Amazing stuff. Look here.

Here it is! I certainly hope it’ll fix a number of the problems I was seeing, but I haven’t had time so far to try it out.

I have this nice new i-mate SP5 phone, which runs Windows Mobile 5. My desktop PC, to which that phone is usually connected with ActiveSync, has the ISA Server firewall client installed and the proxy settings in Internet Explorer come from that client automatically. So far, so good. Now, as soon as I connect the phone to the computer, ActiveSync copies the settings for the proxies over to the phone and also resets the setting My desktop connects to (Start | Settings | Connections | Menu | Adv …

My i-mate SP5 has WLAN, Wi-Fi, whatever you want to call it. It still runs the smartphone edition of Windows Mobile 5, where things are a bit different from the Pocket PC stuff, apparently. I can’t figure out a way to set a static IP for that WLAN connection. I guess I could probably go edit something in the registry, but so far I’m having a hard time believing there’s actually no way to do this via the normal user interface… I’m having much le …

I’m glad I know Sarah Blow and she’s got better eyesight than me, apparently  — okay, and a lot more experience with Windows Mobile. She found the problem I had with ActiveSync immediately and pointed me to a setting in the Connection Settings dialog (File | Connection Settings), called This computer is connected to. This was set to “Automatic”, but there’s also an option “The Internet”. I’m not sure why, but changing this option made the whole problem go away at once… not only the part …

Just passing this on — there’s additional detail available now on the homepage of the Developer Developer Developer project about the organization for day 3. Most importantly, if you’re planning to speak there, you must have your session proposal in until March 17th. Other dates are  the session voting period from March 17th to April 7th, notification of the speakers until April 14th, publishing of the agenda on May 1st and opening of the registration on May 2nd. …

My installation of Visual Studio 2003 Enterprise Architect doesn’t run through… I tried it twice and there’s a point where the current action is shown as “Removing registry entries” or something very similar to that, and that’s where suddenly some msiexec process starts gobbling up a lot of CPU and never terminates. Killing that process makes the setup process fail, but I don’t get any detailed information about the real issue, probably because the problem isn’t recognized by the MSI system. …

I just found out the hard way that low-level drivers like the Nero driver for the Image Drive feature may not be compatible with Vista at all. Right after I activated the driver, Vista crashed with a BSOD and I wasn’t able to boot back into it, not even in safe mode. I was able to use the Vista installation DVD to boot into the system recovery tools and restore the system from there using the last restore point. I’m sure this may be happening because I’m still on Nero 6… they never managed to …