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Change your Windows 8 Bootlogo

THIS IS HOW TO CREATE A CUSTOM BOOT LOGO! Confirmed Working on 8.1 As well! Step 1: Take ownership of your Bootres.dll using the following commands from an Administrator Command Prompt: takeown /f C:\Windows\Boot\Resources\bootres.dll icacls C:\Windows\Boot\Resources\bootres.dll /grant yourusername :f Note that you need to replace "yourusername" with your username... Step 2: Make a folder on your C: drive and call it bootlogo, and copy bootres.dll into it. Step 3: Make a folder called Logos (To edit your images in) Step 4: Your going to need to download some stuff into your bootlogo folder: www.coderforlife.com/projects/win7boot/extras/#signer http://dl.7-zip.org/7z930-x64.msi <--- Install This www.bome.com/products/restorator/downloads <-- I used the full version, however I don't know if the free version will work. ^^^RESHACKER WILL NOT WORK. LEAVES DLL CORRUPT^^^ This has been suggested as a replacement f

Torvalds Announces Linux 3.16-rc4

Linux founder, Linus Torvalds has officially announced the fourth Release Candidate (RC) version of the upcoming Linux kernel 3.16. The RC4 is a successor to Linux 3.16-rc3. It is now available for download and testing. However, since it is a development version, it should not be installed on production machines.      The latest release candidate mainly concentrates on drivers (gpu, usb, scsi, sound), filesystems (btrfs, ext4) and arch updates (mostly arm). "Things have calmed down nicely, and everything seems pretty normal. Maybe some of the calm has been due to people starting to take off for summer and (in the US) the 4th of July week, but whatever the reason, both the diffstat and the logs look nice and fairly small." Torvalds said in the release note. The latest release candidate mainly concentrates on drivers (gpu, usb, scsi, sound), filesystems (btrfs, ext4) and arch updates (mostly arm). Earlier, Torvalds announced the third Release Candidate (RC) version of

Want To Check Linux Hardware Info? Use These 10 Commands!

1.lscpu Reports info about the cpu and processing units. 2.lshw Reports detailed/brief info about multiple hardware units like cpu, memory, disk, network adapters etc. 3.lspci Lists out all the pci buses and details about the devices connected to them. 4.lsscsi Lists out the scsi/sata devices (hard drives/optical drives). 5.Inxi 10K line mega bash script that generates a GOOD looking report based on hardware details from multiple sources and commands. 6.lsblk Lists block devices. 7.df Reports various partitions, mount points and the used/available space on each of them. 8.mount Mount/unmount and view mounted file systems. 9.free Checks the amount of used, free and total RAM. 10.hdparm Reports info about sata devices (hard disks. etc)