Just when I thought I have got everything sorted out nice, out comes a surprise. Turns out the industry has been stealthily moving away from BIOS towards EFI while I was happily using my old laptop. Result : All my bootable USB drives are no longer supported. Hooray! There goes all my bootable ...

I would like to share a software which I have been using over the last year or so. rainmeter is a desktop customization software. It is somewhat similar to the gadgets we are familiar with in windows 7 but rainmeter allows greater customization so you can theme all of them in a similar style. ...

I changed my workstation just recently from an old, heavy Lenovo with 2 hours of battery life to a new Acer W700 hybrid that is half the weight and has roughly 7 hours of battery life. Chief among the differences include only a grand total of 1 USB 3.0 port on my W700 as well as 64GB SSD ...

For someone like me, who has over the years collected an entire treasure trove of applications and utilities for all purposes, sysprep is a godsend. I wont have to re-install and re-configure all my programs when migrating to a new computer. However, having done so 4 times for my last windows ...

Barely one month after getting rid of my Ubuntu/Win 7 dual boot combination, I installed linux on my laptop once again. This time though, its Kali Linux, because using Backtrack in a VM was creating more trouble than it was worth. I guess having a separate OS only for pen testing is workable. ...

Project Log - Benjamin Week Description Hours 1 Liftoff Workshop 16 1 Analyse giftbook and convert it into nusmods 5 1 Write and run script to wget and parse module information 8 1 Implement REST interface 2 1 Hack Android app to connect over REST interface 2 1 Upload module info to datastore 2 ...

**Project Reports for nusmods** This project is done at the Vostok (beginner) level. First Report (Week 3) The aim of the project is to develop a platform which will allow NUS students to easily retrieve prerequisites and preclusions of modules offered by NUS. The motivation to do so is because ...

I never cease to be amazed by how small something can be, especially in today's era of 2TB HDDs. Just few months ago. it was my arch Linux arm distro. Out of the box (OOTB) occupying less than 300mb on my SD card. Makes me wonder what on earth is inside windows 8 which took up a sizable portion ...