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Omen At Chicxulub
65 million years ago, the Chicxulub meteor crashed into the sea near the Yucatan Peninsula, ending the reign of the dinosaurs and the lives of most of the species then living on Earth. Fossil types change so radically that the impact marks the end of that period of Earth history called the Cretaceous and the [...]
Decrease The Timeout Value For Non-Responsive Applications (XP)
When you shut down XP, it attempts to end all tasks that are currently running. If a task does not respond nor shuts down, XP will wait a specific amount of time before forcing the task to end. This time frame is referred to as the timeout. If you do not want XP to wait [...]
List Of Office 2007 Blogs
The Office 12 system release has been formally named “Office 2007″ by Microsoft. I’m running Beta 1 software and it’s quite interesting and looks like some great changes. The new Outlook is terrific in design. I can’t say anything (per NDA) on the server side of things, but prepare to be wowed. Anyhow, here is [...]
Your Dog Can Be A Star
A few months ago, an industry mentor (Marc Andreessen) launched a company named Ning. Its mission: to be anything. Rather, to be a platform upon which you could do stuff that you normally can’t do on your own. I didn’t pay much attention to it until today, when I came up with an idea that [...]
HDClone Free Edition v3.1.8
HDClone Free Edition enables you to move the content from an entire hard drive to another, larger one. The program installs itself on a bootable floppy or CD, and includes its own operating system, so it runs completely independent from Windows. Once HDClone has created the bootable floppy or CD for you, you can use [...]
2ndSite
You don’t have to be an expert to know that there are a lot of things involved in running a business, especially if you’re managing most of it by yourself. The laundry list of tasks in exceedingly long, and your day-to-day schedule is sure to be packed with a wide variety of stuff to accomplish. [...]
Internet Predators
Janice writes: I saw the Dateline NBC news story on Internet Predators and I am sufficiently concerned about the Internet in my house. What can I do to protect my children? For any parent that did not see the Dateline NBC special To Catch A Predator III, I would highly recommend a visit to the [...]
Cool Video Of The Week
Without a doubt, this cogent exposition from scientists at JPL outlining a vision for the future of Mars Exploration is the Cool Video of the Week: with a new polar lander and life seeking rovers in the pipeline, and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arriving on March 10, the invasion of outer cyberspace is sure to [...]
Manage Removable Media To Reduce Boot Delays (XP)
Removable media such as memory cards and removable disks can create boot delays, thereby increasing the amount of time it takes your computer to startup. Once you install XP, the problem apparently goes away. However, it is still good practice to remove CDs from the CD drives, memory cards, and so on from the computer [...]
If I Had to Do It All Over Again…
I reflect on the one thing I would have done differently, and why I think it matters. Listen to the podcast: If I Had to Do It All Over Again… I sometimes wonder at how I got here. Not in the biological sense, I mean the long strange trip that ended up here… with Web [...]
