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Today I noticed that Windows Update looks different (larger icons – different UI). It was strange, because I didn’t installed any updates and I have selected ‘Check for updates but let me choose whether to download and install them’ under ‘Change Settings’ under ‘Windows Update Control Panel’. I searched web and found that this have …
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Today I needed to change / rename network interface name ‘eth1’ to ‘eth0’, after replacing broken network card. I searched for the file ‘/etc/iftab’, and it was not there. The solution lies in the file ‘/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules’: # PCI device 0x1022:0x2000 (pcnet32) SUBSYSTEM==”net”, ACTION==”add”, DRIVERS==”?*”, ATTR{address}==”00:0b:49:81:02:13″, ATTR{type}==”1″, KERNEL==”eth*”, NAME=”eth1″ Changing NAME=”eth1″ to NAME=”eth0″ did the trick. …
If you are wondering why and how Windows Vista or Windows 7 non English versions show different names for ‘Program Files’ folder using Windows Explorer and cmd.exe. The answer is Desktop.ini file hidden inside the folder: [.ShellClassInfo] LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21781 This tells Windows Shell (Explorer) to show localized name instead of English ‘Program Files’.