Quick background Have you ever thought your manager keeps shelling out more on your plate other than the officially tracked tasks? Do not feel bad. You are not alone My manager recently asked me to clean up the build server we use for our project. To put simply, it was a mess. I ended up [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Computers’
HowTo: Enable Aero mode in Windows server 2008 R2
I recently was setting up a build server and chose Windows Server 2008 R2 to be the OS. Since I was also looking for something like a centralized deployment server for my development team to quickly reflash their testbeds, I was very h appy to see the 2008 R2 server’s “Deployment server” role…but, wait, this [...]
Oh no, Demonoid is down again!!
Demonoid, one of my favorite trackers, is down again. I was not running my torrent client last week, as it was used for doing “important” things like playing “Super bounce out” and “Half-life” by my relatives. I saw the “CRIA blocked us” message in Demonoid.com only this morning, a bad start to the week, I’d [...]
Cleaning up your Hard disk
Yesterday I took some time off to clean my office systems – a Dual Xeon desktop and a T41p laptop. The effort would have cost me at least 2 days, if not for the following tools! CCleaner – The best utility for cleaning up the temporary files, IE/Mozilla/Opera cache and lots of other junk. This [...]
My first cartoon – Performance appraisal
I stumbled upon this interesting site today. It allows you to unleash (?!) your creativity by creating simple drag/drop operations. Above is my first cartoon, which is inspired by the happenings in my company Do let me know what you think! Link to this post!
HP Rw6828
I have always wanted to own one of those cute O2 XDA Atoms. I was holding back, because of the Atom’s notorious stability and the numerous bugs in the software bundle + motherboard. But, when I went to Malaysia recently, I decided to buy one anyhow, because the latest ROM update seemed to make Atom [...]
Why no threads?
I have a Dual processor Xeon machine (HT enabled in both the processors) with 2GB of RAM. Windows XP effectively sees 4 execution pipelines. Yesterday I had to move some 10GB of data from this machine to my laptop. I decided to zip it up first and fired open Winzip 9.0. It was painfully slow! [...]
Workplace redefined!
I have rearranged my monitors, this time to make it easier for me to read lengthy contents I got this idea from Adam Nathan’ s Channel 9 interview. He was demonstrating his WinFX based Hearts game and was actually going through the code using this setup. Though I find this setup good for reviewing/coding/reading long [...]
