blank screen with mouse pointer
My father has an ASUS notebook, running XP Professional. Starting Friday evening, at Windows start-up, when the login screen was supposed to show up, only a blank screen with the mouse pointer is...
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Today I had to install a Windows XP on a new ASUS K50AB. All my attempts failed with a 0x7B bugcheck (BSOD). The resolution was pretty simple: Change BIOS setting to IDE mode, Install Windows XP, then...
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Yesterday I run the defragmentation utility on a computer which was moving very slow. Today I rebooted the machine and… the Windows XP Professional does not start anymore. The bugcheck (BSOD)...
View ArticleNcFTP for Windows
NcFTP seems to be one of the most powerful FTP server and client. I have found here that there is an NcFTP for Windows In order to upload some files from your machine to an FTP server try: ncftpput -u...
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Dial-up 3G
A friend of mine got his Lenovo IdeaPad S10 netbook. It was delivered with a 15-days Internet subscription to a 3G operator (Vodafone), but he is already using a 3G subscription to a different operator...
View ArticleSame way, all the time
Today I had to add a persistent static route to one of my RedHat based systems. This can be achieved by adding the following line to the file /etc/sysconfig/static-routes: #vi...
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