Sending links via Gmail using Chrome
This page has a javascript that makes it easy to send the url for the current page in Chrome as an email using Gmail.
I did have to modify it to make it work for my Google Apps for Your Domain account. I just had to modify
mail.google.com/mail/
with
mail.google.com/a/{your domain}/
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Music format support on Nintendo DSi
Today I bought a new microSD card for my phone. My son also wanted a SD card for his Nintendo DSi. He wanted to use it to put music on for playback. So I figured that I would give him the 2GB card that was I was using in my phone.
When I copied some mp3 files to an SD card, and they were not playable. It looks like the Nintendo DSi only plays AAC files. On their web page they link to the Nero software where they sell it for $6. You can do the same thing for free with iTunes.
Windows Home Server recovery
For a while there has been an update to MyMovies that I have been meaning to install. On Saturday, I decided to do the upgrade. The first thing that I did was uninstall the old Windows Home Server add-on. The uninstallation appeared to go OK, and I was prompted to reboot the server. Once I did, the server would not fully boot back up. Since this is a HP MediaSmart ex475, and there is no video out, the only option is to recover the server. Since server recovery consists of reinstalling the server software, I decided to to take this opportunity to upgrade the system drive to a 1TB drive that I had, but hadn’t used.
Reinstalling the software went fine, but I was never able to get it to automatically recover the data from the other drives. Supposedly, when you do a server recovery, the data will be automatically reconstructed from the drives.
Instead, the server partition is created, and all of the other drives are just mounted, but not added to the storage pool. No data is lost here, but you just need to copy the data back to the storage pool. This page describes the steps required to recover data. I am using GoodSync to do the copy, as it pretty much functions like rsync, but doesn’t require cygwin. The copying of the data will take a few more days.
Windows Home Server user account tips
Over the Thanksgiving break, I helped my grandmother with some things with her computer. One of the problem is that on one of her new computers, her account name was spelled differently than it was on the Windows Home Server. This causes her to be prompted for her username and password when she tries to mount the server.
Unfortunately, in Windows, you can change the display name for an account, but you cannot change the username. In order to fix this, you need to create a new account with the right username, and then copy all of the files to the new home directory.
Since when you create a new account on windows, the control panel doesn’t offer the ability to specify the username and display name. I would recommend that when you create a new account, you create an account and specify the username. Then after the account is created, change the name to the name you want displayed (This only changes the display name)
