Windows Vista x86 and x64 Versions in one DVD

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1.Download and install the Windows Automated Installation Kit (AIK) from Here
2. Please create a working folder with a structure similar to this. Obviously you can change folder names according to your needs newwink.gif In this case, i'll be using the following folder: D:\VistaAIO. My folder structure is as follows:

3. Now, copy all the contents of your x86 DVD to the distribuition folder, in this case D:\VistaAIO\Distribucion
4. Move the file named “install.wim” from D:\VistaAIO\Distribucion\Sources to D:\VistaAIO\x86
5.Copy the file named “install.wim” from the Sources folder of your x64 DVD to the folder D:\VistaAIO\x64
6. Delete al .clg files from your distribution folder (D:\VistaAIO\Distribucion)
7. Now, with admin rights, open the Windows PE Tools Command prompt (click in Start/All programs/Microsoft Windows AIK)
8. We change directory to our working folder:
CD D:\VistaAIO\Distribucion\Sources
9. OK, here's the tricky part. We are now about to export the images of each windows version to a single .WIM image file. The command to do this is IMAGEX.EXE. The syntax is as follows:

imagex /export SourceImageToExport.wim SourceNumber DestinationImageFile.wim "Name of the Operating System"

For example:
CODE
imagex /export D:\VistaAIO\x86\install.wim 1 .\install.wim "Windows Vista Business x86"
imagex /export D:\VistaAIO\x64\install.wim 1 .\install.wim "Windows Vista Business x64"
This is what the first line of code does: export Version 1 of the source image file named Install.wim located in the folder D:\VistaAIO\x86 to the destination image file named Install.wim located in D:\VistaAIO\Distribucion. The number 1 corresponds to the Business edition of Windows, take a look at the following table, for the SourceNumber and its corresponding Windows Edition:
Number Windows Edition
1 Business
2 Home Basic
3 Home Premium
4 Ultimate
5 Home Basic N
6 Business N
7 Starter

Thus, for example if we wanted to add the 64bit Ultimate version of Windows Vista to our newly created image we type the following command:
CODE
imagex /export D:\VistaAIO\x64\install.wim 4 .\install.wim "Windows Vista Ultimate x64"
Please note that we only changed the number 1 for the number 4 (wich corresponds to the Ultimate version) and the name we give to the Windows Edition, for this name you can type whatever you coinsider a descriptive name of the windows version, everything else in the syntax remains the same. You can add as many Windows Editions as you want this way.
If you have any doubts regarding the imagex command, you can type the following line in the command prompt at any time:
CODE
imagex /export /?
10. Now that we've created our .WIM image file, let's create our ISO image file to make it ready to burn it to a DVD. To do this, still in the Windows PE Tools command prompt window, we type:

CODE
oscdimg -n -bD:\VistaAIO\distribucion\boot\etfsboot.com D:\VistaAIO\distribucion D:\VISTA_AIO.iso -m

This will create an ISO file named VISTA_AIO.iso in D:\

11. We're almost done! We can now burn this image with our favorite burning software (Nero, alcohol. Etc).

The final result when installing Vista, should look similar to this:

Racedriver GRID- PC Game

Platforms: PlayStation 3; Xbox 360; PC; PlayStation 3 version reviewed. :


The perennial underdog of the driving game world, Codemasters' TOCA series won and kept a hardcore fanbase, but never quite achieved the global recognition that the likes of Gran Turismo or Project Gotham Racing have enjoyed. This is a shame. The last effort, TOCA Race Driver 3, had its visual issues but offered one of the most authentic and exciting racing experiences on the last generation of consoles. Race Driver: GRID may have left the TOCA name behind, but it's still full of the same qualities and - importantly - the same attitude that drove its antecedents. I just hope it leaves the 'underdog' reputation behind, because GRID deserves to be big. It's not just comparable to the likes of Gran Turismo 5: Prologue, Forza 2 and Project Gotham Racing 4 - it's actually a better game in some respects.


Pausing and restarting is such an integral part of games like PGR and GRID, where you want to begin every race perfectly, that it surely can't be long before someone binds it to a button, just as the time trial festishists who make TrackMania have done on the PC. But having perfected the start, what do you then do when you try and vault the chicane at 150mph on the last lap only to end up in a tyre wall? Traditionally, you shout and scream. In GRID's case, though, you just hit a button, rewind your mistake and try again.


Flashback is what they're calling it, and it does for GRID what the Sands of Time did for Prince of Persia in 2003: removes unnecessary repetition (and stops us throwing the control pad around the room). Like POP, Codies restricts Flashback's use, allowing you four of them on Normal difficulty. You can also wager your stock of Flashbacks to try and gain more reputation points - which unlock later challenges - by increasing the difficulty; whack it up and you earn more reputation points, but the pressure's on you not to screw up so much.




Not that this would count for anything if Flashback were awkward, complicated or slow to load, but it's none of these things. As soon as you start spinning out, you reach for the button, and after a short pause for a rewindy noise you're deposited on an instant replay screen watching the last few seconds of gameplay. The bumper buttons allow you to switch camera angles to judge when you'd like to retake control, at which point you hit the resume button, the game makes three flashbulb noises in quick succession, each accompanied by a still of the action from an arty angle, and you're back in the driving seat as if nothing went wrong. During 20 hours of play on the 360 retail copy provided for review, we only experienced a handful of split-second pauses at the flashbulb stage. Overall, it just works, and works without incident, and because it's tightly integrated and bound to difficulty level, it feels like a tool rather than a cheat. Flashback, then, is great. But what of GRID itself?


Like TOCA Race Drivers 2 and 3 before it, GRID is a collection of disparate racing sub-disciplines brought together in a single career mode. At the traditional end, there are races in Detroit muscle cars, professionally tuned Japanese sports-cars, open-wheel track cars from Formula 1000, and - lest we all forget where the series began - touring cars. But unlike 2 and 3, GRID builds on this not by veering into the esotericism of classic cars, ovals and rallycross, but into unknowns like Pro Touge and Drift Battles, and Demolition Derbies in the hunt for our love.



Race Driver: GRID System Requirements

The PC version of Race Driver: GRID is coming simultaneously with the console versions, and the demo is out. With the demo, the system requirements of the PC version were also published, and as far as the minimum requirements go, they are fairly tame. You can use the handy Game-o-Meter to check if your system has what it takes to run Race Driver: GRID, or you can read on for all the details.
Race Driver: GRID System Requirements

Minimum Specifications
Windows XP/Vista. (If running Windows Vista, SP1 is recommended)
DirectX 9.0c
Pentium 4 @ 3.0GHz or Athlon 64 3000+
1GB RAM.
Graphics Card: GeForce 6800 / Radeon X1300 or above
DirectX Compatible Sound Card
Dual Layer Compatible DVD-ROM Drive
12.5 GB Hard Drive Space

Recommended Specifications
Windows XP/Vista. (If running Windows Vista, SP1 is recommended)
DirectX 9.0c
Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.66Ghz or Athlon X2 3800+
2GB RAM.
Graphics Card: GeForce 8800 or Radeon X1950
Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Sound Card.
Dual Layer Compatible DVD-ROM Drive
12.5 GB Hard Drive Space

Supported Graphics Cards

ATI Radeon X1300, X1600, X1800, X1900, X1950, HD2600, HD2900, HD3870

NVIDIA Geforce 6800, 7100, 7300, 7600, 7800, 7900, 7950, 8600, 8800, 9800

Not compatible with all integrated sound/graphics solutions (inc.Laptops)

TCP/IP mode (2-12 players) Requirements:
Broadband internet connection required - 512kbps + Recommended
TCP/IP Network

Note that these requirements are listed by Codemasters for the demo - they might change before the final release (currently scheduled for early June), but I would consider that to be highly unlikely.
 


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Google Feature Will Help Users Avoid E-mail Bloopers

Google Inc., owner of the world’s most popular Internet search engine, added a feature to its Gmail
program to alert users about wrongly directed e-mails. 

The ‘Got the Wrong Bob?’ feature aims to save users the embarrassment of mixing up recipients, software engineer Ari Leichtberg and Yossi Matias, head of Google’s engineering center in Israel, said today in a blog post. 

The software tries to identify mistaken addressees before it’s too late, such as “hate mail about your boss to your boss” or “personal info to some random guy named Bob instead of Bob the HR rep?,” Leichtberg and Matias wrote in the post. The feature works by looking at groups that users e-mail most often, and is activated only when the message is addressed to more than two people. 

Google also changed the name of its “Suggest more recipients” feature to “Don’t forget Bob.” The related functions from Google Labs
“just kind of went together better this way,” Leichtberg and Matias said. 

Gmail was the fourth most popular e-mail service in the U.S. in August, behind Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp.’s Hotmail and MySpace Mail, according to researcher ComScore Inc. in Reston, Virginia. 

Google, based in Mountain View, California, rose $2.07 to $526.11 at 4 p.m. New York time in Nasdaq Stock Market trading. The shares have gained 71 percent this year.

Chevrolet Cruze launched in India

General Motors has launched its new car Chevrolet Cruze in India. Chevrolet Cruze is priced at Rs 10.99 lakh for the LT model and Rs 12.45 lakh for the LTZ model. Chevrolet Cruze is available in six colors, Atlantis Blue, Light Gold, Olympic White, Velvet Red, Misty Lake and Caviar Black.
Official link: www.chevycruze.in

General Motors Co. said Tuesday it will invest more than $230 million in four plants around Flint, Mich., to help build the 2011 Chevrolet Cruze compact and the Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid sedan.

The move will restore about 500 jobs, GM said in a statement.

 

The four GM plants that will be updated and retooled include Flint Engine South, Flint Metal Center, Flint Tool and Die and Grand Blanc Weld Tool Center.


“These four GM manufacturing plants have a key role in GM's production of the next generation of fuel-efficient vehicles, the Chevrolet Volt and Cruze,” Larry Zahner, GM manufacturing manager, said in the statement.


GM says the key functions at the plants will include development of automated equipment and tooling for the Cruze and the Volt assembly plants. The Cruze will be assembled at GM's plant in Lordstown, Ohio. The Volt will be assembled at the Detroit-Hamtramck, Mich., plant.


The operations will develop dies and stamp body panels and components. They will also assemble key powertrain components, including the 1.4-liter four-cylinder engine and generator for the Volt and the 1.4-liter four-cylinder turbocharged engine for the Cruze.


The largest part of the investment, $202 million, will go to Flint Engine South to renovate it to build the 1.4-liter engines. Flint Metal Center will get $1.7 million to refurbish press lines to produce sheet metal stampings for the Volt.


GM is investing about $30 million in Grand Blanc Weld Tool Center to build robotic weld tool cells that will assemble the Volt body at Detroit-Hamtramck.


GM is scheduled to launch the Cruze next spring. Production of the Volt is scheduled to start in November 2010.


The Flint engine plant will produce 40 engines per day when production starts late next year and ramp up to 800 engines per day by the fall of 2011, GM officials said.


The initial batch of engines for the Chevy Volt will be imported from a GM engine plant in Austria until the revamped Flint plan begins production.


GM is designing the Cruze to get more than 40 miles per gallon in highway driving. The Volt will carry a lithium-ion battery pack that will allow it to be driven for 40 miles without gasoline. The on-board engine will provide power to the battery on longer trips.


Battery cells for the Volt will be supplied by Korea's LG Chem and assembled into packs at a GM plant outside Detroit.


GM has said it plans to build 10,000 Volts in the first 12 months of production.

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Mystery Google – A Gibberish Mystery

If you have not yet heard about Mystery Google then wake up buddy. The whole world is going crazy to try one of the most useless tool ever. Well not really useless if you are the type who want to know what other people were searching for on Google just before you do.

Mystery Google is a special search of Google that allows you to search as usual. However the difference is that instead of giving you the results of what you have been searching for, it will give you the results of the person who has been searching just before you and of course the result will be for that person keywords.


Confuse? Ok imagine you search “Island Crisis”. Instead of getting results for “Island Crisis”, you will get another result. As far as I could gather some more precise information about it, the results depends on the data center. For example if you are in Mauritius, the result you will get will be the LAST one just before you search that someone else in Mauritius was searching for.

Well a useless tool in some way, but it’s fun too to know what other people are looking for. Now try searching for some term and click the “I am Feeling Lucky” button. Another nice way to discover totally unrelated new sites.