Netflix we want Star Trek on streaming. You have a lot of great shows on but why don’t you have Star Trek (any of them). Also you have no way for your customer to tell you what they want via your web site. You should have a feedback page to know what your customers want.
February 11, 2010
February 7, 2010
An I/O operation initiated by the Registry failed unrecoverably. The Registry could not read in, or write out, or flush, one of the files that contain the system’s image of the Registry.
As time went on I realized this did not fix the issue. I restored the machine to an earlier vision and then restored the databases and that did work. This is a virtual machine this made restoring very easy.
Started getting this error* the other day. I look on line and searched but could not come up with anything that fixed it.
*An I/O operation initiated by the Registry failed unrecoverably. The Registry could not read in, or write out, or flush, one of the files that contain the system’s image of the Registry.
Seeing it was an I/O error and I saw something on Microsoft saying something about disk operations I thought why not try a chkdsk /f and sure enough that fixed it. I took a re-boot because this was the system drive but it worked.
January 30, 2010
Invalid LBAI Ghost HP 6735B
I’ve been beating my head against the wall on this one for 2 days now. In case any of you have this same issue I will document what I did.
I was setting up to image about 30 HP6735B machines and after I would image one I kept getting an Invalid LBAI when I rebooted. Normally I would simply run gdisk32 /mbr and that would fix it. Now I did not set up the master machine as this was from a customer but as I investigated I finally figured out they had changed the BIOS setting for the Disk. The reason they did this is XP does not support the AMD SATA AHCI Controller unless you press F6 during install and add the AMD SATA AHCI Controller Driver. This is a pain to do because you need to have a floppy so it was easier for them to just change the BIOS.
Generally if you have this error you can just use gdisk or gdisk32 /mbr and that will fix it. Sometimes you will also have to use the switch /p that would be after the /mbr. Example: (gdisk32.exe 1 /mbr /p). The 1 stands for the disk number.
But in the HP 6735B it did not do it. So here is what I did to fix it.
First thing the configuration:
HP 6735B
Windows XP SP 3
Symantec GhostCast Server 11.5.0.2113
First thing you need to do is change the Bios.
See image below.
System Configuration / Device Configuration / SATA Device Mode.
Select IDE then Save, also click, File (on the left), Changes & Exit
Then you still need to run: gdisk32 1 /mbr /p
I also ran the ghostWalker to change the SID. This is really not needed if you are going to join these machines to a Domain but I do it anyway. What I did is create a BATCH file that I run after the ghosting is done. I called it walker.bat and here are the lines:
gdisk32.exe 1 /mbr /p
GhWalk32.exe /BV=1:1 /CN=”ELM-<RANDOM_HEX>” /SURE
BIOS Screen Shot
January 6, 2010
Google leaves ATT out in the rain with Nexus One.
Google just released their new phone the “Nexus One”. Seems like it is compatible or will be shortly with all major networks except AT&T. Verizon will be coming soon and it is unclear if it will work with Sprint or not. Actually if you just want to use the phone for voice calls and maybe use EDGE it will work fine but NO 3G data on AT&T. Who wants that?
Well then again who would want AT&T if you could get the phone on Verizon’s network anyway.
http://www.google.com/support/android/bin/answer.py?answer=166507
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January 5, 2010
The end of the decade will be at the end of 2010
Everyone is talking about the end of the decade. Actually, this is the last year of the first decade of the new century/millennium. Why do I say that?
I learned as a child that there is no 0 (zero) year. Why would this make a difference? If there was a zero year, 2009 would have been the last year of the first decade. Without the zero year 2010 is the last year of the first decade. This means the new decade does not start until 2011.
Still not sure you understand?
Count from 0 – 9. How many numbers are there? Ten, right? Now count from 1 – 9. How many numbers are there? Nine. How many years in a decade? Ten.
If you still don’t believe this here are some links to check out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_zero#Counting
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/980902d.html
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December 4, 2009
If you thought the Wii was something wait until you see Project Natal.
Controller-less? Didn’t you mean Cordless? NO, If you thought the Wii was something wait until you see Project Natal. Project Natal is a technology Microsoft is developing that will replace the remote control on Xbox 360-powered TVs. Here is the title Introducing Project Natal on the xbox’s web site “No Strings (or Controllers) Attached”.
Should I say Hello “HAL” for those of you not old enough to remember? click here.
This is really amazing. They say they can do this now. I have seen a lot of vaporware before but I believe this is real. WOW! Just watch the videos.
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November 30, 2009
iPhone User Not Happy
Hey Apple and AT&T, I would really like to register my complaint about your Apps Store approval process. (ya along with everyone else from what I hear). It would be so great to have Google’s Latitude and Google Voice as an dedicated application and not have to use the web app.
When this user’s contract is up I will be taking a serious look at the Droid.
Come on Apple don’t be the playground snob that will not let the other kids play in your game. Oh I forgot, we are all grown up now and it’s about money. It is always about money however this could very well back fire on Apple.
Just my thoughts on the subject.
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November 20, 2009
The Machine That Changed the World
My favorite documentary of all time. If you are into computers and you have never seen the documentary “The Machine That Changed the World” you need to. It all starts over 150 years ago with a man name Charles Babbage then goes to Germany 100 years later, to the German engineer Konrad Zuse who built the Z1. Then to the US at the University of Pennsylvania, with John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert who built the ENIAC, the first general-purpose computer. From there it is clear sailing in this five part documentary on the history of the computer. From the UNIVAC to the transistor to the integrated circuit through the attempts at IA right down to the first PC and the Apple II then on to Windows and the MAC. They even show the 1984 commercial for the first Macintosh. Since the series was made in 1992 it does not cover the World Wide Web but they put together a wonderful documentary that chronicles the history of the computer to that point.
You may ask where can I get this documentary. Jointly produced by WGBH Boston and the BBC, it originally aired in the UK as The Dream Machine before its U.S. premiere in January 1992. Unfortunately it drifted in to oblivion and is not available for purchase or rental anywhere today.
Thankfully Andy Baio, has pieced together this treasure and has made it available. The complete set is available for download as high-quality MP4 downloads via BitTorrent. Please visit his site at Waxy.org and the post about the The Machine That Changed the World because it gives so much more detail than this post.
Thank You Andy you have saved a treasure.
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November 13, 2009
What do we have here?
We are going to have posts that deal mostly with Enterprise Technologies. When I have a new find or a fix for an old problem I will post them here and hopefully help out someone with the same issue.
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