måndag 17 november 2008

tip of the day

this is a classic but sometimes i forget:

in windows vista press CTRL+ALT while you click on a program to open it in elevated mode.

tisdag 11 november 2008

boot camp 2.1 update: Error applying transforms.

this is was an irritating one.


boot camp 2.1 update fails because i am using a swedish version of windows vista.


to fix:
open up regedit and locate this key (the productkey kan vary):
change the Language REG_DWORD value to 409 hex.

söndag 9 november 2008

HTPC

i have what we call a "i-landsproblem" in sweden, at home.

we got ourselves a nice big tv yesterday and now i want to retire the old mac mini G4 who served as GUI for the old, smaller tv.

what i want is an interface that looks good on a tv and is maneuverable with only a wireless mouse. all the files are served from two 1TB external iomega drives connected to a HP 2510p laptop, running windows 2008 enterprise edition.

the candidates are:
  1. Mac mini G4 1.4Ghz with 512MB RAM
  2. HP 6210s, 2Ghz Celeron with 1GB RAM
  3. Asus EeePC 901, 1,6Ghz intel atom with 2GB RAM

i think i am going to start by testing xbmc under linux on the HP 6210s.