2006 – Page 2 – GeekTieGuy

Taking personal action on global warming

12December2006GeekTieGuy1 CommentPersonal

This is something I’ve wanted to post for a long time, but have so far been tooÂ “chicken” to do. Now I think the time has come, though. It’s time for my first “opinion” post. Here goes: I went to see “An Inconvenient Truth” a while back. I remember seeing a show on television many years

Fixing my missing ntldr problem for the second time

30November2006GeekTieGuyMicrosoft

This happened to me once before, and I didn’t write down how to fix it then. This time I will, just so I can look it up easily next time. If your ntldr goes missing, here’s one way to fix it: Boot from your Windows XP SP2 CD. Choose the “R” option to repair using

Goodbye, old 120 MHz Pentium S network server, you’ve done your duty

30November2006GeekTieGuy1 CommentPersonal

I guess it had to happen sooner or later. The PC I built about 10 years ago finally turned flaky and had to be replaced. It started out as my desktop machine originally. I can’t remember what I had running on it, but probably Windows 95 or Windows 98. It had a Pentium S processor

Getting wireless to work under Vista RTM on a Compaq nw8000

17November2006GeekTieGuyVista

Since MSDN now has keys for Vista available, I started getting my developer laptop ready. One problem I ran into was that the built-in wireless adapter on the nw8000 wasn’t recognized by the RTM bits. On previous releases it worked just fine, so I don’t quite get what the issue is. Anyway, I found that

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Yearly Archives: 2006

Taking personal action on global warming

Fixing my missing ntldr problem for the second time

Goodbye, old 120 MHz Pentium S network server, you’ve done your duty

Getting wireless to work under Vista RTM on a Compaq nw8000