My boss came to me yesterday with her notebook and said “My notebook has been really slow for the last week or so. Can you please fix it?”
Of course I can! I started by turning on her notebook and noticed that it started up very slowly. Then, after logging in, I noticed that there was constant hard drive activity, even when the notebook was left idle for 30 minutes.
I ran msconfig and noticed that there were several stupid and unnecessary “services” configured to startup automatically at boot time. For example: …Continue reading » Norton GoBack…To the Stone Age
Don’t you hate it when you install a security patch with Windows Automatic Updates and afterward Windows keeps nagging you to restart? Here’s what the nag dialog box says:
Updating your computer is almost complete. You must restart your computer for the updates to take effect. Do you want to restart your computer now?
…Continue reading » Windows Automatic Updates – Stop Nagging Me, Biatch!
I installed Tinyproxy 1.6.3 on my LinkSys WRT54GS router today. Following are some installation notes and comments about Tinyproxy.
My router currently runs the White Russian RC5 release of the OpenWrt Linux distribution. Tinyproxy is not yet an officially supported OpenWrt package. Rather, it is part of the “backports” package repository. To install Tinyproxy, I first had to add the backports repository to my repository list by adding the following line to my /etc/ipkg.conf file: …Continue reading » Tinyproxy on WRT54GS
