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Saturday, March 3, 2007

HP 2510 All-In-One printer/scanner....


For the first time since installing Vista, I had to scan a document. No problem, I'll use my trusty HP 2510 printer/scanner that I have on my home network. I load the Scanner and Camera Wizard.. no scanner? Ok, on to control panel, Scanners and Cameras and add device. I got the picture shown above. Ok, go to HP's site to download drivers and I see the following:


HP Printers - Installing the Printer Driver Located in Windows Vista

At this time there is not a downloadable full-feature Windows Vista driver solution available for your product.


The short-term driver solution is included in your Windows Vista Operating system and is already on your computer. There is no need to download anything at this time. This driver makes it possible to use the basic functions for the printer and can be used until the full-feature driver is available. Follow the steps below to quickly and easily get your product working with Windows Vista.

HP is currently working to make the HP full-feature driver solution available as soon as possible.



???? It took five years to create Vista and HP doesn't have drivers for it??? How in the world does this happen? No network scanning at all. In order to use the scanner, I have to unplug my laptop, find a USB printer cable, then hook it up, wait for the driver to load, then scan.

What I actually did was go to a mac mini that I have and scan it nicely over the network.


Be aware of this when you're ready to update to Vista. Check that the drivers are available that you really need before you take the plunge.


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Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Does Visual Studio 2005 crash in Vista? Try this.

MSDN forums has a fix for crashes in Visual Studio. You need to apply Visual Studio 2005 SP1 and then apply the following patch:

VS80sp1-KB929470-X86-Beta-ENU

Read the release notes to make sure it applies to you. I didn't have this issue but I think it was installed in one of the first Windows updates for Vista.

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Monday, February 26, 2007

Build your own Perfect Home Theatre PC

There are a few advantages that a home-built Home Theater PCs (HTPCs) give you over TiVos or cable provider DVRs. Among them are the lack of subscription fees, the ability to play back DivX and other downloaded programs, and the fact that you can use it as a computer when you're not watching TV on it.This is a tremendous article talking about the latest hardware and software to build your own Home Theatre PC.



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Vista Compatibility Lisst

Here is a Wiki list of Vista Compatible software. It looks very complete for things that I'm using. This definitely looks like a post to keep around.

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Sunday, February 25, 2007

Off Topic: Turn any Image into Text Art ONLINE! To use in forums or Digg

All you have to do is upload a photo. That will take about 3 seconds, and the image that you chose to upload will be turned into text, using keyboard characters. Its very hard to describe, so go try it out yourself.


I know this is off topic, but it's too cool to ignore. I remember when I was a kid in the 1970's getting this done on the Jersey Shore boardwalk for about $1.00.



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See the example in the expanded post. If you lean back from the monitor, you'll see it better.


The parameters for this are 80 character fonts, use small fonts, white on black (since I use a black background. The look great when printed and viewed from a little distance.


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