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Speed up Acrobat Reader

May 31, 2004 | In software | No Comments Adobe Reader SpeedUp v1.21 is a simple application that was created to help make the loading time of Adobe’s Acrobat/Reader software bearable for everyday use.

Hate online registering?

May 29, 2004 | In general | No Comments

Bugmenot says: It’s pointless due to the significant percentage of users who enter fake demographic details anyway. It’s a waste of time. It’s annoying as hell.

Ethics of bypassing registration. You decide.

Mailinator requires no sign-up.
To create an account, you send email to it.
You cannot send email from Mailinator.
Your Mailinator email inbox can be read by anyone.
If they know (or guess) your email address, they can read your mail.
After a few hours, all email is auto-deleted.

No signup, instant anti-spam service. Mailinator.

We like free stuff

May 27, 2004 | In software | No Comments The best of the best in Windows Freeware, as determined by the readers of alt.comp.freeware. Pricelessware.

San Diego NOC

May 26, 2004 | In general | No Comments Toured Castle Access, a state-of-the-art colocation facility in San Diego. I liked their focus on customer service. Learned something about blade servers:

These systems are quite a recent phenomenon. A Blade Server is a computer system on a motherboard, which includes processor(s), memory, a network connection and sometimes storage. The blade idea is to address the needs of large scale computing centres to reduce space requirements for application servers and lower costs. A typical application could be serving web pages. So along with a Storage Blade they can be rack mounted in multiple racks within a cabinet together with common cabling, redundant power supplies and cooling fans. Blades can be added as required, often as “hot pluggable” units of computing as they share a common high speed bus. Most of the Computer Manufacturers are now offering these computing elements, although some concerns about a lack of standards is currently being expressed.

Glossary of Data Storage Terms

Daypop

May 26, 2004 | In feeds, search engines | No Comments

Daypop is a current events/weblog/RSS feeds news search engine searching news sites, weblogs and rss feeds for current events and breaking news. Daypop’s Word Bursts are heightened usage of certain words in weblogs within the last couple days. They are indicators of what webloggers are writing about right now. Daypop lets you keyword search through content it finds from crawling thousands of news sites throughout each day. Behind the Scenes at the Daypop Search Engine. Submit your weblog to daypop.

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Install XP

May 24, 2004 | In software | No Comments Suggested proper order to install XP, its updates/drivers/patches and applications.

More detailed.

1. XP
2. SP1
3. IE 6, SP1
4. DirectX 9.0b
5. Chipset drivers
6. Video Card Drivers. (run disk cleanup)
7. NIC/Modem Drivers and ISP software
8. Windows Update, Internet Explorer service packs, updates
9. Windows Update, Critical Updates (till there are no more)
10. Windows Update, Other Updates. (don’t load unnecessary items)
11. Windows Update, Drivers.
12. Other Drivers (try to automatically update first) (run disk cleanup)
13. Major applications. Fully update each application before installing the next.
14. The rest of your apps. (run disk cleanup)
15. Anti-Virus software and update it.
16. Configure email, move My Documents to another drive
17. Cleanup System Tray, organize Start Menu.
18. Safe Mode, disk cleanup (advanced) and defragment.

Schedule Disk Defragmenter

May 24, 2004 | In software | No Comments How To Schedule Disk Defragmenter To Run Automatically in Windows XP