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GoneCrazy’s Tumblr has provided a few good articles I think would be good to keep on record.

PCMCIA Doesn’t work correctly under Windows XP on Newer Laptops:

• Browser to the Registry Key “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Pcmcia\Parameters” via regedit
• Add a “REG_DWORD” named “IrqRouteToPciController” and assign a value of “8“.
• Reboot

FreeNAS: How to use ZFS on an old 32-bit CPU with low memory:

CURRENTLY LINK OFFLINE SO WILL POST HOW-TO ONCE THE SITE IS BACK ONLINE AND WORKING FOR ME

Recently I had 1 of my hard drives in unRAID lock and switch to read mode every time I’d try to copy/move files onto the Share that used the drive. After some digging around it looks as though I needed to follow the wiki article “Check Disk Filesystems – unRAID“.
Another good Wiki page is the unRAID Troubleshooting

Just a warning to anyone and a remind to me. DO NOT RUN COMBOFIX ON ANY PC RUNNING OLDER VERSION OF CREATE A CARD SOFTWARE! It will break the application and an uninstall/install is the only fix. Unsure what all versions are affected, but just be warned!

For anyone else looking how to install OpenELEC to a Raspberry Pi from inside Windows please check out the following link:

http://www.squirrelhosting.co.uk/hosting-blog/hosting-blog-info.php?id=9

And now to overclock Raspberry Pi after OpenELEC is installed: http://htpcbuild.com/htpc-software/raspberry-pi-openelec/openelec-overclocking/

I have recently come to find Firefox and Thunderbird to be horribly slow at times. Event though it was “fixed” with the latest version I switch to the ESR versions. Please check out the links on the Self Help section for download of Firefox ESR and Thunderbird ESR if you are like me and are sick of being the beta tester and just need a browser that works all the time.