Conoco Phillips Invitational

Hannah had a great meet in Bartlesville. She had three 9+ scores and one 8.75. Great job!

Time warp table saw

Saw stop. One of the coolest power tool products in many years.

Best feature? No more lopped off fingers!

Here is the video from the show Time Warp on Discovery.





The manufactures website also has videos.

Wow, I want one.

Hannah Level 8 Gymnastics exhibition on Youtube

Here is Hannah performing Vault, Bars, Beam, and Floor during the Fall 2008 exhibition at Dynamics.

Youtube links to other events

EZInput keyboard for Windows Mobile

Are you after a better Windows Mobile keyboard? Check this out at xda-developers.

This is the keyboard from the HTC Diamond and it is much better than the default tiny Windows keyboard.

To install you'll need to login to your xda account and download these files from the first post:

Keyboard .cab file
English language file
Set this as default keyboard

Download all these files and install them in this order. You'll be prompted to restart the phone between each .cab but you can wait until the end to do it.

Windows XP Defrag

JKDefrag is a small, fast defragmentation program that is much better than the default provided by Windows.

It's pretty much command line only so a nice frontend with many useful options is JKDefragGUI.

Cell phone insurance

Squaretrade offers 3rd party phone insurance for a yearly fee. Check out retailmenot for coupon codes for up to 50% off of that yearly charge.

Reviews of squaretrade from Nextag, Epinions, and Google seem positive.

Log Me In Password changes.

If you have a user account without a password and you need to change the logmein access code (which is linked to a hidden logmein user on the pc) follow these directions:

If you have forgotten the access code, or it is not working, you should change it. In order to do this, you should be physically sitting at the computer with LogMeIn installed.

To do so, right-click on the LogMeIn icon in the system tray, choose tools and click Change computer password...
This will prompt you to enter in a new Access Code.

If the Icon is not in the System Tray, please go to Start > Run Just use the Instant Search in Vista and:

• In Windows 2000:
  Type: control userpasswords hit [Enter]
• In Windows XP, Vista:
  Type: control userpasswords2 hit [Enter]

Highlight the LogMeInRemoteUser, and click Reset Password this will allow you to change the Access Code.

Note: We do not recommend using the Access Code if your computer is on a Domain. Please remove the LogMeInRemoteUser from your system, then use your Domain credentials to login to your computer remotely.

Altiris SVS restoration from a disk image

Original SVS forum article

Summary:

Always backup your registry before changing anything!

1. Mount your ghost c: backup as virtual drive (e.g. f:)
2. Run regedit
3. Navigate to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE key
4. Use 'File/Load Hive' to get keys from Ghost Image registry files located at:
f:\windows\system32\config\
Pick the hive file (e.g. SOFTWARE) you want to load and proceed. You'll be prompted for a keyname to use. I use 'GHOST_SYSTEM' and 'GHOST_SOFTWARE' to make cleanup easier.

4. Create a batch file for the new registry path, ie:

Regedit /E "SVSBAK1.reg" "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\GHOST_SYSTEM\Altiris\FSL"
Regedit /E "SVSBAK2.reg" "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\GHOST_SOFTWARE\fslrdr"
Regedit /E "SVSBAK3.reg" "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\GHOST_SYSTEM\Altiris\SVS"
Exit

5. Use a text editor with 'find and replace' to remove 'GHOST_' from all 3 exported reg files. Note that you may need to be creative to edit bak2. It's really big and can be opened with openoffice writer with UTF8 option.

6. Use ghost/acronis to restore the files to the new base system.

7. You don't have to "unload hive" if you don't want to, but I prefer to clean up my base system and delete GHOST_SOFTWARE and GHOST_SYSTEM.

8. Dbl-click import these files back.

SVS can be downloaded from www.svsdownloads.com

Another resource of information.