Randomness

Randomness is sometimes not really that random and what really appears to be random turns out to be clockwork accurate in its design. Say a wireless network getting offline many times during day at what really at first appears to be a random behavior.On closer inspection one can often find that a glitch/bug in firmware …

SocialSpark reviewed

This is one of my very few non technology/non Windows related posts but here it goes anyway. This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of IZEA. All opinions are 100% mine. Having a blog serves as a creative outlet to express views,blog about subjects that you specialize in and overall reach to …

General approach to installing computer devices

Every Windows component has an associated software that makes it work and helps leverage its full functionality.Typical installation of components once the hardware is put in the machine is done by installing drivers to make the component work.Hence driver access is an integral part of any installation. Same goes for troubleshooting individual components – say …

How to configure Windows Vista as ssh server – part 2

>Part II : Configuring ssh as a service on Vista In the previous part,we installed Cygwin with openssh package on Vista machine. Let us now get into the more fun part – configuring the service. To configure openssh,launch Cygwin with administrator privileges (Right Click on icon and select “Run as administrator“). The command prompt of Cygwin …

CCleaner – A brief review

Some of the best things in life are free. CCleaner is one of them. As Windows users,we find our machines getting slower and unresponsive even if there are antivirus apps which are updated and firewall secured. One very basic reason for this is temporary files which over a period of time grow and make the …

How to put Windows kernel in RAM

A kernel is the core of any operating system,its something similar to a brain that can make decisions for the OS. Wouldn’t it be great if kernel performance can be optimised like making it make really fast decisions and make the applications launch faster and all other XP nirvana? There is a registry hack that …

Ping pong

I am being very irregular in my blog posts here.Travel and other activities like soul searching are taking most of my time. Recently I bought a book called The Power Of Now by Eckhart Tolle which dwells on topics of spiritualism and soul searching.Good read and the author writes in a question answer format about …

Think on all levels

Assumption is a dangerous thing..especially in the world of systems administration. As I write this,I still laugh at myself because I was troubleshooting a box only on one level till it finally kicked in on what to see at all levels. Basically,long story short-box was a linux server and it was a Windows environment pre-dominantly(essential …