• Intel® Chipset Device Software formerly Chipset Software Installation Utility, current version 9.4.0.1017.
• USB 3.0 Driver: Intel® USB 3.0 eXtensible Host Controller Driver, current version 1.0.7.248.
• Intel® HD Graphics Driver for Windows 7 and Windows 8 64, current version 15.28.12.64.2932.
• Synaptics TouchPad drivers, current version 16.3.8.8

Also links to ATI Mobility Radeon drivers obtainer via URL manipulation (last time I tried, the AMD downloader wouldn’t let me download the drivers, claiming they don’t support my laptop, although they do):
13-1_mobility_vista_win7_win8_64_dd_ccc_whql.exe (Mobility Catalyst 13.1 for Windows Vista/7/8
13-4_mobility_vista_win7_win8_64_dd_ccc_whql.exe (Mobility Catalyst 13.4 for Windows Vista/7/8 (NB: version 13.2 and 13.3 never left beta and those I tried did NOT work with the 7970M)

Last but not least, if you want to update your BIOS, you’ll need to create a DOS boot USB stick. Fortunately, Schenker provides a package (with English instructions, don’t worry ) to create such a stick: on the download page go to _Sonstiges → Tools → Bootstick.zip. As usual, you’ll need an empty USB key to use it (it’s all pretty small, so any very old 32+ MiB key should do the trick).
I flashed my BIOS recently using this tool (and the BIOS files provided in the appropriate P702 folder). Make sure you do read all the instructions and follow them to the letter. Compared to all the BIOS flashes I had performed before, this one is much, much weirder, involving a lot of (automated/forced) reboots and a tool messing up the CPU fan settings (I think it ran at 100% during the whole procedure – only at the last reboot it went back to normal). Plan about 15 minutes for all the operations (that’s about the time it took me from when I left my Windows desktop to when I was able to load it again).

> set.seed(1);
> x=runif(10);
> x;
[1] 0.26550866 0.37212390 0.57285336 0.90820779 0.20168193 0.89838968 0.94467527 0.66079779 0.62911404 0.06178627
> y=(10:1)*2;
> y;
[1] 20 18 16 14 12 10 8 6 4 2
> x[order(y)]
[1] 0.06178627 0.62911404 0.66079779 0.94467527 0.89838968 0.20168193 0.90820779 0.57285336 0.37212390 0.26550866

As a bonus, not that sort(x) and x[order(x)] give equivalent results.

• 0 = unspecified
• 1 = no verification – I use this one only locally, when I haven’t seen any ID but need the key to be signed for convenience
• 2 = casual verification – I use this one when I’ve checked some official ID but don’t know the person otherwise
• 3 = extensive verification – I only use this one when I’ve checked some official ID and personally know the person to some extent

First, you can spread the word. If you happen to be a blogger or journalist, the greatest thing to do would be to write about it. But even if you’re not, you’re in charge to create the buzz: share a link for instance to http://www.defectivebydesign.org/dayagainstdrm/, http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:DefectiveByDesign/Day_Against_DRM_2013 or http://www.drm.info on Twitter, Facebook, reddit, Identi.ca, etc. You could also share a banner or poster on Pinterest and such.

If you’re motivated to spend some $$ on it, you can even get the t-shirt and play the anti-DRM sandwitchman

Then, you can support organizations campaining against DRMs. Of course, you can do so financially (cf the links I suggested in the second paragraph, most have a donation page a few clicks away), but also just be signing to show your support, for instance to support the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE), which maintains drm.info: it’s important for them to be able to show they have a large number of supporters, so even if you don’t donate anything your signature matters (NB: their privacy policy is good, they don’t share your name, they only use it to publish the total number of supporters).

And finally, you can… vote. And no need to vote for the Pirate Party, just vote for or against brands. It’s voting day almost every day: you can vote with your money, simply by not buying DRM-impaired stuff. I have to admit I’m not very up-to-date on what not to buy, since I’m not much into portable devices (such as Kindles…) and already using mostly free software (like, LibreOffice instead of MS Office). But you get the idea: before buying something, check whether or not it comes with DRMs, and if it does, try to find an alternative. You’ll be surprised by how often it’s actually quite easy to find a DRM-free alternative, except maybe for games or very specialized software.

Well, that’s all I guess, for this year at least. The list is likely quite incomplete, but that’s already a fair amount of things to do. It may sound tedious, and if it does, well just focus on a thing or two, it’s still better than nothing

In total, there were 276,894 unique visitors, from 208 countries. The top 10 countries by unique visitors is as follow:
1. United States – 31,156 visitors (among which 6,113 from California and 2053 from both Texas and New York, and on the other end, only 24 from both Wyoming and South Dakota)
2. Germany – 17,092
3. France – 9,808
4. United Kingdom – 8,460
5. Italy – 6,761
6. Poland – 6,741
7. India – 5,468
8. Canada – 5,226
9. Russia – 5,208
10. Brazil – 4,993

This site is in a large majority written in English, with some French posts here and there (some of which pretty high traffic), and has been hosted majoritarily in Germany (around Berlin I think, I moved it back to France some months ago).

It’s interesting to notice that not so many visitors come from English-speaking countries. Not sure if this means that search engines tend to suggest contents in English even to those searching in their native language, or that people search in English more often than I thought (whenever I discuss with real life friends here in friends, they almost always are die-hard local language searchers), or just because my portable Flash gets a lot of traffic, and for this one the language spoken by the searcher is maybe less relevant.

The very high amount of visitors from Germany, while not a single page on this site is in German, is probably due to Google giving a priority boost to sites hosted locally. It will be interesting to see how this changes now that the site is back in France.
The farily high amound of French visitors (despite the well-known aversion to any kind of foreign language proficiency here ^^) can probably be explained by a couple of posts where I posted solutions to some French websites’ contests, which drew a few thousands people to the site.

The fairly low position of China (22nd with 1,984), lower for instance than Portugal, Switzerland or Turkey, may be due to Chinese searching more often locally and in their language (hi Baidu ). In contrast, Hong Kong, with a much lower population, is 32nd with 1,377 unique visitors with 0.5% of China’s population (although of course there is also the proportion of population with an internet access to be taken into account).

Finally, a bit of exotism: the latest country added to the list of visiting countris was Turks and Caicos Islands, population: 47,754. This is actually a British overseas territory located North of Hawai.

This tool is quite raw and simple, at least the way I use it. SupperPutty‘s main function is to let you run several PuTTY consoles from a single window with tabs. Or to put it another way, it saves space on the taskbar.
Another nice feature is its ability to remember the state in which it was when you last close it, so it restores all opened sessions on startup (you need to log in again in each of them, of course). That is, when it works, because quite often it forgets the previous session (I think this occurs mainly when you don’t close it properly – for instance if you shut Windows down without closing SuperPutty first).

Well, that’s all there is to say, I think. I’m not very sure how good it is at managing a list of sessions, what I do is I keep managing my sessions from PuTTY, and when needed I import them into SuperPutty (since this will create duplicates, I first remove all sessions from SuperPutty, then import all from PuTTY).