Vopt

and PerfectDisk

GRC quote No. I wanted to let Jeffrey in Columbia know that it wasn’t a free one I mentioned, it was a good one that I mentioned. And actually I now have two favorites. I think I referred to Vopt. Vopt is very nice. It’s at Version 8 now. However, I’ve started using one called PerfectDisk. And I bought it because I was very impressed with it. It will do something that Vopt won’t, which is it will defrag the so-called metadata. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted by Mike O'Donnell, filed under Software Be Like Mike. Date: October 15, 2007, 6:05 pm | No Comments »

So in review for those that wish to do this
I used PUTTY for the Bash Prompt commands
and Filezilla for the transfers

[ ]1.get the mfs-utils for your box from http://www.dealdatabase.com/forum/sh…ad.php?t=39487
I used for my series 2 (mfs-utils_bin.mips-20050604.tar.bz2 )

[ ]2. Filezilla Transfer it over to /hack dont forget to set it for a binary transfer
[ ]Using putty bash command cd /hack
[ ] tar -jxvf mfs-utils_bin.mips-20050604.tar.bz2
this unpacks the utilities to /hack/mfs-utils
[ ] cd /hack/mfs-utils
[ ] if you wish to back up then back up with the mfs_uberexport command ….example mfs_uberexport 2242 >2242DIRECTV_Green_w_NoBrand.mpv2242
‘fsid’ ‘ name of the output file’
this will go to the current directory you ar cd’d into Read the rest of this entry »

Posted by Mike O'Donnell, filed under Software Be Like Mike, Software fixes. Date: October 13, 2007, 1:28 am | No Comments »

Edit two photos and get the best face from each

http://research.microsoft.com/projects/GroupShot/

Posted by Mike O'Donnell, filed under Software Be Like Mike. Date: October 7, 2007, 9:40 pm | No Comments »

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