Oct 27, 2014 Posted by newlife007

How to Copy PS3 Formatted Blu-Ray disks with ImgBurn

Recently I received a request to make copies of Blu-Ray formatted DVD’s for playing on PS3, that use the AVCHD format. The movies were not store bought so there is no encryption involved. The question was how to duplicate the DVD’s and the answer is with ImgBurn. Basically we can use ImgBurn to create an iso of the BDMV folder and then burn the iso to DVD. All of this is being done on a... read more

Oct 7, 2014 Posted by newlife007

How To Run IE 8 Alongside IE 10 on Windows 7 in VirtualBox

Sometimes you have to have an older version of Internet Explorer for testing or for an application that only works with a specific version.  Microsoft offers this with images for specific Virtualization programs including Virtual PC, VMWare and VirtualBox at https://www.modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools#downloads. Download the following packages using the following URL’s. You can use wget to do... read more

Sep 9, 2014 Posted by newlife007

How to Fix General Protection Fault in module WIN87EM.DLL while running Windows 7 in VMWare

Recently ran into an issue with a Windows 7 32-bit VM running in VMware Fusion on Mac OSX 10.9 (Mavericks) when running a Point of Sale application would receive a Application has caused a general protection fault in module WIN87EM.DLL. Starting doing some digging and found this thread discussing the issue at... read more

Aug 31, 2014 Posted by newlife007

How To Turn Off Video Auto-Play in Facebook

Recently changes were made to Facebook that enables auto play on all video’s in your feed. If you are like me, you only want to play the video’s when they look interesting. There is also another reason to turn this off on your cell phone as this uses your data and not WiFi by default. So how do you turn them off. First lets address the PC side of things. Go into you page and enter in the... read more

Aug 26, 2014 Posted by newlife007

Retrieving Disk Information and Freespace Using PowerShell 2

It is always nice to be able to retrieve disk information for the systems. Alot of scripts are used to gather the information so Administrators can keep ahead of the demand for space. With PowerShell 2 it is simple to retrieve the information in a single line using the win32_volume WMI class call. Now in this example I am only retrieving four items and rounding the values to two decimal places. There are... read more