Archive for July, 2009

Useless facts found when upgrading the PC

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

* Superstitions: You don’t get the Number of the Beast (666) when messing around with the clock frequencies in the PC. Neither in the FSB, nor in the memories or the CPU. Begone evil thing!

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Null device R.I.P.

Monday, July 13th, 2009

Yes, like in the Unix world, in windows you do have a device similar to /dev/null, with the same purpose.

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VPN, RDP, file sharing failure on Vista.

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

If you are on Vista (any Service Pack or version) and:

  • The network connection fails, particularly behind a VPN.
  • Mail clients may slowly respond or even crash.
  • Remote access like rdp, ssh, xwindows clients, may  respond slowly and loose the connections.
  • Any low latency protocol may experience a poor network performance.

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