Chasing Daydreams

RegEdit and Task Manager are two useful Windows tools for managing your computer. RegEdit allows you to edit the Windows registry, a global configuration setting repository. Task Manager, on the other hand, allows you to start and stop applications and processes among others. What’s one use for these tools? Malware cleanup. Typically viruses, worms, and [...]

One big cause for your computer getting infected by viruses, worms, and other malware would be Window’s autorun “feature”. Plug in a hard disk, optical disk, memory card, etc and autorun launches and runs a program. Guess what that program usually is? Yup, malware. So one of the easiest ways to protect your computer is [...]

My brothers are out of town but that won’t stop us from playing DOTA :P This morning, we played against each other as if we were on the same network. Well, not really since there was a slight latency delay due to the generally poor quality (and expensive at that!) of Internet connection in this [...]

Foxit Reader is a leaner and meaner alternative to Acrobat Reader for reading Portable Document Format (PDF) files. I’ve been using it for some time but disliked the fact that PDF files opened outside of Firefox. Finally, while trying to view my credit card statement online and having it complain about needing to install Acrobat [...]

I tried my hands on JSF last Friday. It didn’t go as smoothly as I expected. Being the bleeding edge kind of person :P I set it up using Tomcat 6 and a quick start package from Exadel. The package already has all the jar files you need and you only need to type in [...]

Google has released the beta of Chrome, their own browser. Chrome joins the ongoing free-for-all browser war between Firefox (my personal favorite), Internet Explorer (the current leader by virtue of its being pre-installed along with windows), Opera, and some other smaller players. Looks like this is going to be a pretty exciting next few months. [...]

I encountered a vexing problem right about the time I got my Nokia 5310. My Thinkpad T60 won’t write to the phone when connected as a storage device. I thought it was a phone problem and I asked Nokia Support for help but as expected, they weren’t really able to help. Meanwhile, I was stuck [...]

I’ve been using the betas and the release candidates of Firefox 3 for some time. But now the final is out! I, of course, am already using it. Based on my experience using the betas, RCs, and now the final, it’s definitely a huge improvement over Firefox 2. My biggest irritation with Firefox 2 has [...]

I’ve been meaning to upgrade to WordPress 2.5 since it came out way back end of March but I was always either busy or lazy. But I finally did tonight while waiting for the time. But of course, I still just took the 5-minute upgrade procedure. As you can see, it worked :P So what’s [...]

I get to the office expecting to see the output of a program we left running on my laptop through the weekend only to find out that that Windows Automatic (but stupid) Update has initiated a reboot. Argh!