In case you have a Windows system that runs in an isolated secure environment (eg: at home) where there is no point of having to logon manually into the system using an user and a password (eg. you are home…
Automatic logon Windows XP Visa 7

In case you have a Windows system that runs in an isolated secure environment (eg: at home) where there is no point of having to logon manually into the system using an user and a password (eg. you are home…
I have a KVM/Qemu 2.1.2 hypervisor installed on a Linux x86_64 system (kernel 3.18.8). On KVM I installed a Windows 2003 Server guest where usually I do my MS-SQL work. I noticed that while typing inside the Windows guest the…
One thing I love about Linux is its flexibility. Linux is like a Lego: many pieces that you can stick together just to get something different that no one thought about before. The following is just an example of its…
I'm working lately on plug-ins development for my WordPress blog (mynixworld.info). There are thousands plug-ins available out there but some are either limited, not well written, obsolete or buggy. I have written several plug-ins that I want to make available…
Let's suppose that you have a licensed copy of an Windows Vista/7 but lately you have installed-activated/uninstalled it for several times. At some point the Microsoft Activation Server just get bored and says "OK, if you want me to activate…
So you have a KVM host that have one ore more KVM guests (such as Windows, Linux, Android, you name it) and one KVM guest is a Windows system that have a SQL Server (doesn't matter which edition). You want…
I have a Win2K3 VM hosted by a KVM hypervisor. In the Linux host I have 2 Linux partitions type ID=83 (eg: /dev/sda5 and /dev/sdb5) that I've allocated to the Win2K3 VM as virtual disks. The Windows guest took care…
It's happening that I have a Win2K3 kvm VM hosted on a Linux host. On Linux I have installed two disks and on each of these disks I've created many partitions. Two of these partitions serve like "physical disks" to…
I have a HP Compaq 6820s laptop and I want to upgrade its BIOS. In Linux we have flashrom which can (among others) flash firmware images as BIOS. The only problem is that my model is unsupported by that software.…