So I started to install easesus partition recovery and the cnet installer prompted me to install some shit, like funmoods bullshit and some others.
So I unchecked everything and still it force-installed and crash-started my browsers.
How stupid is that, specially coming from CNET. Is that the best you idiots can do? Crash my browsers to install a shit software I explicitly said not to install?
And why the hell do I have to opt-out? It should be opt-in, not opt-out installing you morons.
CNet secure installer installing bullshit no matter what you untick
November 11th, 2012
When the big players go “low” and start spamming
November 10th, 2012I’m registered as a forum user on computergames.ro, a pretty big forum on our romanian internet and today, to my very dislike, I received an email from them, a weekly newsletter, because, they say, I registered for their newsletter.
Right. And pigs fly.
Needless to say I added them too to my “idiot email spam filter”.
Misusing their email database is at least “low” if not even breaking their own privacy rules. What the hell are these guys thinking anyway?
I really got to make some time to implement my global fight-spam-with-spam network. I don’t think these idiots will ever learn until they get a taste of their own medicine. More on that here: http://www.ciuly.com/anti-spam/introduction/
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Down 1.5
October 11th, 20122 days ago I was at 87.5 kg. The only change in my lifestyle is some bike riding during watching TV.
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Paypal verified Romanian address
October 10th, 2012I just now noticed that my Romanian shipping address registered with paypal that I use for most of my ebay purchases now has the status of confirmed. That’s cool since this address confirmation service was not available for Romania for a long time. Glad to finally see things moving, although I haven’t seen so many sellers requesting confirmed shipping addresses in a while now.
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Starting point
September 30th, 2012In collage I used to be 1.76 and around 65 kg. Now, I’m at 89. Bought an indoor bike. No plans in changing diet or anything else. Lets see how that goes 🙂
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Delphi Loader Lock while debugging dll
July 31st, 2012I’m working on a big project with several COM DLLs, used from inside autocad. Now, the other day I was debugging one of them and I started getting these messages in the debug output saying stuff like
Attempting managed execution inside OS Loader lock. Do not attempt to run managed code yada yada
Solution? Debug the correct DLL 🙂 Seriously. Look on the call stack to see which is the last dll that is yours called there and debug that one.
There is also some considerations on the net about not calling LoadLibrary from the initialization section but I’m sure you already read that and not doing it.
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Dreamplug, recover with no JTAG
May 27th, 2012I’ve got myself a dreamplug. It arrived a few days ago. I didn’t have time to do anything to it, I just booted up, saw it got the IP, connected to it and shut it down.
My brother-in-law also got one, and his arrived a few weeks earlier so he had time to mess with it. And from messing around directly with the setting files in stead of making changes only to the live system so they won’t survive a reboot, he managed to get his dreamplug in a non-connectable state.
And of course, none of us bought a JTAG. I know why I didn’t, because my plans were top make sure my management interface is always ok.
So he came by today so that I can fiddle around and fix it for him.
I have a USB BGA card, which I am using on my ESXi until I will manage to somehow passthrough a PCIe VGA card. So I figured I would plug that in, with a USB keyboard and maybe get some video.
Wrong. No video.
The SD card also doesn’t boot my default.
So, as I remember reading it has everything on an internal microsd card, I took the plug apart.
It’s really not complicated at all. You unscrew 4 screws and then the sd card is there, very accessible locked in place with what looks like a GSM bracket (I only saw this type on some GSM phones, but I’m sure its used in many places).
So I put the card into a usb reader, connected it to a virtual machine running linux, mounted it and fixed the config files.
And while I was at it, made a backup of the SD card too (disk copy, to preserve boot sector).
So…. why in the world would anybody buy a JTAG?
Granted, it is easier to work with that, but then again, this device is not exactly for the common user either.
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Install VMWare ESXi 4.1 on USB stick
May 17th, 2012As part o fmy VGA PCI passthrough testings, I wanted to install esxi on a USB stick.
After failed with several solutions (including lili usb creator, which works for 5.0) I found the following site that did better than putting the ISO on the USB stick: it literally installed esxi on the usb stick:
http://bitterbuds.blogspot.com/2012/01/how-to-install-vmware-vsphere.html
This might work for 5.0 as well but no time to test it yet.
The only problem is, I am not able to set up a datastore on it 🙁 so guess I’m back to finding a sata hdd.
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VMWare ESXi shrink thin or thin provisioned disk
April 9th, 2012If you’re like me, that is with a very limited cash availability to invest in hardware, you will most likely run out of space pretty fast once you start converting all those virtual machines you got on the desktop to your newly installed ESXi.
Now, you will immediately think, what happened to my thin provisioned disks that made them grow like that? You can google for the answer but let me tell you a better solution than what you will find on the net, which are:
– convert the virtual machine
– use some cdelete or whatever its name is to free up space
– maybe other things that are not as cool
The cool idea is that you can create a new disk, about the size that you need, and copy over the data to the new disk then delete the old one. Either use dd in linkux or whatever diskcopy you can find for windows (easeus has a few solutions) or use a system backup something that will pack up your files and then restore on the new disk.
This beats converting V2V as the hardware will not change.
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Create ESXi 5.0 ISO to USB bootable flash stick in windows
April 8th, 2012I just got my hardware for my personal ESXi server (I will go into more detail in a separate post one of these days) and the first thing I noticed when I wanted to plug in my CD-ROM was that the MB had no IDE connector. I don’t have a sata cd-rom nor a usb one, so the next best thing, boot from USB.
Now, there are a lot of cool utilities out there to convert a bootable ISO image into a bootable USB stick, but from the aprox 3 or 4 I tried, only the last one worked. I even tried going manual, applying syslinux from command line, copying files and editing the configs. However, due to the fact that the file names are all in uppercase on the CD, the bootloader was not able to fins the kernel and stuff.
So, long story short, I found the following article which works for ESXi 5.0:
http://www.ivobeerens.nl/2011/09/17/create-a-bootable-vmware-esxi-5-usb-stick-in-windows-and-perform-a-scripted-installation/