Another very useful medical education site that is extremely simple to join and add content to. I will be using work here towards my CPD targets 🙂
GMEP – Global Medical Education Project
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Windows 8 upgrade
Microsoft never make it simple. I purchased a windows 8 upgrade for 25 quid to upgrade my existing windows 7 install. However my SSD with win7 on it died so I installed windows 8 onto a new SSD. But then windows wouldn’t activate as it was a ‘clean install’ rather than an ‘upgrade install’. Seems like this is a common problem but easily sorted
- Open regedit by pressing Windows-q, entering regedit and selecting the result from the list of hits.
- Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Setup/OOBE/
- Change MediaBootInstall from 1 to 0
- Go back to the start screen and enter cmd there.
- Right-click Command Prompt and select to run it as administrator.
- Type slmgr /rearm on the command line and hit enter.
- Reboot Windows now.
- Run the activation utility afterwards, enter your product key to activate Windows.
WHS 2011 slowdown
Tried watching some tv episodes streamed from my WHS box and found them stuttering really badly – first time ever doing this. Logged into WHS and found one drive completely full with half a terabyte of ‘client pc backups’. Did some googling and found out how to remove safely the unwanted ones and freed up the necessary space
here is the excellent howto
No more stuttering 🙂
Cycling DIY
Cycled up to work today, nearly killed me, much more than usual. Turns out the rear brake is binding. I tried to adjust the caliper mountings and managed to depressure the caliper instead = rebleed of the avid brake which is a pain (although 50ml luerlock syringes are useful for this 🙂 ) I have also lost half a powerlink when taking the chain apart to soak it in degreaser. If you see it let me know…..
Life in the fast lane
Good Emergency Medicine site based ‘down under’
One recent article managed to trigger a GMC educational visit to our Department/Trainees 🙁
Useful learning point is how your Hospital needs to adapt to managing staff using social media
Christmas Day wine
I’m trying to choose my wine for Christmas Day. So far I have almost decided on a red from Langmiel winery in Oz and a safe sauv blanc from Marlborough in NZ – Fairhall Cliffs
Windows 7 Homegroup vanishing #2
Well, that fix didn’t last long. I’m utterly perplexed by this. I’ve reset windows firewall rules on the remote pc which worked. For a while. The workgroup vanished again from my main rig. 🙁 . I’ve looked more closely at my main rig and have uninstalled Comodo firewall and gone back to using Windows firewall again. This seems to have cured things. For the moment anyway.
Windows 7 Homegroup vanishing
I have had issues with a Win7 homegroup vanishing (and therefore its shared libraries) from the homegroup list on my main PC. I can still browse shares and remote desktop into this other PC but can’t see it’s Homegroup. Weird thing is if I am sitting at this other PC i can see ALL the other Homegroup members with no issues. After much searching this seems to have solved the issue after i ran it on the remote PC
Sometimes the HomeGroup listening service is disabled.
Click on Start, and search “Administrative”
Click on “Administrative Tools”
Click on “Services”
Scroll down the list until you see “HomeGroup Listener”
If it is not started, right click on it and hit “Start”. If it is started, right click on it and hit “Restart”
Below it is “HomeGroup provider”
Do the same for that.
Scroll down until you see “Peer Networking Identity Manager”
Start or Restart this. It should also trigger a restart/start of “Peer Name Resolution Protocol” and “Peer Networking Group”
Now go back to the HomeGroup settings on your computer and the HomeGroup should be visible.
All sorted now 🙂
Best kids android handset
At the moment it is probably the Huawei Ascend G300. £100 on PAYG then a fiver to network unlock off ebay and then root,unlock bootloader,install recovery and flash a custom ROM of your choice 🙂
There is an excellent how-to guide here
You can now network unlock it gratis but ebay was quick and easy.
Android WordPress app
Useful app so I can post from my phone or my tablet