We all know of iPads, iPhones, Galaxy Tabs and what not – some have even experimented with Amazon’s Kindle, however this is new – or rather an oldie in new clothing, it’s the good old notepad now in an electronic form… sure it does not have internet browsing and you will have to look long for Angry Birds, but if you need to take notes (and keep em) this “tablet” limited to one color is cool (3 color version coming later) – Pricing will be US$ 99,- (could do with a little lower price, but it is not outrageous) and a battery time of 180 hours battery life (almost 3 weeks of daily work !).. This could be interesting…
http://noteslate.com/
https://readmydamnblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/toplogo4.png00Mikehttps://readmydamnblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/toplogo4.pngMike2011-02-15 21:28:502011-02-15 21:29:06NoteSlate – a different kind of e-device
A barnch office in China had a virus incident where a workstation was infected with a virus, this virus created two directories on a server share named “con.” and “nul.”. I quickly discovered that “con” and “nul” (and also “aux”, “lpt” etc etc) are protected names in Windows and you can’t create directories with such names, well you can actually by ‘cheating’;
This is all well and good, but it does not work for folders named “con.” and “nul.”, my next thought was well perhaps there is a ‘hidden’ character after the “.” (eg. the ALT+255 char) so I piped a dir to a text file for examination (dir c:\ > output.txt) however no luck it simply ended with the “.” and that was that. Checkdisk had no luck and utilities to unlock files had no luck.
Anyhow I put it on Technet forums and “Brent Hu” was kind enough to offer some useful advice, he pointed to a utility called “DelInvFile” from here; http://www.purgeie.com/delinv/dldelinv.htm and in seconds the two directories was gone 😀 nice… and as the software came with 3 free deletes it did not even cost a penny, excellent. Anyhow, if you experience invalid files/directories in your directory structure take a look at this util, it may just save your day 🙂
https://readmydamnblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/toplogo4.png00Mikehttps://readmydamnblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/toplogo4.pngMike2011-02-10 13:38:132011-02-10 13:38:13Virus cleanup – unable to delete directories named “con.” and “nul.”
I recently had to reinstall my pc, one of the damn things about this is drivers 🙁 you have to download and install drivers not contained on the install media. In my case I also spend many hours debugging why my system became unstable, it turned our to be the NIC driver that was now included on the install media but sadly utterly unstable 🙁 So hours and days later I managed to find the old driver I used before and all was back to normal.
Anyhow, just wanted to ‘remind’ you all about a nifty little utility that can assist you in backing up your drivers; http://www.drivermagician.com/Lite.htm
Note this is the link to the LITE (FREE) version, it is fine for just backing up your drivers, but if you can spare the cash you can go for the automatic payed version.
NoteSlate – a different kind of e-device
GadgetsVirus cleanup – unable to delete directories named “con.” and “nul.”
OS, Security, UtilityA barnch office in China had a virus incident where a workstation was infected with a virus, this virus created two directories on a server share named “con.” and “nul.”. I quickly discovered that “con” and “nul” (and also “aux”, “lpt” etc etc) are protected names in Windows and you can’t create directories with such names, well you can actually by ‘cheating’;
Create dir;
Remove dir;
This is all well and good, but it does not work for folders named “con.” and “nul.”, my next thought was well perhaps there is a ‘hidden’ character after the “.” (eg. the ALT+255 char) so I piped a dir to a text file for examination (dir c:\ > output.txt) however no luck it simply ended with the “.” and that was that. Checkdisk had no luck and utilities to unlock files had no luck.
Anyhow I put it on Technet forums and “Brent Hu” was kind enough to offer some useful advice, he pointed to a utility called “DelInvFile” from here; http://www.purgeie.com/delinv/dldelinv.htm and in seconds the two directories was gone 😀 nice… and as the software came with 3 free deletes it did not even cost a penny, excellent. Anyhow, if you experience invalid files/directories in your directory structure take a look at this util, it may just save your day 🙂
DriverMagician – Backup drivers
Backup, DriversI recently had to reinstall my pc, one of the damn things about this is drivers 🙁 you have to download and install drivers not contained on the install media. In my case I also spend many hours debugging why my system became unstable, it turned our to be the NIC driver that was now included on the install media but sadly utterly unstable 🙁 So hours and days later I managed to find the old driver I used before and all was back to normal.
Anyhow, just wanted to ‘remind’ you all about a nifty little utility that can assist you in backing up your drivers;
http://www.drivermagician.com/Lite.htm
Note this is the link to the LITE (FREE) version, it is fine for just backing up your drivers, but if you can spare the cash you can go for the automatic payed version.