Sony vaio cw linux compatible

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 ...

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 ...

Canon SX120 IS - 10x Zoom & 10 Megapixel - Review

http://digitalpbk.com/canon/canon-sx120-10x-zoom-price-new-review-10-megapixel Canon SX120 IS - 10x Zoom & 10 Megapixel - Review Looks & Price I bought a canon sx120IS, and these are my first impressions about the camera. It certainly doesn't look all that glossy and stylish like a Sony. It is priced at roughly Rs 15995 but it cost me about Rs 15k which did not seem too much for a 10x optical zoom, 10 mega pixel camera. The camera is quiet compact compared to other 10x optical zoom camera's out there which are bulky. Power source Unlike other camera ...

yum/apt-get update Breaks Perl CPAN

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2009/07/perl-update-code-500-architecture.html upgrade while we are running...CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded okFetching with LWP: ftp://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/CPAN/modules/03modlist.data.gzLWP failed with code[500] message[Errno architecture (i386-linux-thread-multi-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5pae) does not match executable architecture (i386-linux-thread-multi-2.6.18-53.el5) at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Errno.pm line 11.Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/IO/Socket.pm line 17.BEGIN failed--compilation aborted ...

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 ...

Reset the root password on a linux box

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2009/03/reset-root-password-linux-fedora-debian.html Reset the root password on a linux box IntroThe following steps were used to successfully reset the root password of a "Fedora 10" machine. In general, can be applied to any linux machine. GRUBWhile booting, after the initial splash and POST screen of the bios, the control transfers to GRUB. If there is just one linux operating system installed, the GRUB screen is bypassed to the booting screen, in that case just keep on pressing or tapping the ESC Button until you see the GRUB Menu ...

Power plans missing - Restore power plans on Windows 7

http://digitalpbk.com/laptop/restore-power-plan-missing-saver-high-performance-balanced-windows-7 Power plans missing - Restore power plans on Windows 7 Power saver plan on Windows helps you to give longer battery backup by reducing performance of certain hardware components like processor, graphics card, wireless network card etc and turning off devices which are not used. One sudden day my power saver option went missing on my sony vaio running Windows 7. Since the battery backup is drastically reduced when the power saver option is missing, I had to desperately find a fix and here ...

Auto mounting File Systems in Linux

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2007/03/auto-mounting-file-systems-in-linux.html Auto mounting File Systems in Linux Some Linux Distros (like Fedora Core 6 FC6) do not automatically mount the local file systems such as FAT/FAT32 systems that belong to the windows drive. To mount and unmount file systems you must be logged on as a root user or must have root privilegesMounting ManuallyFirst change to root@localhost ~]$ suPassword: Passwordroot@localhost ]# mount -t Filesystem Device DirectoryMounting the file system manually is done by the mount command.Filesystem is vfat ...

SSH Tunneling Proxy using Putty on Windows and Linux (Unblock YouTube / Orkut / Facebook)

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2009/05/ssh-proxy-windows-linux-orkut-bypass.html SSH Tunneling Proxy using Putty on Windows and Linux (Unblock YouTube / Orkut / Facebook) SSH Tunneling?SSH Tunneling is the method by which, requests from our local system is encapsulated in an SSH session and forwarded to a remote computer, which then sends the requests as if they originated from the remote computer.Using this method we can set up Socks (V5) Proxies to access websites. This method is used for anonymous browsing as well as for accessing Blocked sites within the local network ...