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Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Sony eReader and Windows 7 64bit
What a nightmare! Today I tried installing the Sony rereader software on my Windows 7 Pro (64bit) machine, so I could load some books from Books on Board. Download Adobe Digital Editions, and registering that side of things went well! Installing the Sony software seemed to work, but I couldn't get it to actually open up! At all....
After fiddling around on two seperate machines, both running 64bit Windows 7, I decided to give up.
XP Mode to the rescue!
Turns out the Sony Reader software, as well as Adobe Digital Editions play nicely together in the virtual XP mode provided in Ultimate and Professional! Just install everything as normal, and click the USB menu and then the Sony item and everything works as you'd expect! Woo! Now I can enjoy some Terry Pratchett without resorting to actually buying a bit of a tree!
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
Installing Windows from a USB Memory Stick
How to install Windows from a memory stick
(Sometimes I'll just post links of interest to me, so I can find them later!)
Friday, February 05, 2010
Vodafone UK Settings for MiFi
Just got Novatel MiFi box, and had to find the settings for contract Vodafone UK. The settings you'll need are as follows:
| APN | internet |
| Username | web |
| Password | web |
Vodafone currently have a plan for £18 / month with a fair use policy of 5GB. You won't pay more than that, if you go over but if you do consistantly they will ask you to move onto a bigger plan.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
U3 Drive Hacking
Right, I've been meaning to write about this for ages! One of my U3 drives has a custom partition full of various Sysinternals and other handy Windows based utilities. This is good, because most AV programs flip out when they see Nirsoft's Password revealer software and since it's on a read-only partition; they can't do anything about it! :)
If you have a U3 capable drive (most of the recent Sandisk drives have it these days) then head over to Hak5 and get your hack on! This guide will also rid you of the pesky U3 autostart crap that appears everytime you plug the drive in.
Following on, I attempted to try something a little bit different: Copy a bootable iso directly over to a (normal, non U3) USB key using DD. The results were interesting!
I used DD to copy an XP Pro OEM ISO image file to a memory stick. The resulting flash drive was recognized in Ubuntu and I could browse the discs file system
Windows Server 2008 refused to read the drive at all. Allegedly, it was not formatted. I contend that Windows just wasn't trying hard enough!
Obviously, Windows doesn't like reading ISO 9660 file systems on USB media. Perhaps there is a way around it. It'd be kinda cool if there was? I'll have to keep looking!
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
USB Mount Points in Ubuntu (and Gnome)
So I saw you can manually set the mount point for a USB drive in gnome. Great! That's handy! Not so fast.. See, in the box below I entered "/media/cruzer4" rather than just cruzer4. Ooops! This causes the mount to fail when you next plug the stick in, and worse still: You can't get back to the properties screen to fix it! What to do? It's actually quite simple!
- Press Alt+F2 or open a terminal
- Type "gconf-editor"
- Navigate to /system/storage/volumes/ and locate your specific drive as per the screenshot
- Now change the value of "mount_point" to "cruzer4" instead of "/media/cruzer4" and you're good to go!
The drive should now be mountable again!
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Unable to find a codec translation path from ilbc to gsm
When setting up my new asterisk box, I stumbled onto a problem with ILBC.. To fix the following error
[Jun 15 20:56:46] WARNING[2528]: channel.c:2774 set_format:
Unable to find a codec translation path from ilbc to gsm
Add:
disallow=ilbc
to your config to stop Asterisk from trying to use ILBC. Or you could install ILBC support, I guess ;)
Saturday, March 14, 2009
How to play Gameboy Games on the Nintendo DS
To play GBC games such as Pokemon Gold and Silver on the DS, you have a few options. One of them is to use Goomba Color to create a Gameboy Advance rom package, and then play using a Slot 2 flash device. The other way (that I use!) is to use Lameboy DS.
I think Lameboy is the preferable option, because it does away with the need for a Slot 2 flash cart (If you haven't already got one!), and secondly because it emulates the Real Time Clock needed to play Pokemon games properly.
To get started, you'll need to have:
- DS Flash Card
- DLDI File for your card
- DLDI Patcher for your Operating System
- Latest Version of Lameboy
Start by downloading the latest version of Lameboy, along with the apropriate DLDI file for your card. Using whichever patcher runs on your system, patch Lameboy's NDS file.
Copy it over to the storage of your card, along with your GB/GBC roms. [Do NOT ask me where to find roms!] Launch Lameboy from the menu of your card, and hopefully you should be able to play some classic games!
If it crashes, or you get a solid colour screen, check you've used the correct DLDI file. If that doesn't fix the problem, I'd redownload each file to ensure against corruption. Otherwise, you might ask for help on the Pocket Heaven, or GBA Temp Forums.
Permanently saving progress is a little different in Lameboy. In games such as Pokemon, you save like normal using the menu. This only saves into RAM, however. To save to your flash cart, press the X button and Lameboy will transfer the save into a .sav file! Otherwise, you'll be scratching your head wondering why it didn't save!
I've managed to play up to Goldenrod City in Pokemon Silver without any trouble. One thing to note though, is to not press X immediately after you Save in game. It'll lock up, without saving (As I found out!)
