How to root HTC Desire from from official 2.2 Froyo firmware

Source: http://www.android-tutorials.org/dev/?page_id=78 I make some small additions because the original article was not very clear at the USB installation. DONT USE THIS WITH HBOOT 0.83 or 0.93 SLCD DEVICES!!! OTHERWISE YOUR PHONE WILL END UP WITH A DEAD SCREEN! Overview Requirements Step 1 – downgrade (Video: Step 1 on youtube) Step 2 – root with unrevoke recovery Step 3 – repair /misc partition (Video: Step 3-4 on youtube) Step 4 – flash custom or stock rom Please follow this step-by-step tutorial to go back to HBOOT 0.80 ...

September 6, 2010 · 3 min · thomasf

WSS / Sharepoint Cannot access site from local server

You receive error 401.1 when you browse a Web site that uses Integrated Authentication and is hosted on IIS 5.1 or a later version Solution : http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896861 Method 1: Specify host names (Preferred method if NTLM authentication is desired) To specify the host names that are mapped to the loopback address and can connect to Web sites on your computer, follow these steps: Set the DisableStrictNameChecking registry entry to 1. For more information about how to do this, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 281308 Connecting to SMB share on a Windows 2000-based computer or a Windows Server 2003-based computer may not work with an alias name Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK. In Registry Editor, locate and then click the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\MSV1_0 Right-click MSV1_0, point to New, and then click Multi-String Value. Type BackConnectionHostNames, and then press ENTER. Right-click BackConnectionHostNames, and then click Modify. In the Value data box, type the host name or the host names for the sites that are on the local computer, and then click OK. Quit Registry Editor, and then restart the IISAdmin service. ...

August 18, 2010 · 2 min · thomasf

TrendMicro Officescan 10 on Windows 2008 R2

When you install Officescan 10 on a Windows 2008 R2 server you get 2 errors: When you login to the webconsole you get the error: Your OfficeScan Session has timed out. Please log in again When you use the remote installerr you get the error: Incorrect parameter in the initialization file You can fix this problem by change the NTFS rights (Everyone/modify) on the maps. C:\Program Files (x86)\Trend Micro\OfficeScan\PCCSRV\TEMP C:\Program Files (x86)\Trend Micro\OfficeScan\PCCSRV\Web_OSCE\Web_console ...

July 28, 2010 · 1 min · thomasf

Create a second root account

Sometimes you can’t give someone the root password but you he/she must have root access. You can follow this steps to create a additional root account: Add a new user: # useradd newuser Set a password for the new user # passwd newuser Once done, edit the ‘passwd’ file # nano /etc/passwd set the UID:GUD bits to 0:0. Say for example the new user is ’newuser’, the line should look like ...

July 8, 2010 · 1 min · thomasf

XBOX Compatible SVN Repo Intaller

The nice thing from this custom SVN repo installer is the XBOX Skin option. This will install the skins with an Textures.xpr file so it save a lot of memory :) Extract to the SVN Repo Installer (from this zip) to: E/XBMC/plugins/programs/ Go to programs from the XBMC menu and run the script. Tip: add the SVN Repo Installer to your favorites and run it from there to save memory. Source: http://code.google.com/p/xbmc-xbox-skins/

April 28, 2010 · 1 min · thomasf

Howto: Build the cheapest XBMC High Definition media center ever a.k.a. XBOX1 Softmod

What do you need? This ISO (Custom XBOX HD Maker) Auto installer deluxe (4.5 or higher) (Download: http://aideluxe.com) Computer with an IDE connection CD Burner Screwdriver with a couple of tork plugs Second-hand XBOX1 with remote (http://marktplaats.nl max €40) XBOX1 component cable (http://bol.com €6, free shipping coupon @ http://retailmenot.com) First download and burn the XBOX HD Maker and Auto installer Deluxe to a CD or DVD. Then disconnect al the IDE cables except the IDE CD player. Put the XBOX HD Maker CD in the computer. Start the pc and before the BIOS recognize the harddisk press the pause key. Now the boot process is on pause :-) ...

April 22, 2010 · 3 min · thomasf

Boot Linux (live) Distro from USB

There are alot of Live Linux dstributions. There is an very easy way to run a live distro from USB. Check: http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ Distributions with Built-in Support Link to this section UNetbootin has built-in support for downloading and installing the following distributions: Ubuntu (and official derivatives) 6.06 LTS 6.10 7.04 7.10 8.04 LTS 8.10 9.04 Daily CD Images Debian Stable/Etch Testing/Lenny Unstable/Sid Linux Mint 3.1 4.0 5- r1 6 openSUSE 10.2 10.3 11.0 11.1 Factory Arch Linux 2007.08 Damn Small Linux 4.4 SliTaz Stable Cooking Puppy Linux 4.00 gNewSense deltah-2.1 FreeBSD 6.3 7.0 NetBSD 4.0 Fedora 7 8 9 10 Rawhide PCLinuxOS 2007 2008 Sabayon Linux 4-LiteMCE Gentoo 2007.0 2008.0 MEPIS SimplyMEPIS 8 AntiX 8 Zenwalk 5.2 Slax 6 Dreamlinux 3.2 Elive Development CentOS 4 5 Mandriva 2007.1 2008.0 2008.1 FaunOS 0.5.4 Frugalware Linux Stable Testing Current xPUD 0.8.9

February 27, 2010 · 1 min · thomasf

Windows Vista/2008 your user profile was not loaded correctly

After you removed the C:\users\someprofile\ you get the error “your user profile was not loaded correctly”. To fix this start regedit go to: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList search the currupted profile and remove the key.

February 26, 2010 · 1 min · thomasf

Spamassisn Update

Update Deamon sa-update -D Restart Service service spamassassin restart Check version perl -MMail::SpamAssassin -e ‘print $Mail::SpamAssassin::VERSION;’

February 26, 2010 · 1 min · thomasf

Configure Jumbo Frames in esx 4 Vsphere

Jumbo Frames !!!!!! -> Lets understand what’s Jumbo Frames first and how it benefits us … Jumbo frames are Ethernet frames with more than 1,500 bytes of payload (MTU). Conventionally, jumbo frames can carry up to 9,000 bytes of payload. Jumbo Frames allow ESX Server to send larger frames out onto the physical network. The network must support Jumbo Frames end‐to‐end for Jumbo Frames to be effective. iSCSI with jumbo frames gives better or rather much better performance .If you are getting sluggish performance then try enabling jumbo frames ...

February 25, 2010 · 4 min · thomasf