last night i worked all night due to a broken web page so i didn't sleep much. nothing new going on just goin to link the fans of the blog to some cool pages i found today while waiting for a vendor. new osx patch soon btw. yet another p2p application to get us more files.

Interesting hack of the day….

1. Copy the root directory and the i386 directory of the WindowsXP CD
to your harddisk
2. Extract the Bootsector of your WindowsXP CD
3. Change 2 Bytes in i386\Setupreg.hiv :
a) Open Regedit
b) Highlight HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
c) Menu: File -> Load Structure -> i386\Setupreg.hiv
d) Assign an arbitrary name to the imported structure e.g. “Homekey”
e) Goto HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Homekey\ControlSet001\Services\setupdd
f) edit the binary key “default” and change “01” to “00” and “02” to
“00”
g) Highlight “Homekey” and select menu: File -> unload structure
4. Burn your new XP Pro CD
5. Install WindowsXP as usual. Your XP Home Key will work.

Note: You cannot apply SP2 to such a WindowsXP Pro, so step 1.b)
might be to integrate SP2 in your Installation CD

 How to remove the pesky key from 2000

To modify the Setupp.ini file, open it in notepad. It will look like this:
[Pid]
ExtraData=6376796F71737A76767385CA66F124
Pid=51873OEM

Change the OEM to 270  on the Pid Value so it looks like this:
[Pid]
ExtraData=6376796F71737A76767385CA66F124
Pid=51873270

This should work on most CDs. This will allow you to install Windows 2000 without a serial number, this will NOT work on evaluation versions of Windows, or Windows 2003. after changing the file reburn to a booting cd and install.

a handy site to bookmark http://www.linuxisotorrent.com/

other nerd notes:

 With Internet Explorer 7 Beta 1 set to debut next month, Microsoft has quietly closed the door on Windows 2000 users planning to adopt the new Web browser. IE7 will require Windows XP Service Pack 2 due to internal security changes that rely on Microsoft's latest operating system release. (IE7 will have tabs)

as you can expect things are crazy now with day shift back on the rocks. i am working late most days and trying to adjust at the same time. matt leaves back to cali today so that will be a bummer. this weekend i have lots going on, prolly going to end up in e-burg/bham with the boys so stay tuned for new blogs and other cool devices as i try to shift bloggin into a normal people schedule. exchange reboot in 10 mins. i hope it comes back up!

also i will be inventing something that uses this GREAT IDEA for a actual solution of some sort. like somethign i can take with me to a show etc.

so after yesterday of hanging out with jon and keeping out of trouble we hooked up with horia and went to play baseball at Hartman park after two hours of baseball we called it quits (we arnt in the best of shape) then the Redmond 5.0 pulled up when we were sitting in the parking lot and ready to go. they had 4 police just for us. and yea and a explorer (haha) after some questioning, and looking in horias trunk for a dead body (serious) they let us go. what can i say i still have a nack for gathering the Redmond police to my location. oh the days that were. more goofy pictures

to get something new off of just the “nerd” post about linux and such, thought i would tell you of what little i did this weekend. went out to work on some car things, visited my dad who was dooin a police event at Bellevue Square Mall. Then went to visit conor who is the new manager of a sports store in south centre mall. then came home and slept a bunch, went to Susan party, then to work to help out some more. then home again, home again jigity jig.

This is my last day on nights if the new web site runs well at work!!! – OMG

food for thought -some day…

• New way to download “stuff” is version 4.0
• old way to steal laptops just this time with a video
• be james bond for 15$ in parts at radio shack and a gummy bear

so i was cleaning up my room and found my ibook chillin under my desk with a dead battery. sad so i charged it up cursed a bit as the system clock problems went away. then found that my ibook was horribly out of date. did some apple updates, then remembered that Tiger is out so i need to russle up a copy of that and check it out. I also have linux installed on the ibook, after a few hours trying passwords for the root i finally got in. a old copy of gentoo from 2003. yuck, it was a fun idea that mike and i had back in the day. but i don't like gentoo. growing up with mandrake/redhat i had to go back to it somehow. well redhat and mandrake all went the way of the dino. so time for a new distro. i remember reading about Yellow Dog Linux back in 2000 and figured it must be good now if its still around. after all they are PPC as the primary platform. Also i found out that mandrake stopped the PPC at 9.0

so after some light reading i downloaded the 4 cd’s (ouch) and installed them out. still running osX.3 as a secondary partition and now YDL as primary. Also been a while since i used X windows. read a little on the new KDE/GNOME well i hate KDE i cant stand the user interface and think anyone who likes linux for its KDE needs a refresh in the fact that a computer is supposed to be EASY to use. not something you have to konquer! so gnome it is. as a side note i read a few things where people criticise the fact that people need a GUI for linux saying “go back to the console” wtf where are you from, thats what i expect to hear from a 78yr old Professor at Princeton. sure console is for things but you dont work in a telnet session all day. and if you do …HAHA (i’m a nerd)

anyway so i download cd’s and pop them in and choose install i also found this nice looking “install” pdf and mostly printed it out because i was trying to figure out the page numbers then realised its a little bind yore own book. well i just wanted to make my own book so i printed it and stapled it into a cool little linux install book i never really looked at the contents but i do have a nice book

the install is what i remember of my early linux days, just cleaner the install is now fast and concise, there is no crap and it dont look like GNOME .9 anymore i like that. some package picking installing all the compilation tools since thats about all i need a linux tool for. that and WEP cracking.

after first boot there is a config menu just like windows, i like this, congrats YDL team.  very easy setup they dont make the network card setup part of all this, i had to do this by experience and not a wizard. then using YUM i updated the whole distro, installed firefox and BAM now i go play with tiger.

Tiger! ok so other then the new SMB support i have no care for the new product. it broke 2/3 of the applications i use on OSX – broke VPC,VPN other then that nothing eventful. If you care then you dont read my blog for this type of news anyway.

i thought about making some how-to on the subject matter but there is more then you need out there, if you ahve a Q comment back – holla’

today i finished up a “draft” install of my stereo still have a few large bugs to work out but its coming along. here is a photo of the most noticeable features.