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Pete's Blog: Compiling and installing Grub2 for standalone USB boot
http://pete.akeo.ie/2014/05/compiling-and-installing-grub2-for.html
160; Were full of IT! Compiling and installing Grub2 for standalone USB boot. The goal here, is to produce the necessary set of files, to be written to an USB Flash Drive using dd. Rather than using the Grub installer), so that it will boot through Grub 2.x and be able to process an existing. As usual, we start from nothing. I'll also assume that you know nothing about the intricacies of Grub 2 with regards to the creation of a bootable USB, so let me start with a couple of primers:. As you may expe...
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Pete's Blog: Compiling Grub4DOS on MinGW
http://pete.akeo.ie/2014/11/compiling-grub4dos-on-mingw.html
160; Were full of IT! Compiling Grub4DOS on MinGW. Committed a handful of patches that I submitted to make the compilation of Grub4DOS. On MinGW easier, I'm just going to jolt down some quick notes on how you can produce a working Grub4DOS on Windows. Note that part of this guide is shamelessly copied from the RMPrepUSB Grub4DOS compilation guide. If you don't already have a git client, download and install msys-git. Aka " Git for Windows. Download the latest MinGW32 installer. 8594; Apply Changes.
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Pete's Blog: Easily create UEFI applications using Visual Studio 2015
http://pete.akeo.ie/2015/01/easily-create-uefi-applications-using.html
160; Were full of IT! Easily create UEFI applications using Visual Studio 2015. As pointed out before. Visual Studio is now essentially free for all development, and its solid IDE of course makes is very desirable as the environment to use to develop UEFI applications on Windows. Now, you might have read that, short of using the oh-so-daunting EDK2. And the intricate voodoo magic you'll have to spend days. So really, if you want to craft an EFI application in no time at all, all you need to do is:.
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Pete's Blog: 2014/09
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160; Were full of IT! Getting proper coloured directory listing with Debian and Putty. Since I keep having to do that:. In putty, in the Colours setting tab for your connection, make sure that "Indicate bolded text by changing" is set to "The colour" and not. In Debian's bashrc, uncomment the line:. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Pete's Blog: Visual Studio 2013 has now become essentially free...
http://pete.akeo.ie/2014/11/visual-studio-2013-has-now-become.html
160; Were full of IT! Visual Studio 2013 has now become essentially free. See http:/ www.visualstudio.com/products/visual-studio-community-vs. I'm just going to point out to the first 2 paragraph of the license terms:. INSTALLATION AND USE RIGHTS. If you are an individual working on your own applications to sell or for any other purpose, you may use the software to develop and test those applications. If you are an organization, your users may use the software as follows:. B) more than one million U...
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Pete's Blog: 2014/10
http://pete.akeo.ie/2014_10_01_archive.html
160; Were full of IT! Free SSL certificate for Open Source projects. Just going to point out that GlobalSign. Are currently offering a 1 year SSL certificate for Open Source projects for free. Alas, this is only for a specific domain name, such as. Rather than for a wildcard domain, such as. And at this stage, I'm not entirely sure if the certificate is also renewable for free after one year. But at least, this now allows me to offer access to Rufus from https:/ rufus.akeo.ie. And set the following:.
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Pete's Blog: Nexus 7 (2013) - The good, the bad and the ugly
http://pete.akeo.ie/2013/10/nexus-7-2013-good-bad-and-ugly.html
160; Were full of IT! Nexus 7 (2013) - The good, the bad and the ugly. Since I have been using it for a few weeks, here's my short pictureless yet picturesque review of the Nexus 7 2013. The screen resolution of course. 1920x1200 is. The minimum resolution I consider reasonable for a 7" tablet, period. Anything less is. Crappy DPI. It's 2013, we're not using pixelated DOS any more. Likewise, the independent new message notification light, is a another "Of course! Passed a few minor hurdles (unlockin...
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Pete's Blog: Rooting your Nexus 7 (2013) for the Android virgin...
http://pete.akeo.ie/2013/09/rooting-your-nexus-7-2013-for-android.html
160; Were full of IT! Rooting your Nexus 7 (2013) for the Android virgin. Incidentally, if you don't care about commandline Linux, this process will also grant you full control and let you do whatever you please with the device. Being a complete Android noob, I will also make sure not to skim over all the "Oh, but you're supposed to know that already! Why *I* want to root my device. I'm not going to venture a guess as to what your reasons are for rooting your. Method is still the simplest, most univ...
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Pete's Blog: 2015/01
http://pete.akeo.ie/2015_01_01_archive.html
160; Were full of IT! Easily create UEFI applications using Visual Studio 2015. As pointed out before. Visual Studio is now essentially free for all development, and its solid IDE of course makes is very desirable as the environment to use to develop UEFI applications on Windows. Now, you might have read that, short of using the oh-so-daunting EDK2. And the intricate voodoo magic you'll have to spend days. So really, if you want to craft an EFI application in no time at all, all you need to do is:.
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Pete's Blog: Using PHP-Gettext to localize your web pages
http://pete.akeo.ie/2014/01/using-php-gettext-to-localize-your-web.html
160; Were full of IT! Using PHP-Gettext to localize your web pages. This is what I am now using for the Rufus Homepage. As usual, it took way too long to find all the pieces needed to solve this specific problem, so I'm going to write a guide that has them all in a single place. A web page that detects the language from the browser, and, if a translation exists, displays that translation. If not, it falls back to the English version. All of the above in a single. Aaaand, that's about it really.
