Habey BIS-6620 Intel Atom Z510 Fanless Embedded PC
I purchased the Habey BIS-6620, a fanless embedded PC running on an Intel Atom Z510 processor, from eBay for a cheap
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Windows Tips
Data recovery after using ‘dd’ on the wrong partition
During my recent experiment with the Raspberry Pi, I accidentally used dd on the wrong partition and wrote the Pi system image onto
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Prevent Windows from auto-disconnecting Wi-fi when a VPN session is established
Perhaps this is the most irritating issue for VPN users on Windows. You connect to a Wi-fi network, establish a
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Fixing ‘Windows cannot find the Microsoft Software License Terms’ error during Windows 10 Installation
Well, I got this error during my Windows 10 installation on an Acer laptop using a bootable USB created using
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Fixing Window 8 hangs at “Preparing Windows” when attempting to log on
Recently after using Clonezilla to migrate my existing Windows 8 installation from a 1TB hard disk drive to a 256GB
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Fixing high Windows memory usage caused by large metafile
Shortly after installing a third party Windows service, the memory usage of my Windows 2008 R2 server suddenly went up
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Fixing BOOTMGR blinking cursor of death when moving Windows across different partitions
Recently I attempted to transfer the Windows 8 installation from my desktop machine to my Thinkpad laptop by using Clonezilla
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Restoring text from PDF files encoded using custom CID fonts
Recently while reading Dune: The Battle of Corrin, a 2004 science fiction novel, from a PDF e-book using Foxit Reader,
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Keyboard issues in GRUB bootloader on a Mac Mini booting Mac OS, Windows and Ubuntu Linux
The Mac Mini, my main machine for daily work, has the following partition configuration for triple-booting Windows, Mac and Ubuntu
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Limited Internet connection issues when using VPN connections on Windows
As a frequent user of VPN (Virtual Private Network) for personal purposes, using both free software such as Hamachi and
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Using Prolific PL-2303HXA USB to TTL chipset on Windows 8
To avoid using the MAX232 level converter and a USB to serial adapter on my Mac Mini every time I
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