tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36536058183847554142024-11-01T03:55:56.204-05:00All Things Harman - Technology, Travel, Family and Life in the 21st CenturyBrent Harmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17045893371993155282noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653605818384755414.post-67215670850911501262009-07-07T10:21:00.003-05:002009-07-07T10:41:21.244-05:00

I was forced to rebuild my last Windows 7 Beta machine (an HP TX2510 convertable tablet pc) to the RC last night, as on July 1 it started shutting down every two hours in order to gently remind me that it was expiring. Oh bother! As I wasn't really that worried with preserving the state of the machine, I just reinstalled the OS, leaving the drive intact, so that I could reinstall everything

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A couple of days ago, while doing my occasional review of Add-ins at WeGotServed.com, I found an add-in that allows my WHS to send out status updates as tweets, rather than email [http://www.whsplus.com/2009/06/10/whstweet/]. This has several benefits in that it doesn't clog up my Blackberry with personal messages that I have to manage, yet still allows me to have fairly instantaneous

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I have installed on 3 machines the Windows 7 RC, as well as a Tablet PC that I have left (for the time being) at the Windows 7 Beta. Without exception, all four machines are exhibiting bizarre behavior  in regards to Windows Home Server (WHS) which has recently been upgraded to Power Pack 2. WHS Forum members assure me that I have introduced 'networking issues', which clearly cannot be the

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I finished downloading the Windows 7 RC (32- and 64-bit) on Friday morning. I have had my office Media Center PC in and out of Frys Electronics for warranty repairs and all they have done is muck the machine up. I told them it was the Video Card, but they assure me it isn't. It still didn't work longer than 3 minutes before freezing up, so I decided to wipe the OS and load Win7. That didn't work

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I just finished the 5th and final rebuild of the S10, which will hopefully last me until I upgrade to the RC build and then the RTM. I have now received my 6-cell battery, and have replaced the 250GB 7200 RPM SATAII drive with a 120GB SSD. The performance with this drive is quite exceptional. From boot to use is about 15-18 seconds max, but the most stellar part is that I am now getting 5.5-6.5

Brent Harmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17045893371993155282noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653605818384755414.post-64033590529747643462009-01-30T21:03:00.001-06:002009-01-30T21:03:48.328-06:00

I have been using the new GMail offline functionality for the last few days. It gives you the ability to not only keep using your saved mail online, but to copy it to any specific machine(s) and from thence forward, it will keep a copy on the local machine. It really works well and I look forward to having a copy of former message, along with all the normal search functionality locally, without

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My Lenovo S10 now has 2.5GB of RAM, of which 2 GB is usable to the OS. The HD has been upgraded to a 7200 RPM 250 GB model. An additional power supply is on order, as well as a 6-cell battery, to replace the 3-cell one that comes standard. This should dramatically increase the use time. The only piece that I still need to figure out is a compatible WiFi assembly to “N”. It exists in the Lenovo

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While the S10 was running fine with Windows XP Home Edition, there are certain things not present in that version of the OS, especially around networking and shares. For that reason, I had determined that I was going to eventually update the OS. As I reviewed my hardware, I determined that I had an (essentially) unused 250 GB 2.5” SATA in a USB case. I removed the drive with XP installed and

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This entry is coming via Live Writer on my new Lenovo IdeaPad S10. I have also installed the Phoenix multi-boot Hyper partition on this machine (the Atom processor can’t support simultaneous partitions; it’s one or the other). I will also attempt to post from that partition. The boot time is quite good: about 15 seconds or less.

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When I received access to Windows 7 Beta 1 last Thursday, I decided to give Windows 7 at try, as I had heard so many good things about its Tablet capabilities. Scratching my head about whether to install a fresh HD or to do an upgrade, I finally opted for the latter. The upgrade from Vista Ultimate x64 went very smoothly, although it took some 2.5 hours, most of which was spent backing up and

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Brent Harmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17045893371993155282noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653605818384755414.post-28568050964774030602008-03-21T17:00:00.001-05:002008-03-21T17:00:55.469-05:00

I got to spend this entire week working on computer tasks I have neglected since Thanksgiving. Moved more than 1 TB between machines. Fixed backup issues with WHS. Wiped and rebuilt my FSX-dedicated machine with Vista SP1 and retuned for better FPS. Got all the Windows Media Extenders loaded and configured. Got an extra 600 MB of ripped CD imported into iTunes and into play-lists.Altogether time

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I am in the process of gathering the pieces of a new machine to host my RTM copy of Windows Home Server (WHS). I have been using it as the management basis for JBHarman.org for several months now, but I am ready to 'productionalize' the process. It really gives me peace of mind to know that I can completely recover any of my home machines with so little effort. Additionally, add-ins are starting

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I am going to start this blog because I like Google technology. Furthermore, I want to see just how easy this might be using the new Microsoft LiveWriter blogging editor. And, I am going to try and do it from my HP TC1100 Tablet PC. Yes, I know, neither Blogger nor LiveWriter support ink. I am going to try a few alternatives around that and see what feels best. And, anyway, this has to be better

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