Fortunately, there is a configuration setting that will give you more time to enter the BIOS screen at startup. It will make the POST screen delay for the specified number of milliseconds.
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Android 4.0.4 on Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 3G – the morning after
August 15, 2012 — Bayo Oyekole
Like many other Galaxy Tab 10.1 owners, I was unwilling to wait for the OTA update for Android Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0.4), so I went searching on the NET as soon as I heard that it had been released in Italy. I found these very simple instructions on youtube – there’s no point repeating them [Read More →]
FilterExpression in ASP.NET SqlDataSource
August 15, 2012 — Bayo OyekoleThe FilterExpression tag in ASP.NET does not support the between operator. If you try to specify a clause like “between x and y” as your filter expression, you’ll get the error message: The expression contains unsupported operator ‘Between’
Reading a Binary XML stream in WCF
June 27, 2012 — Bayo Oyekole
If you don’t provide a dictionary to read the XML stream with, you will get a weird and unhelpful exception that says “the input source is not correctly formatted”, and googling around will only bring you to posts telling you that “your client/server endpoints are not matched” or “you need to use the basicHttpBinding”. This is not a binding issue – it’s a deserialization issue that comes up when i make an attempt to inspect the soap messages coming in to (or going out of) my WCF service.
Installing VMware Tools on VMware Player 4.0.2 – Temporary fix
February 19, 2012 — Bayo OyekoleWhile looking for a fix for the inability of VMware player 4.0.2 to get updated vmware tools (I was getting the error message “Could not find component on update server. Contact VMware Support or your system administrator.”), I found a workaround on the vmware community threads. They say the issue will be fixed in a [Read More →]
Specifing the bridging network adapter in vmware player 4
February 19, 2012 — Bayo OyekoleFor those of you using VMware Player 4 on linux hosts, if you’re not happy with the autobridging for the vmnet0 network, you can choose a specific network adapter to bridge to using vmware-netcfg.
How TestDisk and the GParted LiveCD saved my deleted partitions
February 18, 2012 — Bayo OyekoleI was messing around with Vmware converter (in windows XP, running from a dual-boot partition), and then I kept getting the following message: “FAILED: Unable to find the system volume, reconfiguration is not possible” at 95% in the reconfiguration step. Apparently the windows ‘System’ drive was not marked as active. This was indeed true, because [Read More →]