For a long time the easiest thing you could do in order to speed up your system was to disable recording of last access time on NTFS. Since time was updated on every directory listing, performance gains (especially on laptops) were great.
It seems that someone at Microsoft also saw how useless last access time information is and decided to disable it by default. Let just hope that it stays that way.
While ago I applied for beta of Hohm. Site looked like nice utility. You would (I assume) put list of your home appliances and site would calculate how much electricity you are using.
However, it seems that people from Croatia are not worthy of those calculations since to sign up you need valid postal code. Although it is not written clearly anywhere it became clear to me that Croatian postal code is no-no.
Maybe there is valid reason why only U.S.A. is supported by this web site. Maybe it is political decision - I am fine with this also. What I am not fine with is Microsoft sending me “sign up today” message while it has Croatia in my profile. Is it so hard to filter your non-U.S.A. customers and not send them an invitation?
I accidentally stumbled across this wallet and I liked the idea. I didn’t care about Tyvek nor did I cared how thin it was. I fell in love with number π (pi) on Dot matrix printer style paper.
I shared my excitement with wife and she immediately noticed that you don’t have pocket for coins. Disappointed with this, I decided not to buy it. That decision didn’t last too long since I did order it next day.
I have wallet for more than a month now and I cannot say that it is most practical wallet I had. I keep my coins floating freely in my pants (no pocket for coins), least used cards are hard to extract from wallet (only two compartments) and my driver’s license cannot fit.
However, every time I take it out and I see those numbers, I do not care. This is ultimate wallet that programmer can have.
[2009-07-11 For those who are wondering, fifty (50) Euros is biggest denomination that still fits inside of wallet] [2022-03-03 Newer version of this wallet has holes painted instead of punched]
After really long time, new version of MagiWOL is out.
Area of expertise for this program is waking computers via Wake-On-LAN messages. All standard features in that kind of program are present here also. Additionally there is total reconfigurability of broadcast address (per device - necessary for older equipment) and ability to wake computers protected with Secure-On password.
Notable changes for this version include:
You can download it here now. At later time, you will be able to find it also at my home page.
P.S. Although interface looks simple, for those who wish to access full power of program there is menu hidden behind press of Alt key (or configurable to be always visible via Options).
I like Microsoft’s localization efforts. Although I do use English version of Windows, setting my local to Croatia makes things much easier. There is something just natural about being able to use your number format, currency or even month names.
However, sometime efforts just go too far. If you are going to include day names in sentence style, do not include it in user’s local (“e.g. every nedjelja”). Do it in OS’ local (e.g. every Sunday). It doesn’t look natural if different languages are mixed together.