Archive for the 'Computer' Category

ActiveSync Error 0x8503001c

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

I was getting 0x8503001c while trying to sync my att tilt running windows mobile 6.1 to Windows XP sp3. I finally determined that the problem was in contacts and that all the contacts where I was using the notes field were bad. I recreated those contacts manually without the notes and everything synced fine.

PS3 Game Comparison

Friday, April 6th, 2007

Looks like someone has compiled a nice list of Playstation 3 games with side-by-side comparisons of each games technical features. It is sorted by resolution and release date for quick and easy access. There are also some links to buying or renting games. They also mention this is a work in progress so I hope [...]

The land of the free Antivirus?

Friday, May 12th, 2006

Nothing is free. Or is it? A new product to hit the open source repositories is a very popular antivirus program called Clam. Although still in beta stage this proves to a be a pretty powerful system cleaner. They have released versions for Linux and Windows. You can also view the linux project on SourceForge.

Getting Video Lan Client to run on my x86_64 Fedora Core 4 Server

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

I was having a problem of getting VLC to run on my 64 bit FC4 server. I installed vlc through yum and everything installed beautifully but when running, it kept saying: [someuser@myserver ~]$ vlc VLC media player 0.8.4a Janus [00000025] main interface error: no interface module matched “hotkeys,none” [00000025] main interface error: no suitable intf [...]

PIM functions for Thunderbird

Monday, December 26th, 2005

Mozilla has done it again. Thunderbird now has PIM functions! Granted it’s still in super mega infant alpha stage 0.0.1 but I now can store my tasks and notes within Thunderbird. Check out Lightning, Thunderbirds latest addition that will put it on stage with Outlook and Evolution. Get the latest version here! Oh, and listen [...]