Build Your Own Blackberry

With some help from my outfit:

http://beagleboard.org

HOWTO No Extra Cost Dual Monitor Setup

if you have a Dell docking station and a Dell laptop.

Use Fn-F8 to go to dual monitor mode - this is trivial - but this isn't what most people want because the laptop screen is so small and so high-res that 1400x1050 is very hard on the eyes. You want to connect two external LCD monitors to your docking station and then get 2560x1024 using the two of them:

1) Connect one monitor to the VGA connector, the other to the DVI connector
2) Use Fn-F8 to go to dual monitor mode - only one LCD will be used and the laptop screen will be used as the second display
3) Close the laptop. The system will go into standby mode and the displays will go blank.
4) Press the power button on the DOCKING STATION. There are two buttons that the rest of the world has never noticed since the last ice age.
5) The system will now use both monitors.

Wish I had got this with my Google search "how to do dual monitor using a docking station VGA DVI". But I didn't.

Linux and NTFS

Apparently, the battle has been won. But, the war - not yet. We need a way to take Windows apart piece by piece - be able to look at it as components and see how they can be used so we can decide what to keep and what to throw away and what to modify/replace. That's the holy grail. It'll take another Torvalds to pull that off - this time from Brazil.

Anyhow, a simple search throws up ntfscat, libntfs, ntfsresize.

Where linux failed - in making it's stuff easy to use. The problem is that though the majority of people in a company don't need hardcore computing - they would faint if they looked at a linux screen. This should be a simpler problem to solve, but you know how computer scientists are - it's not appealing enough to go after.

HOWTO Migrate Programs Between Win Installations?

So you had your favourite programs on one hard drive that seems to be going bad. Is there a way to salvage them onto a new Win installation?

HOWTO Prevent a Corrupt Program from Starting

automatically and holding WinXP hostage. If you know, please tell me.

Es gebt manche helpfulle suggestions hier :

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

HOWTO Use Cygwin to Record Radio Shows Onto Your PC

If you know how, tell me and get a link on my blog to your site. I tried a search for "use cygwin to record radio shows onto your computer" with dogpile and got some frontier gibberish.

Windows is so unfriendly you can't do a damn thing without buying something from someone to do it - or accepting malware.

I have a DSL connection that lets me listen to radio through the internet and I want to record 1 hour of KERA.org every Saturday starting 11 AM (for example).

Answers :

If you mean online radio, then the tool is StreamRipper http://streamripper.sourceforge.net/ It's open source and multi-platform including Windows.

HOWTO Control Devices with the Serial Port and GUIs

One of the best and most concise pages you'll ever find:

http://www.pololu.com/docs/0J4?view_all=1

I'll probably use perl, but that's just me.

PC - windows - cygwin - gcc - Tcl/Tk

doesn't have to be a PC surely - linux ought to work. Except, then you have to be a guru to even get on the internet.