On Monday we installed our on SBS 2003 Server to backup all our very valuable work and mails. Those of you who have connected to a domain before know that a new profile is created for you if the connect client utility is used. So I decided to take this opportunity to format my computer and install a fresh copy of XP Professional.
It went very smooth and in 30 minutes I had formatted my entire Laptop and had a fresh version of XP running. Just to let you know, I refuse to go to Vista until it is stable and well tested (which it is not at the moment). I was delighted at the fact that I already had the drivers downloaded and began to quickly get up and running again. So I thought…
I did find something out very quickly, that even though I had all the drivers downloaded, Sony have devised a master plan for the VAIO and that is called the DLL Shared Library plus many other utilities required by the hardware on the laptop.
So if any of you have a Sony VAIO VGN-S58GP and are wanting to format it clean without using the recover facility that steals 10GB of hard drive space and partitions your precious C: drive into a mere 10GB I suggest you do the following.
- Go here - and download and run each file in order. Rather bookmark the page and download each file and install it before downloading the next.
- Forget about the error you get whilst trying to install the modem driver and carry on.
- Now to get the audio/modem to work we need to first download the high definition audo driver (the modem shares the high definition audio bus) - go here
- This should have installed all your drivers and utilities on your VAIO. If your audio still does not work you may need the audio driver as well - go here to get it.
I hope this helps you get your system up and running again quickly. I know that I just wasted an entire day trying to get this to work which was a huge waste of time and money.
Written by Seagyn Davis on January 29th, 2008
Categories: About Me, PC Technical, Technophobic
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Email newsletters should be part of everyones marketing campaign and yes a lot of people do use it and use it effectively, but are their methods efficient. In this article I am going to show you what is a terrible but common practice and then let you in on what you should do to effeciently get your product/event/company out to your subscribers.
One of our clients send out email newsletters/invites. They usually send out about 100+ email per newsletter/invite which is an average amount and rather small if you compare it to big newsletter marketing companies out there who send out 1000’s a day. Their problem is that they use good old Microsoft Outlook to send them through a Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 machine. They create the invite, send the mail and because the server is running as the SMTP server the mail appear as if they have gone instantly leading to the conclusion that they can send out another. Need less to say in one day they were able to amount to 1400 delayed message trying to cram through the small 512Kb per second ADSL line. Beside this not being an efficient way to send out mass mails, they are also missing key components in creating a perfect mass mail campaign.
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Written by Seagyn Davis on January 24th, 2008
Categories: Technophobic
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It is pretty guaranteed that if you use the internet, you receive spam of some sort.
I receive plenty of spam; on my e30 forum which now receives the occasional spam bot trying to sell cellphones that are fake, on my email - through all 6 accounts and now the newest thing for me is spam on my blogs. Every blog receives 5 or 6 spam comments a day! Yes a day! So with 3 blogs running pretty well I am getting a minimum of 15 spam comments a day, 105 a week and a whopping 420 per month.
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Written by Seagyn Davis on January 10th, 2008
Categories: Internet, Technophobic
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2 weeks ago I got my new phone. Yes a brand spanking new smart phone and here it is…
Now, for those of you who do not know what that “brick” is, it is the Nokia e61i. Why you ask? Well when faced with the very competitive world of the internet I decided I have to be able to keep up with and even surpass some of my competitors.
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Written by Seagyn Davis on December 19th, 2007
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Google has just launched its first mobile phone location based service in the US.
This service works off determining which cellphone tower you are using and will then show you only services provided in the surrounding areas.
This is just one of the moves Google are making in the mobile market and this service is running without consultation of any of the network operators.
Written by Seagyn Davis on November 29th, 2007
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