Alastair D'Silva

Our Vista Media Center machine was continually waking up a few minutes after it was put to sleep. This lead to higher power bills, and higher greenhouse gas emissions.

To find out the cause of the last wakeup request, you can execute the following command from a Command Prompt:
powercfg /lastwake

Unfortunately, this didn't give any useful information for me, so I took the following approach:

1. Identify the devices that can wake the machine up: powercfg /devicequery wake_armed

Samantha from Cairns Net has published a guide on unlocking the Engin 121 DECT VOIP phone. You can read her guide here: http://203.55.215.1/121/.

Having just upgraded to a new TV, we are now connecting most of our equipment via HDMI/component where available. We have a Joytech 540C Xbox Control Centre
which ties all our non-HDMI sources together, and it generally works
well, switching composite, s-video, component, stereo RCA and optical
SPDIF. It also has a builtin 5 port 10/100 ethernet switch (I wish it
was gigabit though). Unfortunately, when feeding a component signal
from the Wii, the colours appear washed out, and the screen

A few weeks back I picked up a couple of Engin 221 VOIP DECT phones (a rebadged DLink DPH-C160S) from Ebay, with the hopes of being able to use them with my Asterisk server. As it turns out, the Engin ship these units with crippled firmware, so you can only reconfigure the IP settings, but not the SIP settings, rendering it useless for anything except talking to Engin. It won't even work with their VOIPer accounts, nor are they willing to unlock the device.