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…
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RAM Upgrade and Vista Trial
Did a RAM upgrade on my Home Desktop PC. First thought of adding just 512MB. DDR1 costs more than DDR2, and my mother board supports only ddr1. After installing the RAM the machine froze after couple of minutes. I didn’t know that these RAM problems still plague the industry. My friends advice and another 1200…
Designing of a new product
I have started the work on a new software product. There is of course competition. Competition makes design easier. You have a starting point. You have a trial to download. You can reduce its complexity. Add innovative features that were missing and what not. Now thinking of a product name and design of all the…
Old project, new thoughts
I happened to go through my BE project PC based feature phone for windows 95. I was wondering how much things have changed. The UI of our software was not that bad after all. Now Iam working on it again, now with a PIC micro interface in between which will make it more sophisticated, with…
Got WLW working on the new blogger
Here’s what was done http://groups.msn.com/windowslivewriter/generaltopics.msnw?action=get_message&mview=0&ID_Message=2328&LastModified=4675602072399127307 I wonder how the other blogs with the same account info worked without glitches.
Quick Usage Finder for Dataone
Quick Usage Finder for DAtaone is now usable, more features to be added. Looks like I’ll use pandela for my new updated website. The tool which is in pre alpha testing stage is available for download at http://sunish.pandela.org/downloads/DataOne.rar
Part one of Telephone Logger working
After 3 days of morning soldering, got the dtmf decoder with isolation transformer circuit working, The calls can be recorded to PC. I discovered a freeware voice recorder with silence detection called mega voice recorder available at http://www.globalsoftware.biz/ Now the remaining portions are Off hook Detector (I need parallel off hook with optical isolation) Ring…
Test the new blogger with Windows Live writer
Will it work ? I doubt…
Acronis Universal Restore, VMware and BSNL Dataone
Both of them are good companions for a software developer. I want to revive my website. I had hosted it on pandela. Looks like its reliable and free. The bandwidth seems to be less, but you can’t expect too many things for free. My work on the BSNL Dataone bandwith extraction tool is finally in…
Another new year
BSNL has declared 2007 year of broadband,promising bandwidth upto 2Mbps. The speeds doesn’t look staable so far. Hope we get atleast the promised minimum. The cap has been increased and that’s indeed a good move. New year reminds of new resolutions. Buts its just another day. Hope this year is good with at least some…