It’s quite annoying having to create Windows installation discs.
One thing I find is that every single time I do it – I keep having to check the internet, so here’s a note of the important bits.

Extract the service pack
servicepack.exe /extract:C:\SP\

Integrate the service pack with the copied installation disc
update.exe /integrate:C:\OS_source\

Extract the boot image from the CD [...]

Well, the BlackBerry is coming along nicely. I’m gradually getting it to work the way I want it to work.
So far, the cool bits are:

Google Maps uses either GPRS or GPS (you can connect a GPS receiver with Bluetooth)
Yahoo! Messenger works off the bat and can stay connected at all times. Never miss an IM [...]

Sometimes, you don’t want people reading the fine detail on a PDF document. Especially if you’re lying about when the document was created.
Can you image the conversation?
“Hey, Jeff – I got your report on the bug monsters.”
“No worries, Dave. Just annoying when the email goes missing like that.”
“Er, yeah. By the way – I checked [...]

Steve and I have been working on a YouTube video downloader based in PHP. One of the features that I’ve been adding in is the ability to upload videos of any format and be encoded into a FLV, just like those big YouTube sites.
One of the problems I’ve been having is that the WMV videos [...]

I upgraded to Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron over the weekend. The process was relatively painless, and some of the upgrades made little, but nice, improvements.
Finally, the UPNP media rendering functionality in Rhythmbox is working!
To set this up, you need to access the command line, and install the pyhton-coherence package:
sudo apt-get install python-coherence
Once installed, fire up [...]

So, Vista’s been out for a while now - some people think it’s great (usually they are selling it), some think that it’s pants.
Now, I’m not far from the front of the queue when it comes to raving about Linux. Ubuntu was the second Linux distro that I have tried, and I’ve stuck with it quite [...]