XP SATA TO IDE MIGRATION (& BACK TO another SATA CTRLR). Monday, 10 Mar, 2008 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). Tuesday, 4 Mar, 2008 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). Sunday, 2 Mar, 2008 | 1 Comment 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
Beagle mess & Evolution error. Tuesday, 26 Feb, 2008 Ubuntu Linux aims at being a good OS solution for the desktop. The fact that it aims doesn't necessarily means it is already...I heard 2008 will have more to say about this. Form me, I think it is good enough, and I enjoy using it everyday, yet sometimes I encounter "strange" & "correlated" errors that… Read More
My MSI EX700 MAC OSX86 Hackintosh Part 3/3 - Considerations. Saturday, 9 Feb, 2008 Here I'll expose some descriptive personal considerations from the (almost successful) experiment with my MAC OS X + MSI EX700 laptop. INTRO Some of the reasons for pursuing such an experiment fall back to a time where the most powerful PCs were intel's i386. During that time, I had my (father's) very expensive IBM 286 (w/IBM DOS). On the IBM… Read More
My MSI EX700 MAC OSX86 Hackintosh Part 2/3 - HW Compatibility. Monday, 4 Feb, 2008 | 3 Comments Hello, new reader, I welcome you to read my previous (intro) post first, here: My MSI EX700 MAC OSX86 Hackintosh Part 1/3 - the laptop. If you've been following already, here I'll show you what hardware from the MSI EX700 laptop worked OOB and what not: The LCD is working correctly Out of the box. Nothing… Read More
My MSI EX700 MAC OSX 86 Hackintosh Part 1/3 - the laptop. Saturday, 2 Feb, 2008 | 1 Comment Under christmas I gifted my gracious wife with a new laptop. I wished her a brand new Apple Macbook Pro, but bince I ain't rich, opted for a cheaper one; enter MSI EX700. You can find various editions of the so-called laptop, mine has the following specs: Vista Home Basic 32 LCD 17,1'' / ACV… Read More
This Page Is (NOW) Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional! Friday, 1 Feb, 2008 Happy day, today: My personal weblog is now Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional. I've made essential corrections needed to clean the code. As promised previously, on an older post (look here), I was struggling to make this template and related modifications, Valid XHTML 1.0. Now I finally made it! The magic between PHP, CSS, JAVASCRIPT and… Read More
my fav rsync options Wednesday, 30 Jan, 2008 Today I'll post my fav rsync options. rsync is a little program that automates the syncronization between two folders, filesystems or partitions, the beauty of it is that is even works remotely (by relying on the SSH Protocol - Quick Tip: Configure and use SSH keys for that!). Its main use is to move every kind of data, either local (ie.… Read More
change debian hostname. Friday, 18 Jan, 2008 I stuck into a little problem related to a hostname change; basically I needed to change hostname for a basic debian install. I then powered up my fav browser with my fav search engine, then searched for that stuff. Easy as that! You change Hostname by simply doing vi /etc/hostname (and put your new hostname… Read More
MS Windows XP, Win2k3 & Vista Password Reset mini-Howto. Monday, 14 Jan, 2008 I am used to store my URLs+User+Password combos inside an encrypted DB file. The Software I love (and hate) is KeepassX (grab your copy here http://www.keepassx.org/ - XP, Linux or Mac OS X). Every now and then (especially after the holidays...), I may forget to keep my passwords DB updated. As a result, I might end… Read More
All the web is crap...? Thursday, 29 Nov, 2007 | 1 Comment This is about validation and clean coding techniques. Recently, I discovered the w3c validator. Everybody knows it, everybody use it...or everybody ignores it? Maybe the latter is true! Let's start from the basics: after some modifications this current template (typography), thought about of giving the (in)famous W3C Validator a go. By Clicking on a link on… Read More
Do you Active FTP through Firewall+NAT ? Friday, 23 Nov, 2007 | 3 Comments Here's my experience on actively contributing in the resolution of a problem related to Active FTP & gnu-linux/ip-tables based firewall solution. First, make sure your firewall has loaded the following modules: ip_conntrack_ftp ip_nat_ftp Then check that the right Forwarding rules apply: iptables -I FORWARD -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT being "RELATED" the important part.… Read More