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Windows: Cannot activate Intels Smart Response Technology

Hi,

a customer of mine has bought a new PC (Fujitsu Esprimo P956 E94+) with an 256GB SSD and 5TB Harddisk and he wants to use the SSD as accelerater (Write/Read cache) for the 5TB Disk.

Newer Intel Chipsets support such a configuration. It is called Smart Response Technology.
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Windows: Create a Windows PE boot medium

Hi,

I will describe here how to create a Windows PE based boot media, a USB Stick or a boot CD, with some customization:
Language settings

  • Language settings
  • Keyboard settings
  • Additional drivers
  • Autostart a program
  • Add Powershell
  • Add .NET Environment
  • Add WMI Support

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Systemd: (Auto-) Mount cifs shares

Hi,

systemd can mount cifs filesystems at boot or on demand like autofs.

First cifs mount at boot time. Determine the share and the mount point.
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Systemd: Setup a static IP Address

Hi,

an very often requested issue. I will show this on Debian Jessie

We assume we want to set a static IP Address for eth0
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Kodi: Youtube plugin not working anymore

Hi,

due to some API changes at youtube the Kodi Youtube Plugins up to Version 5.1.17 from bromix does not work anymore:

  • Setup wizard craches at language,locals settings
  • Youtube search ends with error message “Bad request”

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