Since the adoption of Kernel 2.6, Linux has used the udev system to handle devices such as USB connected peripherals. If you want to change the behavior when you plug something into a USB port, this section is for you. As an example, we will use a USB thumb drive but these methods should translate to any device handled by udev. As a goal for this exercise we decided to create a symlink and execute a script when a specific thumb drive was loaded. The operating system we used for this exercise is Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope.
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How to write udev rules
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Hiren’s BootCD 10.0
Hiren 39 s Boot CD is a boot CD containing various diagnostic programs such as partitioning agents system performance benchmarks disk cloning and imaging tools data recovery tools MBR tools BIOS tools and many others for fixing various computer problems It is a Bootable CD thus it can be useful even if the primary operating system cannot be booted Hiren 39 s Boot CD has an extensive list of software Utilities with similar functionality on the CD are grouped together and seem redundant however they present choices through UI 39 s differences and options in what they can do Hiren…
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Fedora rawhide nightly builds
The devs over at the Fedora Project are hard at work on the development version: Rawhide. They’ve just setup automated nightly builds of the liveCD which can easily be downloaded and tested on a CD, DVD, USB drive, virtual machine, or separate partition.
Rawhide will be released as Fedora 12 upon completion. With this version you have a choice of Gnome 2.28 or KDE 4.3 for your desktop. There is also improved power management, expanded support for mobile broadband, easy bug reporting, and many more new or improved features. So roll up your sleeves, download last night’s build, and…
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Somthing about hard drives & partition
Do you have data on a partition or hard drive that you don’t want tampered with or easily accessible to other users? Well, you can hide any drive/partition in Windows XP, NT, and 2000. That means that they won’t show up in Explorer or My Computer.If you want access to that drive from your user account you should create a desktop shortcut before proceeding. Once hidden, you can still access by typing the drive letter and a colon in Start/Runfor example, “D:” will bring up a folder of the contents on your D drive.The easiest way with Win XP…
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How To: Set Up A New System From Scratch
The question frequently comes up about how to format and install XP from scratch. Following are the steps I take when I get a new system. I mention the “brand names” of software I use not as an endorsement or recommendation, but just for the sake of example. After unpacking and connecting all hardware, here’s what I do: 1. Partition the HD according to my preference, thus deleting everything on the drive (the number and size of partitions is entirely up to the individual user – I prefer several, keeping the OS on c: and various programs, cache folders, swap…
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Reset Security on all folders
The problem is with using Windows Explorer to modify security settings globally on a partition, directories, and files. This is in fact a less than optimum method of applying security settings. A more appropriate method is to execute the following command line from the root of the partition: (Note: If you are not at the root of the partition in question you must set your default there: CD /D drive_name: ) Now the command line:CACLS * /e /t /c /g Administrators:F System:F (Note: If you see the message, ”Unable to perform a security operation on an object which has no…
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Hiren’s BootCD 9.9
Hiren 39 s Boot CD is a boot CD containing various diagnostic programs such as partitioning agents system performance benchmarks disk cloning and imaging tools data recovery tools MBR tools BIOS tools and many others for fixing various computer problems It is a Bootable CD thus it can be useful even if the primary operating system cannot be booted Hiren 39 s Boot CD has an extensive list of software Utilities with similar functionality on the CD are grouped together and seem redundant however they present choices through UI 39 s differences and options in what they can do nbsp…
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Special Start-up screen for WinXP
1- Right click on My computer and select properties2- in properties applet click on advanced tab and then click on startup and recovery button.3- click on edit button, then boot.ini will be loaded.4- after “/fastdetect ” press space and write “/SOS” without quotes.after this editing the line shows as:multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)WINDOWS=”Micro soft Windows XP Professional” /fastdetect /SOS5- then save this file and Restart Your Pc.Dont be scare: it will not harm your pc. if you dont like this screen then simply repeat the same process only cut the editng ” /SOS” and save the file._________________
