Friday, December 16, 2011

Windows 7 states not genuine Win7 boot after moving partition


For some reasons after playing with disk partitions Windows 7 thinks System partition label was changed (for example from C: to V:).
As a consequence Windows now thinks that your installation is not licensed... 


And here's a very simple solution that saved my day.
Found here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itproinstall/thread/48c99917-9ee3-4fe5-9ea8-2ac44b365e93

  1. Hit control-shift-esc to get the task manager and ran regedit
  2. Navigated to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices, backed up and removed the data inside
  3. Reboot

 upon reboot, the system will checked the key again and validate the license.

Monday, December 12, 2011

LCD bring-up tips

During Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2011 I attended one very interesting presentation regarding new LCD bring-up procedures.


Among other nice things we were presented with extremely useful utility that may save a bunch of time while guessing what is wrong with this brand new LCD.
And this is fb-test utility.


Feel free to check it out from here http://www.elinux.org/images/0/09/Fb-test.c and then simply build it with your cross-toolchain of choise.
Then on target run it.


More on this you may find here http://www.elinux.org/Board_Bringup_Utilities

These are slides from ELCE http://elinux.org/images/d/d5/Elce-2011-anders.pdf

Video of this presentation (39 minutes)
FullHD (242M): http://free-electrons.com/pub/video/2011/elce/elce-2011-anders-board-bringup-lcd-display.webm

450x800 (98M): http://free-electrons.com/pub/video/2011/elce/elce-2011-anders-board-bringup-lcd-display-450p.webm

Add trusted certificates from Firefox to Citrix ICA client in Ubuntu

For some connections Citrix ICA client may display message saying:
You have hot chosen to trust "XXX server", the issuer of the server's security certificate.

Basically if you have Mozilla Firefox installed on your PC you may easily use its certificates for Citrix client as well.

Do do it just copy them over to ICA Client certificate folder:
sudo cp /usr/share/ca-certificates/mozilla/* /opt/Citrix/ICAClient/keystore/cacerts