Archive for September, 2009

Turn-Off Vista Search-Indexer

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

Blog post at ‘MyDigital-Life’ (Might be useful if you need to turn off Vista Search-Index feature)

Windows Vista starts to crawl and index files on hard disks right after installed with a low priority background process. If you notice that your hard drive activity LED light is constantly flashing even if computer is idle, this is probably due to indexer at work.

Remote Desktop Connection Software Download

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

DOWNLOAD – msrdpcli.exe [Size = 3.4 MB]

This software package will install the client portion of Remote Desktop on any of the following operating systems: Windows 95, Windows 98 and 98 Second Edition, Windows Me, Windows NT 4.0, or Windows 2000. (This is the same version of the client software as in Windows XP Service Pack 1.) When run, this software allows older Windows platforms to remotely connect to a computer running Windows XP Professional with Remote Desktop enabled.

This package provides flexible deployment options of the full Terminal Services Client, including auto-repair through Windows Installer technology and application publishing via IntelliMirror™ management technologies or Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS).

Tandem Computers

Friday, September 25th, 2009

This Blog post at ‘Mark Whitfield.net’ – Is very informatative in terms of computing HISTORY – and sever technology / evolution, going right back to early 70′s technology used by Banking systems, Airline booking systems, Stock-Exchanges, and Insurance companies (Just to name a few)

Tandem Computers was an early manufacturer of fault tolerant computer systems, marketed to the growing number of transaction processing customers who used them for ATMs, banks, stock exchanges and other similar needs.

Quasi stellar objects

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

GOOGLED – Quasi stellar objects ;- (Just love that name – Robin Williams [Science-Show] on Radio National provide the podcast – download to listen to the complete interview OR listen online)

Interview-TITLE:  The physical laws of the universe

THE INTRO;  It is assumed the physical laws apply universally, from the very small to the very big. But do the constants, used in equations, change at the extremes? Michael Murphy’s group uses quasars as a background light source, allowing light to be traced as it travels through space. This is used as a backdrop to study galaxies 10 billion light years away. Quasi stellar objects are super massive black holes, billions of times the mass of our sun. They suck in all material around and shine very brightly.

It is possible that the developer has mixed up his hyper-links with these two stories.  “LHC still on hold”, with another story – interviewing the same guy, with the story name “The physical laws of the universe”. [Both interesting - if your into that sort of stuff]

Configure – SidePosts

Sunday, September 20th, 2009

Widget – ‘SidePosts’

DESCRIPTION: Have a mini-blog on the sidebar

MINI-BLOG; Side effect of installing this widget – it takes posts (In the Category Choosen)  that would normally appear at the top of the blog as all new posts have done in the past, .. AND – places them in the ‘SideBar’. (Which means that it no longer will appear at the top of the blog – which is understandable)

AUTOMATTIC – Widgetizing Plugins

Sunday, September 20th, 2009

One thing leads to another; – Just investingating http://www.worldtimeserver.com/clocks/ – and then somehow, I end up reading about wordpress wigdets and stuff – (Maybe because these are the t0ols that allow me to do stuff quickly and easily), anyway – here is a link to one of sites that provide insight to the underlying code, connected with wordpress.

AUTOMATTIC – Widgetizing Plugins + This page contains technical instructions on porting a plugin to use in the widget system.

What version of Java is installed?

Saturday, September 19th, 2009

VISIT: http://www.javatester.org/version.html

Multiple copies of Java can be installed on a single computer, and, if you have more than one web browser, each one can use a different version of Java, or none at all, so be sure to test them all. Below are nine ways to determine the version of Java a web browser is using.

Note: The portion of Java that runs programs is referred to as the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) or Java Run-time Environment (JRE).

DOWNLOAD: Recommended Version 6 Update 16 – Java allows you to play online games, chat with people around the world, calculate your mortgage interest, and view images in 3D, just to name a few. It’s also integral to the intranet applications and other e-business solutions that are the foundation of corporate computing.

AND; HERE is another url to TEST what version of Java is Installed; [TEST - Sytstem-X] Verifying Java Version *-THE-URL-* = http://www.java.com/en/download/installed.jsp

Oops! You don’t have the recommended Java installed.
Your Java version is Version 6 Update 11 – [AND; They insist on me having verion 16]

Never mind that it has been HAPPILY working since XMAS, without any problem. GRUMBLE – GRUMBLE – Ok, gues Id better update to the latest version of Java-16

W2K Server support ends July 13, 2010

Saturday, September 19th, 2009

Windows 2000 Server:
Extended Support for Windows 2000 Server will end on July 13, 2010. At this time, Windows 2000 Server will no longer be publicly supported.  You will be able to continue using “Self-Help Online Support”

Select a product family to view support lifecycle information for products in that family. For an alphabetized list of all Microsoft products, see the Support Lifecycle Index page.

Von Neumann architecture

Friday, September 18th, 2009

INFO – SOURCE: PC Mech.com

All computers share the same basic architecture, whether it be a multi-million dollar mainframe or a Palm Pilot. All have memory, an I/O system, and arithmetic/logic unit, and a control unit. This type of architecture is named Von Neumann architecture after the mathematician who conceived of the design.

GOOGLED: Von Neumann Architecture – GOOGLED-IMAGEs:  Von Neumann Architecture *Visit – Wikipedia >>> – Von Neumann <<< *

newbie area bt3

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

Got to laugh a this little exchange -

Forum:  newbie – asks “Hurry Please” -

THE RESPONSE; And dont come here asking people to “hurry please” for you
Now one cares if you are in a hurry because if you are then go read about what you want to do and then do it your self.
Your emergency is not our problem !