I have a love hate relationship with Raid controllers, why do they always make the simplest job sound really scary? The home PC has a Raid 1 array using the Nvidia Mediashield system, occasionally the disks get out of sync breaking the array, so time to rebuild… why is there not a really obvious route [...]
One problem I have with Windows XP installed under Parallels on my Macbook occurs when I plug in new USB devices. You get prompted to connect them to the Mac or the virtual machine. If I select the VM then nothing further happens, windows sits there ignoring the device. I have to run a “scan [...]
Useful Delphi function to obtain the various special folders from the Windows operating system (2k, XP, etc). You need to pass a folder ID integer in, the various enumerations of the special folders are listed in the comment block at the top of the code (e.g. CSIDL_STARTMENU). function GetSpecialFolder(FolderID: Integer) : String; { CSIDL_DESKTOP CSIDL_INTERNET [...]
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