Ok, also with the new Windows 8.1 release, I’m experiencing serious problems with my external USB3 drive. I have found this excellent guide, explaining how to replace the broken “Intel(R) USB 3.0 eXtensible Host Controller – 0100 (Microsoft)” with the Intel driver: Windows 8 and Intel USB 3.0 Host Controllers Read more…
Source: Alex Klink’s tech blog: VirtualBox – upgrading Windows XP VMs to 2 CPU. I repost this tip because it’s very useful and I don’t want to loose it if the source blog disappears 🙂 Symptom: If you had Windows XP VM with only 1 CPU created / virtalized earlier Read more…
Nice idea. Only for Windows and Mac (no Linux ;( ). Screenhero | Collaborative Screen Sharing.
I’m playing with a new laptop (DELL Inspiron) and after the initial Windows 8 setup it’s time to create the recovery DVD. After some confusion with the new Metro Interface to locate the Dell Backup and Recovery application, all went smooth until the second DVD. When you have to burn Read more…
This web app can share your screen (it’s a view only application, not like VNC/remote desktop) to who you want. This is a great solution to help friends (or maybe also customers) watching directly the remote screen. It’s safe and easy (it uses JAVA to do the trick – so Read more…
IETester is a free Web Browser (it’s alpha software, anyway it’s working, so why not use it???) that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE9 preview, IE8, IE7, IE6 and IE5.5 on Windows 7, Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same Read more…
Si tratta di una protesta partita in Norvegia, dove uno dei siti piu’ popolari del paese finn.no (una specie di eBay locale) sta cercando di far uscire di scena Internet Explorer 6, un “nonnetto” del web, che non ha piu’ senso supportare. Ho semplicemente tradotto il “banner” in Italiano e Read more…
Well, I’m used to virtualization technology, remote desktop management and all this kind of stuff, but Synergy is something that amazes me. And in these days, find something that impresses me, is quite unusual 🙂
If you are familiar with the dual monitor concept, you know the level of productivity you can reach with this setup: a bigger desktop means more applications opened at the same time, no time lost searching into your task switcher and so on…
Synergy is a little client/server application, cross platform and open source. The goal of this piece of code is to share one keyboard and one mouse between multiple machines (Macs, Windows, Linux/Unix) via TCP/IP.
With this fantastic application, you can experience the benefit of a multi-monitor setup with multiple OS. No more useless mess on your desk, only one keyboard and one mouse (and no more expensive and “stupid” KVM switches)
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The little task of the day: create a cdrom ISO image (for Windows) and put into it a website browsable from the CD (with no internet connection).
I’ll use Linux as a client, of course 🙂 So, fire up your favorite terminal shell and run:
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Well, I’m actually using Kubuntu (I prefer KDE over GNOME); anyway the distribution is the same.
I have installed VMware Server into my brand new Core 2 Duo laptop and I have found the well know clock/time problem affecting the guest OS: the time into the virtual machine is running much slower or faster than the host time (the real world). With my Core 2 Duo, this time, was faster…