Syndicated Industry Blogs from around the Web - January 2009 - Dave Caddick Dave Caddick

TV adds/commercials too noisy – is it possible to fix/correct the volume automatically? Challenge to the Open Source community?

Problem: So how come the Volume on the TV always seems to jump that little (or a lot?) extra during the ad breaks? If we can all take our MP3’s and set them all to the same volume how come the TV Stations/Channels/Studios do the same thing? Are they just...

Published Jan 31 2009 by Dave Caddick , 773 views, 0 comments

Living with Windows 7 in a live production environment – 3 days in how does it feel?

Over here in Australia we had a long weekend last week so I have only been using Windows 7 for three days so far, but for anyone else who has tried it on a Virtual Machine, I’d suggest they give it a try on the hardware – it’s not that bad at all – my...

Published Jan 29 2009 by Dave Caddick , 1,293 views, 0 comments

“MIS Financial Review” taking copyright protection too far? So far that no-one can read your web pages – surely this is ridiculous?

So how is this, these guys use a system that I guess effectively makes it impossible(?) to copy their text from the web page – but in doing this you can’t even read the article…… Caveat: I am now using Windows 7 Beta on my day-to-day Laptop and as such...

Published Jan 27 2009 by Dave Caddick , 876 views, 0 comments

DSN and WINS - Don’t forget the basics?

I recently was doing some final testing after installing a number of BladePC’s and I was pretty sure that I had connected to blade-003 via an RDP connection only to find the file that I was looking for wasn’t in the C:\Temp location at all – and I was...

Published Jan 17 2009 by Dave Caddick , 867 views, 0 comments

An update is available for Windows Media Center and Windows Media Player in Windows 7 Beta

Already the first patch is out for Windows 7 – make sure you apply this *BEFORE* accessing any MP3’s or you risk corrupting the files Microsoft is also providing a QFE patch for the MP3 corruption issues that have plagued build 7000, this should be online...

Published Jan 13 2009 by Dave Caddick , 788 views, 0 comments

Sony Picturebook revisited? Now the new Sony VAIO P steps up to the plate and it’s already been dismantled to display the workings.

So back in it’s day (around 2002?) I was very sorely tempted to purchase one of the Sony Picture books, but in the end I opted for the more traditional 505 with it’s 10.5” screen and more traditional layout: Sony VAIO C1MW PictureBook Notebook 120 GB...

Published Jan 12 2009 by Dave Caddick , 1,068 views, 0 comments

Installing Altiris DS or HP’s Rapid Deployment Pack and having issues with getting PXE working – hopefully this info might help?

A colleague of mine was after some info on a tool that I had mentioned before and while I was at it I had some extra tools and links and other handy stuff that I thought I’d share? The details regarding Fixed Mode below have proven to be very useful today...

Published Jan 12 2009 by Dave Caddick , 1,472 views, 0 comments

Information on Downloading and Installing Windows 7 Beta – direct download link to ISO here

If you can’t be bothered reading the details – simply use this? Because the Windows 7 Beta will be offered download-only, it will be provided to you as an ISO image (an .iso file) that you download. more details below And just in case you are interested...

Published Jan 08 2009 by Dave Caddick , 1,287 views, 0 comments

Some very interesting posts from MSDN Blog re:Engineering Windows 7 that gives a clear indication of what post-Vista might be like?

I was looking through some of the details coming through on the MSDN Blog from the Engineering Team responsible for Windows 7 and thought it might be useful to have a consolidated list of what’s what? I hope it’s useful? At Home with HomeGroup in Windows...

Published Jan 05 2009 by Dave Caddick , 1,457 views, 1 comment

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