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Low Cost 19″ Rack Solution

You have been looking for a low cost 19″ rack solution for your living room? Then you should check the LackRack homepage. It comes with many tips and tricks for your low cost 19″ living room rack

Canon 0D – The Flagship

It seems to be official how the new flagship from Canon will look like, several pictures can already be found in the internet

It comes with the following incredible features:

• Photoshop CS3
• Nikon Mount (also for Canon, Olympus, Sony and Sigma)
• Inspiration
• Blue-ray/DVD/CD-Writer with Nero Software
• Touch Screen
• Instant HDR-Button
• 3x 1TB hard dics
• Windows Vista
• TV, Radio, MP3, Phone
• Umbrelle
• File Sharing Client

Really incredible

Dual/Multi Core Support for Visual Studio 2005/2008

It’s a shame, but Microsoft Visual Studio 2005/2008 doesn’t support compiling several .c / .cpp files in parallel when working with a dual/multi core CPU. Especially when e.g. compiling  on a Intel Core i7 with quad core and hyper threading this is really annoying. In Visual Studio 2010 this will be supported… But many many people want to work with Visual Studio 2005/2008 and get advantage of their powerful multi core CPU’s.

For this reason you can get the MPCL Plugin, it enables support for compiling several files in parallel on all your cores. It’s not for free but the price is fair.

Links

• MPCL plugin homepage

Network Neighborhood Browsing Slow

I often experienced the problem that a click on the network neighborhood in Windows needs very long. This may have several reasons. I recognized that in my case it is related with the VMWare Workstation installation.

VMWare Workstation installs two virtual network adapters, one is used for host-only networking and the other for NAT networking. This virtual adapters may cause the network neighborhood to become very slow.

To come around this annoying slow network neighborhood I know two possibilities:

1. If you only use bridged networking for your virtual machines
   => disable both network adapters in the control panel
2. If you use host-only or NAT for your virtual machines
   =>disable the “Client for Microsoft Networks” and “File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks” protocols in the properties of the two virtual network adapters

Links

• VMWare Communities: Slow network browsing in Win XP host

Notebook Memory Parity Error (Dell Latitude D820)

Recently my several years old Dell Latitude D820 began to freeze several times, around 1 time a day. It happened never all the years before. The last half year I’ve upgraded to Windows 7 Ultimate and purchased new 4GB RAM, but the freezes started a few weeks ago. This is why I think the problem is not related with Windows 7. For checking the hardware I’ve used the Dell diagnostic tool without detecting and problems.

One time a blue screen was displayed with a memory parity error. So I’ve tried to remove first one RAM and after still having freezes the other one. Still with the problem.

After reading many posts which said this may not only be a problem of the RAM, it may be also a problem of:

• motherboard
• graphics card
• WLAN (WiFi) card
• …

Removing the WLAN card isn’t difficult, so I did. Furthermore I’ve disabled everything with WLAN and Bluetooth in the BIOS. Afterwards the notebook was running without problems for a few days.

Today I’ve put the WLAN card back into the Notebook (BIOS settings still disabled) and after a few hours a freeze happened again with crazy graphics output.

It seems that the WLAN card causes this problem in my case. It’s not 100 percent proofed but I’ll do further checks and reports.

Update 28th January 2010

Since the last crash after a few hours putting the WLAN card back in the Notebook it runs stable now. WLAN and Bluetooth is still disabled in the BIOS. It really looks that WLAN or Bluetooth causes the problem in my case.

Links

• Dell Latitude memory errors messages; freezing, random rebooting problems