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Time sync in Vista and Ubuntu

In a dual boot system Ubuntu time is set to UTC by default. The display time on Linux desktop is calculated based on the UTC (GMT) time of BIOS. Vista uses BIOS' time as local time, thus lead to incorrect reading for LT. To solve this issue use a favorite editor tool to edit /etc/default/rcS and change UTC=yes to UTC=no so that BIOS' time is set to local time rather than UTC.

Fix Vista MBR which was previously managed by Grub

It's automatic, maybe the Active flag of the partition do the trick. While Grub try to take over MBR and the snippiest points the rest of boot sequence to the destinated partition, to restore MBR for Vista is fairly quick and easy. Take out your DVD installation disk, boot from it and choose system mantenance. In command line interface, type: bootrec / fixboot bootrec / fixmbr That's it. Now you can restart your PC, take out installation DVD and it should boot directly to Vista.

reinstall grub onto MBR after windows installed on a dual boot system

It's not the first time CSDN blog lost my work.. I have to come here to post my technical articles. sorry for the inconvience for myself. Here are the steps - find a bootable linux CD - get a terminal and type sudo grub - now find where's grub installed find /boot/grub/stage1 - tell grub where is the grub root installed (for example, first hard disk, first sector) and set it up on MBR root (hd0,0) setup (hd0) Make sure that /boot/grub/menu.lst is there and unaffected when you install windows. Or you'll have to make change to that file.

Vista Gadgets

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Gadgets are useful. Although Microsoft is anything but a pioneer its products are not too bad.

New Interface

New face have been installed on the blog. It's easier to read than ever before! Also remind you to visit my Chinese site which is updated more frequently than here which I'm not expecting high trafic volumn.

Move

Todays' quite boring. The biggest thing I did this morning was to make a decision to move from CSDN blogs here. It is another kind of community here, familiar to me but may be a bit strange for audiances in China. I didn't expect many readers from CSDN will come here to pay me a visit. But if you are one of them I welcome you and hope you will put my RSS/Atom feed in your feeding list.

Google analytics is absolutely fantastic!

Yep! When i checked the service this morning (actually I couldn't sleep well last night) it's set up and collecting data! the first time set up take less than 24 hours, and the new profiles can be added in real time... up to 5 profiles can be set, which is not sufficient for me.. i think the statistics take too much resources and i can understand why there's a 5 profile limit. So, i have dropped cnzz and 50bang statistics.. and statcount (or sth like that) that's a great leap over all those services. I would suggest every webmaster apply for an account (i waited 3 months to get an activation code). good luck..