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Conflict and Workaround: GPSProxy, HP iPAQ hx2490, and the Virtual COM Port Driver

My younger brother has been wanting to use GPSProxy + Garmin Que on his HP iPAQ hx2490 Pocket PC which runs Windows Mobile 5 (WM5). We'd had no luck during the past few months trying to get this configuration to work. First there is a serious conflict between the Thai language software SmartThai such that GPSProxy fails to load when SmartThai is enabled -- i.e. its shortcut exists in \Windows\StartUp folder. We disabled SmartThai and got GPSProxy successfully loaded but the next problem is that its Virtual COM Port driver always fails to load. The problem is that the HP iPAQ Bluetooth Software takes up all available COM ports, and GPSProxy Virtual COM Port cannot be loaded nor initialized. I tried several hacks, which include using a registry editor to delete a virtual COM port key allocated by the iPAQ bluetooth software. Unfortunately, these keys are protected by the operating system and cannot be deleted. Well...today...by chance...we found a way out. The solution: Turn off B

The EASEC-10 Conference Website

EASEC-10 My school is organizing an international conference: The Tenth East Asia-Pacific Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction (EASEC-10), and I've been helping my professor on the website -- as "the" webmaster & web programmer. I was a successor to a computer science master student who programmed the website in Active Server Pages (ASP). ASP is an old technology and is quite difficult to manage. So I decided to upgrade the website to ASP.NET 2.0 and pushed myself in the learn-by-doing mode. It works! I've learned a lot about ASP.NET 2.0 during the past week. I've just finished starting a blog section also. My personal blogging skill has helped a lot. You are invited to visit the website at www.easec10.net . Keywords: events , school , blogging , conferences , structural-engineering , civil-engineering , phd