Archives - June 2010 - Random Tech

25/06/2010

How to fix the Disk Signature Collision problem in Windows 7

Why would an external USB disk drive be ignored by Windows 7, while it is perfectly working on other systems and USB itself is working properly on the target PC? It took me a while to find out. In the disk management console (under administration tools, computer management), I finally found a nice error message that […]

24/06/2010

Bluetooth Support for Toshiba Laptops on Ubuntu

I just installed a fresh Ubuntu on my old but trusted Toshiba Satellite, offering it a second youth. Everything worked perfectly but Bluetooth was not detected. The Toshiba bluetooth radio is disabled at boot, and it can only be enabled with a particular ACPI call. Sounds like a very proprietary approach... Anyway. To […]

15/06/2010

Customize Firefox for Easy Peasy

I'm considering replacing Firefox by a faster browser, like Chromium or Opera. However, some Firefox extensions are very handy and make it fit well to the small EEE 701 screen: Adblock Plus, Flashblock, Tiny Menu. Too bad Firefox is so slow! (on a 512 MB, 900 MHz machine)