TITAM - Technical issues that affected me

I used the logging function for real for the first time last week.  It works well, although the software has now started to crash occasionally under XP. The crash is not a big deal, because it only occurs when you begin logging.  In other words, if it starts logging, it's fine.  If not, you know before you lose any data. This would be a total pill if you were waiting for an event before you started logging, because it might crash as soon as you press "Start".  But you could always start logging ahead of the event. The only other problem is that the software does run out of buffer at about 45 hours, max.  If you want to do weeks of logging - like I did - you have to save and reset the buffer every 2 days tops or lose data. Oddly enough, what little I have found on the MS8226T meter indicates it does not have this problem.  It still has the RS-232/USB interface - same style as the MS8218.  In fact, aside from the 50,000 count display...

You type in a path and file name into Acrobat, you get this: Apparently, this is because Acrobat is too "stupid" to append the ".pdf" to your information. For example, if you type "C:\Temp\MyPDF", you get the error. If you type "C:\Temp\MyPDF.pdf" instead, no error. Am I the only one who thinks this is stupid?

Recently my Xperia X10i has started "crashing" and shutting down when attempting to take a picture or video. The phone was working fine, and I don't recall doing any significant updates.  It's always possible that an application updated in the background, though. Still, the phone was working fine for quite a while, and for at least a month since my last application was installed. First, the phone started to shut down whenever I tried to take a video using the built-in camera application.  I chalked this up to some kind of bug between the camera app and CameraZoomFX, which I had tried but no longer used. Next, it started to crash and shut down when taking a photo. One time it began "crashing" and shutting down over and over.  I began to restart it, over and over, and it would shut down over and over before I had a chance to see what was going on. After four or five attempts, I noticed the battery indicator had dropped from 40% to less than 10% in ...

If 3DM2 suddenly stops working in your browser it is probably because your browser has recently been updated. LSI (the company that bought 3ware) has information on this in this rather cryptically titled knowledge base article. It seems from my experience that Firefox 11 and IE 9 are now both unable to access the 3DM2 web GUI. [Update]:  This is a fundamental problem with the SSL and TLS protocols.  The browser updates fix the flaw, but the clients (i.e. 3DM) must be updated to be compatible. There may be a fix described here in the Mozilla forums, but I have not investigated it yet.  It seems LSI has updated the 3DM executable to be compatible, but you have to install it manually, which should hardly be a big deal. [Update #2 (2015)]:   LSI KB article describing fix. I haven't done it yet, but it >seems< you do the following: 1.  Stop the 3dm2 service (Windows) or daemon (Linux/FreeBSD).     Tip:  /etc/init.d/tdm2...

As the title says.  They WILL fit, with an inch or so per side to spare. OBVIOUSLY, you will not have any clearance to rotate the monitors from portrait to landscape.  I can't imagine this will deter too many people. With the Acer's going for about $135 each, this is a damn good package with tons of LCD real estate.

I've been using the same router in my system since - gasp - 2004!  It was a Xincom, and it's big claim to fame back then was it supported dual WAN inputs. This was a big deal when internet bandwidth was hard to come by.  The easiest way of getting more bandwidth was to sign up with more than one ISP.  I did just that, and bought hardware to match. However, I dropped the dual internet connections a long time ago, and pretty much ignored the poor thing until it died last night.  It's been a fantastic piece of kit, having outlasted nearly every other piece of hardware I've ever bought.  Including the second Linksys WRT54G that I had for both wireless and backup purposes, which also turned out to be busted. The failure was weird, too - it got Alzheimers.  Stopped remembering it's own password, as well as all of the other settings, and usually (but not always) forgot to answer the door when you came round to knock.  I suspect the EEPROM/Flash memory f...