SwisherTech

After about a whole day of scouring the internet I have found a solution that seems to work. Before I give the solution let me explain the problem.

The Problem:
When I try to install a driver for the nvidia GeForce Go 7600 the computer would restart to a blue screen. The only option of booting up was with safe mode. Once in safe mode I could uninstall the driver and restart into regular mode. This went on all day trying to install video card drivers from the nvidia site and HP site. I also tried updating the bios and manually specifying the inf file rather than running the setup.exe file. The problem machine would still boot to a blue screen unless I was using the standard VGA driver.

The solution:
After many hours I came across a post here http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=51785. The suggestion to use the tweaked driver here http://www.tweakforce.com/ solved my problem. The driver acts just like the nvidia driver with the nvidia control panel, but does not cause the computer to blue screen on boot.

A great tool I always forget about is Resultant Set of Policy (RSoP). You can run the command rsop.msc from the run or command menu. The wizard will return with the group policy set that is currently applied to the machine.

I was trying to get Tom Cat to start on Windows 7. When trying to start the service I would receive an error message stating the service could not start.
After some digging around on the internet the solution to the problem was to set the environment variables.

right click computer and choose properties.
click advanced system settings.
click environment variables.
under system variables click new.
input the variable name as JAVA_HOME and the value as the path to the root of the jdk directory.
Add another new system variable.
input the variable namee as PATH and the value as the path to the bin folder in the jdk directory.

i.e.

JAVA_HOME C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_12
PATH C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_12\bin

I purchased a Sony Blu-ray BDU-X10S internal player for my computer. I tried playing a rented copy of the movie Wanted and found the movie to studder and skip. After countless hours of trying different Blu-ray player software I found the problem to be the firmware.
This is a warning to all that have bought the BDU-X10S player. UPDATE YOUR FIRMWARE!
The thing that really got me was I could play the movie 21 just fine all the way through. After some research it appears the movie companies are constantly changing the encrypted protection on Blu-ray discs. I have a feeling this may lead to constant firmware updates to my new Blu-ray drive.

http://sony.storagesupport.com/product/317#drivers

One of my current projects at Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. has been featured in the newsletter for Inductive Automation. Inductive Automation makes the development tools we use to rapidly deploy system integration solutions. You can read the article about our use of Inductive Automation's products and see some screen shots of what we have created. Below is a link to the Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. interview and a picture of of the screen I created featured on Inductive Automations website.

http://www.inductiveautomation.com/news/?id=60&type=2