david kerr » systems

Enable “Desktop Favorites” Widget to Work with Windows 7

Dave — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:45:58 +0000

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 Tab now.

Go to Custom level for the My Computer zone and choose “Launching application and unsafe files (not secure)” set to Enable.

Yes, this makes your system less secure, so don’t do it.

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

Dave — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:30:37 +0000

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"$6}'); do
 sed -i "s/$x/\x90\x90\x90\x90\x90/g" $DRIVER
done

11/23/09 – *Edit* This fix is no longer required in the 9.11 drivers.