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We are lazy, we need a break. So we are having another Hartal, only for Quilandy Taluk. Perambra belongs to Quilandy and we too are enjoying a day off…
The reason, well some problem at Payyoli, regarding implementing a High Court Order. Something to do with Hidu Aikya Vedi, and Police…
There was a digital Cinema demo at Calicut Davison, by Real Image of Madras. They have brought up the qube brand. The server runs XP embedded and apparantly they have a custom version of a projector from delta. Its made to survive the temperature and humidity of Indian conditions, but require AC. The cost should range from 7.5 to 10 lakhs and that does not include the server, which is FOC and property of Real Image. The picture quality was excellent and the maintanence is mainly replacement lamps which cost about 20k and lasts for only 1500 hours. The system is a closed one where the service technician will have to come and load the movie from a pocket harddisk. A 3hr movie might take around 80GB Uncompressed.
Looks like its a wait and see. With funding from Intel, Real Image might have the resources.
I’m stuck, I made a mistake of not disconnecting before starting the session of the free period from 2am. Now the free period bw is calculated as charged and I have used up almost my complete free limit.
On another note they seem to have a problem in which the wan users appear on the LAN. My office computer got virus infected.
There’s lots of learning to do.
Spent another few days with acronis and other toold creating images, backing up and cleaning up. Still more to do for an ideal machine.
There’s a virus in the office machine. Looks like there’s a problem with BSNL’s network here. I can see machines on the LAN which are on the WAN.
I have been building a new machine, not with hardware but with software, taking images in between. Also the old utils cd’s been revived with updates. Lots of downloads nd not much progress with the new product. The retreat and other travels gave even little time for real work.
I have been building a new machine, not with hardware but with software, taking images in between. Also the old utils cd’s been revived with updates. Lots of downloads nd not much progress with the new product. The retreat and other travels gave even little time for real work.
Some strange USB problems,like the device getting detected and drivers successfully getting installed but device not working can be attributed to unshielded or poor cable. This problem was notice on my old laptop with usb 1.1. Power could be one of the reasons and probably EMI or RFI.
To get Ultra VNC to work please enable the program in windows firewall for XP.
A friend of mine, who’s a local computer dealer brought a laptop to me saying that he couldn’t install/get the drivers for it. The notebook had come with freedos and he had loaded XP. The only CD that was there along with the notebook was the user guide cd. I checked on the net for the model and found that only a flas update for the BIOS was available. Called up HP compaq’s toll free number and the call was getting cut within a minute. Later came to know that its the way HP screws people calling to their toll free number. Finally got a URL to donload the drivers. All drivers except for modem and audio worked fine. The modem driver infact depended on the audio driver. Checked the net and found that the new drivers use Microsofts Universa Audio Architecture (UAA). I had to install prerequisite for getting the conexant audio driver of the laptop. Again called HP and they asked to download another 20mb file from gigabyte site. They asked to download from the slowest site that was in Asia, I downloaded the alternate link and tried as told, no luck. When I told customer support they told the download had to be from Asia. Stupid as usual. I waited all night and still got the same message “Could not find MEDIA device for driver”. I finally had a chat with a hp support guy in US and he told to ship it to compaq, no news yet about what happened, but it was lots of time wasted with COMPAQ.