I just spend a few hours browsing around Ebay for interesting gadgets, and actually found a few; First up, I actually ordered one of these – a SATA HDD docking station; Now this is clever, now I got both a card reader AND a HDD cradle, what need do you have for a HDD cradle […]
I somewhere read about this software a while ago called “Boxee”, it’s a new mediacenter software which can be downloaded for free from http://www.boxee.tv But with so much mediacenter software out there it got lost in the masses. Anyway, recently I was reminded as D-Link is rattling their sable with the forthcoming release of the […]
So if you want to be totally up-beat or perhaps are testing out Boxee then you will want to install the latest Adobe Flash Player (Boxee actually seem to require this), but no worries you can get it right here; http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html Among other things this version will add HW acceleration, neat for Netbooks as compatible […]
Here is how to start and stop a service via WMI calls from a .vbs; ‘Start Service strServiceName = “Alerter” Set objWMIService = GetObject(“winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\.\root\cimv2”) Set colListOfServices = objWMIService.ExecQuery (“Select * from Win32_Service Where Name ='” & strServiceName & “‘”) For Each objService in colListOfServices objService.StartService() Next ‘Stop Service strServiceName = “Alerter” Set objWMIService = […]
If you are still creating Delphi 7 applications, then you may have had problems with UAC in Windows Vista, 7 and 2008, your application launches but is unable to eg. access the HKEY-LOCAL-MACHINE hive of the registry, what you need is to have the application launch with Administrative rights. You could just rightclick on the application icon and […]
I have for a long time been thinking about finding a good RSS reader, I have from time to time stumbled across some good sites with interesting content but the RSS reader in IE does not seem to be quite good enough. I don’t want to have to go into a special pane of IE to view […]
You can quite easily make all USB devices on a machine ReadOnly by adding a key to registry, it is quite easy and painless. Once the registry key is added and set you may have to wait a bit or eject and reinsert the device but then the device is ReadOnly. ‘Unlocking’ the drive again […]
So you would like to extract some files from an Install Shield (IS) installer package you have, you may as I just need a few driver files from a package. Well first you try the extract command from Windows (as some of the Install Shield files come as .cab files) however you quickly discover that […]
Ha ha, this was cool an advertisement for Sony Vaio – I can’t say if it’s from Sony (but I would not be surprised if it actually were) – well that’s another way of promoting your product – maybe something woman can relate to 😉
So I am looking for a s.m.a.r.t utility to monitor the health of my harddisks.. So far I have come up with; Drivesitter http://www.otwesten.de/drivesitter/screen.htm Personal SmartCheck http://www.urltoy.com/psc.htm and a open source commandline utility http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartmontools/ If you know of a better utility maybe even with additional monitoring capabilities do let me know..