Create DVDs from any random movie format on Windows
Ewald wanted to be able to create DVDs from the Quicktime movies exported by his digital camera. As a result of being away from my familiar Linux tools, I had to find something that´d work on Windows...
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Pazera Free MOV to AVI Converter 1.2
Ewald wants to be able to make video/photo montages of his life at la Boucoule. While there last month, I helped him along with Windows Movie Maker (WMM) a bit. WMM doesn’t like Quicktime video’s (as...
View ArticleInstalling Windows on Xen
Just a a kind of bookmark, I used this blog post as a base to find out how to install Windows as a DomU on Xen. I might at some point reconstruct my steps, but for now this link is all… (judging by...
View ArticleAdding a quick launch in Windows 7
Windows 7 doesn”t have a quicklaunch by default. Luckily, there is a fix. To enable it, add toolbar, other toolbar and include this as location: %userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet...
View ArticleMaking Windows RDP more secure
I don’t really trust the security of RDP, so therefore I’d like to take some extra security measures. I found this article explaining a lot. First put users in the remote desktop group. You can do...
View ArticleFinding junction files in Windows 7 and exclude them with DeltaCopy
Windows 7 has a sort of hard link, a junction file, which it uses to link the old location “Documents and Settings” to /Users/. Because of all this junctioning, you can’t just copy files with a Cygwin...
View ArticleFixing hanging and slow Windows Update on Windows 7
Windows 7 update service is slow to begin with, but trying it on a computer that has been off for a while is damn near impossible. This is a known issue, apparently. You need KB3172605 to fix it. Then...
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Writing bootable disk images (.iso, .img, etc.) to a USB stick from Windows
Because Windows doesn’t have dd, and I want to write the latest Mint LTS release to a USB task, I had to face the unpleasant task of finding a Windows tool to perform what’s a basic Unix operation. The...
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