This is an excellent article on WinSuperSite explaining how to rip DVDs. I am in the process of converting all of my DVD collection to MP4. This article was written for handbrake version 9.2 but as 9.3 is available some of the steps are a little simpler.
It looks like HPShopping.com is selling HP MediaSmart EX470 servers for $449. This is an excellent price for a MediaSmart Server as the retail price is $549.
I have always envied the thin mac keyboards and I finally got me one. Couple of customizations are very useful when using it with a PC. Alt and Windows key are in the wrong order as you are used to on a windows keyboard. So here is how i did it…
AutoHotKey is freeware software for Windows that lets you create easy-to-write scripts that define alternate key mappings in Windows. You can do the same by hacking the Windows registry yourself - but that’s just plain silly.
After you’ve installed AutoHotKey, you can use the below script and run it. This will load a set of pre-defined rules that will make your Apple keyboard operate like a Windows one.
Here’s the rules I’m using:
; Swap Windows (Command) and Alt keys ; These button locations are reversed on Mac keyboards LAlt::LWin LWin::LAlt
To have this script run every time Windows boots up, save it in your Startup folder (Start -> All Applications -> Startup).
If you’re interested in running a website from your home server, you may have considered various options, including running PHP. But running PHP with IIS can be fraught with problems - or at least was, until WGS reader, Christopher Courtney, wrote the following guide to installing PHP for IIS on Windows Home Server. Over to Christopher…
Because running IIS and Apache really isn’t feasible, one needs to be able to install PHP into IIS. If you have tried before or searched for how, you will notice many different ways, and a lot of problems with doing so. I’ve tried several times and gotten the same problem, but finally fixed it and got PHP working under IIS. Now I am going to share it.
Returns the error id: “C00D11CD” when trying to install the zune 2.2 firmware.
This is caused beacused BITS does not like being behind a HTTP proxy server that requires authentication. By default, BITS doesn’t automatically provide your domain user information to the proxy server. so, when the zune software attempts to use the BITS to download the firmware, it fails and only presents “C00D11CD” error code.
1. Close Zune Software (if running)
2. open regedit
3. Browse to the key “HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\BITS”.
4. Change the value of “UseLmCompat” to 0 (2 should be the value you have by default)
5. Stop and Restart the “Background Intelligent Transfer Service”
6. Start the Zune Software and you should be able to click the install button
NOTE: If you have zune software running while you restart the BITS, the process might hang and will need to be killed. Also you may want to change the registry setting back after the firmware download is completed.
Of course the basic disclaimer stuff applies here ….
Do this at your own risk … I’m not responsible for what you do with this information…
