I took a few days off work and we went to Taiwan for Christmas. It was great, even though it was unusually cold and wet.
The guided tour the first day brought us up one of the many mountains, then after lunch, where we unfortunately didn’t get to try the Ma Poo, we were just in time to see the changing of the guard at the Martyrs’ Shrine, followed by a quick dash around the National Palace Museum to see the Jade Cabbage and Rock Slab of Meat!
Windows XP Service Pack 3 is now available for download from Windows Update.
See the Technet article on installing Windows SP3. Note that they recommend having WinXP SP2 installed before installing SP3.
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Hiroko Mima has won the 2008 Miss Universe Japan. Hiroko, a university student and athlete from Tokushima in Western Japan, was selected from amongst 9 other beautiful ladies to represent Japan at the Miss Universe competition in Hanoi, Vietnam on July 14 later this year.
Having had the pleasure of meeting Hiroko, and two of the other competitors, Kana Anan and Yoshimi Sato, at the Emerald Ball in March, I can honestly say that the photos do not do them justice. The girls are much more beautiful in real life, and after putting up with 20 drunken Irish young lads at the Westin Hotel, they are great sports too.
More photos after the link
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The other day I was trying to get an unattended Windows XP CD to work in a virtual machine, but by mistake I ran it on my physical PC instead, doh! I thought I canceled it in time, before it had a chance to do any damage to my Windows installation, and I was able to continue using the PC as usual.
But when I rebooted my PC today it displayed the following error:
INF file txtsetup.sif is corrupt or missing, status 14.
Setup cannot continue. Press any key to exit.
Android is an Operating System and application suite for mobile devices. It is being developed by the Open Alliance Project, with Google being a major partner so its is developing a lot of interest. The fact that Google has launched the Android Developer Challenge, which will provide $10 million in awards for mobile apps built on the Android platform probably has something to do with the amount of interest.
I decided to give it a go. Installing it and getting a simple application running on the emulator was a breeze. The installation instructions on the Android site were relatively straightforward, and the videos helped getting the application to work.
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Having trouble with your .NET framework? I had a difficult time getting Windows Update to install Hotfix KB928366 on my computer. No matter what I did, I couldn’t uninstall or fix the .NET Framework. After a lot of Googling and trying different suggestions, here is what worked for me.
How to re-install the .NET Framework 1.1
If this doesn’t work for you, here are additional instructions for repairing .NET version 1.1, 2.0 and 3.0.
You dont often see this amount of concentration where I work!
