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If you install an NVS300 supplied by HP it’ll disable the onboard SoundMAX hardware because there’s a sound device built into the video card.

I tried a lot of things, including nVidia’s downloadable drivers, HP’s drivers and a few other options but eventually found it was a BIOS setting issue.

• Go into the BIOS (F10 on startup)

• Scroll across to Advanced

• Select PCI Devices

• Once you’re in there, you’ll see the following:

• The trick is to press the Page Down key and you’ll get to see the second set of PCI Devices:

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So, you’re wanting to type some Latin notes quickly, but you’re sick of using the numeric keypad or you’re unable to because your laptop hates you. Here’s a good way to work around it, by having buttons to insert the text into the current point you are at in the document!

• Right click and Save-As on this link to download the file - this is all the magic code to make this work.
• Open Word 2003.
• From the main screen, press the key combination Alt-F11.
• Ensure you’re working on the Normal template, by double-clicking on Normal then Microsoft Word Objects then ThisDocument.
• Right click on the Normal title and click Import File…
• Select the file and click Open.
• This should import the file into a Module called Module1 or similar, double click on Modules then double click on the newly created module item.
• To rename it so we know what we’re dealing with, go down to the module properties (which should be in the bottom left) and click next to (Name).
• Delete what’s in the box and rename it to Macrons.
• Hit enter and it’ll update the name.
• Click on the Save icon in the top of the window to confirm the changes to the Normal template.
• Close the Microsoft Visual Basic window and you’ll be back in Word
• Click on View -> Toolbars -> Customize…
• Go to the Toolbars tab and create a new toolbar by clicking on New… and giving it a name. Ensure you’ve set Make toolbar available to: to Normal.dot.
• Change to the Commands tab.
• Scroll down in the left hand window and find Macros then click on it.

For each of the Commands in the right hand side which start with Normal.Macrons.:

If you’re like me and got excited after finally reading up on the Mass Effect Universe, you’ll likely have bought it cheap on Steam

I had a problem initially where it would crash on startup. I googled around a lot, and found not much. I tried:

• Verified the Game Cache Files
• Turned on Windows XP compatibility mode for any .exe I could find
• Tried all the different settings I could find while running MassEffectConfig.exe

I’m sure I tried a few other things, but none of it worked. As soon as I would run the game from Steam, the MassEffectLauncher.exe or MassEffect.exe it would crash straight away.

May I present… Gamer grub. I wasn’t sure what to expect when buying a packet from MilSims.. and I’m glad I didn’t set my expectations too high!

From the back of the pack:

15 browser tabs, 11 apps, voice chat and two games running. We couldn’t find a snack that could keep up… so, we made our own. Gamer Grub (R) is a delicious performance snack packed with essential vitamins and neurotransmitters to keep you focused and quick. Just ‘Tear N Tilt’ into a pack of Gamer Grub (R) to multi-task and game… no greasy fingers.

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So.. I’ve always said that I would buy myself  a banjo, and someone called me on that today. Ten minutes later, I’ve found a low-bid auction on eBay and now I’m counting down the days 🙂

So, I finally got to see the movie 127 Hours. I’ve been meaning to watch it for a while, but movie-time at home’s been scarce and convincing RMB to watch it with me even harder. After finishing the first season of Revenge - hopefully there will be a second - we were completely out of things to watch, so I just hit go on the first thing in the “Incoming” list.

So, 1.2’s a little slower for some reason and I wanted some speed. I did a little googling around and found a few ways to enable x86_64 capabilities with the OSX Minecraft client.

Minecraft’s JavaApplicationStub needs to be replaced, so back it up then link the new one in by running the following commands from [Terminal](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_(Mac_OS_X):

cp /Applications/Minecraft.app/Contents/MacOS/JavaApplicationStub /Applications/Minecraft.app/Contents/MacOS/JavaApplicationStub.orig
ln -s /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/MacOS/JavaApplicationStub /Applications/Minecraft.app/Contents/MacOS/`

Add 64-bit to the application’s capabilities by running the following command:

I had an issue recently where I needed to allow FTP access to a server, as WordPress is a lot happier if you can allow it to (S)FTP to the account to do things. I didn’t want to allow it to clients outside the server, so I had to muck around with the iptables-based firewall I have. To work out what rules I had setup on startup, I checked out the script I have setup on startup on my linux host.

A quick way to add a new node to a Puppet-managed system is as follows… (I run Ubuntu, but this should work on most systems)

On the new node, run this:

sudo puppetd --test --waitforcert 5

On the puppet server, run this (in a separate window, without closing the previous command):

sudo puppetca --list

It should show the hostname of the new node you’re trying to add, if you find it run the following:

I’ll just leave this one here. I guess even people you think are smart can have dopey days 🙂