Boot an XP VM with a working controller and the right Virtual Hardware Open Device Manager and expand the IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers Choose the Controller and then go in and view the properties Make a note of the PCI\Vend string. In this case it's VEN_8086&DEV_7111...
Profoundly confused by Windows search. After Windows XP|2003 it doesn't seem to find anything even if you know the file is there. Indexing doesn't seem to find the files either. Selecting it to find system and hidden and still no joy. So here is my work around for...
Set FaxServer = WScript.CreateObject("FAXCOMEX.FaxServer") FaxServer.Connect "" ' use empty quotes if you want the local machine set FaxDevices = FaxServer.GetDevices() msgbox(FaxDevices.count) Discovered that this only queries physical fax devices that show up in Fax...
DISCLAIMER Update: This is for a SCSI disk controller 0x7B error. There is some information here http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314082 from Microsoft regarding IDE Controller Driver Injection into an image and I have tried it successfully. I have just taken a ghost...
Note: I just discovered that this script doesn't work with network faxes. What I mean by this is the fax device appears to the user but isn't listed in the devices of the fax manager. So if you are wanting to send to a fax that is accessed via \\servername\faxname and...
Just discovered the <abbr> HTML tag a nifty way of inlining your abbreviation explanations. It allows you to unmystify TLA's with the abbr HTML Tag. You need to hover over the TLA to get the abbreviation. On my blog the abbr tag doesn't change the text colour to...
I have been using Dropbox (http://www.dropbox.com) and Box.com (http://www.box.com) to share files with people. Dropbox has great Linux support and integration into the Gnome Nautilus file manager. Box is good too but is more Windows / Mac Centric and I think...
I'm currently transferring a Formtrap Forms Server to a later version and I want to run the new and old servers in parrallel for a while so I have added a heap of printers onto a Redhat 5.5 Server pointing to the new server. The trouble is that all the settings aren't...
Update March 2015: It appears that Scribus' support for bwipp is now broken the control characters you need to insert correctly formatted barcodes now seem to be ignored. So I can't get a valid GS1-128 barcode by using Code-128 and inserting the correct Symbol start...
I'm in the process of creating a Perl script that sends configuration commands to a SATO printer via a Moxa networked serial port. My problem with the development process is the Moxa and SATO Printer is in a Tin Shed that climbs to 35° C plus. It's not much fun...