A cold easter egg hunt
My nephew looking for easter eggs on a cold easter afternoon.
Vista Tip – Slow Vista file copy processes
I’ve been using Windows Vista on my laptop for several months now and each time I go to copy files from another networked machine it tends to take a really long time. Sometimes it’ll say “Calculating remaining time…” and it will never finish, it doesn’t even time out after sitting there trying to calculate how long it’s going to take to copy 100mb across the network. I’ve noticed this happening from time to time on copying files from my laptop to an external hard drive or usb thumb drive as well. I didn’t experience this issue when I had XP loaded on my laptop so I figured it ruled out a hardware issue. I checked the DMA settings for my laptop’s hard drive and it had DMA enabled like I would expect it to.
Finally I had grown to tired of this slowness so I jumped on Google and went through several forums and tried several different fixes, non of which helped. Then I found my way to this Microsoft hotfix that basically said it’s an issue with Vista, there’s a hotfix for it but you have to contact Microsoft support to get it. They also said that you should just wait for the first service pack of Vista, but this issue has been bugging me to much to wait and Microsoft didn’t want to give up the hotfix. I didn’t really feel like calling Microsoft Support and being on the phone forever etc.
Back to Google I go and I found the hotfix available for download from theHotfixshare.net. Sure enough the hotfix worked and my file transfers, particularly network transfers, are a lot faster. They don’t like you to link directly to the hotfix, so I won’t link directly to it, but if you goto their site and goto downloads, then select “language neutral” then Vista. Search for KB931770 you’ll find it on that page.
Since you never know how long a site might be around I’m putting the hotfix on my site for download as well. I take no responsibility for what this might do to your computer, so don’t whine to me if it messes something up. It worked fine on my Alienware laptop with Vista Home Premium on it. Get it here.
Easily Entertained
One plastic cup, some water, some soap and a straw = babysitter for 6 kids for 1 hour.
New car smell
I bought a 2006 Volkswagen Jetta last week. It’s great to have a new car (except when the payment comes around). Our old car was costing me too much money.
Wallpaper – Volkswagen Logo
I purchased a 2006 Volkswagen Jetta last week so I wanted a VW logo wallpaper!
I’m lovin the new car, my old one was ready to retire! :)
I’m lovin the new car, my old one was ready to retire! :)
This big
For the life of me I can’t remember what this guy was saying. You’d think he was talking about fishing based on his hand gestures, but, we were at the Grand Canyon and nowhere near water. I wasn’t actually paying attention at the moment, I was just amused by his mannerisms and how intently everyone was listening to him.
Hummmmm
Waiting on the world to change
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I hadn’t ever tried stacking a polorizer and a neutral density filter to get the smooth water, but it worked well here even for being almost noon with little cloud coverage. In the past I had always shot in lower light (like at sunset)with long exposures which works but you run the risk of the other areas in the shot not being as sharp because of slight movements. Another benefit to doing it this way and at this time of the day is you don’t have to fight with bugs as much!