So you’ve downloaded a mp3 using the browser, but it’s magically converted to mpga for you (thanks! turns out an mpga is just an mp3).  MPGAs don’t work in RingDroid though so…

• Go to Market and download Astro File Manager.
• Navigate to the file, probably in /sdcard/download
• Hold down on the file -> Rename
• Now just rename it to .mp3 instead of mpga

And hopefully you’re good to go

My first impression of Ion Audio was the Tape 2 PC deck I saw in Currys, and I thought looking at the price and possibly the design (I come from hifi so I’m a bit of a snob) that it was some disposable Chinese stuff.

I needed a way to convert my parents old tapes (or rather for them to convert) to a modern media. The system has to be simple, robust, not look terrible (the seperate will sit amongst some nice Marantz gear) and above all not sound bad. So far the Tape 2 PC has ticked all the boxes.

Anyway I installed it and the aux inputs on the back weren’t working. I tried wiring it ten different ways and read all the manuals twice, I’m good at problem solving, device clearly broken…

I rang Ion Audio Technical Support, and strangely it had a number with an area code, like a REAL telephone number. It rang for a little while, then a pleasant lady picked up, I wasn’t transported to a call centre, a real human, and at 5.45pm! The lady was very polite and helpful, and suggested a few ideas on what could be wrong. I tried it again just to be sure and the bloody thing worked perfectly. I have no idea how I got it wrong many many times or what was up, needless to say it now works fantastically and we’re all very happy.

Anyway I just wanted to try to give some karma to Ion Audio and their Tape 2 PC device, a UK company with real people (not call centre script regurgitators)  on the end of their phoneline, how very refreshing. Next time I make a hifi purchase I’ll certainly check out their offerings.

You can go into the GUI -> Your site -> ASP -> Debugging Properties -> Send Errors to Browser -> True

but that doesn’t seem to help you remotely. You need to do this (remember, don’t do this on a production server):

Start -> Accessories -> Right Click Command Prompt and then Run as Administrator, then do the following:

I took my Uni-Trend UT101 meter apart to replace the 10A fuse. To do this you just remove three screws from the case and the board pops out. Stupidly I took it all apart before I realised I could get to the fuse, and the rotary selector fell apart along with the five contacts.

I contacted Uni-Trend, which despite being a Chinese company (and less likely to answer my English email I thought) very quickly forwarded my query and sent me the circuit diagram pdf, fantastic service and gave me more faith in Chinese products and their support!

Anyway I sat down and worked out the contacts needed to get the diode tester working. If you can’t see it in the picture then if 1 is the inside of the selector and 5 is the outside then

Left side of wheel – 5 and 3
Right side – 4, 2 and 1

UT101 circuit diagram.

Image Resizer Powertoy Clone for Windows

1. Get the XP drivers from the Epson website (the 1200U drivers are here under TWAIN Driver v5.53A).
2. Extract the drivers.
3. The setup.exe will run automatically, cancel it.
4. Navigate to the setup.exe (probably in C:\epson\ somewhere), right click and go to “Troubleshoot compatibility”.
5. A few moments later it’ll give you the option to run it in XP SP2 compatibility mode, which installs properly and now I can use my scanner

If you found this post helpful and have a UK company you wish to advertise please check out the company I work for The National Pages, here’s an example of a listing for Car Finance in Reading.

Cleanup failed to process the following paths:
- \\ourServer\ourDirectory\
In directory ‘\\ourServer\ourDirectory\images’
Error processing command ‘committed’ in ‘\\ourServer\ourDirectory\images’
Can’t move ‘\\ourServer\ourDirectory\images\.svn\props\imageName.jpg.svn-work’
to
‘\\ourServer\ourDirectory\images\.svn\prop-base\imageName.jpg.svn-base’:
Access is denied

We run VisualSVN server on Win7, serving up a local (Win 7) repository. All our files are checked out using Tortoise to a samba share under Debian. After some googling it turns out that a particular version of samba causes this error. To solve it I did a few things

1. Established what version of Samba we were running by running
   smbstatus
2. I then updated our samba by running
   apt-get update
   apt-get upgrade samba
3. I then edited smb.conf following the discussion at http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4061&dsMessageId=989775, what to do can be found at http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/faq.html#samba but basically
   nano /etc/samba/smb.conf
   find the line [global] and underneath add
   delete readonly = yes
4. Restart samba with
   /etc/init.d/samba restart

And things played nicely ever since!

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1. Open AVG
2. Double click Resident Shield
3. Click Manage Exceptions
4. On the left click Excluded Files
5. On the right click Add
6. Browse to C:\Program Files\Spotify\spotify.exe and Open that
7. OK that screen
8. Cancel the next screen

Now AVG won’t be look at spotify.exe any more.

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Lightning only works in beta with Thunderbird 3, and Google Provider fails. I followed various guides, but none worked, until I used the en_US version of things from

http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/calendar/lightning/releases/1.0b1rc1/win32/en-US/

Just grab the two .xpi files and add them to your Thunderbird 3 addons.

http://russtaylor.co.uk/files/british_english_dictionary-1.19-fx+zm+tb-version-3-compatible.xpi

The original file can be found at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3366