Lost and Gilligan’s Island

The secret connection!

In 1964, a dramatic TV series called “Lost on Gilligan’s Island” was filmed. Since it was too dark for a 1960s audience, the series was retooled as a slapstick comedy called “Gilligan’s Island.”

Four decades later, the ABC network remade “Lost on Gilligan’s Island,” this time remaining true to the original dramatic vision. The 2004 remake was titled simply “Lost.”

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X13riysl9ng[/youtube]

Hibernation Problems on a Dell D610

I love the quick startup after hibernation. I’ve been using it for years. But since upgrading my Latitude D610’s RAM from 1 GB to 2 GB recently, I often get the error “Insufficient system resources exist to complete the API” when trying to hibernate.

I should have Google’d it right away instead of suffering with it for a while. A quick search led to KB909095, with a fix for the problem. Too bad it’s not always that easy…

Extract Files from a .msi

This from my friend Mark:

If you ever have need to extract files from a .MSI file, you can copy the file to a temp directory and from a CMD prompt type msiexec /a <msi_file_to_extract_files_from.msi> and it will run an administrative install of the MSI where you can direct the contents to go. Very handy…