This is a podcast I did for class. The content may a little on the academic side but I had fun making it. Actually I used a screencaster for Windows called Camstudio. It is OpenSource and saves video output in .AVI, or .SWF by default. 3rd party software is required for conversion to other formats, though so see this help page for details.
Video Podcast
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Tasty New Articles at Suite101
Check out tasty new articles at Suite101 Click Me
New this week: History of Health Care | History of Thanksgiving and Football | Review of Wolaver's Alta Gracia | Movie Reviews | and more
New this week: History of Health Care | History of Thanksgiving and Football | Review of Wolaver's Alta Gracia | Movie Reviews | and more
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Monday, November 9, 2009
Friday, November 6, 2009
General Tips Upgrade HP Laptop G60 from Vista to XP
This past week I converted an HP G60 from its original Vista install to an XP Pro SP2 install - this, despite drivers no longer supported by HP, RealTek, or Intel for XP on this model.
1) I backed up the divers from the Vista install (located in the SWSETUP folder on the C:\ for HP computers). This is important because you will slipstream the SATA drivers (you are looking for "ich9ide.inf" in this case, but I have found it is much easier to copy the entire SWSETUP driver directory to a junk drive and browse to it using nLite) during the nLite process. (I like nLite for this but you could use anything you are familiar with for slipstreaming.)
2) Get yourself a non-oem XP install disk (preferably your own - pirating is not nice), put it in your ROM-drive and run nLite.
3) Browse to the install CD, hit the default though the next couple of windows until you come to this one:
4) Select the "Drivers" and the "Bootable ISO" buttons. When selecting drivers, browse to the removable drive where you put the SWSETUP drivers, and select the file ich9ide.inf (or whatever works for your sata version, e.g. ich?ide.inf). At this point, nLite will prompt you with a window of which drivers to include. Select them all and continue.
5) You final screen should prompt you with the following message:
Note: You may struggle a bit finding drivers, as I have said, but if you downloaded the SWSETUP folder, most of them should be on your junk drive - you know, then one we used earlier for slipstreaming. The Vista wireless and modem drivers work for XP, and the audio partially installs (it sits on the SMBUS), but you will need to download the Mobile Intel® 4 Series Express Chipset Family for XP for the rest. And the LAN driver is made by Realtek.
1) I backed up the divers from the Vista install (located in the SWSETUP folder on the C:\ for HP computers). This is important because you will slipstream the SATA drivers (you are looking for "ich9ide.inf" in this case, but I have found it is much easier to copy the entire SWSETUP driver directory to a junk drive and browse to it using nLite) during the nLite process. (I like nLite for this but you could use anything you are familiar with for slipstreaming.)
2) Get yourself a non-oem XP install disk (preferably your own - pirating is not nice), put it in your ROM-drive and run nLite.
3) Browse to the install CD, hit the default though the next couple of windows until you come to this one:
4) Select the "Drivers" and the "Bootable ISO" buttons. When selecting drivers, browse to the removable drive where you put the SWSETUP drivers, and select the file ich9ide.inf (or whatever works for your sata version, e.g. ich?ide.inf). At this point, nLite will prompt you with a window of which drivers to include. Select them all and continue.
5) You final screen should prompt you with the following message:
Note: You may struggle a bit finding drivers, as I have said, but if you downloaded the SWSETUP folder, most of them should be on your junk drive - you know, then one we used earlier for slipstreaming. The Vista wireless and modem drivers work for XP, and the audio partially installs (it sits on the SMBUS), but you will need to download the Mobile Intel® 4 Series Express Chipset Family for XP for the rest. And the LAN driver is made by Realtek.
Thursday, November 5, 2009
And Now For My Next Trick...
I will be trying to build a Hackintosh, documenting every step of the way. Have not decided on a computer yet though, and will probably stay away from Snow Leopard as the Buzz Out Load crew reported the most recent version will kill your Hackintosh, although I think it only affects the ATOM chip use by most netbooks. Will keep you posted...
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Beyond Windows Vista; Exploring Microsoft's Next OS
Watching Microsoft bungle their way through the woeful and clunky Windows Vista saga was both entertaining and frustrating, so what can we really expect from Windows 7?
Quite a lot, as it turns out, at least in the early going. According to Seth Rosenblatt, editor of CNET, "Windows 7 is more than just spin. The public testing process, involving one limited-availability beta and one release candidate... constitutes what some are calling the largest shareware trial period ever."
With a new sophisticated and translucent style, 7's taskbar is now being compared by some to the glorified and iconic Mac OS X dock. This shiny new look is all thanks to Aero Peek, the feature that allows for the taskbar's polished luster as well as improved usability.
But praise for the resurrected taskbar does not stop there as it also sports a handy mouse-over and preview feature as well as what it calls "jump lists," a file organization and display method similar to Stacks, a feature introduced in Mac OS version 10.5 (Leopard).
No less impressive, changes to Windows Media Player, in the words of Rosenblatt, actually "makes [it ] useful again." Simplified set up, improved usability, and the technology to stream from computer to computer even out of network are some of the keynotes that rescue WMP from the dusty software storage chest.
Despite all of this, and with Vista looming as a not so distant lesson, many of us may still be feeling just a little bit tentative
Quite a lot, as it turns out, at least in the early going. According to Seth Rosenblatt, editor of CNET, "Windows 7 is more than just spin. The public testing process, involving one limited-availability beta and one release candidate... constitutes what some are calling the largest shareware trial period ever."
With a new sophisticated and translucent style, 7's taskbar is now being compared by some to the glorified and iconic Mac OS X dock. This shiny new look is all thanks to Aero Peek, the feature that allows for the taskbar's polished luster as well as improved usability.
But praise for the resurrected taskbar does not stop there as it also sports a handy mouse-over and preview feature as well as what it calls "jump lists," a file organization and display method similar to Stacks, a feature introduced in Mac OS version 10.5 (Leopard).
No less impressive, changes to Windows Media Player, in the words of Rosenblatt, actually "makes [it ] useful again." Simplified set up, improved usability, and the technology to stream from computer to computer even out of network are some of the keynotes that rescue WMP from the dusty software storage chest.
Despite all of this, and with Vista looming as a not so distant lesson, many of us may still be feeling just a little bit tentative
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