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Nickel metal hydride (NiMH) rechargeable battery technology is a great step up from the more familiar nickel cadmium system. For the first time we are able to buy a battery that has similar capacity to alkalines. Unfortunately both types of rechargeable do not as yet approach the charge retainment of alkalines, which can be stored…

Make your website less confusing so I can find my login to the Xtra/Yahoo Bubble more easily, especially my Sub Accounts. There are three different Telecom Xtra websites at http://nz.yahoo.com, http://xtra.my.yahoo.com and http://www.telecom.co.nz/myaccount that all overlap in the functionality they offer and these should be properly integrated together so users don’t have to mess around…

If you’ve ever worked on a laptop or some kind of PC that has a proprietary motherboard (Compaq etc) then you’ve probably encountered the situation of not knowing where to get drivers because you don’t know who manufactures the device in question. Fortunately the PCI standard requires that each device on the bus is identified…

It’s been a long time since article 1 of this series was published. We have been busily beavering away getting things organised behind the scenes to move along with our big project, which is happening across twelve of our classrooms in various forms. Projectors are best mounted inverted from the ceiling. This is at least…

The NZDST update patch for Windows XP is KB933360. It is categorised as an Update Rollup. The NZDST update patch for Windows Vista is KB942763. It is categorised as an Update Rollup. The patches are required because of 2007 changes to NZ Daylight Saving Time which now commences on the last Sunday of September and…

Sorry but there is no other way to write that. I have just had it up to here with the flakiness of WLM compared to Outlook Express and Outlook. Especially on IMAP accounts. WLM’s support even of ordinary IMAP is patience-testing enough before you try to set up access to Gmail IMAP and get a…

Last year I talked briefly about how loopback policy works. This is the system that Microsoft has built into Group Policy to enable a user policy to be applied to a computer that is dependent on the OU that the computer’s account is stored in. This is a great system because it enables a policy…

This is the first part of my forthcoming series of articles on classroom AV system installation. This article will specifically address, the thorny subject of how to get USB and VGA cables into wall plates. Firstly, we much prefer to use premade VGA cables, which have moulded plugs on each end of the cable and…

I’m going to write a series of articles on AV system installations with particular relevance to school classrooms. A full AV installation embodies a number of possible components: A projector or other display device A sound system AV source such as Video player or Computer Electronic whiteboard These are the ones I’m familiar with. Over…

This short little article is the postscript to an extremely frustrating afternoon at work trying to image a PC using Windows PE as the OS environment. It is stated somewhere in the WinPE documentation that 512MB of memory is required to boot. However if your PC has less than this, you won’t see any warning…