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January 2011

Share HP Deskjet 1280 from Windows XP to Windows 7

Consider this scenario: * HP Deskjet 1280 on USB on a Windows XP machine * Windows 7 machine * We want to share HP Deskjet 1280 and use from Windows 7 machine the thing seems very simple, but at the end seem really impossible, and finally a compromise that works so, let go by step, [...]

NullFileNET – NullFile in .NET way or zeroing disk for Windows in VirtualBox

Updated version 0.2 Exception catched on file object disposing. ——————— I have some VMs with VirtualBox, I use to run nullfile-1.02.exe by Matthias Jordan in order to clear unused sectors with a VBoxManage compact. It’s a good tool, but I want to know more infos, first of all, when app thinks to finish to wipe? [...]

Ubuntu 10.10 – Kernel panic – not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unkown block

Booting Ubuntu 10.10 from my laptop Dell XPS I run into a kernel panic: Kernel panic – not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unkown block Pid 1 com: swapper not tainted 2.6.35-24 generic (or something similar, I’ve wrote down by hand) …Mind panic… I lost 2 hours, and then find a really [...]