Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Errors in the event log - fdrawcmd.sys


Description:
\??\C:\WINDOWS\SysWow64\Drivers\fdrawcmd.sys has been blocked from loading due to incompatibility with this system. Please contact your software vendor for a compatible version of the driver.
fdrawcmd.sys is a driver to provide direct access to the floppy disk drive (floppy disk raw commands). On XP64 and later you're not going to get it to work anyway so you might as well delete it.

ownCloud news - Now up to version 5.0

After a quiet start, ownCloud has quickly ramped up to version 5.0 over the course of the last year or so and appears to have gained significantly more features and usability. The last version I tried was 3.0 and although I found it a bit limiting and the installation process (on Windows at least) was convoluted and error-prone, it was certainly promising.

It really looks like the developers are serious about this project so I'm going to give the latest version a go, probably by setting it up on a CentOS-based VM. In the meantime I've gathered some articles about the announcement including a quick how-to:

http://www.unixmen.com/setup-your-personal-cloud-server-in-minutes-using-owncloud/

http://www.thevarguy.com/2013/03/14/open-source-owncloud-gains-key-features-with-new-release/

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/A-new-look-for-private-cloud-ownCloud-5-0-1823167.html

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTMyNzI