Eddie

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 Eddie 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 Eddie at 3:39 pm
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