Some interesting new things for Sharepoint such as better support for Firefox and full support for IE8.
http://blogs.technet.com/office_sustained_engineering/archive/2009/04/16/service-pack-2-for-the-2007-microsoft-office-system-due-to-ship-april-28th.aspx
Friday, April 17, 2009
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Codec and “Windows 7” Explorer Crashing
I recently found out that due to corrupt or incompatible codec’s installed on my upgraded Windows 7 (from Vista), Windows Explorer will crash when it tries to produce “Thumbnails” for the icons it is trying to represent.
I had to turn enable “Always show icons, never thumbnails” to get Windows 7 to be stable. Love the thumbnails feature, but love a stable OS more. the OS is fun and solid for a beta…too bad something like faulty codec’s can break the explorer.
Codec Pack and Windows 7
Before upgrading Windows 7, you should uninstall any Codec Packs that you might have installed. Microsoft did a lot of work to add great support for common Codecs and having Codec's packs can cause issues with playback or stable support for video. Research your codec pack before upgrading (k-lite, shark007 vista, etc).
S.
Windows 7 – NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS Beta Driver
Windows 7 Updated provides a beta driver for my XPS m1330 NVIDIA card:
I’ve had a lot of stability issues with this update. Good thing that “Rollback Driver” still works in Win7 :) Update at your own risk.
S.
Linksys Powerline AV Adapter
I tried this technology a few years ago and did not have much luck with it. It was a D-Link Powerline system that converted your standard power outlet into instant network cabling. It just didn’t work and was unreliable.
A little while ago, we added a Powerline-based security-IP camera to our network from Logitech. Its a really cool system and easy to setup. Web cam plugs in outside directly into an outlet. Then you plug another box right beside your PC/Server (one side into an outlet directly and the other into a USB port) and blamo, you got a direct network connection from the security camera right to your PC/Server.
I figure i’d try Linksys’ second generation Powerline systems to connect my Windows Home Server 2003 to our network. It was working over a Wireless N Network well, but was chewing up valuable Wireless bandwidth, plus, the Linksys Wireless N USB Adaptor would give up about once every two weeks under load requiring the server to be reboot (yuck).
I swapped out the Linksys Wireless N USB card on the server with a Powerline AV Adapter Kit HD (PLK300) and its been working great for a few months now.
This diagram shows how it uses your power plugs as a network.
Windows 7: Security Providers
As per my last post, Norton Anti-virus that came with my ISP (Rogers) did not make the upgrade to Windows 7 Beta. When opening the application, it stated that it required to be reactivated. When running the activation, it complained that it was not a supported OS. Even worse, i was not able to uninstall it. However, i did find this link:
Thankfully, Norton provides a FREE trial till March 27, 2009 of their Norton Anti-virus software (Norton 360) for Windows 7 (along with AVG and Kaspersky Lab). Norton 360 found my broken previous Norton install and removed it for me before installing itself.
The new version is so much cleaner and simpler that what i had before. Nice work Norton.
Welcome to my new space
I’ve decided to add my blogs to this service as well as my existing Windows Live Space (http://stevencwong.spaces.live.com/). I will be reposting some of my popular blogs to here.
I have been using Windows Live Writer and its a nice interface for writing blogs. It posts to multiple services and provides a great way to blog both on and off line.
Cheers!
S.
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