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 Posted: Feb 23, 2012 - 07:35 AM |
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Posted: Mar 18, 2012 - 05:13 PM |
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Location: Lund, Sweden
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Clonezilla + Tuxboot
Being in NCA mode (New Computer Acquisition), I was in search for a disk clone/restore software. I like to be able to get back to "original state" (and nowadays you seldom get install media with your new computer). Then you need another image/clone after you've applied a few years of Windoze Upyours ..sorry.. Windows Update.
I have previously been a Norton Ghost user, and now I had my eyes on Acronis TrueImage but that turned out to be a costly solution since I soon will have to back up five or more different system disks in different computers.
After a tour on The Web I decided on Clonezilla, and so far I am satisfied. Not for the faint of heart that needs to do this with zero tech insight and who crave a GUI. It's a GNU/Linux solution with text-mode prompts (or raw command line if you prefer). It will happily clone Windows disks and/or partitions, placing the m on e.g an USB disk.
You use Tuxboot to get a bootable disk(e.g. a CD-R) with Clonezilla on it (more here: http://clonezilla.org/liveusb.php).
Be aware that there are warnings in several places that if you do not know what you're doing you might ruin your system disk(s). |
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Posted: Mar 29, 2012 - 11:23 PM |
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Location: New York State
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Western Digital has a free version of Acronis True Image. I assume you need at least one WD drive plugged in to use it.
There is one limitation I am aware of. You can only back up entire partitions. You can't select folders or files for the backup. On the restore side, you can selectively restore whatever you want. |
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Posted: Apr 23, 2012 - 10:20 AM |
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Location: (using avr-gcc in) Finchingfield, Essex, England
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I'm kind of surprised this hasn't hit the list yet but after I mentioned it in another thread Johan suggested I add a further recommendation here for USBDeview.exe:
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usb_devices_view.html
This gives you the kind of information in Windows about inserted USB devices that lsusb gives for Linux. Perhaps key amongst the reported information is simply the VID/PID that a device has enumerated against. If you are building your own USB devices and configuring the enumeration to deliver your own selected VID/PID this is a quick way to check you are on the right track (or even to see that it is enumerating at all). |
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Posted: May 21, 2012 - 09:17 AM |
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Location: (using avr-gcc in) Finchingfield, Essex, England
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| I've always used XP's Windows Movie Maker for making videos to upload to YouTube but always had problems with it crashing (having to save after every edit step) and I recently got a Sony HX9V which takes video at a higher resolution than it could cope with so I went looking for something that could run natively in my Linux host and after reading recommendations and trying a couple I have to say that kdenlive (just "apt-get install kdenlive" in Ubuntu) is at least as good as Windows Media maker in every sense while providing a user interface that is very similar so it makes for an easy transition for anyone used to the XP program. |
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Posted: Sep 20, 2012 - 02:25 PM |
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The Saturn PCB Toolkit
is the best resource for PCB related calculations you can find.
It incorporates many features that PCB designers and engineers are in regular need of like current capacity of a PCB trace, via current, differential pairs and much more. Please download our PCB Toolkit today for free and enjoy! 
Code:
http://saturnpcb.com/pcb_toolkit.htm
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Posted: Sep 20, 2012 - 05:02 PM |
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Location: Seattle, WA
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dxr wrote:
The Saturn PCB Toolkit
is the best resource for PCB related calculations you can find.
It incorporates many features that PCB designers and engineers are in regular need of like current capacity of a PCB trace, via current, differential pairs and much more. Please download our PCB Toolkit today for free and enjoy!
Code:
http://saturnpcb.com/pcb_toolkit.htm
I use this software regularly. Very useful! |
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Posted: Oct 05, 2012 - 02:25 PM |
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No viruses.
No daily critical security risk updates.
No expensive user programs.
No expensive bi-yearly OS updates.
No crashing when the OS screws itself up.
No open hard drive and personal info to Microsoft corporate.
No helping Bill Gates remain a multi billionaire.
Ubuntu.com |
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Posted: Oct 12, 2012 - 10:08 AM |
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Posted: Oct 13, 2012 - 05:08 PM |
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| I'm a huge fan of digital audio. Most frequently use Medieval CUE Splitter and Monkey Audio. Lots of rare old CD's and bootlegs are shared in via APE + CUE. |
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my drm removal
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Posted: Dec 29, 2012 - 03:49 PM |
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Logic Friday is a freeware tool for students, hobbyists, and engineers who work with legacy digital logic circuits based on standard IC packages.
Current version: 1.1.4, released 9 November, 2012.
With Logic Friday you can:
Enter a logic function as a truth table, an equation, or a gate diagram
Enter functions with up to 16 inputs and 16 outputs
Minimize a function with options of fast or exact minimization
Automatically generate a multi-level gate diagram using gates chosen from a library
Automatically minimize the number of standard gate packages
Trace the logic state of each gate's inputs and outputs for a given input vector
Compare logic functions
Generate new functions as logical combinations of others
View any function as a truth table, equation, or gate diagram
Generate efficient, compact C code lookup functions from logic functions
Save functions and gate diagram images to files
Export and import truth tables as CSV files for editing in spreadsheet applications.
Code:
http://sontrak.com/screenshots.html
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Posted: Jan 02, 2013 - 10:24 AM |
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Location: (using avr-gcc in) Finchingfield, Essex, England
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Just to give a quick plug to Google Play Music Manager. My wife has an iPad and our music collection in iTunes. I got an Android tablet and wanted access to the same music collection. By downloading Google Play Music Manager (both Windows and Linux versions are available - I ended up using the Linux one as the Windows one says it won't work within a virtual machine) I was able to just point it to the iTunes folder and say "upload that" and then on either the tablet or the phone I can just use the Google "Play Music" application and it can play the music streamed direct from the Google "cloud" (it even shows the album art). For favourite songs/albums I can just right-click them and "Keep on Device" and it caches a local copy of the tracks on the SD card of the phone/tablet so it can play when out of range of Wi-Fi/mobile. The only limit is that the cloud storage will only hold 20,000 tracks (but we're miles from that just yet).
In a similar vein I have photos in various places (PC hard drive, my phone, Facebook, etc) and I wanted to be able to access those from the tablet too so I just uploaded them all to Picasa which (because it's owned by Google) integrates seamlessly with Android so that I can access them from the "cloud" (again) or can elect to have certain ones downloaded into the device.
I wonder how it is that Google seem to be able to do so much better a job at just "putting everything together" compared to decades and many failed attempts from Microsoft? |
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Posted: Jan 03, 2013 - 07:03 AM |
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Location: Arlington, Texas, U.S.A.
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clawson wrote:
I wonder how it is that Google seem to be able to do so much better a job at just "putting everything together" compared to decades and many failed attempts from Microsoft?
Corporate philosophy and corporate governance.
An Evening with Google's Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt (Google+, Google).
1. Google-y-ness - 11:57 for about 5m.
2. The Quartet - 38:20 for about 4m.
http://i50.tinypic.com/161lx6e.jpg
(Microsoft's Bing Christmas wallpaper)
Take a close look at what's shown in the trailer's left side rear window. |
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Posted: Jan 03, 2013 - 05:12 PM |
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Location: Great Smokey Mountains.
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| Satan Claus! |
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FREE TUTORIAL: 'Quick Start Guide for Using the WinAVR C Compiler with ATMEL's AVR Butterfly' AVAILABLE AT: http://www.smileymicros.com
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Posted: Jan 03, 2013 - 10:09 PM |
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Location: Lund, Sweden
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| Am I the only one seeing Santa Tux to the left in the rear window? |
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Posted: Jan 03, 2013 - 11:25 PM |
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I'm not seeing it. I guess by 'left side rear window' I was thinking the rear window on the trailers left side, whereas you were thing of the left side of the rear window. And I thought Santa Tux has yellow feet?
Maybe I've been using Windows too long.
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FREE TUTORIAL: 'Quick Start Guide for Using the WinAVR C Compiler with ATMEL's AVR Butterfly' AVAILABLE AT: http://www.smileymicros.com
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Posted: Jan 13, 2013 - 09:44 AM |
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I found this collection of SW in single compressd package (400MB)
I hope this list of SW will help find suitable SW for any task.
Mosstly of apps are in freeware licence.
All tools are for Win32/64 platform some exist also in MAC or some are capable run under Wine.
Code:
AUD.AudioAnalyser2010.12
AUD.HarmonicTune
AUD.MultiSine
AUD.RealtimeAnalyzer
AUD.SpectraVue
AUD.SweepGen
AUD.VisualAnalyzer
AUD.miniscope
AUD.soundscope
CAD.3Dconverter
CAD.AnyCAD
CAD.AnyViewer
CAD.AutoQ3
CAD.BRL-CAD
CAD.DraftSight_FreeEdition
CAD.FreeEasyCAD_3D
CAD.HeeksCAD
CAD.LibreCAD_2Donly
CAD.LiteCAD.portable
CAD.MachCloud
CAD.NaroCAD
CAD.PLCAD
CAD.QCAD_demo
CAD.Uniconvertor
CAD.VisualCAD
Circuit Wizard 1.15
PCB.DipTrace.500.pins.PortablePacked
PCB.ExpressSCH
PCB.Fritzing
PCB.PADS (500pins version)
PCB.PcbExpress
PCB.Saturn
PCB.VeeCAD
SaleaeLogicAnalyzer
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Posted: Feb 09, 2013 - 09:37 AM |
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Online Regular Expression Builder/Debugger
Quote:
http://regexr.com?33ncj
example is showing how to simple match word starting with 'de' characters
Good luck with evil's chars |
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Posted: May 21, 2013 - 07:07 AM |
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Termite: a simple RS232 terminal
Termite is an easy to use and easy to configure RS232 terminal. It uses an interface similar to that of "messenger" or "chat" programs, with a large window that contains all received data and an edit line for typing in strings to transmit. Highlights of the utility are the ease of installation (possibly with pre-configured settings) using a heuristic search for the appropriate COM port and, as was mentioned, its user-friendliness.
Features
A history of commands that you typed, with auto-completion.
Resizeable main window, with a "keep window on top" option, multilingual user interface.
Ability to run with pre-configured settings from a read-only medium (no installation is necessary).
Support for non-standard Baud rates (MIDI, DMX512).
Different colouring for transmitted and received data (blue=transmitted, green=received).
Data can be forwarded between two RS232 ports. Usefull for link monitoring or sniffing without special cables
Search dialog for transmitted/received text (right-click pop-up menu).
Save or print the contents of the transmitted/received text (right-click pop-up menu).
Download
http://www.compuphase.com/software_termite.htm
PS: I missed this quite small quick and freeware terminal emulator in this good thread. |
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