Navigating my Bike

 Cycling, Life, Technology  No Responses »
Apr 212012
 

When I drive my car, I rely on Sat Nav, its just one less thing to think about, and yes – i have one that is meant to alert me to traffic and reroute. its saved me from getting parked on a couple of closed roads.

The bike navigation was always meant to be another use for my Garmin Vista HCx for which i have now bought a rail mount, but the first forays in Hampshire were just trying to tie it onto the handlebars. An Elastic Band was a good temporary solution.

A throwaway comment about cycling to the office led to looking at the OpenCyclemap and using the Bike Hub website to plan a route from office to hotel (as I would drive to the office)

I could have used the android app and done the navigation on my phone, but did not have any way to fix that to anything, and my phone is a bit more fragile than the GPS. So how to get the route onto my GPS? Well, I can download the .gpx file from BikeHub and then use Garmin Basecamp to transfer the route onto my GPS. This then let me navigate along quite happilly.

 Posted by at 6:02 pm

Microsoft Money Sunset – Autorun.inf problem

 Computers, Technology  No Responses »
Apr 212012
 

I am still migrating to a new laptop.

I wanted to install Microsoft Money Sunset on the laptop, but the download from microsostf would not run. My solution is as follows

  1. Unzip the downloaded file using 7-zip
  2. inside the extracted directory run “mnyinstall.exe”
  3. when it suggests you stop and run “setup.exe” instead, click “no”

Thanks to the comment from a forum

So I unpacked the archive using 7-zip for example to a new folder. In the folder I clicked on mnyinst.exe instead of setup. It gives a warning and suggests you run setup.exe, but I clicked no to that and it continued installing without any problems.

 Posted by at 3:39 pm

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