Richard Fearn

This is how I build pssh on Windows XP, using Cygwin and prc-tools.

After installing Windows XP on the VGN-FE31H, the screen brightness keys (Fn-F5 and Fn-F6) no longer work. To make them work again you need to install some of the utilities that ship with the laptop, which are also available in the FE3_Utilities.zip download from the Sony web site.

After the introduction of the MySQL Enterprise Server, and the subsequent source-only release of Community Server 5.0.33, there was concern that MySQL would no longer provide official binary builds of the free Community Server. Fortunately, these concerns have now been addressed, but we will have to wait longer for binary releases.
In the meantime, you can [...]

I recently bought a Sony VAIO VGN-FE31H. It’s a pretty nice laptop, except for all the proprietary software that it comes with. The first thing I wanted to do was reinstall Windows XP from scratch.
I hoped that I would be able to get official drivers for the hardware in the laptop, but for most of [...]

So, getting Apache and PHP to work on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 was harder than it should have been… if you get this in your Apache error log:
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library ‘D:/PHP/ext\\php_mysql.dll’ - The specified module could not be found.\r\n in Unknown on line 0
chances are it [...]

Getting this error when trying to allow incoming Bluetooth connections?

Event ID: 7024
Description: “The Routing and Remote Access service terminated with service-specific error 2147483720 (0×80000048).”

Try this:

unplug your Bluetooth adapter
go into Control Panel → Phone and Modem Options → Modems
remove the “Communications cable between two computers” modem
plug in the Bluetooth adapter and let Windows detect the hardware
set [...]