After a long period of procrastination, I have decided to replace the old dead PC with a Linux box. This was mainly driven by the fact price of RAM is falling and 32bit Windows can only support 3Gb of RAM.…
3 things that made me smile
3 things that made me smile. 1. Got the technical spec off my chest. 2. Managed the Sharepoint migration now, instead of doing. 3. Showed another way to control data loss.
How wide is it?
I was tooling around Microsoft SQL server in preparation for a 64 bit migration when I came across this interesting command. xp_msver It returned the following for my Intel box. 1 ProductName NULL Microsoft SQL Server 2 ProductVersion 589824 9.00.4035.00…
Earthquake caused Tsunami in Japan
An earthquake off the coast of Japan caused a tsunami. The Tohoku 8.9 earthquake near the east coast of Honshu, Japan triggered a 10m high tsunami causing massive flooding at coast and Sendai Airport. The earthquake disrupted the cooling for…
Tablet / Smart phone CPU
The processor used in smart phones used to be some low end, cheapest CPU core the handset manufacturer can squeeze into the BOM. Nowadays you get 1GHz class CPU in phones and tablets with nearly as much horsepower was a…
Internet Explorer 6.0
This is for the viewers that made a cumulated total of 6000 views. Please stop using Internet Explorer 6.0.
New OS, new way of installing hotfixes
There is a new file format called msu or Microsoft Update Standalone package. These are hotfixes meant for Vista and new OS. It is also used for the installation of Vista OS, but I have not tried digging to that…
iPad 2 is launched.
Riding on the success of the iPhone, iPod and iPad, Apple release a new version of iPad on 2 Mar 11. The first iPad was launched in Jan 2010. It features, dual core 1GHz CPU, front and back cameras and…
Windows 7 printing to a remote printer
If you are using a Windows 7 computer and trying to connect to a remote printer, there is a good chance that you have encountered a mysterious: “Windows cannot connect to printer”. A good example is a user using Windows…
In Conversation 5
“Mama who is Obama?” my daughter, “Obama is the President of United States” my wife said. “Oh, you mean President of United States of Africa?” my daughter asked. The parents erupt into laughter. She still got a long way to…