With my new laptop i want to create the recovery discs into the iso format, without burning any real dvd.
Then i searched for a virtual dvd-r dvd-rw burner. I found TotalMounter 1.50 (free software). Then i created a virtual empty disc (a .iso file on the filesystem) and used HP Recovery Media Creator to burn to the dvd. This do not work, HP Recovery Media Creator gave me an error: REWRITEABLE MEDIA NOT SUPPORTED. TotalMounter mounted a virtual DVD-RW disc. And no option on TotalMounter to choose from DVD-R or DVD-RW to insert into the virtual burner.
Then i found Phantom Drive. That was the solution. Phantom Drive is another virtual burner software. It let me choose the type of virtual media: DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, and so on.
So first of all open Phantom Drive Starter and choose Phantom Settings. Uncheck the option:
“Reinsert image after burning if ejected”
Then start the HP Recovery Media Creation process. When it asks for a blank dvd-r, go again to the Phanthom Drive Starter and choose Phantom Creator. Choose “DVD-R” as media type, then check “Create an iso image” and then choose the file location for the iso image, for example for the first DVD-R choose C:\Users\…\recovery_dvd1.phi (the phi extension will be replaced automatically with the iso extension because we choosed Create an iso image).
HP Recovery will recognize and use this virtual DVD-R.
Then when HP Recovery Media Creator ends burning (virtually) the first (virtual) DVD-R, it will ask you for the second blank DVD-R. Again use the Phantom Creator and change only the file location to another name recovery_dvd2.phi for example.
And so on for the other DVDs.
I think this method could be used for every media recovery creator as that from Acer, Asus and others. Thanks to Phantom Drive, great piece of software!!
Categoria: Information and Communications Technology
I created some .ico files for Cruzer Blade Flash Drive:
According to the Empathy FAQs, the MSN telepathy butterfly component should correctly use a proxy if python-libproxy is correctly installed.
I’m using linux mint debian edition latest with:
telepathy-buttefly 0.5.15
python-libproxy 0.3.1
but for me empathy does not work behind a proxy.
I’m trying to resolve this issue, but i found a workaround, edit as root the file:
/usr/share/pyshared/butterfly/protocol.py
modify the _parameter_defaults as follow:
_parameter_defaults = {
‘server’ : u’messenger.hotmail.com’,
‘port’ : 1863,
‘http-method’ : True,
‘http-proxy-server’: ‘proxy-host’,
‘http-proxy-port’: ‘3128’,
‘https-proxy-server’: ‘proxy-host’,
‘https-proxy-port’: ‘3128’,
}
replace proxy-host with the address of your proxy and 3128 with the port of your proxy
If you try to install Windows 8 Developer Preview on VMware Player 3.1 you will get an HAL_INITIALIZATION_FAILED error starting the installation of Windows 8. This error because VMware Player 3.1 do not support ACPI 2.
It’s possible to “virtual” install Windows 8 on VMware Player 4. But there is a problem, VMware 4 is not available for download as standalone (until now). You must download and install VMware Workstation 8 (demo version), that include a free version of VMware Player 4. This is the link to download it:
http://www.vmware.com/go/downloadworkstation
I installed the ubuntu version on xubuntu 11.04 and the installation of Windows 8 on VMware Player 4 went fine.
I found a VPN client for Fortigate that works on linux:
Linux Fortigate VPN Client
The .NET Reflector free version is no more available on Red Gate site. I uploaded free versions on megaupload. Each version requires to update if it’s too old. To get it working without updating, you must go back with system time.
The links are these:
.NET Reflector 6.8.2.5 (no updates on 16/09/2011)
.NET Reflector 6.5.0.135 (no updates on 20/02/2010)
I developed a free torch for Symbian S60 phones. It’s tested on Nokia C5-00 and Nokia C7-00.
This torch uses the camera flash led.
These are googlecode links:
NFlashTorch Project Home
NFlashTorch-0.2.sisx (self-signed)
Browse Source Code
NFlashTorch-0.1.sisx (self-signed)
NFlashTorch 0.1 source code
NFlashTorch-0.2.sisx (self-signed)
From kernel 2.6.35, there is a support to the Ati PowerPlay Technology. Regulating the clocks of your ATI within linux (with the open source driver) is now possible. The interface is a sysfs interface, i.e. you must write some string in some files to change settings on the fly.
It’s described in the Archlinux wiki, at this page:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI#Powersaving
A graphical interface should be useful. I developed a small perl script using gtk-perl to change powerplay settings. I named it PowerPlaySwitcher. It’s a very simple utility. You can download it at these urls:
http://power-play-switcher.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/PowerPlaySwitcher-0.2.zip
http://power-play-switcher.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/PowerPlaySwitcher-0.1.zip
Released version 0.4. SvgMap renamed to SvgHtmlImageMapEditor. Now version 0.4. Added support for moving objects with keyboard arrows. This is the link:
http://nikiink.tripod.com/SvgHtmlImageMapEditor
Released functional version of my HTML Image Map Editor created with javascript and SVG. Versions are available on http://nikiink.tripod.com/SvgMap. The editor works online and offline. It’s only one html page. Tested on Firefox and Opera (native svg browsers). On Firefox better for managing vertex. On Opera the vertex numbers are not displayed on mouse over vertex.
Someone suggesting a name for this SVG HTML Map Editor? Now i named it SvgMap but is not obvious is related to html image map.