Zulus Tips

My Windows Server experience is less than average. Basically yesterday was a third time when i see Win3k installed on server, and first time when i have install/configure it.

Everything goes fine until I’m try to enable logon screen. Default installation haven’t logon screen, so after windows boot up, i has Administrator UI without entering any password. I’ve spent 30 minutes trying to find where i can enable logon and i didn’t find anything. Only after 15 minutes of googling i have found solution. That is unreal, i’ve spent about hour to find solution and only 2 minutes to implement it. So, here is commands you need to enter to enable logon screen:

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Ubuntu Dapper was my desktop OS for a last half year, and I’m totally happy with this OS. I’ve use a lot of Linux distributions, and I’m sure what Ubuntu is best for desktop.

I’m start thinking about update as soon as Edgy was released. I have read a lot of unsuccessful stories about upgrades. But i should try, because KDE 4 is coming soon, and upgrade from Dapper to next Ubuntu release with KDE 4 will be much harder. So i need some intermediate release to have chance to get fresh KDE on my desktop.

Below i will post brief how-to, but please note, that is not 100% recipe, and this can not work for your system, and I’m not responsible for any data loss ;-)

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If you still not use Nginx, you should try it! Very powerful and in the same time is very light HTTP server. I’ve use it for testing purposes from first public release, and about one year in production.

I’m not happy only with one thing - there is no startup/control script in standard package. You can tell me what FreeBSD ports and Linux packages has that scripts, but I prefer build Nginx, Apache and other software from sources. So after i have about 100+ copies installed i have write control script for Nginx.

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A few weeks ago i bought extended battery for my Fujitsu-Siemens Pocket LOOX N520. Standard battery has very short working time under high load. For example after 1 hour of Skype over wifi i had completely discharged battery. The same for internet browsing and movie watching. I spent a lot of time while looking for extended battery, and found it here

Extended battery has 3,000 mAh (standard only 1200) and comes with special cover, because extended battery is thicker than a standard battery.

Complete charge takes about 12 hours. I have charge it one week ago. Right now indicator shows about 45% of capacity, but i have use it very hard last week (about 3.5 hours talk using Skype, about 1 hour of internet browsing). This battery is also compatible with LOOX N500/N560.

Here is few fotos:

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2 days ago first 1TB hard drive introduced by Hitachi. This drive will be available for end-users in the first quarter of 2007.

This dirve, like all 750GB models will use PMR (perpendicular magnetic recording) technology. Seems like this technology has very big potential. PMR allow to store 1000 Gbit/square inch (old longitudinal recording technology has only 200Gbit/square inch). Max drive size based on “old” technology is 500GB so, in theory, maximum for PMR based drives is around 2.5TB. I think we will see 2TB+ drives in next 2 years.

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Yesterday i have download latest ASOT from Armin Van Buuren. In archive i have found wma file (whose encoding format is owned by Microsoft). As wma is not open format i think about recoding to ogg or mp3.

I have look around ubuntu packages repository, and find easy way how can i do this. For wma2ogg or wma2mp3 conversion you need installed few common programs:

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