Things I've Done

Author: andy

  • Logitech G Series Keyboard Lighting Profiles

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    Are you looking for Logitech G Series lighting profiles for keyboards like the G810 or G900? Here are the profiles I’ve custom created for various games: Fallout 4 Heliborne Jump Gunners Legend of Grimrock 2 Spintires: Mudrunner Tom Clancys Ghost Recon Wildlands (Custom) Tom Clancys Rainbow Six Siege Note: Use Logitech Gaming Software to import…

  • AcroRd32.exe keeps loading or crashing when I single click a PDF file

    AcroRd32.exe keeps loading or crashing when I single click a PDF file

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    I’ve been having an issue on my aging Windows XP dev box (yes, I know I should be upgrading to Windows 7, 8 or 10, but with some old legacy systems sometimes that isn’t possible).  Sometimes when I single click on a PDF file I’m presented with a dialog box stating that Acrobat Reader has crashed.…

  • ROCCAT Kone[+] Scroll Wheel glitch

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    In the last few months the scroll wheel has started to play up on my ROCCAT Kone[+].  When scrolling up or down the mouse sometimes scrolls in the opposite direction briefly before correcting itself and scrolling in the right direction. The problem got worse and worse until I seriously considered throwing it away. Essentially the…

  • Upgrading the HP Proliant ML115 G5 from Dual to Quad Core

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    I bought an HP Proliant ML115 G5 servers just before they were upgraded to include a quad core CPU.  I’ve been running VMware ESXi 4.0 and 4.1 on it without any issues, mainly due to the fact that I also bought an HP SC44Ge Raid Controller and an Intel Pro 1000 NIC (Gigabit, as the…

  • ROCCAT Kone[+] Firmware Install Problems

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    So.  I paid nearly £70 for a ROCCAT Kone[+] mouse and it arrived with the base firmware (v1.19) installed. That’s not too surprising and as the mouse drivers also come with the firmware I thought the best thing to do was to grab the latest drivers (driver v1.48, firmware v1.43) from the website (http://www.roccat.org/Support/Gaming-Mice/ROCCAT-Kone-/) and…

  • VMWare Converter 4.0 Standalone – converter.agent.internal.fault.PlatformError

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    I’ve been playing with ESXi 3 v3.5.0 Update 2 (yes, I know update 4 is available for 32bit machines) and VMWare vCenter Converter 4.01 (build 161434) Standalone trying to convert one of a pair of cluster nodes running Windows 2000 Advanced Server (SP4) and it’s collection of local and shared volumes across to a VM.…

  • Getting VMWare ESXi 3.5 to recognise the Emulex LP950 HBA, MSA1000 and associated logical drives

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    UPDATED: 17/09/2009 I’m posting very rough notes for the moment.  I’ll tidy them up when I get a chance. Need to upgrade firmware to get ESXi 3.5 Update 2 to recognise the LP950 as an LP952 http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/bizsupport/questionanswer.do?threadId=1206849 LP950 BIOS update (FILE: RB171A0.PRG) http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=US&swItem=co-52871-1 LP950 Firmware Update (FILE: rc393a0.awc) http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=US&swItem=co-34288-2 Need Emulex LP6DUTIL.EXE and LP6DUTIL.DOC of…

  • Balancing radiators in a heating system

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    This procedure is better done with two or three people. Before you start, make a list of each room in the house that has a radiator in it. The list will look something like this: Room Order Turns Kitchen    Â  Dining Room  Â   Â  Living Room  Â   Â  Downstairs hall  Â   Â  Upstairs hall…

  • Linking Access to a MySQL database

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    For some time I was using Access to store and manage some simple data for a web site. Unfortunately, due to a change in hosting provider I was not able to continue using the Access database and had to migrate it to MySQL. One thing I wanted was to keep the Access forms I’d created…

  • Ken Grimwood – Replay

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    I’ve just finished reading a fantastic book, ‘Replay’, by Ken Grimwood. The book was the winner of the World Fantasy Award in 1988 and the copy I picked up is part of the Orion Books/Gollancz series called “Fantasy Masterworks“. The text on the back of the book reads: Jeff Winston was forty-three and trapped in…