The Life of Matt Campos

I attended the Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fund Raiser hosted by dkVOGUE in West Hollywood last night, was a great event with interesting people, was sponsered by dkVOGUE, Fritz Hansen, Angeleno Magazine, and Casa Noble. Was a wonderful event, the backdrop of the dkVOGUE showroom was amazing, with the classic/modern Danish furniture it made the event  wonderful, eye catching and breathless at the same time. The event was to raise money for breast cancer reasearch; they sold tickets for the raffle of some wonderful prizes. Amoung the prizes were some hand painted 7 series chairs, several autographed books, two sets of 4 chairs and the egg chair. I bought 1 ticket, solely to give a donation to Cancer research, not really figuring to win anything nor was that my goal.  But as luck or divine intervention, I won the main prize of the limited edition $6000 Fritz Hansen/Arne Jacobsen Egg Chair. So to my host dkVOGUE, other sponsors of the events and Fritz Hansen I would like to say thank you.

I use ClamWin as my antivirus, I think its a decent product and it gets the job done. My only Complaint was windows would nag about not being able to find an AV. So I did some searching and came across a great blog post by Quandry on remstate.com on how to integrate ClamWin into WinXP.  He has a VBS script that registers ClamWin with the Security Center and it works on Vista too! So hop on over to his site, grab the script and run it! Remember to run it with administrator rights. I just opened the command prompt as admin and ran it. Enjoy! And if you like it let the Author know!

Albert Einstein:

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.

I was running into an issue where windows was telling me I was missing my nvHotkey.dll, I had recently installed the newest nvidia driver on my laptop, I have a Sony Vaio VGN-SZ750n, and I upgraded my video driver using the latest driver from nvidia.com. When I started receiving the error I went to the nvidia driver folder (usually C:\NVIDIA\driver#) and found the nvhotkey.dl_ compressed file. I then uncompressed it and stuck in my windows\system folder. Viola, problem solved.

Need to know how to uncompress the file? Here are the instructions:

You need to expand a file when you want to copy just one or two files from distribution disks of a software application without having to reinstall the whole thing.  This situation occurs when you have unsuccessfully installed a program which causes one or two of your system files become corrupted.

The compressed files that comes in the distrubution disks of your program are normally compressed. They have their original names with one character replaced with an underscore (”_”), like ole32aut.dl_ for oleaut32.dll
You can expand a compressed file into its original file using the EXPAND command in DOS window as follows:

“Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.” Mark Twain