Red Stars Programming, food, and rambling

5Oct/090

Message Hasher

A small web-based message hasher, good for generating hashes of small amounts of text. No binary support yet, but it's planned via file uploads!

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17Aug/090

Installing Windows 7 from and to the same hard drive

The reason why is pretty simple, DVDs are not remotely as fast as any other media, and in 2009, it's starting to show. Flash drives are larger, faster, and more versatile than DVDs, and they're costing less and less. But what about an older system that can not boot from USB storage? Well, there is an option, and that's to use the destination drive as the source. Install the drive into a separate computer (via a usb dongle is fine) and follow these steps. Note that these directions work if you're trying to make a bootable USB flash drive, too.

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22Jul/096

Hacking Windows XP PowerToy Calculator to run in Vista/Windows 7

This was more of a project than I was originally expecting, Microsoft prevents the Windows XP Powertoy Calculator from running in Vista or Windows 7 in 2 separate places, but in the end, it runs perfectly in Vista, all the limitations are false.

Don't feel like doing this yourself? No need! :)

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22Jul/090

Using Process Monitor and other tools to fix a broken installation.

Today the stars were aligned and my VMWare installation decided to stop working. It's time for an upgrade, anyways.


Oh, that makes sense. So lets uninstall the old version.


Can't install the new, can't uninstall the old. Time for some hackery!

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16Jul/090

Automated Local Backup of a Remote MySQL Database

I always like to take backing up into my own hands, and a database is potentially the most important thing on your server next to only the code driving it all, which in nature typically has a local copy anyways.

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