Fix Master Boot Record (Win 7)
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010 Posted in OS, Windows | No Comments »See this little page: http://www.wintotal.de/tipparchiv/?id=1695 It links to a German web page, sorry.
Cloning OS with Case Study: Windows NT/XP/7
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010 Posted in Computer, Linux, OS, Windows | No Comments »So the general headline is cloning, so basically backing up you system. Some commercial software that was mentioned when I researched was: Acronis True Image Ghost There are a lot more, see for example here: http://ghost.radified.com/ghost_alternatives.htm But as I am a fan of open ...
Grub2 without Linux
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010 Posted in Computer, Linux, Windows | No Comments »I wanted to create a system where I can plug in operating systems as I like. Meaning switching from a Win/Linux dual boot to Win/Win etc. I thought Grub or Grub2 would be a good way to do so. It ...
Titan Quest: Journey to a Multiplayer Game
Thursday, July 9th, 2009 Posted in Games, Windows | No Comments »Problem One It is a little tricky to make Titan Quest behave the way you want it to. My friend and me tried to play a multiplayer using LAN. We had the problem that his hosted games were not visible to ...
University of Würzburg and Shew VPN
Sunday, May 31st, 2009 Posted in Computer, Windows | No Comments »Cisco does not provide any Client-Software for Vista64. So this is what can be done: Download and install the free VPN-Software: Shew Soft VPNClient Create a *.vpn file with these contents (source: http://www.shrew.net/static/howto/CiscoPix/ciscopix.vpn): n:version:2 n:network-ike-port:500 n:network-mtu-size:1380 n:client-addr-auto:1 n:network-natt-port:4500 n:network-natt-rate:15 n:network-frag-size:540 n:network-dpd-enable:1 n:client-banner-enable:1 n:network-notify-enable:1 n:client-wins-used:0 n:client-wins-auto:1 n:client-dns-used:1 n:client-dns-auto:1 n:client-splitdns-used:1 n:client-splitdns-auto:1 n:phase1-dhgroup:2 n:phase1-life-secs:86400 n:phase1-life-kbytes:0 n:phase2-life-secs:3600 n:phase2-life-kbytes:0 n:policy-list-auto:1 n:policy-nailed:0 n:vendor-chkpt-enable:0 s:network-host:132.187.1.5 s:client-auto-mode:pull s:client-iface:virtual s:network-natt-mode:enable s:network-frag-mode:enable s:auth-method:mutual-psk-xauth s:ident-client-type:keyid s:ident-server-type:address s:ident-client-data:Login b:auth-mutual-psk:<<invalid key>> s:phase1-exchange:aggressive s:phase1-cipher:auto s:phase1-hash:auto s:phase2-transform:auto s:phase2-hmac:auto s:ipcomp-transform:disabled n:phase2-pfsgroup:-1 Import your created *.vpn to the Shrew ...
Find MAC-Adress of connected devices (Windows)
Monday, March 30th, 2009 Posted in Computer, Windows | No Comments »Using windows (at least Vista) you can figure out the MAC-Adresses of all connected devices by typing arp -a in the command line (Run -> "cmd").
Windows 2000, WG311T Atheros, WPA
Friday, March 20th, 2009 Posted in Computer, OS, Windows | No Comments »Old OS, old wLan card and WPA. Bad combination. I tried Netgears own drivers and didn't suceed ... always some kind of issues coming up. After some researching I found this site: http://www.phoenixnetworks.net/atheros.php and this is the driver one needs to use: http://www.phoenixnetworks.net/atheros/Atheros5_0_0_107.zip
Vista: allow pinging
Monday, February 16th, 2009 Posted in Computer, OS, Windows | No Comments »Vista is blocking pings. Nice to know? Well I always wondered why and I found out by (who would have gussed?) googling. Anyways, here is how to quit blocking incoming pings: Control Panel-> Administraive Tools-> Windows Firewall with Advanced Security Select "Inbound ...
Firefox does not show pdf when not installed
Thursday, February 5th, 2009 Posted in Computer, Windows | No Comments »When reinstalling Windows I had the problem that my Firefox, even after reinstalling Adobe Reader, was not showing my Pdfs (I guess that figures, when you think about Adobe not knowing your Firefox directory). So what helped was to copy ...
Symbolic links and Vista
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 Posted in Windows | No Comments »Using Vista you can create symblic links utilizing the ntfs commandline tool mklink.