Manufacturing your electronics

Mr. Daisy and the Apple Factory:

Having multiple ipods, iphones, and a macbook, I knew they were manufactured in China under less than ideal conditions. I did not however know or think about how these conditions really are.

I listened to episode 454 of This American Life podcast, where a self described Apple enthusiast travels to China to visit foxconn after seeing some photos taken by workers testing out an iphone's camera.

Most of our electronics comes from Shenzhen, China, Mr Daisy toured some of these plants and found mini cities housing hundreds of thousands of workers, working 12-16 hour shifts and some of them being as young as 12 years old, doing repetitive tasks thousands of times until their bodies and hands are wrecked. Since labor is so cheap there, that anything that can be assembled or built by hand is done. 


None of these companies who buy their service, Apple, Dell, have demanded better working conditions or minimum age, wages of workers.


Maybe these companies are like us and don't want to think about it...

Loading Hive in Registry

Browsing registry HKEY_USERS should show the SID of all profiles that are on your machine, if you do not know the SID of the user your are wanting to make changes to you can load their hive.


Step 1:

Highlight HKEY_USERS and hit file > load hive

Step 2: Browse to users profile and select their ntuser.dat file, and give it a name

You can then browse their registry directory as if you were logged in as them under HKEY_CURRENT_USER

NEC Aspire/Dms extension won't go to voicemail

I had an issue with my extension and the voicemail picking up, calls would just ring and ring and ring and not ever get picked up my my DMS systems voicemail. I googled for days and could not find anything, I hope this helps someone out there.

So you choose the extension you are having problems with,

• select from the drop down "Call Forward when unanswered"
• under the transferred to extension field, look to what number extensions whose voicemail is working correctly.
• enter this number in the extension you are having problems with.
• hit the check mark icon to save and test.

Carbon Kings

I have been busy working on creating a new e-commerce site www.carbonkings.com for motocross parts and apparel. Check it out if you are interested, I would appreciate any feedback as well.

ReactOS

With Windows XP support ending April, 8th 2014 and many companies and people still using it. I
thought someone should open source XP code before its support ends. Did a google search to see if anything was in the works.

Sure enough I found ReactOS, an open source xp/2003 operation system although written completely from scratch it follows NT architecture and is quick to point out that it is not linux or unix based. The project also recently go accepted into the google summer of code 2011.

I downloaded a VMware image from www.reactos.org, the file was only 55.8MB!

The image started up very fast! and I was soon on my way…to find a internet browser…after a while I found an shortcut on the desktop called 'Applications Manager', here you can search for applications and install them must like a GUI linux system, I tried unsuccessfully to install either firefox 3.6 or 4 but was able to install Opera 9.6 but promptly froze up on me.

The file browser is very similar to Windows, you have you C: program files, documents and settings etc. The whole thing is a ways off being usable it kept freezing on me and not sure how to bring up task manager such as in windows, I look forward to have this work as an alternative to XP going into          the future.

Enabling Disk Quota's in windows

Users like to use Disk space, sometimes they can take up too much space by saving pictures/videos/mp3's to a share on a server. You can limit their allowed storage easily with disk quota's.

Disk quota's are setup at the disk level, meaning to configure disk limits you have to go to the disk you want to limit.

To setup a disk quota you right click your desired drive and select properties then the quota tab.

From here you want to Enable quota management, then to limit disk space by user or group click on Quote Entries. Then hit Quota > New quota entry.

 

Enter the user you want to limit and then enter their storage limit. They will receive a warning when they hit the warning level you specified.

Recover your lost pictures and files with Photorec

If you ever have accidentally deleted a file or photo, reformatted your hard drive and then remembered you had some files or photos you want off that old partition?

Then look no further than Photorec, it runs on osx, windows and linux. Ignoring the file system and looking for media files.

Photorec can recover files from the following file systems:

• FAT,
• NTFS,
• EXT2/EXT3 filesystem
• HFS+

Files Photorec can detect:

ZIP, Office, PDF, HTML, JPEG and many other file types.


First download and run Photorec from http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download

Choose your disk you want to scan, and the type of partition the hard drive is.

Hit proceed with recovery and it will prompt you for a destination to put the files (you don't want to put them on the same disk).