Thursday, November 3, 2011

Device Manager for Gnome

Package "gnome-device-manager"
Name: gnome-device-manager

Description: GNOME device manager based on HAL
This is a GNOME program to manage devices and device drivers. It's inspired by hal-device-manager, from the HAL project, but rewritten in C for efficiency and an outlook to actually make it manage devices
rather than just show information.
http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/gnome-device-manager
Latest version: 0.2-3
Release: natty (11.04)
Level: base
Repository: universe
Homepage: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~david/gnome-device-manager/

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Unhiding Files post Malware Infection

1. Download unhide.exe saving it to your desktop: http://download.bleepingcomputer.com/grinler/unhide.exe

2. Right click on unhide.exe and select Run as administrator (In case you have Vista or Win7)

3. Reboot

4.This will unhide folders/files that were set to be hidden by malware.

Friday, January 28, 2011

Windows 90% OS Market Share - What a Shame

Windows 90% OS Market Share

Ubuntu and Debian servers, desktops and laptops should have a much higher market share. Linux is free and so simple to use and maintain. Even more amazing to me is that there is almost double the amount of iPhone OS instances than all Linux OSs combined.

Monday, January 24, 2011

Install Windows 7 from USB Flash Drive

Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool which is available for download here.

This will walk through the steps to create a bootable USB flash drive for the purpose of installing a Windows 7 OS.

Required:

  • USB Flash Drive (4GB+)
  • Microsoft OS Disk (Vista / Windows 7)
  • A computer running Vista / Windows 7

Step 1: Format the Drive

  1. Plug in your USB Flash Drive
  2. Open a command prompt as administrator (Right click on Start > All Programs > Accessories > Command Prompt and select “Run as administrator”
  3. Find the drive number of your USB Drive by typing the following into the Command Prompt window:
    diskpart
    list disk

    The number of your USB drive will listed. You’ll need this for the next step.
  4. Format the drive by typing the next instructions into the same window. Replace the number “1” with the number of your disk below.
    select disk 1
    clean
    create partition primary
    select partition 1
    active
    format fs=NTFS
    assign
    exit

Step 2: Make the Drive Bootable
Next we’ll use the bootsect utility that comes on the Vista or Windows 7 disk to make the flash drive bootable. In the same command window that you were using in Step 1:

  1. Insert your Windows Vista / 7 DVD into your drive.
  2. Change directory to the DVD’s boot directory where bootsect lives:
    d:
    cd d:\boot
  3. Use bootsect to set the USB as a bootable NTFS drive prepared for a Win7 image:
    bootsect /nt60 g:
  4. Close the command prompt window.

Step 3: Copy the installation DVD to the USB drive

Step 4: Set your BIOS to boot from USB