Tag Archives: systems

Enable “Desktop Favorites” Widget to Work with Windows 7

Desktop Favorites is one of my all time favourite widgets. But it stores it’s links as .lnk files which caused windows 7 to complain every time you open one. To fix go here: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=315933 to enable My Computer Security Zone Then go to Control Panel->Network and Internet->Internet Options You’ll see My Computer under the Security [...]

Fix For ATI Radeon HD 5770 “Unsupported Hardware” on Linux

Got one of these badboys and loaded up linux and was greeted with a big “Unsupported Hardware” watermark. A little googling and i found this link: http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19875 The script is below ( i take no responsibly for you messing your system up ) #!/bin/sh DRIVER=/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so for x in $(objdump -d $DRIVER|awk ‘/call/&&/EnableLogo/{print “\\x”$2″\\x”$3″\\x”$4″\\x”$5″\\x”$6}’); do sed [...]