So long, and thanks for all the bytes.

It has recently been brought to my attention, once again, how the Rules we have set for behaving on boot-land are not really liked/appreciated/approved by a number of members.

The amount of (more or less friendly) efforts I made to have them respected and the very few attempts to enforce them have brought me nothing but polemical/sarcastycal replies, presumably funny attempts to workaround them, and various other smart-ass like behaviour, all leading to griefing me as I have often been depicted as an arrogant, hypocritical and despotic Admin, which is unlike my natural attitude.

As long as this comes from new members it's allright, I can bear this burden with no problems, when it comes from people that have been members and contributors of the Board since it's very beginning or soon after it, it's a clear sign that the Rules or the way they are applied by yours truly do not reflect the expectations or the opinions of the community.

I find as fundamentally pointless to do a "social service" against the wishes of the community it should serve.

As my last act as Admin of the board I have moved to a "reserved" area the last topic where people had a very good occasion to show this behaviour.

Nuno and/or the Admins that will be elected/nominated after me will be able to restore it to where it was originally posted:
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showforum=77
as well as "unpin" the present thread, temporarily made "sticky".

Enjoy your new - free from control Board.

BTW: The Rules are still there, the only difference is that you won't have any more jaclaz trying to have them respected.

Rather obviously the final message is :




jaclaz

P.S.: Should it not be clear enough, this topic is not meant as a discussion topic, it's merely a communication from your ex-Admin, nothing more, nothing less.

P.P.S: Should it not be clear enough, the above means that jaclaz is not anymore an Admin of the Board, again nothing more, nothing less.

P.P.P.S.: For reasons that probably only someone with a Vulcan heritage would understand, and that however I won't reveal, I feel compelled to leave also the Board as "advanced member" jaclaz, as this leaves attached to the account a number of privileges that not only I don't need, but that I also do not want. My new nick is Wonko The Sane.

A resource for device drivers developers (if they exist)

Here:
http://www.sysprogs.org
http://www.sysprogs.org/programs.php

Besides a couple of tools for device driver programmers:
http://visualddk.sysprogs.org/
http://virtualkd.sysprogs.org/

They make a library that looks like a real bomb (if only anyone could find a willing device driver programmer... ):
http://bazislib.sysprogs.org/

I will only hint that the "hello world" or example on this page is:



They also have a couple tools very useful to the "normal user":
http://wincdemu.sysprogs.org/

If you have a few spare bucks, it would be nice to help the guys over there getting a signed certificate:
http://wincdemu.sysprogs.org/donate_sign.php

(Though maybe we should first getting "our" IMDISK signed)

A Service manager:
Windows Service Manager (SrvMan)

Windows Service Manager is a small tool that simplifies all common tasks related to Windows services. It can create services (both Win32 and Legacy Driver) without restarting Windows, delete existing services and change service configuration. It has both GUI and Command-line modes. It can also be used to run arbitrary Win32 applications as services (when such service is stopped, main application window is closed automatically).
http://tools.sysprogs.org/srvman/



jaclaz

Geocities is dead, ...long live Reocities!

Here:
http://www.reocities.com/



Or, more simply:





jaclaz

The good thing is that engineers never stop to surprise me

So:

• A friend of mine just bought a TV set. <- nothing unusual
• This particular TV set is strangely "slow", i.e. when you press the power on button it takes some time before switching on, with a blue led pulsing for some time before the image appears. <- again, nothing too unusual
• The TV set has a USB port and a Serial one <- this starts to be unusual
• The USB port does seemingly nothing useful and cannot be selected as input <- this is not only unusual, it is also suspect

A quick search revealed that there are strange ways (somehow a cross between a service manual and voodoo ) to actually enable that USB port:
http://www.avforums.com/forums/lg-owners-f...-lh-series.html


The revelation is (and that explains also why the initial switch-on lag ) that this thingy actually BOOTS a Linux OS :
http://www.avforums.com/forums/lg-owners-f...-thread-35.html
http://www.hwupgrade.it/forum/showpost.php...p;postcount=364

My friend's TV is a LG, but Samsung appear to work the same (and is also MUCH more/better documented ):
http://lwn.net/Articles/364216/
http://lwn.net/Articles/361445/
http://samygo.sourceforge.net/


Of course I simply NEED to hack into the damn thingy, for no apparent reason (actually there is a reason, there are "priorities" in the DTV settings which are a nuisance), but I do fear the implications (philosophical ones, not practical ones).

A TV set that boots an OS may also be acceptable , but what will be next?

An "intelligent" powerdrill?
A "smart" toothbrush?
A §@ç#ing coffe machine that will pretend to know more than I do about how to make coffee?




jaclaz

[RELEASE] WimToolBatches

psc has made a little great tool, WimCaptEx.exe, that allows to use the Windows 7 .wim mounting tools under XP:
http://nativeex.boot-land.net/Programs/Wim...x/WimCaptEx.htm


I just made a few batches to easen the use of the thingy and without using Winbuilder.


Attached WimToolBatches, now with:


Add in the same directory (stoopidly long paths with spaces in it NOT tested):



and of course :

from:
http://nativeex.boot-land.net/Programs/Wim...x/WimCaptEx.htm

Please note that a suitable source for the Windows 7 files is this stoopidly long path (but without spaces ):


WARNING:
This is NOT a joke, use the batches at your own risk, they could hose your system in no time.
They are at this moment VERY experimental, don't come here whining about an unbootable system, I told you.

However reports from the bravehearts (or more experienced peeps around) are welcome.

The (very little testing) has been carried on x86 ONLY, I have no idea if the batches will work on x64, nor if they can be easily adapted to it.
(this seems like work for Lancelot )

Development/historical thread here:
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?...ic=9658&hl=



jaclaz