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If you have a problem see correctly encoding in CLI, here is a solution. The fact is that the command prompt actually understands these non-english characters, just can’t display them correctly. I don’t know why my Command Prompt display these garbage, but here is how to resolve it.

Microsoft has launched the public Beta of its easy PC game-creating software tool Kodu. Dubbed as the Technical Preview, the Kodu toolkit for PC is available for free to download for everybody. Microsoft claims the biggest change implemented here is the new Keyboard and Mouse user interface which will make game development easier. The Kodu [...]

A sad but typical story about why one needs to use backups when dealing with computers Last Night a friend of mine gave me his almost full 2 TB Western Digital Studio Edition that has a 2 drive RAID 0/1 built in. He told me that he used it with his mac and everything worked [...]

Windows Vista 64-bit edition is probably the first stable version of 64-bit Windows operation system, despite the fact that XP does have 64-bit version but that wasn’t a very stable one that people can rely on. However, because Vista itself has many own compatibility issues the 64-bit version didn’t really go off the ground. This [...]

I prefer not use MATLAB default folder (normally is: C:\Users\Dean\Documents\MATLAB) as the startup folder. I’ve all my MATLAB files stored in a folder called H:\svn\matlab\trunk, I basically wanted MATLAB starts and in this folder. This normally is very easy to do (at least with pre-2009 versions), however I received error message and found I need [...]

Sometimes you may need to make a GIF file from a video for using it as an avatar or different purposes. Today i will show you two ways to make a GIF from a Youtube video : 1 – Using mplayer 2 – Using Avidemux + ffmpeg + Gimp (More detailed = More customizable) I [...]

Windows 7 has come with many new features that are under the hood. One such feature is the native support to create Wireless Ad Hoc Networks. While the built in functionality of Windows7 does not allow you to share your internet connection over the Wireless network you create, third party tools like the very popular [...]

The Windows Vista I/O-related changes include file-based symbolic links, more efficient I/O completion processing, comprehensive support for I/O cancellation, and prioritized I/O. A file system feature many have considered missing from NTFS, the symbolic file link (or as it’s called in UNIX, the soft link) finally arrives in Windows Vista (Win 7). The Windows 2000 [...]

I remembered a tool used by one of the magazines I read called H2bench. This tool should produce reliable results. Though the tool’s homepage is only available in German the tool itself is also translated into English. It is a CLI only tool, but its usage is pretty straightforward. The following command will benchmark hard [...]

Format the USB Stick 1. Format the USB Stick as  NTFS: Open Windows Explorer and Right-Click the Drive > Choose the Format Option 2. In the File System Combo box, Choose NTFS and Click the Start Button to begin.