Important Things 1999

Usually, I use VPN to update my Outlook. After succeed dial-up, the policy of company will prohibit you to visit lots of websites, such as youtube, google word, and all vicious websites he thinks. How to visit those websites and update Outlook at the same time?

This is my VPN solution:

1. Host OS: Ubuntu Linux
2. Guest OS: Microsoft Windows in VMware Workstation/Server for Linux(If you are VCP of VMware, they will send you a formal Workstation license after passing training class and VCP-310 test).
3.  CISCO VPN and Outlook software is installed in guest OS(Windows).
4. Using Linux to visit website which is prohibitted by the company’s firewall.
5. Using Windows to dial VPN, and setup VPN tunnal, Outlook will using this tunnal to receive and send email.

Since tunnel is setup by Windows, no Ubuntu, so Ubuntu can do anything without considering firewall of company. This will be helpful when you work at home.

Internet access network can be ethernet or wireless, because Windows(Virtual machine) don’t care about it, setup of physical line is job of Ubuntu.

If this article help you, I will be pleasure to hear from you.

Why Microsoft Windows hasn’t the function like “grep”? When analysing application logs, the question will  always be asked.

Fortunately, we can find some tools, such as AstroGrep(opensource freeware), which can do same thing under Windows just like Unix or Linux.

The following content is copied from: http://astrogrep.sourceforge.net

“AstroGrep is a Microsoft Windows grep utility. Grep is a UNIX command-line program which searches within files for keywords. AstroGrep supports regular expressions, versatile printing options, stores most recently used paths and has a “context” feature which is very nice for looking at source code.”

AstroGrep includes the following features

- Regular expressions
- Concurrent multiple file types
- Recursive directory searching
- A “context” feature that selects the lines above and below your search expression
- Most Recently Used list for search paths
- Somewhat versatile printing options
- Double click to open file with editor of your choice
- Store Most Recently Used file names and search expressions
- Match Whole Word Only
- Syntax highlighing
- Free of charge and Open Source

Look! M I cOoL?  Do U know what’s disk fragment, and do you have defragment tools?

————————–:0—————————:(—————————-I’m Linuxer.

This is classic joke to tease Microsoft Windows.

Defrag can be sorted by whole file system, files and page file. MS provides whole file system defragment tool with Windows NT/XP/2003.

M Sorry to recommend two tools of defragment, because i StiLL using wInDoWs. They are parts of defragment SOLUTION for MS wInDoWs, one for defag file, and the other for defrag page file, the total size  is less than 800KB, can U image it ?

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Do you tired of Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V under Windows?

Can we use mouse copy and paste just like X ?

So, it is “True X-Mouse Gizmo for Windows“.

Download from: http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/nt/TXMouse/

or, exe file(42KB): http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/nt/TXMouse/TXMouse.exe

Notes: If you want to add URL link(copied from browser) to some select words, TXMouse should be stopped. If not, the select words will replace URL you have copied.

Some software binds volume ID, or need check volume ID. If Windows is re-installed, volume ID will be changed.

Reapply a new software/license is a solution. Is there another simple way?

VolumeID v2.0
By Mark Russinovich
Published: November 1, 2006

Introduction
While WinNT/2K and Windows 9x’s built-in Label utility lets you change the labels of disk volumes, it does not provide any means for changing volume ids. This utiltity, VolumeID, allows you to change the ids of FAT and NTFS disks (floppies or hard drives).

Usage: volumeid <driveletter:> xxxx-xxxx

This is a command-line program that you must run from a command-prompt window.

Note that changes on NTFS volumes won’t be visible until the next reboot. In addition, you should shut down any applications you have running before changing a volume id. NT may become confused and think that the media (disk) has changed after a FAT volume id has changed and pop up messages indicating that you should reinsert the original disk (!). It may then fail the disk requests of applications using those drives.

Download:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897436.aspx

or Download VolumeID v2.0 (43KB):

http://download.sysinternals.com/Files/VolumeId.zip

ext2FSD is the best ext2/3 mount software for Windows. After install, allocate a driver letter, and reboot your Windows OS, you can read/write ext2/3 partition with the same way as NTFS.

ext2FSD is an open source software, can you image it?

I have used ext2FSD 4 years ago, and tried reading and writing ext3 partition, no error occured.

Recently I worked more under Windows XP, but need access the data in ext3 partition, explore2fs-1.07 is used first for extract/copy little data to NTFS. To solve ext3 writing issue, ext2FSD is the best choice.

ext2FSD released its new version V0.46a in 2008-05-24. The low version number doesn’t mean it’s not usable or not stable, it’s just shows the author’s perfect style and attitude. If you like MS style, please multiply the version by 100.

The new version V0.46a provide a GUI interface to config driver mounted by Windows, more convenient than ever(I haven’t test it after 2004).

If ext2/3 partition has Unicode char, such as Chinese and Japanese, you can use GUI to modify partition mount parameters, double click ext2/3 partition, change default to UTF char code, and reboot Windows.

Download: http://ext2fsd.sourceforge.net/index.htm

I like Filezilla, because it has both Windows version and Linux version. FTP sites can Imported/Exported between the two OS platform. The XML file exported can be modified by a text editor, such as Notepad.exe or gedit.

Download from: http://filezilla-project.org

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