Qtek 8500 Flight ModeI just found out that my Qtek 8500 phone actually does seem to have Flight Mode (contrary to my previous post).On the Home Screen simply navigate to the Operator and Time bar and click it. This takes you to the Comm Manager where option 1 allows you to turn off the Phone.… Continue reading Flight Mode, Kiss Firmware Update and a House
New phone – Qtek 8500
During this summer’s vacation I left my cell phone on the top of the car roof and drove away… Needless to say I needed to get a new phone. I was very happy with my Qtek 8310 but in the small town of Karlskrona where we were at the moment, I had to visit several… Continue reading New phone – Qtek 8500
Kiss Recording Blues
I’m home on a quick pit stop on the six week family road trip here in Sweden. I had set my Kiss DP-558 recorder to record all my favourite shows – Rome, Into the West, 24 – while I was gone. Of course nothing got recorded, for some reason the recorder has not downloaded the… Continue reading Kiss Recording Blues
Web Part Error: Unknown Server Tag in WSS
When I got this error message in WSS (Windows SharePoint Services) the other day I Googled but did not get a single hit! This of course is unsual so I thought I’d post the solution. Ok, so what I did was that I wanted to use FrontPage 2003 to copy and paste a couple of… Continue reading Web Part Error: Unknown Server Tag in WSS
Kiss DP-558 Firmware 1.1.6 Upgrade
The last few weeks my Kiss DP-558 video recorder has told me that I should upgrade to the new firmware 1.1.6 (1.1.5 was apparently never released).Since my previous experiences with Kiss has been so-so, I’ve been reluctant to do this upgrade. But after spending about an hour in the Hi-Jack forum and reviewing the worst… Continue reading Kiss DP-558 Firmware 1.1.6 Upgrade
Fantastic News!
This isn’t technology related but since I have this blog how can I not post about it? Two days ago my second daughter Alva was born. She’s a beautiful baby girl! On the photo she’s 10 hours old and “sitting” together with my other daughter Ebba who is 2+ years old. Some facts: Born Sunday… Continue reading Fantastic News!
DVD in Full Screen with Multiple Monitors in Windows XP
It’s not uncommon that friends ask me to help fix their computer problems. I’m happy to help but unfortunatly I’m not that good at fixing common hardware and OS problems, my knowledge of those things is just not good enough anymore – back in the good old days (I’m talking IBM PS/2, Token Ring, Windows… Continue reading DVD in Full Screen with Multiple Monitors in Windows XP
How to sort a NotesDocumentCollection in Lotusscript
This Lotusscript function sorts a document collection on one or multiple fields. I have previously used several other algorithms that use a view to sort the collection, these however have the drawback that they become very inefficient (i.e. slow) as the number of documents in the view used for sorting grows. The solution presented below… Continue reading How to sort a NotesDocumentCollection in Lotusscript
How to access MySQL from .NET (ASP.NET using VB.NET)
[Update: Go to this new post instead on how to use MySQL ADO.NET drivers] This is a three step description of what you need to do to access a MySQL server from VB.NET. I used Microsoft Windows Server 2003 with Microsoft Visual Studio 2003 Professional and MySQL Server 4.1.7. It is possible to use ODBC,… Continue reading How to access MySQL from .NET (ASP.NET using VB.NET)
PHP5 with IIS6 on Windows Server 2003 in five easy steps
[Update: Follow this link if you are looking for an updated tutorial on PHP5 with IIS7 on Windows Server 2008] How to install and configure PHP5 with IIS6 on Windows Server 2003 in five easy steps. I thought installing PHP would be as easy as just using the install program. Well it wasn’t… But by… Continue reading PHP5 with IIS6 on Windows Server 2003 in five easy steps