Archive for April, 2009

Update: Defraggler 1.09.138

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

Piriform’s Defraggler has been updated to 1.09.138

This version’s highlight, I think, is the new “search” feature which lets you… (yes!) search for files on a partition, based on a few parameters such as file size and name. The screenshots below briefly demonstrate this.

DEFRAGGLER 1.09.138 DOWNLOADS
Get it now: Download Defraggler 1.09.138
exe installer, 786KB, MD5 sum: 4642CF0AB33CBB0E2109A4DC4BB6200B

Portable version (extract to USB stick): Download Defraggler 1.09.138 Portable
ZIP, 933KB, MD5 sum: 246AB731B3937055BAF73492EF4C007F

DEFRAGGLER 1.09.138 SCREENS
WHAT’S NEW IN DEFRAGGLER 1.09.138
- New search feature.
- Various tweaks to the drive list.
- Improvements to freespace calculation when moving large files.
- Improved handling of of sparse files.
- Lots of minor UI tweaks.

Update: Daemon Tools Pro 4.30.0305 with SPTD 1.58

Sunday, April 12th, 2009

Daemon Tools Lite 4.30.0305 was released recently with the long awaited Windows 7 support, thanks to the new SPTD 1.58.

DAEMON TOOLS PRO 4.30.0305 DOWNLOADS
Get it now: Download Daemon Tools Pro Standard 4.30.0305
exe installer, 10.9MB, MD5 sum: 055D84881A9F6D9989A6ECC3E8F93F10
WHAT’S NEW IN DAEMON TOOLS PRO 4.30.0305
- Image Editor;
- Windows 7 beta support (SPTD 1.58);
- Explorer images context command “Edit Image…”;
- Agent command line parameter “help”;
- *.mdf file type association option;
- Output image type switcher (*.mds/*.iso) on Disc Imaging dialog;
- Languages updates.

Update: ImgBurn 2.4.4.0

Sunday, April 12th, 2009

EZ-Picker mode in ImgBurn 2.4.4.0

EZ-Picker mode in ImgBurn 2.4.4.0

ImgBurn 2.4.4.0 is now available.

According to the developer, 2.4.4.0 was initially intended as a quick fix update, but eventually involved into something more… substantial.

Note that if you upgrade from 2.4.2.0 and choose to keep your settings, some of them will be reset on the first program startup.

Also, rpc1.org has been replaced by firmwarehq.com as the integrated firmware update and search service.

IMGBURN 2.4.4.0 DOWNLOADS
Get it now: Download ImgBurn 2.4.4.0
EXE installer, 1.94MB, MD5 sum: C68E800B5D710A38A918943BAA729CA6

Extras: Language packs, tools

IMGBURN 2.4.4.0 CHANGELOG
Added: A ‘Note’ to the box that pops up at the start of a burn when the LB in the settings doesn’t match the one in the DVD/MDS file – basically it tells you to put the setting back on ‘Calculate Optimal’.
Added: Support for one more Lite-On device identifier (‘ATAPI iHES’) – used when automatically changing the book type etc.
Added: Ability to select the size of the format when multiple options are available. ‘Preferred’ uses the ‘Number Of Blocks’ value from the first descriptor in the list for a given format type, ‘Minimum’ and ‘Maximum’ should be pretty obvious!
Added: New log entries showing the status of options (enabled/disabled etc) that have an effect on what happens during an erase operation.
Added: The user can now choose if they want to perform full certification or not (the opposite being ‘Quick Certification’ !) when full erasing BD-RE via the New option ‘Prefer Format With Full Certification’. Previously the program always requested full certification – i.e. where the drive tests all the sectors and maps out any bad ones.
Added: Detailed ‘Write Speed’ descriptor information to the bottom of the disc information text.
Added: Option to never delete audio files when deleting files (having been told to!) after a burn/verify. This makes it safer for people burning audio discs via the ‘Create CD CUE File’ feature.
Added: The ability to create *.DVD files (a plain text and basic alternative to .MDS files) via the same basic interface used to create the *.MDS ones.
Added: ‘Content Type’ field to the image details box that pops up when you use build mode. (‘DVD Video’, ‘BD Video’, ‘Data’ etc)
Added: ‘Shut Down’ shutdown action that calls the ‘ExitWindowsEx’ API with the ‘EWX_SHUTDOWN’ flag. This might work to shut down and turn off the PC for some users where ‘EWX_POWEROFF’ fails to do so.
Added: More debug code to the exclusive access locking / unlocking functions.
Added: Options to control build mode prompts for including ADV_OBJ and CERTIFICATE folders when they’re present but not in the source list.
Added: Ability to ignore the reported file system on remote drives – so the program doesn’t then force the 4GB file splitting limit on anything (possibly incorrectly) reported to be using FAT/FAT32.
Added: Options to do with (not) prompting for confirmation of HVDVD_TS / BDMV content in Build mode.
Added: Options to do with (not) prompting for confirmation of correcting DVD Video / HD DVD Video / BD Video / DivX Video / OS Install Disc settings in Build mode.
Added: The option to have Read and Build modes write out an MD5 file when they’re done (assuming ImgBurn has been told to calculate the MD5 values in the first place).
Added: The program now remembers if the Log windows was minimised / maximised when it was closed and restores it accordingly when opened again.
Added: The Main and Log windows now snap to the centre of the screen vertically too, rather than just horizontally.
Added/Changed: The program will once again (by default) update the GUI with any proposed setting changes it detects are required when you’re building a disc. A new option ‘Proposed Setting Changes – Update GUI’ can be used to toggle this on/off.
Added/Changed: The program will now examine the write speed descriptors to find a match with whatever the user selected (i.e. ’8x’) and use the values from it (if one is found) when setting the write speed.

Changed: Split the BD-RE full erase (with ‘Prefer Properly Formatted Discs’ enabled) up into the drive controlled operation and the program controlled operation (where ImgBurn zeroes out all the sectors).
Changed: When doing a full erase on BD-RE, the program will no longer try a slightly different command unless the previous one wasn’t supported – i.e. a failure during the erase (due to a dodgy disc) will no longer make it try again with a slightly different command.
Changed: The disc capacity is now shown in the disc information text even when the disc is said to be ‘empty’, so long as the disc status is ‘complete’.
Changed: The ‘Turn Off’ action is now known as ‘Power Off’ to match the actual flag (‘EWX_POWEROFF’) used in the ‘ExitWindowsEX’ API.
Changed/Fixed: The program will now only replace the selected boot image with the ‘isolinux\isolinux.bin’ file (and patch it) if the two point to the same file on your hdd.
Changed/Fixed: You were unable to use ‘Change Folder’ (found on the context menu) when in Build mode if the destination box didn’t include a file name.

Fixed: An issue when sorting the Write Speed descriptors into ascending order.
Fixed: Typo in ‘For best result, burn single layer DVDs at 8x or 12x.’ status bar message – should have said ‘results’ (with an ‘s’ !).
Fixed: Maximising the log window causes the main window to get lost / hidden behind it – now it jumps back to the front.
Fixed: If the application is minimised to the taskbar (or system tray) when the log is maximised, the log window covers/hides the main window when it’s restored again.
Fixed: Bug where the wrong CRC was STILL being calculated for the isolinux.bin file’s boot information table!
Fixed: Bug where the selected folder (when coming from the change folder/recent folder menu) was being added to the recent files list.
Fixed: Bug where the selected file was not being added to the recent files list.
Fixed: A bug in the new function that zeros out unused buffer space which then messed up any ‘GET PERFORMANCE’ command (the one used to get the supported write speeds).

Update: SPTD 1.58 – Windows 7 Support

Saturday, April 11th, 2009

Note: SPTD 1.59 is now available with even more Windows 7 fixes.

SPTD 1.58 is here!

This release marks the availability of Windows 7 support for SPTD! The Duplex Secure forums state this is preliminary, but it seems to work pretty well with Beta 7000.

There’s also a new Daemon Tools Pro version that includes this SPTD build!

SPTD 1.58 DOWNLOADS
Get it now: Download SPTD 1.58 (32-bit)
exe installer, 889KB, MD5 sum: BF5E5B3BF70C252319A4665044F5583A

x64 version: Download SPTD 1.58 (64-bit)
exe installer, 1.04MB, MD5 sum: F78EAA3CE5B67FBC5B7043D9CBCC14BC

WHAT’S NEW IN SPTD 1.58
- Fixed Windows 7 beta incompatibility issues.

Update: WebDrive 9.00

Saturday, April 11th, 2009

WebDrive is a piece of software in the vein of SftpDrive and RedDrive, but more powerful.

Version 9.00 is now available. Although the version bump suggests a major release, it isn’t really the case, as this version only packs a handful of bug/security fixes and a few improvements, mostly related to Amazon S3 support.

DOWNLOAD WEBDRIVE 9
Get it now: Download WebDrive 9.00
exe installer, 6.55MB, MD5 sum: D04F5325CD8D9832E01D36ABD8F0B110

64-bit version: Download WebDrive 9.00 (x64)
exe installer, 10.2MB, MD5 sum: B461C40E6B0971AF94FA1B7A47B101B6

WHAT’S NEW WEBDRIVE 9.00
- New: Support for Amazon S3 ACL’s. You can now edit permissions on S3 files. There is also an option to preserve S3 ACL’s when doing renames and overwrites on S3 files.
- New: Support for Amazon S3 COPY command to use for renaming files and folders. The folder rename still requires a copy command to be sent to the server for all files in the folder.
- New: Directory Change notification support. When enabled on the site properties/file settings dialog tab WebDrive will support the Windows change notification feature that Windows explorer signs up for when displaying the contents of a folder. WebDrive will poll the server to see if the directory has changed on the server and if a change is detected it will cause explorer to refresh it’s contents. This works well for protocols that support reporting the modified time of a folder on the server, like WebDAV and SFTP. This may not be very effecient for FTP servers that do not support the MLST command.
- New: SFTP FIPS support.

- Fixed: Performance improvement when right clicking on files or folders in explorer which gets rid of long delays with no activity.
- Fixed: Directory caching issue that would result in the directory not refreshing when it became invalid due to it being out of date with the listing on the server.
- Fixed: If a persistent connection (connect at login) can’t connect during login then don’t display error dialog and don’t prompt for username/password as this can interfere with the vista login. Instead the drive will show up with a red X icon and when the user clicks on the drive it will attempt to connect again. This can also be beneficial to wireless installations where the network may not be established at login time.
- Fixed: For FTP servers fixed a rename problem when using UTF8 encoding, the destination file name was not being encoded in UTF8.
- Fixed: Potential security vulnerability, removed permission on WebDrive service that would allow a change configuration command.

Update: SUN xVM VirtualBox 2.2.0

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

xVM VirtualBox has been updated to 2.2.0.

Just announcing the update now, I’ll be back with details soon.

SUN claims this is a “major” update and I’m inclined to agree with them.

VirtualBox 2.2.0 adds a few “heavy” features such as:
- host only networking mode (on Windows you’ll actually notice a new network adapter icon in the systray)
- OpenGL acceleration for Linux/Solaris guests
- OVF (a standardized format for packaging and distributing virtual appliances/software)
- higher memory limit for VMs (16GB on 64-bit)
- optimized hypervisor
- optimized default settings

DOWNLOAD SUN VXM VIRTUALBOX 2.2.0
Get it now: Download VirtualBox 2.2.0 (for both 32-bit and 64-bit hosts)
exe installer, 62.3MB, MD5 sum: FAA08BA2C3F23C55AEEF2AAC84D48523

Other stuff: VirtualBox for Linux, Mac, Solaris + SDKs and older versions

SUN XVM VIRTUALBOX SCREENSHOTS
WHAT’S NEW IN SUN XVM VIRTUALBOX 2.2.0
New major features
- OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export (see chapter 3.8, Importing and exporting virtual machines, User Manual page 55)
- Host-only networking mode (see chapter 6.7, Host-only networking, User Manual page 88)
- Hypervisor optimizations with significant performance gains for high context switching rates
- Raised the memory limit for VMs on 64-bit hosts to 16GB
- VT-x/AMD-V are enabled by default for newly created virtual machines
- USB (OHCI & EHCI) is enabled by default for newly created virtual machines (Qt GUI only)
- Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts
- Shared folders for Solaris and OpenSolaris guests
- OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris guests (see chapter 4.8, Hardware 3D acceleration (OpenGL), User Manual page 70)
- Added C API in addition to C++, Java, Python and Web Services

Other additions, changes or bug fixes
VMM: FreeBSD guest related fix for V86 flags (bug #2342)
VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting an AsteriskNow Linux VM (bug #2342)
VMM: fixed PGMPOOLKIND_FREE guru meditation (bugs #3356, #3431)
VMM: fixed Windows XP boot hang (guest PAE + nested paging only)
VMM: allow mixing of VT-x/AMD-V and software virtualization
VMM: fixed extremely slow safe mode booting in e.g. Windows 2008 (VT-x/AMD-V only)
VMM: significant speedup of certain GRUB boot loaders (e.g. Solaris) (VT-x/AMD-V only)
VMM: real-mode IOPL fix for DOS guests (VT-x only)
VMM: fixed VT-x detection with certain BIOSes that enable VT-x, but don’t set the lock bit in MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL
VMM: fixed hibernation issues on Windows XP hosts (VT-x only; bug #1794)
VMM: properly emulate RDMSR from the TSC MSR, should fix some NetBSD guests
VMM: emulate RDPMC; fixes Windows guests crashes when using the Kaspersky virus scanner (bug #1778)
NAT: fixed truncated downloads (FTP) (bug #3257)
NAT: blocked UDP packets caused a crash (bug #3426)
NAT: allow to configure the next server and the boot file via VBoxManage (bug #2759)
IDE: fixed hard disk upgrade from XML-1.2 settings (bug #1518)
Hard disk: support more VMDK file variants (including fixed-size ESX server images)
Hard disks: refuse to start the VM if a disk image is not writable
USB: further reduced host CPU utilization for OHCI and EHCI; the “VBoxInternal/Devices/usb-ohci/0/Config/FrameRate” CFG key is no longer necessary and no longer supported
USB: fixed BSOD on the host with certain USB devices (Windows hosts only; bug #1654)
E1000: properly handle cable disconnects (bug #3421)
VRDP: fixed hangs when VRDP server is enabled or disabled in runtime
Shared folders: respect umask settings on Linux, OSX and Solaris hosts when creating files
X11 guests: prevented setting the locale in vboxmouse, as this caused problems with Turkish locales (bug #3563)
X11 guests: show the guest mouse pointer at the right position if the virtual desktop is larger than the guest resolution (bug #2306)
Linux additions: fixed typo when detecting Xorg 1.6 (bug #3555)
Solaris guests: added xpg4/xcu4 dependency to the guest additions installer (bug #3524)
Windows guests: bind the VBoxMouse.sys filter driver to the correct guest pointing device (bug #1324)
Windows hosts: fixed BSOD when starting a VM with enabled host interface (bug #3414)
Linux hosts: do proper reference counting to prevent unloading the vboxnetflt module as long as this code is in use (bug #3104)
Linux hosts: do not leave zombies of VBoxSysInfo.sh (bug #3586)
Linux installers: fixes for Slackware, Arch Linux and Linux from Scratch systems
Windows installers: combined installer executable which contains both (32- and 64-bit) architectures.
VBoxManage: less cryptic command-line error messages
VBoxManage list vms commands now default to compact format
VBoxManage controlvm dvdattach did not work if the image was attached before
VBoxManage: allow creation of all supported disk image variants
VBoxManage showvminfo: don’t spam the release log if the additions don’t support statistics information (bug #3457)
VBoxManage: big command line processing cleanup, the legacy single-dash options are deprecated and will be removed in the next major release, so switch to the new options now
Hard disks: improved immutable disk support to auto-reset diff file at VM startup (related to bug #2772)
GUI: enable the audio adapter by default for new VMs
GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V is not operational when starting a 64-bit guest
GUI: deactivate 64-bit guest support when the host CPU does not support VT-x/AMD-V
GUI: removed floppy icon from the status bar
GUI: show build revision in about dialog
GUI: fixed sticky status bar text
GUI: improved error dialogs
GUI: fail with an appropriate error message when trying to boot a read-only disk image (bug #1745)
GUI/Mac OS X: fixed disabled close button
GUI/Windows: re-enabled support for copy and paste (Windows hosts 2.0 regression; bug #2065)
3D support: added OpenGL select/feedback support (bug #2920)
3D support: close OpenGL subsystem for terminated guest applications (bug #3243)
3D support: fixed VM hangs when starting guests with 3D acceleration enabled (bug #3437)
PXE: fixed boot hangs when hardware virtualization is used (bug #2536)
LsiLogic: fixed problems with Solaris guests
Main API: close machine settings XML file when unregistering machine (bug #3548)

Update: SecureCRT 6.2 Final

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

SecureCRT 6.2 final is now available. VanDyke claims this release is identical to 6.2 Beta 3.

SECURECRT 6.2 FINAL

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