I Fought the Tech and the Tech is Winning!

July 25, 2006

The USB to VerizonWireless adapter from Elan arrived Friday. I went to do the install and continually got “Access is Denied” messages during install. I tried logging in as administrator, using safe mode, nothing worked. Support wasn’t much help, these things are just too new. Finally, through searches, I narrowed down similar issues to permission on a registry key. Good luck finding which key for a new device! So I adjusted permissions on software keys until it worked. Sorry, I’m still not sure which one. But it works and it’s cool.

Buuuuut, somewhere in the process, I lost my sound card and the tablet input panel icon took over the whole taskbar. A system restore was the only solution I could find for the tablet input panel and I still can’t get the sound card drivers to install. The driver starts installing, runs the processor to a 100% and hangs. So I can now watch TV anywhere with the Slinbox and the high speed cellular card, but I can’t hear the sound!

I haven’t given up but I’ve been wrestling with this for almost 5 days on an off. Something’s not right with that!


mpolino.com is Down

July 21, 2006

mpolino.com is down due to an IP address issue. It will take a day or two for the fix to filter through the internet. But hey, you can still read blog entries at mpolino.blogspot.com or at my brand new, super duper, soon to be unveiled blog at mpolino.wordpress.com.


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