I got Bluestack to work with my Android2_3_3 app…SWEET…
It’s WAY FASTER than the eclipse emulator
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Android2_3_3 Proj12 Bluestack Win8
The Android 2.3.3 SDK was as far as I could go without getting an error.
More on this as it develops.
It’s official… There’s plenty of money in the account… I WANT to purchase and download the “Digital Download Version” of the movie “Office Space” and due to #Apple Fail on the FLASH part and no intervention on the Amazon.com website to make an alternative <BUY> button that isn’t FLASH… I can’t place an the order…to give Amazon money…to buy Office Space.
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Then someone on Twitter said…Oh, there’s an app for that…. OK… fine.
Now, here is what happens when you try to use the Amazon iPad App.
Amzn iPad App Cant Buy Digital
You have to click on the pic above once and then again to zoom it to see “This mobile application does not currently support digital downloads….”
Really? Then Mr.. Bezos your iPad app is a big fat FAIL. You should have to explain this negligence of money gathering to your shareholders.
So…. I STILL dont have Office Space on my iPad.
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Then someone will say…just downlaod it to your computer and use iTunes 9.1 to load it onto the iPad………. Really?……….. No, Really?
There is a sync service issue that is keeping iTunes 9.1 from seeing my iPad on XP pro OR Win 7.
Ummm Yeah… Hi, This is Bill……..Bill Lumberg
Ummm Yeah
So….can Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos agree on a method? Please.
O, and Steve…. I really really need to sync the iPad to windows…. iTunes is broken…. Please fix.
More on this as it develops
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As you probably know by now, Win 7 doesn’t use the boot.ini file like previous versions of Windows.
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All three OS’s insist on taking over the mbr boot process. If you always reloaded all three OS’s in the order of oldest Win first, the next oldest Win, then newest Win, and finally Ubuntu with grub preferably on fd0=floppy (because hd0=Hard Drive has traditionally been prone to failure at some point).
The problem quickly arises when you need to reload one of the OS’s. If you go out of “order”, then the last one takes over the mbr boot up and may or may not see one or more of the others.
This is unacceptable.
Supposedly you can edit the boot sequence on the Windows 7 side with \Windows\System32\bcdedit.exe
My experience was that I get “access denied” even when I am in Administrator mode. There is also a bcdboot.exe My experience so far is a big fat fail on this one.
Boot.ini will show the partition for the XP (and older Win versions) but that doesn’t help with Win 7 or the others.
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I found a freeware from @neosmart (on twitter) http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1 called EasyBCD Ver 1.7.2
After repairing my lost Win 7 using the Win 7 CD, I ran EasyBCD on the Win 7 side and did “add entry” to find the XP pro partition.
OR
Another time the Win 7 CD Repair saw the Win 7 ntfs, but still didnt fix the mbr and I was still stuck booting to XP only.
In this case, I still installed EasyBCD Ver 1.7.2, but it had errors when I tried to run it on this XP pro SP2.
To get rid of the Easy BCD errors, I had to download and install “MS Installer Ver 3.1, and then install dotNET Ver 2.0 SP1 (in one place I saw that you might have to also install the dotNET Ver 2.0 SP2)
At any rate, EasyBCD once again saw the Win7, and I had to add the XP entry and let it “Make MBR” and on reboot, all was well again.
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I used Sun Virtual Box (free) and loaded Ubuntu 9.10 into a pre-formatted ntfs partition. This is a slower work-around solution til they get the MANDATORY Grub2 tuned better. http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
More to come on this as it develops…
You can download it free til August 20, 2009
**** Annoying bi-hourly time outs from Mar 1, 2010 til June 01.2010 phase out of the RC trial – Time to buy or move on soon.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dd353205.aspx
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Per Microsoft, here is what you need to have for the PC:
“Here’s what you need to have:
*** I wanted to keep using FAT 32 but you MUST use NTFS on this partition to install to.
My desktop PC is a 1.4 Ghz AMD +1700 32bit with 750 Meg Ram and I loaded it into a 8.36Gig partition as 1 of 3 Win versions in this triple boot machine.
The actual minimum footprint was 6.57 Gig in my install of Win 7 RC1 Build 7100. I have restore points turned off. Im sure with all possible feaures on and updates that you quickly get to the 16Gig that they require.
I was NOT able to put this on an old laptop because this old Compaq Presario 1255 only has only 168 Meg of ram.
The Win7 32bit RC1 Build 7100 .iso is 2,471,656 bytes (2.4 Gig)
“Normaly” I would “burn image” of this iso on my lite-on DVD burner, which extracts and burns the contained files to a DVD+R in this case. Although my burns of DVD’s seemed good on my HP DVD+R media, they all got about halfway through the Win 7 install and had the following error:
“Windows cannot install required files. The file maybe be corrupt or missing>.. Error code 0x80070017
This was evidently a common error in loading Vista too.
All I could find was recommendations to go with x1 or x2 speed and use DVD-R media (maybe Verbatim brand). I didnt have that handy… so now what…
First off, i had to reformat my G: drive everytime as NTFS.
I used Undisker to extract the .iso to the XP (F:\) partition and then after booting into XP, I ran setup for Win 7 from there. The “size on disk” of the files was2.37 GB (2,551,152,640 bytes). This avoided a need to buy DVD-R disks.
*** You MUST also have about 990 Meg of free C:\ partition disk space although the Microsoft popup claims to only need 680Meg. Trust me, you get crashes partway through if you dont have enough C:\ space for installation files.
After about an hour of error free install time, I was trying out Win 7 RC1.
This free release candidate is supposed to be ok til March 01, 2010. After that you can only use it a few hours at a time and then not at all after June 2010. See microsoft site for details and any changes/clarifications to their offer.
*** I recently heard from someone that used DVD-R disk and used PowerISO for the burn and that worked too.
Now I get it. I was like Jerry Seinfeld? and Bill Gates? and Churros? and shoes?
Usoft learns about PR… Ahh…
Now if they add Kramer… then I’d laugh.
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I heard about this recently on SecurityNow with Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte. I havent done this yet and it’s strictly use at your own risk. It is available from Heise Security in the UK and is for download.
From what I have heard, it makes it possible to download a disk that would have Windows updates up to a certain date.
http://www.heise-security.co.uk/articles/80682
Why would you want this? If you have to setup machines from scratch. It supposedly will make it much easier to get the new install caught up to a certain date with the Windows patches.
Windows already has a Service Pack2 available and there is a Service Pack 3 that will contain as I understand it the patches since Service Pack 2. However, as I understand it, the Service Pack3 hasnt been available for download yet.
So, in the meantime, you might check this out.
Credit to Leo Laporte that has covered the tech and computer industry for many years and is probably most known for the Screen Savers tech shows on cable over the years. Leo has an awesome network of podcasts now including this one with Steve at twit.tv
Steve Gibson is the maker of Spinrite which may be able to help you recover a damaged hard drive or help it not get in a mess to start off with… and also famous for ShieldsUp and other utilities that help with computers and security.
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A few words of trib to a cool site that may help you get back to an older version of various software.
Sometimes an upgrade is the worst thing you can do. Hahaha
If it ain’t broke….yeah don’t fix it. And if it’s Windows, the fix maybe worse than the broke.
A very well done rap song and an hysterical video to go with it.
“I’m a….. right clicka..I’m an MacBook Flippa…
Mac’s and PC’s…no fight gets bigga….
…Betta know what’s you rap…a Mac or PC….”
This is sorta old news now. I heard it on Net@nite, a podcast from Leo Laporte and Amber MacArthur. It’s still VERY funny. Check it out.
Peter Furia, Beau Lewis and music by O’clock
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