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Windows XP tips and tricks

Tired of chasing your mouse? Use keyboard shortcuts Why use your mouse if using your keyboard is faster? Save time with these shortcuts. Simplify using your mouse: change double-click to single-click Want to open files and folders with a single click? Follow these steps to change your settings. Set your windows so they all have [...]

How to Clear/Flush DNS Cache in Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista

When you visit a website, Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista tries to speed things up by placing the DNS information about that site, into a DNS cache on your PC. You see the DNS Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista cache stores BOTH negative and positive entries. The positive entries are those that the DNS lookup was successful and you could connect [...]

Top 100 of the Best (Useful) OpenSource Applications

The following is a list of about 100 of the best OpenSource Applications, that actually help make Linux more usable for people. It is my hope that this list shows potential Linux users that there really is a large, effective, productive and usable range of free, OpenSource applications. For existing Linux users (like myself), I [...]

How to Adjust Windows XP Prefetcher settings

The Windows XP Prefetcher reduces the amount of time it takes Windows to boot and can speed up the launch of applications. It does this by monitoring which programs initialize when the Operating System is booted, then in the future, fetches them quickly via trace files. Although prefetcher is enabled by default, we can easily [...]

How to Increase productivity on slow internet connections

If you have a slow internet connection or are still using dial-up, here are some tips to increase the speed of internet browsing and sending or receiving email: Compress email attachments: Compressing your file attachments can dramatically reduce the time needed to send and receive emails.  WinZip is one of the more common compression tools, [...]

The 10 unknown features about PHP

Here’s a short list of cool features that might have slipped under your radar as well: Use ip2long() and long2ip() to store IP addresses as integers instead of strings in a database. This will reduce the storage space by almost a factor of four (15 bytes for char(15) vs. 4 bytes for the integer), make [...]

How To Overclock A Processor

Q : What is over clocking? Overclocking is when you make your system processor run faster that its normal speed. This has many advantages and dis-advantages. Advantages : This is obvious, your system will run faster Dis-Advantages : Your hardware is likely to have a less life span. Your components will run at higher temperatures [...]

How to Save Laptop Battery Power

You’ve got a five-hour flight from Los Angeles to New York City, and one battery in your laptop. You’ve got work to do, DVDs to watch, and games to play. How are you going to get that battery to last? Well, hidden inside (and outside) your computer are lots of tricks to help you. Dimming [...]

How to find hardware configuration of a Linux system

You can get the information directly from /proc, you can use lspci, etc. And if you are using X then there are many ways to show this information in a nice way. Still, I would like to show you the power of this little tool (lshw) that I found very useful if you are using [...]

How to find out if a your CPU supports HT (Hyper-Threading)?

Intel introduced Hyper-Threading Technology (HT) in its line of Xeon processors in 2002. HT Technology enables multiprocessor servers to act as if they had twice as many processors installed. Intel’s HT Technology allows a single processor to handle two independent sets of instructions at the same time. In essence, HT Technology converts a single physical [...]

PHP Accelerators

PHP Accelerators/Cachers will boost the performance of your PHP applications, by caching the compiled form of php scripts to avoid the overhead of parsing and compiling the code every time the page is loaded. A PHP accelerator typically reduces server load and increases the speed of your PHP code by 1-10 times. Normally you will [...]

How to Secure Memcached

Memcached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load. Memcached is a great piece of software that was designed with performance in mind. Still, memcached has little (or should I say none?) security features built-in. If we run [...]

How to Tune Nagios For Maximum Performance

Optimization Tips: 1. Graph performance statistics with MRTG. In order to keep track of how well your Nagios installation handles load over time and how your configuration changes affect it, you should be graphing several important statistics with MRTG. This is really, really, really useful when it comes to tuning the performance of a Nagios [...]

How to Reduce the time to shutdown Windows

Adjusting Windows XP shutdown speed: Open the Registry Editor: Click Start->Run From the Run box type regedit Navigate to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Control Panel/Desktop Once there, find the entry HungAppTimeout and make sure its value is set to 5000 (default) In the same directory, locate WaitToKillAppTimeout. Set this to 4000 (default is 20000) Exit the Registry Editor and [...]

How To Install FreeNas

Introduction FreeNAS is an open source popular software appliance package that can turn a computer into a NAS appliance, or in easier terms: a file server. This guide shows the basic steps to prepare a server for use in a diskless LTSP environment. This document is correct as of FreeNAS v0.67.1. Full documentation on installing [...]