How to install WMP54G Drivers on Windows 7 Beta 64 bit (or Vista 64 bit)

My media center machine is my guinea pig. It’s relatively old with it’s nForce 440 based motherboard, Athlon 64 3200+ (Socket 989), and 1 whopping gig of memory. It’s also got a Hauppauge MCE500 dual analog tuner and an ATI 4550 with HDMI out to my Samsumg A550 40″ LCD.

I couldn’t [...]

Lite-On Wireless NIC Driver – Lite-On makes wireless cards?!

Recently, while doing some work for a client, I needed to reinstall Vista. She had Home Premium, but needed to be able to RDP. So, she purchased Business, and I did a clean reinstall on her Hewlett Packard Pavilion Elite m9402f. Sidenote: I was pretty impressed with the machine overall. Quad core Phenom, 8GB [...]

Using HttpWebRequest to perform HTTPS post fails with strange error message

Recently, after upgrading a server to Server 2008, some developers (ok, about 15 developers and BAs) began complaining that a post to a 3rd party vendor was no longer functioning. One of the devs whipped up a winform app to test from the server and locally from his workstation. From his Windows XP workstation, [...]

www.chaoscollectibles.com and PowerShell system.net.webclient Script

I finally did it. I got the e-commerce bug and started my own shop. I’m working with Dave K on it, and we’re progressing quite well with a lot of mentoring from Bill and all of his XekoShop experience.

So, PhishThis will contain a lot of posts related to how I’m making like easier [...]

Windows Media Player 11 Won’t Minimize to Taskbar AKA – Mini-Mode

This has nothing to do with PowerShell :p

That said, I was sitting here working on ye olde blog when I thought “I want to listen to some Foo Fighters”…then I minimized WMP and it just…minimized. I wanted mini mode, where I get all of the controls on the taskbar…it works on my laptop, [...]