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You need:

• A 1GB USB stick  for Windows xp or 2GB for higher os
• A Windows OS to run the tool
• The tool Novicorp WintoFlash (tool is multilanguage)
• a Windows installation CD or extracted installation directory

Steps:

1. Extract the WintoFlash tool
2. Start the tool
3. Follow the wizard
4. 
5. Set source (Windows installation files or CD)
6. 
7. Now complete the wizard and your stick is ready for use

Now you NEVER need a stupid CD anymore for Windows installation purposes

Note: if you have some trouble with the windows activation try these steps

1. Type “about:config “ in the address bar and press enter proceed by agreeing to the warning.
2. Double-click on browser.urlbar.trimURLs preference to turn its value to false.

Locate is a great unix/linux util that you can use for fast file searching.

enable locate (search command database) this takes 10 minutes the first ime. But it is a background process.

sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.locate.plist

Updatedb (search db)

sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb

find a specific file

locate file

Earlier I wrote an article how to build a cheap XBMC media center with a XBOX1. But nowadays you want a high definition media center and XVID and DIVX isn’t acceptable anymore on your full HD television. So I read a lot of information how to make an nice media streamer like the popcorn hour, ac rayon and xstreamer but then highly customizable .

I choose for XBMC because it is highly customizable and there are tons of addons, plugins, script, skins, fanart, visualizations. XBMC is a media streamer so it’s recommended that all your downloaded music, photo’s, tv series and movies are on a NAS (network attached storage) device. If you want there are NZB and torrent plugins and you can download the software to the local disk but I don’t use any of these methods. XBMC is also in almost every language and the GUI for normal use is girlfriend, wife and kids friendly

Because the software is highly customizable and it’s always in development you get sometimes some unstable situations when you change some config settings. I can live with that but if you want a very stable product maybe you can better look further to an out-of-the-box product like the AC Ryan.

Also the software isn’t for noobs. If you don’t like to spent hours to tweaking the software how YOU want it please buy a product like the Popcorn Hour or AC Ryan that isn’t customizable.

But for normal use the software is stable and you will very often surprised by the tricks and the nice performance of the XBMC.

XBMC is open source and cross platform. There are official builds for OSX, Windows, Linux, iPAD, Apple TV and more ports still coming. The build I choose is OpenELEC. I choose for OpenELEC because that is an embedded linux distribution optimized for XBMC only. The software is compiled for all the common hardware platforms. The boot time is 30 seconds with SD (with SSD 5 sec) and the installation is very easy and I explain here how you can install the XBMC OpenELEC software.

The hardware I use is a Zotac ZBOX ID41, 2 GB RAM (Kingston ValueRAM KVR1333D3S9/2G) and a 4GB SD class 2 card. If you have an Android or Apple smartphone (or tablet)  you can download the “XBMC remote” app for remote. So you don’t need to buy a remote.  Total costs 200,- euro. That is very cheap for a full hd media center

What do you need to build this system:

1. Zotac ZBOX
2. 2 GB of RAM
3. 4GB SD card
4. Tabled or smartphone for remote (xbmc remote app installed)
5. 256mb or higher USB stick for the installation
6. OpenELEC ION x86_64 build (link)
7. HDMI cable
8. USB keyboard
9. Putty
10. UTP Network cable and network connection (wireless also supported)

Hardware:

Unboxed:

Now open the cover

Build in the memory
and *click*

Turn on the ZBOX to see if you get a boot error (and the memory is working correctly)

Press ok and then quick install

Now connect with putty. User “root“, password is “openelec” and apply the fixes. After you applied the fixes with SSH/Putty you can change the sound settings within XBMC. But if you don’t it work also

Bye bye good old XBOX. After eight years of loyal service, I will miss you

I hope you enjoyed this review if you have some questions feel free to ask

I have an HTC Desire phone. I like the phone but there is one big problem; the NAND (internal storage) is way to small. I installed a lot of ROM’s but the last time I install Cyanogenmod 7.1 with the “Launcher 7″ and I did a lot of customization I don’t want to reinstall my phone.

There is an crappy android workaround to move some of your apps to the SD card but when you connect/mount your phone to your pc you cannot start these apps and if you disconnect some of the settings are ruined.

So I searched the internet and read a lot of articles to find the best method to repartition my SD card and move the application and dalvik cache to my SD card. So I wrote this tutorial so you can move all the apps to your phone without any data loss also.

What do you need:

1. Cyanogenmod 7
2. S2E (free on the android marked)
3. App 2 SD free (android marked)
4. Linux operating system with Gparted or Gparted live CD

The steps

1. Shutdown the phone and put out your SD card
2. Make a backup of your SD card
3. Run GParted and make a primary FAT32 partiton and 1 GB (or more) EXT3 partition. Because I have an 16GB SD card I make a 2GB EXT3 partition. You can check a Gparted youtube tutorial here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6z1Tu9l8WNc
4. Now copy your backup back to the SD card and place the SD in to the phone
5. Start the phone and start S2E
6. Select Applications, Dalvik cache and Download cache
7. Press the menu button and reboot the phone
8. Have some patience now (5min-10min)
9. Now start the phone and start apps 2 sd
10. Press the “On SD Card” tab, press menu and press move all apps
11. Now press on the move to phone button for every app you haved placed to the SD card.

Because  you have place the /data/app folder to the EXT3 partition (/sd-ext/app) you do not move the app to your phone but to your EXT3 partition

If this article helps you, please leave a comment below

tar czvf backup.tar.gz somefoldername/

Requirements:
- USB Stick
- BartPE CD (or BartPE source)
- Download Bootable USB-Drive Utility @ http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=21702
- Download WinUSB_FULL Patcher @ http://www.megaupload.com/?d=AEC0GAMM

Steps:
1. Extract Bootable USB-Drive
2. Open Config_SourcePath.cmd
3. REM set SourcePath=”..\BartPE”
4. set SourceCD=G: where G: the cd-rom drive is with the BartPE CD
5. Start BOOTABLE_USB-DRIVE.cmd
6. Format and create the USB drive
7. Close the utillity en extract de WinUSB_FULL Patcher
8. Run the patcher on the USB drive (root)

The patcher patch the ntdetect.com file. When you don’t run the patcher you will get a 0x0000007b BSOD when you boot from the BartPE USB.

With Nagios services check you want include all windows services with status automatic. But some services like the .NET or windows installer services stop sometimes and your monitor turns red. If you want to exclude specific services add this config to the NSC.ini file:

alias_service=checkServiceState CheckAll  exclude=sppsvc exclude=someotherservice exclude=ShellHWDetection

Sometimes you need a proxy server and you don’t want to install some software. Then you can download and run Proxomitron (zip package). The only thing you must change is the IP address who can connect the proxy.

The default Windows defrag software isn’t really good. Here you can download a very nice alternative: http://www.auslogics.com/en/software/disk-defrag/download/

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