Recently I had to rescue a data from NTFS partition for somebody. It was a totally messed up laptop that could not boot the OS. It comes with a hidden partition from which you can restore the system and in theory to preserve the existing user data. I did not want to take any risks … Read more
I finally got a new laptop with US-only keyboard. It is a big deal for many people living in Canada because 95% of the laptops sold in the retailer shops have bilingual keyboards. I bought a nice Samsung ATIV Book 6 from http://www.adorama.com/ via Amazon. Adorama ship to Canada (thank god!). The computer comes pre-installed … Read more
Recently I bought a new laptop with screen resolution of 1920 x 1080. It has Windows 8.1 on it. At some point I noticed that Google Chrome looked a bit blurry – both the browser UI and the web page displayed. I thought the problem was with the display driver but even after installing the … Read more
If you have a laptop or ultra-book with no DVD drive and wondering how to install Windows on it read this article which helped me: How To Install Windows 8 or 8.1 From a USB Device
Everyone knows what Karaoke is. For these who don’t this is the definition from Wikipedia: Karaoke is a form of interactive entertainment or video game in which amateur singers sing along with recorded music (a music video) using a microphone and public address system. The music is typically a well-known pop song minus the lead … Read more
I always was curious about ZFS but haven’t played with it until very recently. I thought it was too complicated and I was afraid it will use up too much space because of the snapshots capability. Few days ago I installed the latest beta of FreeNAS 8 on a USB stick (here how it is … Read more
This is a collection of posts related to FreeNAS 8 (ver 8.2 BETA 3). I am just capturing my experience and would be glad if it is helpful for anyone else. * Installing FreeNAS to USB stick (new and simpler way) *
In the previous article we talked about Setting up ZFS. Here we are going to create a Windows (CIFS) share that will be accessible on the local network and will demostrate how to use the ZFS snapshots to restore lost data. Let’s Add Windows (CIFS) Share from Sharing -> Windows (CIFS) Shares: Creating a CIFS … Read more
This article is about configuring FreeNAS (v. 8.2 BETA 3). If you haven’t yet installed FreeNAS have a look at Installing FreeNAS to USB stick first. We will assume that FreeNAS was installed and running on a remote computer with IP address of 192.168.1.210. Your installation most probably will have a different address. It also … Read more
This is the current article that describes the simplest way of installing FreeNAS on USB stick in Windows without burning installation CD first. There is an old post about installing FreeNAS on USB stick which is available here but it is more complicated and I encourage you to use this one instead. Here is how … Read more