I had to post this ad for a book called 'Exploiting Chaos'

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Sep 242009

I just love ‘Celebrate that nothing is precious’. That somewhat sums up my personal Zeitgeist. I would say the opposite as well, that everything is, but people don’t grasp ‘Everything’ the way i reckon I do.. big surprise, who thinks exactly alike? Cultmembers? Mormons?(no offense) jeez, as soon as I said Mormons I realized that i was persecuting them when there are so many mainstream religions that endeavour for their flock to think alike.. WOW. And government organizations too.. what is precious to people? i write off the materialists immediately. Material goods are the most solid objects thus the most coarse on a ‘Everything’ level. So is carbon monoxide more precious because of its’ gaseous form? I think I’m heading toward getting into the ‘God Particle’ maybe so i’ll shut up and enjoy the image. (and order the book).
“Celebrate that nothing is precious”
Exploiting ChaosExploiting Chaos Title

Posted by Chemmyone at 6:43 pm Tagged with:

Creating Bootable Vista / Windows 7 USB Flash Drive

Windows tips 3 Responses »
Sep 162009

I came across a decent blog post about formatting a flash drive to install windows vista/7 etc from. Thanks to Kevin’s Blog. for this info. I have completed all the steps on my 8G generic-ish drive and will copy the OS files over now.. Thanks!

Required:

  • USB Flash Drive (4GB+)
  • Microsoft OS Disk (Vista / Windows 7)
  • A computer running Vista / Windows 7

Step 1: Format the Drive
The steps here are to use the command line to format the disk properly using the diskpart utility. [Be warned: this will erase everything on your drive. Be careful.]

  1. Plug in your USB Flash Drive
  2. Open a command prompt as administrator (Right click on Start > All Programs > Accessories > Command Prompt and select “Run as administrator”
  3. Find the drive number of your USB Drive by typing the following into the Command Prompt window:
    diskpart
    list disk
    The number of your USB drive will listed. You’ll need this for the next step.  I’ll assume that the USB flash drive is disk 1.
  4. Format the drive by typing the next instructions into the same window. Replace the number “1” with the number of your disk below.
    select disk 1
    clean
    create partition primary
    select partition 1
    active
    format fs=NTFS
    assign
    exit
    When that is done you’ll have a formatted USB flash drive ready to be made bootable.

Step 2: Make the Drive Bootable
Next we’ll use the bootsect utility that comes on the Vista or Windows 7 disk to make the flash drive bootable.  In the same command window that you were using in Step 1:

  1. Insert your Windows Vista / 7 DVD into your drive.
  2. Change directory to the DVD’s boot directory where bootsect lives:
    d:
    cd d:\boot
  3. Use bootsect to set the USB as a bootable NTFS drive prepared for a Vista/7 image. I’m assuming that your USB flash drive has been labeled disk G:\ by the computer:
    bootsect /nt60 g:
  4. You can now close the command prompt window, we’re done here.

Step 3: Copy the installation DVD to the USB drive
The easiest way is to use Windows explorer to copy all of the files on your DVD on to the formatted flash drive.  After you’ve copied all of the files the disk you are ready to go.

Step 4: Set your BIOS to boot from USB


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Augmented Reality browser for Android devices by Layar.com

AR Concepts, AR Devices, AR Software, Augmented Reality 1 Response »
Sep 032009

OK, I saw a press release for these guys http://layar.com then read up their site and pretty much lost my mind and had to contact them in a slightly tongue in cheek / overtired email at 4:30am (10:30am ish Amsterdam) going off about how cool and revolutionary a ‘product/service’ they have come up with and how they -must- allow me to work with them and likening their bits to the order of magnitude changes when we moved from BBS’s to the eventually graphical internet. (among other rantings). I was slightly taken aback when I got a reply within 10mins saying we should skype chat soon. Wow.. Here was a group of people (Well the one woman and co-founder to whom I spoke anyway, Thanks Claire) who as far as I’m concerned are changing the world as we know it.

Basically it’s an AR browser that’s had a wide adoption in europe and asia and of course the netherlands. It is based on geolocation data and they allow people to create ‘layars/layers’ (of reality) where one could create something like ‘find a variety store in hong kong’ or similar such searches for ones’ own area.  So the domain reg process starts..(although i usually swear off regging domains sober) I may have to make an exceprion (may not).

So I guess i’m off to find a crackhead to steal me a nice shiny new Android device.. or maybe just kijiji..

They have a limited number of dev licenses at the moment and one can sign up for one here http://layar.com/api/ There is also a teleconf/gotomeeting tonight 9/3/2009 at 7pm CEST geared to developers that I am going to try and catch. Anyway, thats it for now..;)

Craig / Chemmyone

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