Unknown Device Identifier: Identify Hardware Type, Model & Driver for Unknown Devices in Windows Device Manager

Unknown Device Identifier is a freeware Windows application that allows you to identify unknown devices in the Device Manager, highlighted by yellow question mark and labeled as �??Unknown Device�?�. It then displays a detailed summary of the device manufacturer�??s name, OEM name, device type, device model and even the exact name of the unknown device. [...]

Get Information About Your BIOS / Server Hardware From a Shell Without Opening Chassis ( BIOS Decoder )

biosdecode is a command line utility to parses the BIOS memory and prints information about all structures (or entry points) it knows of. You can find out more information about your hardware.
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How to clone your bootable Ubuntu install to another drive

If you’ve ever wanted to completely clone your Ubuntu install, with all of the tweaks, files you’ve downloaded and changes you’ve made to it, there’s a fairly simple way to do this. This is great if you want a complete backup, or if you’re looking to move your system to a newer (read: bigger, [...]

Customize Windows settings with FreshUI

If you’re looking for an easy to use application for tweaking just about every setting you could ever want to tweak in Windows, you might want to check out Fresh UI. This Windows tweaking tool is both powerful and easy to use. And it has features that work with pretty much every version of Windows [...]

Howto: build Linux kernel module against installed kernel w/o full kernel source tree

Recently I received a question via email:
How do I build Linux kernel module against installed or running Linux kernel? Do I need to install new kernel source tree from kernel.org?

To be frank you do not need a new full source tree in order to just compile or build module against the running kernel i.e [...]

Howto: Flashing your system BIOS under Linux

BIOS is Basic Input/Output System or Basic Integrated Operating System used by computer when you switch on computer.
Most of you may aware that the main function of BIOS is to prepare the system hardware so other software programs stored on hard disk can load, execute the stuff.
BIOS updates are critical for Linux server. In [...]

Free US and UK Telephone Numbers from Within the Philippines (or Anywhere)

Do you know you can get free US and UK telephone numbers even from the Philippines? Or anywhere for that matter? If you have a decent Internet connection (preferably broadband) and a VoIP client (software or hardware), you can easily sign up for free US- and UK-based DID numbers that callers can use to contact [...]

How to turn off the annoying system beep in linux (Debian/Ubuntu)

If you�re like me, you start getting real annoyed, real fast at the system beep that insists on beeping far to often. This system beep emits not from your laptop speakers, but from that deep, dank recesses of ancient pc technology that is a little speaker designed only to beep annoyingly. Short of [...]

Linux Get list of installed software for reinstallation / restore software

Hardware and Software failures are part of Life. That is why you need to have a backup. I have already written about backing files and MySQL databases. You need not to backup all installed binaries (mostly software) with following tips. It will not just save your time but both Debian and RHEL distro can [...]

Using Linux in a Windows World

(The article is written with Linux which is RPM based)
You’ve built a linux desktop. You’ve mounted the learning curve to configure the hardware (or paid someone else to do so) and you are able to do your own work on the machine. You’ve discovered that if you can point and click you can run a [...]

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