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Thanks to an excellent mention of a man I will name as “Rich”, I give the wonderful resolution to this problem!

For a basic summary of this problem –

If you were to stick a Wireless Card, like a Merlin V620, or the similar kind of PC Cards into your Vista machine, the system would immediately bluescreen.
This is obviously a fairly serious problem if you’d like to use your card in your system!

With the guidance and resolution already experienced by Rich, I offer the following solution!
In Computer Management – Device Manager – find “Smart card readers”

Look for something similar to “Texas Instruments PCI GemCore based SmartCard controller”
Then disable it.

If you do not use the SmartCard reader, then this is not a problem, if you do, certainly there is room for finding another/alternate resolution. Until that time though, I offer this. :)

Let me know if this works for you! Or if you have a better solution ;)

Christopher Kusek

Well, “The shaving” happened this weekend.

No.. not THAT shaving!

No, the shaving of my head to raise money for Cancer research, treatment and cures for children with Cancer with the St. Baldricks Foundation.

Some of you may not know this, but my very mother was afflicted with cancer. She received treatment which removed the cancer from her body, however the follow-up treatment is what got her. She didn’t die from the cancer itself, but from her body being in a frail state following what was required to treat it, to prevent any future recurrance. That being said, she would have done a lot better off not getting treated in the first place, sadly.

If this kind of thing can happen to an adult, quite extended in their life, imagine what similar treatment does to children who haven’t had the opportunity to build up the rigor and strength to fend off this kind of bodily afflicting treatment.

Your $$’s will help to discover new and better treatment (hopefully even the cell resonance cancer treatment! :))

Thank you.
– Christopher Kusek (Christopher.Kusek@Peters.com)

Photos from my shaving can be found here.

You can support and sponsor me here!

And as promised – here are the Videos!
Video #1 – Interview and preparation for shaving with Kimberly! (Kim)

Video #2 “The Shaving! No! Not Willie Nelson!”

Again, I’d like to thank everyone who contributed and those who continue to as well.

Special thanks go to Charlie and Laina for being able to come at the last minute to do Photos and Video.

With a side props out to an excellent sister (or brother) site.. Geek 2 Geek!

Thank you all very much.

Christopher Kusek

Well, with the impending doom of DST upon us, I did a very short primer presentation on DST at our most recent CWUG.

It is not intended to be the end-all be-all presentation on DST… It is just what it was intended to be – A Primer!

So with that said, here is a copy of the presentation in its wondrous PDF converted format! Cheers!

Christopher Kusek

DST 2007

Well, I’ve found this excellent site with Vista Drivers, and with that, I provide you this link.

www.radarsync.com/vista

This page appears to be a nice consolidated source of Vista drivers – all stacked up and loaded in a single location.

For those of us running Vista, I would not hesitate to run not walk! to get these drivers!

Hope this helps you, I know it’ll help me. :)

Christopher Kusek

While reading about some of the new changes to licensing with 2007/Vista, etc I came across this incredible mention.

I mention it very specifically as I have an entry farther down exclaiming that in 2003, Outlook is tied to your Exchange licensing. That however is no longer the case. While certainly you can get around this with having your CORE Cal’s for Office, or the Enterprise desktop, this will mean some changes of experience or interpretation from the licensing stand point. So, with that said, the below is the ‘final’ word, or atleast published on VARBusiness. If I get additional links on this off of MS’s site, I shall include it there respectively.