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 Spring cleaning on a summers day – of the digital sort. Cleaning up some steam games and I find that Elite Dangerous is using a whopping 27gb! In their defense, they tell you 20gb is required, and I’ve had the game installed forever… but still… dangerous indeed!  So MS has gone double back on the word, which is one way forward I guess. After saying that there would never be another:
[the above quote is a perfect example of why brainless exists, the actual quoted work is now killed off] Those who have been paying attention for a while now will see yet more similarities with Windows 11 and Vista. I’m not saying it, but MS clearly is, these are two stinking turds that need to go poof. Windows 12, and of course it will not be called ‘Windows 12’, I’m gonna go out on a limb and say it’ll be Windows Woke, or perhaps WindowsYourWay, as is the perceived market demand. WindowsTheyThem? WindowsWideOpen. Haha, we all know it’ll be Windows 365. Finally combining xBox and Windows in a online service based platform. Microtransactioning the fsck out of the consumer. Fondling their personal and corporate greed like a 8th grader on summer vacation, at the cost of business’s ability to business even more than today’s impossible environment. At least we now know not to pay attention to Windows 11… it’s a goner. Keep listening to the kids, Microsoft, and this will continue. Never just attempt to remove the Swartz. Remove, or remove not; there is no attempt.
Source: Two jailed after Valley Street shooting | News, Sports, Jobs – The Sentinel DistroWatch offers a very nice cheatsheet on what basic commands the different flavors of linux use. We’re talking the apt-get/yum/zypper stuff. Source: DistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD. Continue reading Linux Update Cheatsheet Let us see if we can neuter Windows 10. I’m so sick of Microsoft’s bu!!shit. They continue to fsck over business and their techie base. Modern Windows is nothing (but crap) compared to prior versions. If I need to go into the reasons, please just move along, this is not an article for you – in fact, this is not a site for you. Go away and never come back again. I don’t write this crap for you. So lets work on a plan to end this madness! For now, control of Window’s communication with Microsoft servers is step one. This page will remain a work in progress until I have enough for a full article, please feel free to contribute. Some links for now: So in going through the remains of Brainless from before the wipe, I ran across this site. I used their software in the past and they have some real neat offers. Unfortunately, there may be the possibility that the developer is Russian. Consider this strongly before visiting. Mill Yard Computing used to offer these tips for network monitoring. They have taken this down, so here it is for you: iftopOn CentOS it is in the EPEL repo. It shows a list of network connections and the data transferred over the past 2 sec, 10 sec & 40 sec (a bit like uptime). when it is running press the ? key to get help iftop (-n will disable hostname lookups) lsofSummarized from http://www.danielmiessler.com/study/lsof/ Continue reading Network MonitoringTo mount a physical hard disk onto a VirtualBox guest, we need to first create a VMDK configuration file which points to the physical disk, and then attach this VMDK file to the VirtualBox guest. VirtualBox running on Linux: VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename ~/sdd.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/sdd Now attach ~/sdd.vmdk to your guest as normal VirtualBox running on Windows: VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename c:\PhysicalDrive0.vmdk -rawdisk \ \ . \PhysicalDrive0 “\ \ . \PhysicalDrive0″ Is the DeviceID as seen by Windows, it can be found from the command: wmic diskdrive list brief Now attach c:\PhysicalDrive0.vmdk to your guest as normal Mounting a disk image (made with dd): Create a .vmdk config file as above. Use any attached hard disk. Even one in use. Then tweak it to point to your dd image file. The .vmdk config file is a simple text file. Here’s my tweaked version with some comments. # Disk DescriptorFile ##MYC## So the only things I actually changed were the CID, the number of sectors and the file location ##MYC## Then I commented out the original uuid lines ##MYC## CID must be different for each device mounted version=1 CID=6efb06b0 parentCID=ffffffff createType="fullDevice" # Extent description ##MYC## This number is the number of 512 byte sectors. The dd image filesize_in_bytes / 512 RW 625142528 FLAT "/3tb/ryph-newpc-images/eden-pc-final.dd" 0 # The disk Data Base #DDB ddb.virtualHWVersion = "4" ddb.adapterType="ide" ##MYC## Apparently the geometry parameters don't matter if the disk is greater than 8GB. Just leave them as they were ddb.geometry.cylinders="16383" ddb.geometry.heads="16" ddb.geometry.sectors="63" ##MYC## I commented out the uuid params. But I think they will get created again when you attach it ##MYC## ddb.uuid.image="6b29d83e-c656-40cf-919d-f8b2219761d2" ##MYC## ddb.uuid.parent="00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000" ##MYC## ddb.uuid.modification="5b4f167c-9bab-4e6a-935a-9dcf2ee9bc20" ##MYC## ddb.uuid.parentmodification="00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000" ddb.geometry.biosCylinders="1024" ddb.geometry.biosHeads="255" ddb.geometry.biosSectors="63" “dd” is the linux command for taking byte by byte copies of files. Since a hard disk behaves sort of like a big file in linux, we can use “dd” to take a copy or image. It is a good idea to zero all free space on the original disk before taking the image. This will make the empty space easier to compress. So if possible, mount the original disk, cd onto it and run the following commands to create file to fill the remaining hard disk space with zeros, you can then delete the file. Continue reading Use dd to image a diskNever too early to start thinking about how to drive! I had linked to this BestRide article back in Oct, 2016 on my old site. Now it seems that the link is dead as so often happens, and in this case the information is important enough to resurrect and host here. This is one of the very best guides to winter driving I’ve ever read. Accurately delivered in an intelligent voice and yet short enough that even the average American should be able to focus long enough to take it all in. Kudos to Wyatt Knox! Wavosaur has been around forever and is a great tool from the days before. Small, full of features, and if you can believe it, still being updated! Give it a look if you wish. Source: Blogosaur | Audio Edition, Music, VST & Wavosaur 4 all the people ! Have not used this yet, but it looks super promising as a way to backup Gmail accounts. Source: Gmvault: gmail backup This is what the internet is for. Taken from MemoryBeta Continue reading The Known Ferengi Rules of AcquisitionHere’s a partial list of Run commands used to execute programs in Windows. Once you memorize them, it can be easier to type the executable then to navigate Windows. Note that you can run most of these in the Run prompt or the Command Prompt or PowerShell. To open Run, press the Windows + R keys on the keyboard or right-click Start and select Run. Don’t forget, the Search option works pretty well too! I omitted .exe extensions, and will be adding to the list as time goes on. Please let me know if there are any typos. Bookmark this page. Run Commands
Congratulations, I’ve done no page ranking, have paid google nothing, did not answer the door when bing rang, and ignored their wailing begging from my porch, eventually getting a PFA from them, and yet here you are. This is my site of collected links and data I’ve deemed too important (to me) to trust to the originator to keep available. The site itself has risen from the ashes of a not-backed-up-free-hosting account that actually survived for over a decade. There is a lot to wayback through, so for some time you will see both fresh and ancient content added in a truly random fashion. Go ahead, base your RNG on it. Ok, maybe don’t. Don’t forget about this one, Craig: This is my links page for the Play-a-Way project. Grow up in happy valley? Yeah, me too. Continue reading Play-a-WayBeen having trouble checking Gmail with Thunderbird? Here’s why:
The entire team responsible for this fiasco (the Webb telescope) should be fired from Government work. I give this boondoggle less than 5 years. Way to throw a ton of money away and further pollute our atmosphere for the interests of a very few. Such promise; inexcusably poor execution.
Source: NASA’s James Webb telescope gets hit by a micrometeroid | Engadget Gonna build something! Here are some links: Cabinet Graphics: https://www.ebay.com/itm/293726721574 https://www.ebay.com/itm/265402555295 https://www.ebay.com/itm/393949607718 https://www.ebay.com/itm/393898879918 https://www.ebay.com/itm/164609038746 Kit: Ali posted a way to easily bypass Windows 11 install checks. Just like he said, I’m installing 11 as a Hyper-V machine on my Windows 10 box. My hardware is 11 compatible. I’m installing using Gen 2. Whats up Microsoft? Thanks for giving me the reason to find this method.
Source: This PC can’t run Windows 11 – Bypass/Fix – ALI TAJRAN UPDATE: This no longer seems to work. If you have a method compatible with 21H1+, please comment below. |
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