application deployment (among other things) these are the special steps I took
net stop ITMRTSVC
net stop InoRT
net stop InoTask
net stop InoRPC
REM ITM
MsiExec.exe /X{847501DF-07C0-4691-B04A-893929F108AE} /qn
REM AV
MsiExec.exe /X{85F88F9C-6EB2-426B-88AB-28DA4A3526B9} /qn
exit
This seems to be effective in removing the old and installing the new.
Microsoft forefront has so many good points its hard to imagine how anyone will compete, the reporting is great! It also scans for security problems (service packs or weak passwords etc) I only hope it will handle viruses better or at least as well as CA, Not that viruses happen very often anyway, due to my heavily fortified virus proof(ish) boundary.
How does FCS seem to me? 43MB service, nice.
EDIT
Here are all the required MSIEXEC commands to remove etrust
MsiExec.exe /qn /X{847501DF-07C0-4691-B04A-893929F108AE}
MsiExec.exe /qn /X{85F88F9C-6EB2-426B-88AB-28DA4A3526B9}
This was the final part of the CA Story, Seems to have only left some empty folders..
Problem, All the XP machines in my domain are rubbish. they are years old and feel sluggish. I have done all the basics and although it has helped, There is always room for improvement.
Problem: How can I disable visual effects accross the domain with SCCM (for targeted & reportable processes)?
Solution: Its a few parts but this is the key parts..
Once deployed to a targeted group, you can just sit back and admire the work of SCCM, or you could use PSTOOLS (psexec) and do it that way.. cheaper for sure 
here is the required REG to disable visual effects in Windows XP Pro
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects]
“VisualFXSetting”=dword:00000002
UPDATE: Remember to SPELL correctly regiedit is wrong haha
I got my new HTC Hero a few days ago and although its by far the best phone I have owned it was lacking what my last phone ( HTC Dream ) had, root access.. What do I want with root? lots of things and lots of options for more things then I can think of anyway thanks to this guy jackdaniels_lee on this forum (XDA DEVS)
Its nice to be able to stuff up my device if I so choose
I always hated how CS4 was bloated so hard, putting little context menus and buttons all over windows,
Like the one here
Easy way to remove it is located here
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=688632
Or you can try this
regsvr32 /u “%CommonProgramFiles%\Adobe\Adobe Drive CS4\ADFSMenu.dll”
or
regsvr32 /u “%CommonProgramFiles(x86)%\Adobe\Adobe Drive CS4\ADFSMenu.dll”
I just wish there was a better option to remove this stuff..
../
I was playing grid when the power dropped out.. booted and windows was stuck at the welcome screen.. reset a couple times. Same.
A nice extended welcome, Thanks Microsoft
There is nothing different from before the power failure so probably broken file or something…
Booted into safe mode..(f8)
If that failed I would look at the event log and work my way backwards..
It was most likley related to this setting
Enable for Faster Disks & Data Loss
It mentions it in the help section, Basically ticking these will give you more performance but at the cost of reliable data.. in my case I am not running exchange server on this machine so there is nothing I will loose except time.. in this case, around 10minutes
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After some thoughts about this. I wonder how can such small and possibly anoying problems occur in the RTM version of Windows 7? or is it just me.. lets hope for Microsofts sake.
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I got this computer.. not much todo.. so I ran this benchmark. Not too bad, 6th place.. and only 4seconds from 2nd place!