I thought I'd share a few tricks on the use of Gmail and Google. This is no secret but for the benefit of those who don't know them yet, here goes.
Gmail. Did you know that the average individual would spend around 47 minutes a day checking emails? While if you are at work it would consume about 2 hours to sift through and read business related emails...
FAQ: Change NIC Speed in AIX
"There’s No Such Thing As A Silly Question" -- does the cliche sound familiar? In this part of pimp-my-rig reloaded, technical questions are answered. Mail them to me and I will post the answers here. If you have a better answer, by all means share it with us.
Experience in administering a Solaris Unix box made me think changing the speed of a network...
ARTICLE: Enable AHCI Technology in Windows
At its onset, SATA technology promised a lot of improvements. It was considered the mainstream hard drive's best thing since sliced bread. Speed being one of its many promises along with hot swapping and native command queuing. And now, AHCI (short for Advanced Host Controller...
TWEAK: English as Default Google Search Language
Nowadays it is unusual to encounter folks who don't know google. Google has branded itself with search engines that browsers come with google as the default out-of-the-box search engine. More often that not, the term search is replaced by "google".
However, google's top-secret...
ARTICLE: Unified Windows 7 Installer for x64 and x86
As processor technology continues to progress, the inverse is true x86 (or 32-bit) version of Windows -- the need for it has regressed. But for some, the 32-bit Windows still is has its uses. Netbooks will probably put it to good use for quite some time in the foreseeable future,...
TWEAK: Take Ownership Context Menu
Working as a system administrator, I have had several experiences and encounters wherein I tried to reason out that functionality takes precedence over security. Often times this is a futile campaign. You will only end up having to resort to painful workarounds. It is true, the IT industry has generally come to terms that security is serious and functionality...
HOW-TO: Windows 7 on DELL D630 -- BlueTooth Woes
As previously mentioned in my post ReadyBoost with PCMCIA Adapter and Compact Flash, I did an upgrade on my DELL Latitude D630 to the latest (and greatest?) Windows 7 x64.
The upgrade went quite well and although the DELL website doesn't certify the D630 for Windows 7, I upgraded...
HOW-TO: ReadyBoost with PCMCIA Adapter + Compact Flash
I recently upgraded my relatively aging but still healthy Dell Latitude D630 notebook to Windows 7 (yeah, I jumped into the bandwagon but it's about time). And seeing that there is already a Service Pack 1 (SP1) out, this made sense to me. During the Windows XP era, it wasn't...
