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Boot Time comparison Sony Vaio CW series VPCCW26FG versus E series VPCEB16FG

http://digitalpbk.com/hardware/boot-time-comparison-sony-vaio-cw-series-vpccw26fg-versus-e-series-vpceb16fg Boot Time comparison Sony Vaio CW series VPCCW26FG versus E series VPCEB16FG This video compares boot time of two sony vaio laptops. Sony Vaio E series versus the Sony Vaio CW series (VPCCW26FG vs VPCEB16FG). The major difference is the E series has an Intel i3 Processor and the CW series has an Intel i5 Processor. E series is 15 inch and CW series is 14 inch. Laptop Sony Vaio Hardware ...

Remove old kernels in Ubuntu

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2008/11/ubuntu-remove-old-kernel-grub-list-long.html ... DoneBuilding dependency tree Reading state information... DoneNote, selecting linux-headers-2.6.27-9-generic for regex '2.6.27-9-*'Note, selecting linux-image-2.6.27-9-generic for regex '2.6.27-9-*'Note, selecting linux-image-2.6.27-9-server for regex '2.6.27-9-*'Note, selecting linux-headers-2.6.27-9 for regex '2.6.27-9-*'Note, selecting linux-headers-lbm-2.6.27-9-generic for regex '2.6.27-9-*'Note, selecting linux-headers-2.6.27-9-server for regex ...

Changing the default Boot OS in GRUB on Ubuntu 9.10

http://digitalpbk.com/ubuntu-grub/changing-default-boot-os-grub-ubuntu-910 Debian` GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash" GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="" # Uncomment to disable graphical terminal (grub-pc only) #GRUB_TERMINAL=console # The resolution used on graphical terminal # note that you can use only modes which your graphic card supports via VBE # you can see them in real GRUB with the command `vbeinfo' #GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480 # Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass "root=UUID=xxx" parameter to Linux #GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX ...

Update Nvidia drivers on Sony Vaio

http://digitalpbk.com/sony-vaio/install-updated-nvidia-drivers-on-vaio Update Nvidia drivers on Sony Vaio Updating Nvidia graphics drivers on Sony Vaio is been a problem recently as the driver installation is not detecting your hardware. Sony Vaio OEM provided drivers are not up to date and when installing drivers directly from the Nvidia GeForce website, the screen says NVidia installation cannot continue This graphics driver could not find compatible graphics hardware To Solve the problem you need to change an inf file after you downloaded your drivers ...

Repair Windows with Linux

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2008/03/repair-windows-linux-invalid-sytem32.html Repair Windows with Linux IntroInvalid System FileCorurpt or missing : C:\WINDOWS\SYSTM32\CONFIG\SYSTEMPut Windows CD Press r blaah!Warning: Do it carefully or you might end up in reinstalling :) Pre RequisitesAny Linux OS, Live CD might work as well.What to do?Boot into the linux OS, and run as root dosfsck -a /dev/sdaXwhere /dev/sdaX is the Drive windows is installed on.This should fix a corrupt file system.(Applicable only for vFAT, NTFS no idea :) Reboot the systemIf it doesn't work ...

Find the number of zero's in 'Factorial of a number' N factorial

http://digitalpbk.com/interview-questions/find-number-zeros-factorial-number-n-factorial Find the number of zero's in 'Factorial of a number' N factorial None For n as the number, round(n/5) + round(n/25) + round(n/125)+.......+round(n/5^n) etc till the reminder is 0. Explain how? A zero is formed when a 5 and 2 get multiplied, therefore finding the number of 5's would be enough to find the number of 10's since 5's would be less in number than 2. Lets take an example 30! = 1 x 2 .. x 5 x... x 10 .. x 15 ..x. 25 ... 30 It has 7 fives. Number of 5's ...

Asynchronous Reading from Input

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2007/11/kbhit-asynchronous-read-linux-fdzero.html Block { /* * Something else to do */ } if(kbhit()) { //Input present and process input } }}kbhit does not take any arguments, it returns 1 if there has been a keyboard hit i.e., a key has been pressed.The key can be read using getch() or similar functions.On Linux...the same thing seems to be a bit different. There is no conio.h defined for linux so there is no kbhit function that can be used in linux. However linux has a set of functions that can be used to test any input for the presence ...

Installing Google Go on Linux Ubuntu

http://digitalpbk.com/google-go/installing-google-go-linux-ubuntu Installing Google Go on Linux Ubuntu One command install, Bash script to install Google Go in one Go #!/bin/bash ARCH=386 #CHANGE this setting to amd64 if you are on 64 bit. sudo apt-get install bison make gcc libc6-dev ed mercurial { cat ~/.bashrc; cat ~/temp.bashrc mv ~/.bashrc ~/.bashrc.old mv ~/temp.bashrc ~/.bashrc export GOROOT=$HOME/go export GOARCH=$ARCH export GOOS=linux export GOBIN=$HOME/gobin export PATH=$PATH:$GOBIN mkdir $GOBIN hg clone -r release https ...

Making symbolic links on Windows xp using junction from sysinternals

http://digitalpbk.com/2009/12/making-symbolic-links-windows-xp-using-junction-sysinternals Making symbolic links on Windows xp using junction from sysinternals Symlinks is a utility that allows two paths to point to the same set of files and subfolders. This is a handy utility on linux which lets you point one path on linux to another path. To do achieve the same functionality on Windows XP, software called junction can be used. provided by SysInternals. Here is the help from the junction.exe D:\>junction /? Junction v1.05 - Windows junction creator and reparse point viewer ...

Sony Vaio Windows XP Drivers for CW Series (VPCCW26FG)

http://digitalpbk.com/hardware/sony-vaio-windows-xp-drivers-vpccw26fg Microsoft Patch number KB835221 643 KB Microsoft Patch number KB909667 501 KB Graphics Driver : NVIDIA 73 MB Audio Driver 57.2 MB Ethernet Driver 1.5 MB Camera Driver 9.1 MB Wireless LAN Driver for Intel 32.7 MB or Atheros 5.5 MB Memory Stick 822 KB SD Card Driver 792 KB Bluetooth Driver 55 MB Pointing Driver10.3 MB Total : 255 MB Happy Downgrading.. :) Laptop Drivers Sony Vaio Hardware ...