Placeholder post - send auth-SMTP mail from "the dude". A link to a Mikrotik forum post which explains how to send authenticated (user/pwd) SMTP mail with the Dude.… Read More
XP SATA TO IDE MIGRATION (& BACK TO another SATA CTRLR). After sharing the same Asus AMD PC with my wife for sometime, we've decided to get one each. 'Though, provisioning a new PC for her, it would've meant re-installing Windows XP from scratch and re-customising all her Desktop & re-installing all her programs (unacceptable!). So I thought of making 2 New Computers by cloning the Hard… Read More
Access AHCI NCQ SATA HDDs from XP (with intel ICH9 SB). After cloning and migrating my Windows XP install From an Old Asus MB to a New(ish) Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3 Main board (read this first: xp clone & migrate (without install)), I experienced an issue whereas I've lost access to all my SATA HDDs. What I eneded up with was a booting Windows XP OS from an IDE HDD,… Read More
XP clone & migrate (without reinstall). A new MB doesn't always mean headaches ... OK, OK - I know, let's take this #### pill. I got this New (super-ultra-cool-powerful) Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3 Motherboard, which has got an intel P35 Chipset. My main computer instead was based off an ASUS A7N8X-Deluxe Rev 2 (AMD MB) while all of my main OS (Windows XP) data was stored… Read More