I was on a mission to mount my new over the air (OTA) antenna in my attic, but I didn’t want to spend $50+ for a mount. In order to do it cheaply I recycled an old satellite mount which was left on my roof from the previous home owners. If you don’t have...
Read more →For a while in MythTV 0.22 I was getting an error with MiroBridge saying Miro was not set up properly even though Miro worked just fine and I triple checked all my config files. I waited until upgrading to MythTV 0.23 to fix it because there was a much easier one button install option...
Read more →I know what you are thinking, “how did my wife create that amazing (r)evolution commercial?” I would like to take a couple minutes to share with everyone how she made it, and what software I used to help her edit it. First of all here was the setup. She started with a piece of...
Read more →Occasionally you need to get something done on a remote computer (or a clients computer) but the computer doesn’t have an easy way for you to connect to it. Luckily, if you have admin rights to the remote computer, you can still connect without needing to turn on remote desktop before hand. To do...
Read more →AuthenTec, a company that makes fingerprint scanning devices, worked closely with Microsoft to enable fingerprint authentication without third-party software for Windows 7. Unfortunately, the settings to set up the fingerprint scanner do not always show up in the Windows 7 control panel. To set up the fingerprint scanner you usually can navigate to Control...
Read more →Just like my other two posts here is how you can modify your default user settings in Linux. This is similar to OSX but instead of “/System/Library/User Templates/English.lproj” being our template directory. It is “/etc/skel”. The skel directory stands for skeleton and it is where the default files and settings come from when you...
Read more →After my post on modifying default user settings in Vista I thought I should follow up with how to accomplish a similar thing in OSX. For OSX there is only one way to accomplish this, and that way is the manual way. Just like with the manual way in Vista set up two user...
Read more →In Windows Vista and Windows 7 there are two ways you can create a modified default user profile. One is automatic and the other is manual. The automatic way is the recommended way according to Microsoft. However, you may run into some problems using this way so I will explain it the manual way...
Read more →I recently happen to come across a video card that had problems with 3D rendering. I usually would just throw out the video card and get a new one, but when the video card is a Nvidia 8800 GTX I just couldn’t throw away the card no matter how bad it was broken. Luckily...
Read more →If you set up a user account in Windows and you want to allow the user account to have a blank password you may find it a little difficult. In order to accomplish this you probably need to change a couple settings in Windows. The error message you probably got is: The password does...
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