Create Acer custom recovery CD

My neighbour give me his old laptop because he have a lot of problems with it. But he gives me only one crappy unbooteble XP cd. After some searching I found on a CD2 Recover image file but the IMG / ghost file was password protected. I will write down the steps here to create a new recovery cd. What do you need: Nlite (google) Ghost explorer (Google) Steps to extract the I386 ...

March 17, 2011 · 1 min · thomasf

Image Resizer Powertoy for Windows 7

Unfortunately the XP powertoy “Image Resizer” don’t work @ Windows 7. But now you can resize the picture as easy it was before :) Check: http://imageresizer.codeplex.com/

February 28, 2011 · 1 min · thomasf

Renew Self-Signed SSL Exchange 2007

I had to renew an expired self signed SSL certificate that i have on Exchange 2007 box today, and found the SSL clone trick interesting and did the job for me. So here’s the howto: Using the Exchange Management Shell run the following commands: Get-ExchangeCertificate -DomainName server.yourdomain.com (copy the thumbprint of the expired SSL) Get-ExchangeCertificate -Thumbprint | New-ExchangeCertificate Now you can go to IIS and select your new created SSL certificate (this SSL have the same name as the old SSL one) ...

February 8, 2011 · 1 min · thomasf

Softmod your Wii (Dutch)

This is best softmod tutorial for all Wii firmwares: http://www.wii-media.nl/forum/53-wii-tutorials/40520-tutorial-intercity-softmod-tm-fw43.html The file you can use: http://www.mediafire.com/?uo3hlkk5727tlaq Happy hacking :)

January 16, 2011 · 1 min · thomasf

Download DJ Live sets

Here you can download all the latest DJ sets of the most populair DJ’s http://www.livesets.us/ Some DJ sets:

January 3, 2011 · 1 min · thomasf

QR Code Generator

Nice QR code generator: http://zxing.appspot.com/generator/ You can download a “barcode scanner” on you’re phone to read the QR codes from your display.

January 2, 2011 · 1 min · thomasf

How to Setup a Windows 2008 R2 SNTP/NTP Server

When configured correctly, you can use the Windows Time (W32Time) service as an SNTP/NTP server for both windows and non-windows SNTP/NTP clients. Here’s how to do it: Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK. Locate and then click the following registry entry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W32Time\Config\ In the right pane, right-click AnnounceFlags, and then click Modify. In the Edit DWORD Value dialog box, under Value data, type 5, and then click OK. Enable NTPServer. Locate and then click the following registry subkey: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet Services\W32Time\TimeProviders\NtpServer\ In the right pane, right-click Enabled, and then click Modify. In the Edit DWORD Value dialog box, type 1 under Value data, and then click OK. Exit Registry Editor. At the command prompt, type the following command to restart the Windows Time service, and then press ENTER: net stop w32time && net start w32time ...

December 30, 2010 · 1 min · thomasf

Install Thawte SSL Webserver or Wildcard (the Quick way)

After you successfully installed a web or wildcard SSL certificate you must follow some extra steps. First download this zip with 2 SSL certificates Extract the zip e.g. C:\install\ssl Start > run > mmc > file> add/remove snap in > certificates > local computer >computer account > Intermediate Certification Authorities > right click certificates > import Then disable the old certificate Expand Trusted Root Certification Authorities > certificates Locate this certificate: Common Name – thawte Primary Root CA Expiry Date – 17th July 2036 Thumbprint – 91 c6 d6 ee 3e 8a c8 63 84 e5 48 c2 99 29 5c 75 6c 81 7b 81 ...

December 16, 2010 · 1 min · thomasf

CentOS / Fedora / Red Hat Guest OS Hangs During Boot (VMWare)

When the boot process hangs during the following: Creating root device. Mounting root filesystem. kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Setting up other filesystems. Setting up new root fs no fstab.sys, mounting internal defaults Switching to new root and running init. unmounting old /dev unmounting old /proc unmounting old /sys INIT: version 2.86 booting Welcome to CentOS release 5 (Final) Press ‘I’ to enter interactive startup. ...

December 7, 2010 · 1 min · thomasf

Switch from Sense to Launcher Pro

Download Launcherpro from the marked. Go to Settings>Applications>Manage Applications. Find HTC Sense and click on it. scroll down a bit…you should see a button about restoring default…click that. hitting home after this will present you with a menu of both launcher pro and Sense. pick launcher pro…click the check box for default…and you’re done!

November 27, 2010 · 1 min · thomasf