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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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
Categories: Technophobic
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Microsoft seem to want to own the world, and I am sure that if they were able to buy it, we would be on planet Microsoft right now.
If you don’t already know, Microsoft brought a 1,6% stake in Facebook. This deal cost Microsoft $240 Million and gives them the right to sell banner advertising outside the US. Microsoft have also made a bid to acquire a stake in a local telecom company called Blue Label Telecoms (BlueTel).
It is scary to think that the likes of Microsoft and Google are becoming Giants that no business can compare to and will most likely be bought out by either of them.
Google’s who share price rose to over $700 just announced their plan in the mobile industry with their new Android platform which will turn the mobile industry on it heads and let it roll around in Google powder for a bit.
I am one who is pro competition, and I am worried that these Giants are crushing all competition and creating an anarchy of how things should be done. Don’t get me wrong, I think Google’s ways and ideas are brilliant and are generally good for the public but Microsoft has always been “dodgy” and has built a reputation of doing it for the money and self benefit rather than the better good of the public and its clients.
Written by Seagyn Davis on November 8th, 2007
Categories: Technophobic
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Those of you who have a telephone line, ADSL line or anything that the South African Telecommunications giant has to offer know who Telkom are. They are the “Fixed line operator” that were given a monopoly by the South African government and allowed them to have total dominance in the fixed line market until about 2000/2001.
It has taken 6 years for any competition to Telkom to start brewing and now it is coming in barrels. Neotel, who have been in the country for almost 2 years now, have suggested that they will soon launch there services to residential clients in a few months, but they will not be running a fixed line service, well on the most part. Check out an article I wrote a few months back.
Well now MTN is looking at buying out Telkom. Which would make it a huge telecommunications company by anyones standards. I think the deal should go ahead, we need a fresh name in the industry and I think many consumers will agree.
Duncan McLeod from fmtech.co.za wrote:
Those concerned that power in the industry will be concentrated in too few hands should look to the US, a highly competitive telecom market, which has only two big telephone companies, both of which provide the full ambit of telecom services to a market dozens of times larger than SA’s.
I will try update you as soon as I get any information. Competition is good, and even though this would theoretically remove some of the competition it will give the likes of Vodacom and Neotel a wake up call.
The original article can be found on fmtech.co.za
Written by Seagyn Davis on November 2nd, 2007
Categories: South Africa, Technophobic
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