Monday, May 26th, 2008 by Marcin Juszkiewicz
Few days ago I gave my 2GB pendrive for my wife as she was going to fotolab to make some photos. It contained our wedding photos. Today I mounted it on one of my systems and discovered “nice” thing on it…
In root directory there were two files which were not present there before — MS32DLL.dll.vbs and autorun.inf which executes first one. From first look it does not make too many harm for Microsoft Windows systems — looks like it only change window title for Internet Explorer so many people will not even notify but I wonder how many fotolabs or other such places put even more nasty things on client’s media…
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Friday, July 27th, 2007 by Marcin Juszkiewicz
Due to fact that some of embedded devices require using vendor tools I decided to install Microsoft Windows XP Professional on my Dell D400. As this machine lack CD-ROM drive I had to find other way. “Unattended” project provides boot discs which allow to make installation over PXE (netboot).
I followed DOS way and gave my tweaked copy of installation CD for it. The first problem was that I got “Partition Signature !=55AA” message after reboot and machine was unbootable. Hopefully I can boot grub4dos over PXE so I was able to go back to the Debian.
How to fix it? In my situation marking FAT32 partition as bootable solved problem.
The message is messy because there was 0×55aa signature at the end of MBR…
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Sunday, October 1st, 2006 by Marcin Juszkiewicz
Today I looked for some tools for Microsoft Windows platform. Got some results marked as freeware so I looked deeply at them (why to pay if can get tool for free). And what did I saw? Definition of ‘freeware’ has been changed during last years… Now it means:
Freeware: software which you can try for free but any usage need you to register and pay $$$.
For me it is just ‘demo’, ‘trial’ version but not freeware.
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