No skid pans though.
DaleSpent part of today having a car driving instructor telling me how was my driving was. It feel like I was doing a driving test all over again. The car…
“it is advantageous to have the "Write Cache Enable" bit turned ON”
However, in a CTOS (or MS-DOS, Windows/NT, etc.) environment, it is advantageous to have the "Write Cache Enable" bit turned ON, which allows the built-in cache on the disk to…
“Maybe one person can’t change the world ….
But one person can give it a nudge, and sometimes that’s enough.” (Cartoon courtesy of Adrian Raeside, of “The Other Coast”)
“My computer is slow!” – A case of slow add-ons.
End user computer performance is about perception. How fast does it “seem”? Recently I looked at a corporate laptop, the user complained it was slow. I checked the usual culprits…
NTUSER.DAT.START
My Windows 7 logon time could be measured in minutes. So I tidied up my Roaming Profile. 4GB of space savings later, I was removing the last of the files…
What do you do with Bunny when you go on holiday?
It’s a vexed question. Do I get a house-minder in, or does Ms/Mr Bunny go out for her/his own vacation? Having done a fair share of house & pet minding,…
Saturday link round-up: I stopped breathing twice last night.
And it’s not as bad as it sounds. I suffer from sleep apnea, and I have an CPAP machine which records all sorts of data. Including Central Sleep Apnea. Anyhow,…
Broken websites, and Microsoft update KB2661254
Did you know that Microsoft invalided/stopped the use of security certificates with a RSA key length of less than 1024 bits? And they started doing this back in August 2012? …