Category Archives: Computers
Era of the Mega, Giga and Tera
In the 80′s we had megahertz speed processors, megabyte sized disks, and kilobit speed wans with megabit lans. In the 90′s we still had megahertz processors, but gigabyte sized disks, megabit wans and 100 megabit lans. wireless was megabit. Here … Continue reading
VIM rc file stuff
To be honest, I prefer a good GUI IDE for development projects. MSVC 6 with Visual Assist X rocks for C++. For the Rails development I do on my windows laptop, however, I just use a combination of Scite, standard … Continue reading
Hip Tip for Windows
When you want to get rid of a lot of startup crap that gets installed on a computer, just do: start msconfig It gives you a gui to change all the settings.
Essential Software
I just got a new PC here at work. I decided to record all of the things I install or change on it: Firefox Less CAPS LOCK switch Google Toolbar – Firefox does this Trillian Sheldon Font Putty – via … Continue reading