Microsoft Netbook idea – Origami!
NOTE: The original article can be found on www.mydigitallife.info - This is their work not mine!
Origami Experience is a operation interface software from Microsoft similar to Windows Media Center (MCE). Origami Experience is designed for Ultra-Mobile PCs that run Windows Vista. The current version of Origami Experience is v2.0. Origami Experience 2.0 combines four programs that make your ultra-Mobile PC (UMPC) running Windows Vista even easier to use.
Microsoft Origami Experience 2.0 contains these four programs for an ultra-Mobile PC (UMPC) running Windows Vista:
- Origami Central
Central gives you instant access to all your media, programs, and the Internet, with the touch of a finger. - Origami Now
Now gives you one-touch access to the most important information at any given time and place. - Origami Picture Password
With a Picture Password, you can log on to Windows and unlock your computer by tapping a sequence of targets on a picture, instead of typing a password. - Touch Settings
Touch Settings combines several settings in Windows Vista into one place to make it easier to customize a touch screen.
Microsoft Origami Experience 2.0 is available to download from Microsoft Download Center, but it requires user’s system to pass the WGA (genuine Windows) validation. If you always fail to pass the validation test, or don’t want to install any ActiveX control for validation, use the direct download link below to start downloading.
Direct download link to Origami Experience 2.0: OrigamiExperiencePackv2.msi
How to Search Wiki or Google from Search Box in Windows Vista/7
NOTE: The original article can be found on www.mydigitallife.info - This is their work not mine!
If you spend a lot of time in searching useful information in Wikipedia, Google or Yahoo, instead of going to Wikipedia or Google or Yahoo homepage itself to type the keyword and perform the searching, you actually can add search Wikipedia, Google, Yahoo option to Windows Vista Start Menu Instant Search Box so that you can type the keyword from the search box and choose to search in either Wikipedia, Google or Yahoo websites.
To add Search Wikipedia or Google or Yahoo at Start Menu Instant Search Box, follow below steps:
1. Click on Start button, then type gpedit.msc in the search bar, then hit enter key.
2. User Account Control is displayed and click Continue button to proceed launching Local Group Policy Editor.
3. Navigate to User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Instant Search > Custom Instant Search Internet search provider, click on Properties to open the properties window.
4. Under Setting tab, select Enable to enable the policy setting.
5. At “the string or DLL resource” text box, type either Search Wikipedia, Search Google or Search Yahoo.
6. At “the URL to use when invoking the custom internet search” text box, key in either one of the URL.
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%w
Google: http://www.google.com/search?q=%w
Yahoo: http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=%w
7. Click OK button to save the setting.
In order to take the effect of the group policy changes, you must either reboot your computer or type gpupdate/force at command prompt then hit enter to execute the GPO update immediately. If you choose to enable Search Wikipedia, you will see Search Wikipedia appears at Start Menu Instant Search Box once you have started to type at the search box.
Ubuntu 8.04 network after vmware ESX 3i clone
vi /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
when you clone a vm, it will assign the nic a new mac.
if you didn’t clear these rules prior to cloning the disk, the mac will be assigned to the next available ethernet interface ie: eth1
delete the eth0 line, rename the eth1 to eth0, reboot.
Alteratively just delete the file. For template clone images just delete the file as the last thing you do and it will create a new on boot (when its cloned and has new mac addresses).