This section contains general information, tips and tricks, light reading, entertainment and other general fodder. Enjoy!
There is no one “great” answer to this question. Usually saving disk space also maximizes performance of your computing platform. We fundamentally recommend: a) proper maintenance (see other tips below) and b) the occasional ‘spring cleaning’ (as also discussed below) combined with the c) use of a utility to clean your unused space (we like […]
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A great web site called the Open Internet Initiative (ONI) provides statistics and views of what type of filtering and censorship of the Internet is carried out where. From the ONI website: “The ONI collects global data on Internet filtering using technical and contextual tools. Our analysis is based on a fusion of expert (qualitative)
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The transcript below was copied from TED Talk – Omar Ahmad: Political change with pen and paper. It is inspiring and insightful…. One of the things that defines a TEDster is you’ve taken your passion, and you’ve turned it into stewardship. You actually put action to the issues you care about. But what you’re going
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1. You just tried to enter your password on the microwave. 2. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of three. 3. You call your son’s beeper to let him know it’s time to eat. He emails you back from his bedroom, “What’s for dinner?” 4. Your daughter sells Girl
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Since we all work in high tech … Does the statement, “We’ve always done it that way” ring any bells…? The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That’s an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used? Because that’s the way they built them in England, and English
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This story was told to me by a field service tech near Lake Champlain in New York State. Old Mrs. Smith was a widow living on a slowly decaying farm. She had called the telephone company for months – actually nearly 14 months – to complain that her phone had stopped ringing. Every time the
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Murphy’s law is a popular adage that states that “things will go wrong in any given situation, if you give them a chance,” or more commonly, “whatever can go wrong, will go wrong.” A number of variants on the rule have been formulated, as have several corollaries. Light travels faster than sound. This is why some
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Look no more..… 1. Since my last report, this employee has reached rock bottom and shows signs of starting to dig. 2. His/Her students would follow him/her anywhere, but only out of morbid curiosity. 3. I would not allow this instructor to breed. 4. This associate is really not so much of a has-been, but
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Maintaining the system is always a good idea, and it should be habitual. We break maintenance into three types: a) continual, b) periodic, and c) occasional. We recommend you get into a routine by inserting to-do’s or calendar reminders to run maintenance until you do it automatically. So let’s look at a good maintenance plan:
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Device drivers: which ones are running on your Windows Xp Professional System?? Here is how you find out: you can find detailed information about specific drivers being used in a Windows XP system by going to Device Manager, selecting the device from the list, and drilling down to the device’s properties sheet. While this technique
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When you install a device driver on a Windows XP machine, the operating system loads that driver each time the computer boots regardless of whether the device is present—unless you specifically uninstall the driver. This means that drivers from devices that you have long since removed from your system may be wasting valuable system resources.
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One of Microsoft’s big selling points for Windows XP was that it loads applications much faster than its predecessors. To accomplish this feat, Windows XP uses what is called the “Prefetch technique,” in which the operating system gathers information about each program that you launch and stores that information in the \Windows\Prefetch folder. Then on
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44 Lessons in Life Allegedly Written By Regina Brett, 90 years old, Cleveland , Ohio “To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 44 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I’ve ever written. My odometer rolled over to 90 in August, so here is the column once more:” 1. Life isn’t fair,
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A student in a recent class turned us on to this stuff…it is great. Enjoy! A Day in the Life of A Telephone Man Phones and Codes: Brian Regan – Telephone Company One Ringy Dingy – the famous Miss Tomlin! Ms.Tomlin Calls Cher Bono to Gossip Lily Tomlin on Merv Griffin Show Training Videos Pacific
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Food for thought:1. Is it good if a vacuum really sucks?2. Why is the third hand on the watch called the second hand?3. If a word is misspelled in the dictionary, how would we ever know? 4. If Webster wrote the first dictionary, where did he find the words? 5. Why do we say something
