Get Windows serial number

Sometimes you need that Windows serial number you entered when you activated your computer. Hard to find - this thing is not used very often. So I made small program - use it. Works for Windows-7, Windows Server 2008 , Windows XP, virtual machines . Enjoy! Let me know if it helps.

Traditional - what sucks now, HP software for scanner.

When using feature "Scan to PDF" for MFP1212, page size is set to idiotic 87cm x 115 cm.
Resulting file size is gigantic.
HP sucks big way - can not solve the problem.

Fraud alert

Somebody located in Thorold / St.Catharines trying to impersonate legitimate trucking company and steal freight.
Their phone 1-905-346-8175 and fax 905-225-0175.
So stay alert!

Aegis Logistics PARS Tracking

Aegis Logistics provides unlimited PARS tracking for 100$ per year and 6 months free trial!

TrendNET TEW-652BRP is crap

Don't buy this router.
Unless you don't want to use wireless.
Wired working ok, wireless drops connection all the time.

LJ is down again

LiveJournal under DoS attack second day in a row.
Russian users are all screaming ...

Dropbox

Try DropBox - useful to have same set of smallish files synchronized between computers.
If you sign-up via this link - you will get extra 250Mb of space , and me too!

How to fix disk size for embedded SIL31512A SATA Raid controller

What we have:
Old Shuttle ST61G motherboard with embedded SATARaid controller Sil 3512
When big SATA disks connected to SATA - BIOS hangs.
Shuttle provides no motherboard updates - ST61G discontinued.
So what we do?
We integrate updated BIOS for SIL3512A into system BIOS using CBROM tool.
Like this:
CBROM217.exe ft61s02d.bin /pci 4384.BIN
where ft61s02d.bin - system BIOS
4384.BIN - SATA BIOS
and then we flash updated ft61s02d.bin file to system BIOS.

Test from Windows Live Writer

 

a11	a12
a21	a22

Google ads gone ...

So the story of this blog ends or not?
How about this?

Today - Obama inauguration

Obama is new guy in White House.
Let's wait and see what is going to happen.
The sooner the better.

NORTEL files chapter 11

And how did they managed to get into debt to the tune of 9 billions?
Here they are - fat cats & greedy idiots
Management
Board

Insurance

Now I know more about "content insurance".
In general, average Canadian should have 5 different policies.

Livejournal news

Many fired in SF office

Christmas gift

It will be 42" LCD TV.
Samsung or LG ?

Winter is here

Lots of snow.
And rather cold -13C.

What we need to be public

Probably 3 things:
doctors
teachers
lawyers

Used to be in USSR ...

What will happen to Harper's government ?

Will it survive the vote on budget?
Interesting.
Definitely, we don't want coalition government.

Google works ok

In a few days - about a week, Google picked up new keywords and new ads are all about new things.
So we know well enough now how it works.

New keywords - asbestos and insurance and mortgage

Why car insurance is so expensive in Ontario? Why so cheap in Quebec ?
Where to get mortgage?
If you are a victim of asbestos - what to do ?
Very interesting.

New gadget

Cheap reader - 75$
But it says - crappy display and no wireless connection.

Games

It is time to retire GameBoy - I have one made in 1997.
New toy is Nintendo DS.
Just needs R4DS card.

MQ series from IBM is such a drag

Requires too much Java/Eclipse crap.

Used to be a good cheap wireless router

This router was a very good device cheap, fast, easy to use, rich features.
Not anymore...

Hylafax on Linux

Ok, dreadful hylafax error "waiting for modem to come ready" fixed by adding this:
s0:2345:respawn:/usr/sbin/faxgetty ttyS0
to /etc/inittab
Do not forget to say telinit Q
Hylafax claims you don't need faxgetty running - in fact, you need it.