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LookOut Express

Mark — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 19:01:50 +0000

My main computer is a Macbook Pro, has been for well over a year that said I still use my old PC mainly for MSN, ScummVM, Mame and some other nerdy stuff. The PC is running Windows XP all the latest updates ect… But one thing bugged me, every so often I get this message

“To free up disk space outlook express can compact message”

I have never used Lookout Express, never had never will Pretty sure I even removed it. Turns out this happens if you install the Windows Search until (don’t its awful) anyhoo here is a fix

Fire up Regedit.
Locate this key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities\{GUID}\Software\Microsoft\Outlo ok Express\5.0 (the GUID will be a long random string)
In the right-hand pane, double-click “Compact Check Count”, then change the value to zero
Reboot

Probably useless to anyone now for this ageing operating system, but hey may help someone. and serve as a reminder when I reinstall. that said I think this PC is on its last legs.

1984

Mark — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 22:02:17 +0000

1984 Big brother is watching you!
funnily enough many people thought this was Microsoft, but it was actually a reference to IBM, kinda looks like the Macworld 1997 Boston thou…. lol so you can see where this idea possibly originated from

Hackintosh 10.6.4 & WordPress 3.0

Mark — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 21:25:12 +0000

Couple of updates today, Word Press 3.0 has been released, ran here without any issues, all plugins work. It looks cleaner in the admin dashboard will check out new features soon. naturally this is the post upgrade test.

But wait there is more!

OSX 10.6.4 was released earlier this month, I was somewhat reluctant to install it on my wee Dell mini, however after some digging around I found a thread on the my dell mini forum, after following the instructions all works well, no kernel panic … yet!

Hackintosh Video

Mark — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 17:49:15 +0000

here is the boot up for the Del Mini 10v running OSX 10.6.3

Hackintosh

Mark — Sat, 29 May 2010 21:00:08 +0000

I recently got my hands on a Dell mini 10v
Pretty basic spec, 1.6GHz Atom Processor 1GB Ram 160 GB HDD, however turns out these wee netbooks are the most easy to install OSX – hackintosh, as it came with Windows 7 Starter, this was always gonna get removed, I decided for educational purposes to give this a try.

I wont bother with the procedure here, if you google it you will find hundreds of results. one thing it does work with the latest A06 Bios, no need to down grade.

Takes around 60 seconds to boot up, (will post a video soon) once done runs just fine, perfect for web surfing / email. however Apple are not to happy with hackintosh as it breaks the EULA, they can and will break it with a software update. for me not worth the hassle time to stick Ubuntu the dell mini. (windows 7 starter is truly awful)

Mac OS 9

Mark — Sun, 16 May 2010 21:44:38 +0000

Lets party like its 1999, October 1999, that is
Its mac OS 9 baby, through sheep shaver I can use OS 9 on a Intel Mac

I will post more images soon, and info how to do this.

Atahualpa Theme

Mark — Fri, 14 May 2010 07:57:14 +0000

I use the Atahualpa theme for this site, I rather like it. however I recently upgraded to the latest version, – it disnaye work. the page is all messed up, CSS does not load. Anyhoo after some searching and faffing around I found a solution, set the CSS from internal to external, then back to internal. this fixed the layout of the page, but it now has no content. very frustrating, there support forums appear to be down, so it’s back to a older version for now. any ideas, or suggestions for a configurable WP theme?

Probably find a solution when the forum is back up (hopefully) but this post is really just a test to see if i have buggerd this site or not.

EDIT Later that day it appears to be OK. This Link Has some all the info I used to fix it.
although I am not 100% sure its perfect yet, test time I guess!!! EDIT #2 also, it would appear if something is not working, just open that page where that setting is located and copy/paste the same value as it is. bang, working. Hopefully they will iron the bugs out for the next version as it’s a really nice theme.

Facebook

Mark — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:01:54 +0000

I knew there was a reason I don’t use facebook

“Facebook ‘Linked to rise in syphilis’ Case have increased fourfold in Sunderland, Durham and Teesside, the areas of Britain where Facebook is most popular.

Professor Peter Kelly, director of public health in Teesside, claimed staff had found a link between social networking sites and the spread of the bacteria, especially among young women.”

Full Link Telegraph.co.uk

NextGen and New Photos

Mark — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 14:49:18 +0000

The NextGen issue was resolved, by simply undoing the fix that I applied last week.
all appears well now, lets hope it stays this way. Also, a new version of this plug in has been released 1.5.o if you run it, upgrade.

The new Galleries are
Edinburgh Zoo – well not a new gallery but new photos added
Edinburgh V Coventry Ice Hockey 20th March 2010 Defeat

NextGen Memory Limit

Mark — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 23:06:05 +0000

Tried to upload some photos tonight and was greeted with a Nextgen Memory Limit Error
now, nowt worse that trouble shooting late at night, after a few beers, anyway a quick google found what could be a fix, so far so bloody good click here or read on for the jist of it

“Follow thumbnails could not created. sample.jpg (Error : Exceed Memory limit. Require : 80.65 MByte)”

> Open an FTP connection to your root WordPress directory
> Open /wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/lib/gd.thumbnail.inc.php with your favourite text editor
> On line #168 un-comment (remove the //) from before @ini_set(‘memory_limit’, ’128M’);
> Save and upload changes
> Delete image/s that failed to generate a thumbnail and re-upload using NextGEN Gallery’s standard Upload Images feature

This seems to have worked here, phew! but shall test more