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AVG Rescue CD

Aric — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 18:48:48 +0000

AVG’s rescue cd allows you to scan and repair your computer outside of the installed windows operating system. This is great considering once a computer is infected many viruses stop anti-virus software from removing and stopping the infections within windows, but outside of windows the viruses are powerless. AVG accomplishes this by packaging their AVG antivirus software inside a live linux distribution. A live operating system is one you can boot from removable media such as a dvd or flash drive and not need to install. AVG offers a helpful guide to obtain and prepare a copy of the resuce cd.

For most users, universal drivers which support their computer are normally included with the live linux distro. Computers with newer unsupported hardware can sometimes have issues which can prevent the linux operating system from booting. A workaround for this includes adding different boot parameters to inform the operating system to not use the hardware. To do this with the AVG rescue cd at the boot selection screen hit tab and add one of the below combination’s to the boot parameter. If still no luck try the next combination.

noapic nolapic

acpi=off

irqpoll

lapic pci=routeirq

Create multiple HP recovery disc sets

Aric — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 15:29:12 +0000

A simple method to bypass HP’s limit restriction on the number of recovery sets is to simply delete all instances of “hpcd.sys” or “hpdrcu.prc”.

Credits to TheFakeGeek.com

iPhone or itouch as a Wireless USB adapter

Aric — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 08:35:30 +0000

Currently multiple third party applications allow the iPhone to tether or share it’s data plan with your computer. Just recently I discovered using June Fabrics Technology‘s PdaNet you can not only tether your data plan but also it’s wifi connection, making your ipod touch or iphone also a wireless USB adapter.

Basic steps to use ipod touch as a wireless usb adapter:
-Install PdaNet Desktop. This requires itunes to be installed.
-Install PdaNet in cydia or RockApp. If you don’t have either of these you most likely haven’t jailbroken your iPod… Similar to most useful software on the iPods, you will NEED your device jailbroken.
-On your iPod, set the PdaNet application to USB Mode in the settings.
-On the desktop, right click on PdaNet tray icon and click connect.

PdaNet is also available for Android, PalmOS, Windows Mobile, and BlackBerry.