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Jarek Jurasz

I take notes a lot and have a long lasting love-and-hate relationship with Evernote. I would have changed it long ago for something else, provided it would:

  • allow for multiple devices, Windows, Android, iOS, Linux, Web
  • offer a good, Google-like full text search. No two-step search, please! (...

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I have this old HP6730b notebook with Intel Core Duo and Mobile Intel 4 Grahics, which I try to keep alive for like 9 years now. Why? It is of good quality and I prefer fixing things rather than throwing them away. I upgraded it with a SSD and 6 GB of RAM. It is good enough as our kitchen laptop. I...

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I have this old Win7 32-bit laptop with 4 GB of RAM, but it was only able to use about 2.9 GB, the rest was "reserved for hardware". Recently I came across an interesting article by Raymond.CC "Make Windows 7, 8 and Vista 32-bit (x86) Support More Than 4GB Memory" and PatchPae2 by Wen Jia Liu aka wj32, which should enable PAE up to 128 GB for all current 32-bit Windows versions.

However, the patch of my current Windows 7 SP1 winload.exe version 6.1.7601.23569 failed, so I fixed it.

The result: PatchPae2.exe
Source and install instructions

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I provide a Unicode / MinGW port of finddupe duplicate file detector and eliminator for Windows by Matthias Wandel on github.

Reasons

I really like finddupe when I look for duplicate files among books or photos. It is fast and clever thanks to CRC file signatures. It can also find NTFS har...

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Some Ruby scripts from my local git repository:

  • exif_date.rb set JPG date/time to the time the picture was taken - from EXIF metadata. Needs exifr gem.
  • getopts.rb by Yasuo OHBA has been deprecated and removed from ruby, but I like its simplicity and have many scripts which depend on it
  • m...

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