Technical Support
- Servers
- Dell R610 Documentation (Avaya voice systems)
- IBM x3550 M2 Support Page (Avaya S8800)
- HP ProLiant ML350 G5 Server – 4U Tower
- HP ProLiant DL320 G2 Server series – 1U
- HP ProLiant DL360 G5 Server series – 1U
Intel 5000P chipset - HP ProLiant DL380 G5 Server series – 1U
Intel 5000P chipset - HP ProLiant DL385 G5 Server series Overview
- HP ProLiant DL380 G7 Server Overview
- Dell PowerEdge T100 – Tower 4U
- HP ProLiant ML110 G4 Server series – Tower 4U
- HP SmartStart 7.90 Release Notes
- Servers (Info)
- Workstations / Notebooks
Notebook
- Centralfield Pricing
- Toshiba R830
$7500, i5-2410 2.3Ghz-2.9Ghz/i5-2435(AES) 2.4Ghz-3.0Ghz, 1.4kg, long battery time, 13.3″, DVD-Writer, USB 3.0 - Toshiba R835 Review
- Similar as R830 with newer
- Good features but still weak display, very hot CPU
- Reference
- Mobility X1900 (3DM05 7117)
- Core i5-2410M (2.3-2.9G), 35w TDP w/chipset
- Celeron SU2300 (1.2G), 10w TDP + 15w TDP chipset
- CES 2012 (Jan 10-13, 2012)
- ThinkPad X230
- SONY Ultrabook
- Ivy Bridge Core i5-3320M (2.6G-3.3G), 35w TDP, 2012-03
- Acer AOD722 (2012-05-07, HK$2580, Black, C-50/2G/500G)
- Lenovo X220
- Lenovo ThinkPad X220 Battery Life, Heat and Noise
8 hours battery life (similar as hp mini 1103) - Lenovo Thinkpad X220: The Bastard Hero of the Windows Ultrabooks
- Lenovo ThinkPad X220 Battery Life, Heat and Noise
| Model | Price | Spec |
|---|---|---|
| Lenovo E420s | $9288 ($6798 Student) |
14″ 1366×768, 1.88kg, Core i5-2410M (2.3-2.9G), 4G RAM, 320G 7200RPM, AMD HD6630M 2G (3DM05 12511), Win7 Home Premium 64bit, battery integrated (6h), 3 yrs, USB 2.0, DVD writer integrated |
| Lenovo V370 | $6788 ($4748 Student) |
13.3″ 1366×768, 1.72kg, Core i3-2330M (2.2G), 4G RAM, 500G 5400RPM, nVIDIA GF410M 1G (3DM05 7578), Win7 Home Premium 64bit, 6-cell, 3 yrs |
| Lenovo V370 | $6498 | 13.3″ 1366×768, 1.78kg, Core i5-2410M (2.3-2.9G), 4G RAM, 500G 7200RPM, nVIDIA 1G, Win7 Home Premium 64bit, 6-cell, 1 yr |
| Lenovo V370 | $5980 | 13.3″ 1366×768, 1.78kg, Core i5-2410M (2.3-2.9G), 4G RAM, 750G 5400RPM, HD3000, Win7 Home Premium 64bit, 6-cell, 1 yr |
| Lenovo X220 | $8998 ($6348 Student) |
12.5″ HD 1366×768 Anti-Glare, 1.5kg, Core i5-2410M (2.3-2.9G), 4G RAM, 320G 7200RPM, HD3000 (3DM05 6431), Win7 Home Premium 64bit, 6-cell, 3 yrs, USB 2.0 |
| Lenovo E220s | $8798 ($6698 Student) |
12.5″ HD 1366×768, 1.46kg, Core i5-2467M (1.6-2.3G), 4G RAM max, 320G 7200RPM, HD3000, Win7 Home Premium 64bit, 8-cell, 3 yrs |
| HP Elitebook 2560p | $9880 ($6480 Student) |
12.5″ HD 1366×768, 1.75kg, Core i5-2410M (2.3-2.9G), 4G+4G RAM, 500G 7200RPM, HD3000, Win7 Home Premium 64bit, 6-cell, 3 yrs, USB 2.0, DVD writer inside |
| SONY VAIO SB36 | $7980 ($5960 Student? SB25) |
13.3″ 1366×768 Glossy, 1.72kg, Core i5-2430M (2.4-3.0G), 4G RAM onboard, 500G 5400RPM, AMD HD6470M 512M (3DM05 8031),Win7 Home Premium 64bit, battery inside (4540mAh/6h), 1 yr, USB 2.0+3.0, DVD writer inside, backlit keyboard |
| Fujitsu SH561 | $11,xxx ($6898 Student) |
13.3″ 1366×768 Glossy, 1.8kg, Core i5-2410M (2.3-2.9G), 4G RAM, 640G 7200RPM, nVIDIA GT520M 1G (3DM05 9069), Win7 Home Premium 64bit, 6-cell, ? yr, USB 2.0, DVD writer inside |
| MSI U200 (reference) | $3400 (2009-11) | 11.6″ 1366×768 Glossy, 1.5kg, Celeron SU2300 (1.2G), 2G+2G RAM, 320G 5400RPM, GMA4500MHD (3DM05 1224), DOS, 6-cell 5h, 1 yr, USB 2.0 |
| Core i5-2500 | HD2000 (3DM05 5802) |
NetBooks
| Model | Price | Spec |
|---|---|---|
| ASUS EeePC 1215B | $4088 (國美, 永亨信用卡優惠$3688) |
AMD E350 1.6G, 4G DDR3, 500G, 6 cell 12.1″, 1.45kg, USB 3.0 x 1 Win7 HP 64bit |
| Lenovo S205 (USA) | $3580 (2011-06-02 Golden) |
AMD E-350 1.6G, 4G DDR3, 500G, 6 cell 11.6″, 1.47kg Win 7 HP 64bit Office 2010 Starter Edition (Word + Excel) |
| SONY VPCYB16KG (Pink only) |
$4480 official | AMD E-350 1.6G, 2G DDR3, 320G, 6 cell 11.6″, 1.46kgWin7 HP 32bit |
Netbook Runtime
| CPU | Info / runtime | Source |
|---|---|---|
| AMD E-350 1.6G 2c | 4h 06m min 3h 22m (Fujitsu PH521: 4h 52m) |
e-Zone 2011-06-09 |
| Core i3 380UM 1.33Ghz | 4h 06m min 3h 29m |
e-Zone 2011-06-09 |
| Pentium SU2700 1c | 6h 21m | e-Zone 2011-06-09 |
| i5-2400 3.1-3.4Ghz 4c ($1519) | Faster than AMD 50% same clock | |
| i5-2500 3.3-3.7Ghz 4c ($1649) | ||
| i5-2557M 1.7-2.7Ghz 2c (US$250 / HK$1950) 17w TDP | Sandy Bridge ULV | |
| Celeron 847 1.1Ghz 2c (US$134 / HK$1045.2) 17w TDP | Sandy Bridge ULV |
- Wikipedia: Comparison of netbooks
- NetbookChoice.com (obsolete)
- UMPC Fever Website
- MSI U100 review
6 cell batteries last ~5.5h with light WiFi usage - MSI U100 with 160G HDD
6 cell batteries, ~1.3kg - Atom Z520 has performance problem?
- MSI Wind U123 benchmark
Battery life better than ASUS EeePC? - Intel’s Laminar Wall Jet Engine cooling method demo, also used in Acer’s Timeline 1810T
- Steps to DR restore Windows 2000 Server with build-in tools
- Backup with NT backup, ERUNT
- Install Windows 2000 Server with Storage drivers
- Boot into Windows PE / another IDE harddisk with drivers
- Restore from BKF (run ntbackup.exe from the C:)
- * Copy backup data into DVD or copy to a local harddisk, Windows 2000 may not able to detect USB drive in safe mode
- Restore registry from ERUNT (if has AD, system will unable to normal bootup yet)
- Re-config the Network Card’s IP address if the NIC is changed
- Boot into Windows 2000 Server in Safe Mode/Directory Restore Mode, restore the System State from BKF
- Check Event log for any missing
- Create a Super Floppy USB Key
Boot into Linux, and format the USB key with: mkdosfs -I /dev/sda - Windows Server 2003 ASR backup without a floppy drive
Solution: Perform an ASR backup on the computer without the floppy drive. Copy the asr.sif and asrpnp.sif files located in the %systemroot%\repair directory to another computer with a floppy drive, then copy those files onto a floppy disk.
For Windows 2000, ASR will stop if no floppy present - Auto ESR backup at Windows 2000 without a floppy
Require rdisk.exe from Windows NT 4.0 - SAVCE Virus Definition
- Web Trend Map 2007 Version 2.0
- Mike’s Hardware Roadmap 2006 Q3
- Microsoft Evaluations download
- Intel Integrated Chipset comparison
- Li-Ion battery
5% discharge rate per month
keep it cool
at 0 degree C, 40% charge, 2% capacity lost per year (keep at refrigerator)
at 25 degree C, 40% charge, 4% capacity lost per year
at 25 degree C, 100% charge, 20% capacity lost per year
at 40 degree C, 100% charge, 35% capacity lost per year
Printers
- Bad printers
- Epson M1400 (Very easy to get paper jam!)
-
S050651, 2200 print, $425 (OEM $260)
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S050652, 1000 print, $265 (OEM)
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- Fuji Xerox P205b (same OEM as Epson M1400)
- Officeworks review
-
CT201610, 2200 print, (OEM $195)
- Epson M1400 (Very easy to get paper jam!)
- Brother HL-2240D (Auto Duplex print, 3 yrs warranty, ~$650-699)
- Amazon review
- zol.com.cn review
- price.com.hk pricing
- brotherprinter.com.hk info (1 year onsite, 2 years carry-in warranty)
- TN-2260, 1200 print, $280
- TN-2280, 2600 print, $450 (OEM $210)
- Brother HL-2250DN (2240D with network, 3 yrs warranty?, ~$810-899)
- Brother HL-3040CN (Color, manual duplex, network, 3 yrs warranty, $1069)
- price.com.hk pricing
- TN-240BK/C/M/Y, 2000 print, $510 each, (OEM $280)
- Fuji Xerox DocuPrint CP105b S-LED Printer ($1350-$1380, or $1488 with $200 coupon, Toner $455 K or $498 C/M/Y)
- Fuji Xerox 203A (Good quality, used 3 years, Toner $450, 代用 $250)
- 代用/原廠Toner sellers
- Older
- HP LaserJet 8150 series
- HP LaserJet Printers – Managing the Toner Cartridge
- HP DeskJet 450 mobile printer
- HP PSC 750
- hp color LaserJet 4500 printer series
- CIPA PictBridge Digital Camera direct to printer standard
Display
- DisplayLink
- Wikipedia: DisplayLink
- DisplayLink official FAQ
- DisplayLink DL-195 vs DL-165 – What’s The Difference? (Only resolution difference, performance should be same)
RAM
- DDR3-1600 CL11 vs DDR3-1333 CL9, real-world 1% difference only in Ivy Bridge CPU
- Wikipedia: DIMM
- DDR3 pin-out
- DDR2 Unbuf (UDIMM): left 64pin, right 56pin (240pin)
e.g. Kingston KVR800D2N6/2G – 2G, 4G ($860) - DDR2 Unbuf ECC (UDIMM ECC): left 64pin, right 56pin (240pin)
e.g. Samsung M391T6553CZ3-CE6 – 512M - DDR2 Registered ECC (RDIMM): left 64pin, right 56pin (240pin)
e.g. Micron MT18HTF25672(P) – 2G - DDR2 Fully Buffered DIMM (FBDIMM): left 68pin, right 52pin (240pin)
e.g. Kingston KVR800D2D4F5/4G – 4G ($995) - DDR3 Unbuf (UDIMM): left 48pin, right 72pin (240pin)
e.g. Kingston KVR1333D3N9/4G – 4G ($525) - DDR3 Unbuf ECC (UDIMM ECC):
e.g. Kingston KVR1333D3E9S/4G – 4G ($788) - DDR3 Registered ECC (RDIMM):
e.g. Kingston KVR1333D3D4R9S/4G – 4G ($1180) - DDR3 Fully Buffered DIMM (FBDIMM) – Not exist
- DDR2 Unbuf (UDIMM): left 64pin, right 56pin (240pin)
- EggXpert: Memory Channel & Gang Modes (recommend unganged mode for multi-core multi-task environment)
x86 CPU Detail Specs
Intel CPU
- Intel Processor features lookup
- Haswell (4th Generation Core CPU)
- tomshardware: Core i7-4770K: Haswell’s Performance, Previewed
- Early Haswell sample at 3.5Ghz, compare i7-3770K, i7-2700K
- SSE 4.2, 10% > IvyBridge, 13% > SandyBridge
- Integer (AVX2), 77% > IvyBridge (AVX) 83% > SandyBridge
- Memory bandwidth still need tuning, 15% < IvyBridge
- L1 cache bandwidth, 83% > IvyBridge, 90% > SandyBridge
- Photoshop CS6 OpenCL, 8% > IvyBridge, 76% > SandyBridge
- mp3 compress (general CPU), 3% > IvyBridge, 5% > SandyBridge
- Blender 3D Rendering, 7% > IvyBridge, 14% > SandyBridge
- VisualStudio compiling, 13% > IvyBridge, 18% > SandyBridge
- Handbreak video conversion, 8% > IvyBridge, 18% > SandyBridge
- DiRT medium quality 1920×1080, HD4600 30.45, HD4000 24.07, HD3000 21.87, AMD A10-5800K 3.8Ghz 35.8
- DiRT medium quality 1366×768, HD4600 50.95, HD4000 33.62, HD3000 33.10
- Skyrim Low-quality 1920×1080, HD4600 37.6, HD4000 31.08 (>20%), HD3000 22.12 (>40%), AMD A10-5800K 3.8Ghz 45
- Skyrim Low-quality 1366×768, HD4600 62.08, HD4000 48.52 (>28%), HD3000 36.56 (>70%)
- tomshardware: Core i7-4770K: Haswell’s Performance, Previewed
- Wikipedia: Core i5 processors
- Mobile
- Core i5-470UM: 1.33-1.86Ghz, Arrandale, HT/VT-x, 18w TDP, OEM price
- Core i5-560UM: 1.33-2.13Ghz, Arrandale, HT/VT-x/VT-d/AES, 18w TDP, USD250
- Core i5-2537M: 1.4-2.3Ghz, Sandy Bridge, HT/VT-x/VT-d/AES, 17w TDP, USD250
- Mobile
- Core 2 Solo
SU3500 1.4G, 5.5w TDP, GS45 20w TDP - Core 2 Duo L7500
- Pentium Dual-Core E6300 (2.8G/2M/1066Mhz/VT support)
- Celeron SU2300
1.2Ghz/1M, 10w TDP, VT/EIST support, US$134 - Intel Atom Processor
Z520/Z530 (2w TDP/HT/VT support), 945GSE 6w TDP, US15W 2.3w TDP, - Intel Celeron M Processor
Celeron M 723 1.2G 10w TDP, Without Enhanced Intel Speedstep Technology (EIST) to save energy! - Intel Xeon Processor
- Intel Chipsets
- Wikipedia: List of Intel GMA chipsets
- List of new Intel Mobile CPU in 2009-09 onward
- China website list of new Intel CULV CPU in 2009-2010
- SU2300 target release around 27 Sep, 2009
- Lenovo ThinkPad X201i
Core i3 330M, 2.13Ghz, 35w TDP, 4 cell battery, 1.42kg, around 2 to 2.5 hours - Apple MacBook Air
- Apple MacBook Air testing
Core 2 Duo 1.86-2.13Ghz, 13.3″ 1280×800, 45wh battery, 1.36kg, claim 5 hours (around 4 hours wireless web browsing)
Intel Chipset specs
AMD CPU Specs
- AMD E-350
- mobile01: [續航力 & 耗電測試]第二代小筆電的戰爭!!AMD APU-E350 VS Intel I3-380um Part2 (avg 5-6 hours for E-350, better than i3-380UM)
- AMD CPUs
- AMD Nile platform (2010)
V105, 1.2Ghz/512k, 64bit FPU, 1000HT, 9w TDP
Athlon II K125, 1.7Ghz/1M, 64bit FPU, 1000HT, 12w TDP
Athlon II K325, 1.3Ghz/1Mx2, 64bit FPU, 1000HT, 15w TDP
Turion II K625, 1.5Ghz/1Mx2, 128bit FPU, 1600HT, 15w TDP
Turion II K665, 1.7Ghz/1Mx2, 128bit FPU, 1600HT, 15w TDP - AMD C-50 1.0Ghz (Atom Killer)
- AMD C-50 vs Atom N550 1080p YouTube Playback Power Consumption Test (power & battery better than Atom N550 1.6Ghz)
- X2 550 Temperature
3.1Ghz w/Coolermaster CPU Fan, IDLE: 34 degree, Max: 40 degree
3.6Ghz w/Coolermaster CPU Fan, IDLE: 41 degree, Max: ? degree - Xbit Labs – Phenom II 550 vs Athlon II 250
- icrontic.com – Phenom II 550 & Athlon II 250 Review
- Overclock 550 and 250
- 550 and X2 250 at WinRAR test
- Neo 1.6Ghz CPU for netbook
15w TDP, Single Core CPU only - HP adds dual-core AMD Neo option for Pavilion dv2z
AMD Neo L335 1.6Ghz, 18w TDP. Neo MV-40 1.6Ghz, 15w TDP - HP dv2-1124AX / dv2-1125AX benchmark
AMD Neo L335, HD3410, DVD writer, 6 cell battery, 1.63kg, normal load, ~3.5 hours - Toshiba T235D battery
AMD Nile K625, HD4225, 6 cell 61Wh, 6.5 hours. Estimate actual use = 75% of CULV SU2300 ~4 hours 6 cells 56Wh
ARM CPU
- AnandTech: 2011/2012 SoC Comparison
- Qualcomm Scorpion MSM8255 (used on HTC Desire HD)
- Wikipedia: Scorpion (CPU) compare to other ARMv7 CPUs
- Has NEON 128bit code set
Troubleshooting
- JavaScript error in IE, could not see YouTube movie
Power Usage Information
- Athlon 7750 (2.7Ghz), Black Edition, 95w TDP
- Power compare
~10% more power than Bisbane core Athlon X2 on idle and full load
- Power compare
- Recent graphic cards power usage
- DDR2 RAM: 4-5w each module
- Graphics 7600GT/8600GT: System 130w-145w
- Official 80 Plus PSU List with Report
- Standard ATX PSU size:
– 150mm (W) x 86mm (H) x 140mm (D) [Standard]
– 150mm (W) x 86mm (H) x 160mm (D) [Big Fan]
– 150mm (W) x 86mm (H) x 100mm (D) [PS3 / Micro ATX?] - Everything You Need to Know About the CPU C-States Power Saving Modes
SAP
- SAP Software Downloads Catalog
- SAP Basis CommunitySAP Basis, Netweaver, ABAP, Portal, BW, Oracle, System Copy
- SAP Basis十年路 – 如何成為一位傑出的SAP Basis
Mac OS X
- OSXToy – China Mac OS X blog
- Update Snow Leopard by Hazard to 10.6.7 on VMware or VirtualBox (download link for legacy kernel is without the dln domain prefix)
- [How to Fix]- USB Mouse Stopped Working After Snow Leopard 10.6.6 Update in VMware
- Update Snow Leopard 10.6.2 Intel AMD by Hazard to 10.6.4 on VirtualBox 3.2.8 (include install instruction, also valid for VMware Workstation)
- How to Clone Mac OS X to a New Hard Drive
(Use SuperDuper)
Symantec Products
- Download Virus Definition for SAVCE/SEP
- Symantec Security Response
- Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition 8.0 Technical Support Forum
- Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition 8.0: 800-901-126 -> 1 -> 1 -> 1 (Australia Technical Support Team, Toll free)
- Symantec Ghost
- 8.0 Knowledge Base
- 7.5 Knowledge Base
- Multiple network interface cards (NIC), include VMWare clients, are not supported by Symantec Ghost 7.5, use Ghost 8.0
- Norton Antivirus for Microsoft Exchange 2.x
- Symantec AntiVirus/Filtering for Microsoft Exchange 3.x
Storage device Information
- Anandtech: The Intel SSD DC S3700: Intel’s 3rd Generation Controller Analyzed (Enterprise SSD)
100G-800G size, 1.8PB to 14.6PB write endurance - Anandtech: The Intel SSD 330 Review (60G, 120G, 180G)(3 yrs warranty)
60-180G 9.5mm Real-time data compression transfer - 263-272M/s random write (60-180G, compressible data) - 78-200M/s random write (60-180G, incompressible data) - 44-57M/s random read (60-180G) - 325-343M/s seq read (60-180G) - 354-367M/s seq write (60-180G, compressible data) - 80-220M/s seq write (60-180G, incompressible data)
- Intel SSD 520 series 120-240G 7mm, 60G-480G 9.5mm (5 yrs warranty), faster than SSD 330
- SSD TRIM command’s effect
Without this support, SSD could slow down 50% after a long use. Linux 2.6.28/Win7/Win2k8 R2 support this. - AMD 780G vs ICH9R I/O performance (2008-03)
G35’s ICH9R is 25-50% better! - Data Transfer Rates compare
- Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500G benchmark
Access: 14.2ms, Max: 133-140M/s, Avg: 107-113M/s - WD 6401AALS 640G benchmark (I tested)
Access: 12.4ms, Max: 123M/s, Avg: 100M/s - 7200RPM ATA harddisk (as of 2003-10): 50-55MB/s
- Compact Flash (CF): 2-3MB/s
- Multi Media Card (MMC): 200kB/s (2-2.5Mbps)
- Secure Digital (SD): ~800kB/s (10Mbps)
- Smart Media (SM): ~180kB/s (2Mbps)
- Memory Stick (MS): ~200kB/s (2.5Mbps)
- Disc-on-Chip (DOC): 180kB/s
- DDS2 8G DAT: 500kB/s
- DDS3 40G DAT: 3MB/s
- DAT72 72G DAT: ~3.5MB/s?
- DLT 40/80G: 6MB/s
- LTO Ultrium 2 400G: 34MB/s?
- LTO Ultrium 100/200G: 7.5MB/s
- USB 1.0: ~1.2MB/s (12Mbps)
- USB 2.0: ~48MB/s (480Mbps)
- 1x CD: 150KB/s
- 8x CD: 1200KB/s
- 12x CD: 1800KB/s
- 1x DVD: 1350KB/s
- 2.4x DVD: 3240KB/s
- 4x DVD: 5400KB/s
- 8x DVD: 10800KB/s
- Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500G benchmark
- Capacity compare
- 1x DVD = 6.7x CD
- CD, DVD Characteristic
- DVD-RW / DVD-R:
- ISO Multi-Session Format overhead: 1M (4488M, add 378M: 379M/4109M, add 91M: 471M/4018M)
- ISO Multi-Session each session’s overhead: 0M (Nero report the disc is ‘formatted’ with 1 Session only)
- 4x DVD-RW Write Speed: Start at 4x already
- 4x DVD-RW Read Speed: Start at ~3.8x, End at 8x? (8x reported by Nero InfoTool)
- Nero CD-DVD Speed see all the session
- DVD+RW / DVD+R:
- ISO Multi-Session Format overhead: 160M
- ISO Multi-Session each session’s overhead: 0M (Nero report the disc is ‘formatted’ with 1 Session only)
- ISO/UDF Multi-Session each session’s overhead: 10M
- 4x DVD+RW Write Speed: Start at 4x already
- 4x DVD+RW Read Speed: Start at ~3.8x, End at 8x? (8x reported by Nero InfoTool)
- 8x DVD+R Read Speed: Start at ~4.5x, End at ~13x (90% Full)
- Nero CD-DVD Speed seems see only the last session
- After UltraISO optimized ISO/UDF burn: Disc is formatted, no session remain, cannot write multi-session.
However, if burn the optimized ISO in Nero, can keep the DVD session open.
- DVD-RW / DVD-R:
- Interface bandwidth compare
- PCI – raw: 133MB, effective: 100MB (75%)
- Ethernet – raw: 100Mbps/12.5MB, effective: 10.5MB (84%)
- 802.11g WirelessLAN – raw: 54Mbps, effective: 27Mbps (50%)
- SATA1 – raw: 1.5Gbps/188MB, effective: 115MB? (61%?)
- SATA2 – raw: 3Gbps/375MB, effective: 230MB (61%)
- SATA3 – raw: 6Gbps/750MB, effective: 460MB? (61%?)
- USB 1.1 – raw: 12Mbps/1.5MB, effective: 0.8MB? (55%?)
- USB 2.0 – raw: 480Mbps/60MB, effective: 33MB (55%)
- USB 3.0 – raw: 5Gbps/625MB, effective: 350/400MB? (55/64%?)
- Ultra 160 SCSI – raw: 160MB, effective: 120MB (75%)
- Ultra 320 SCSI – raw: 320MB, effective: 240MB (75%)
- LCD Screen compare (Diagonal / Vertical length)
- 17″ 16:10 / 9″
- 15.4″ 16:10 / 8.1″
- 14.1″ 16:10 / 7.5″
- 13.3″ 16:10 / 7″
- 11.1″ 16:10 / 5.9″
- 19″ 4:3 / 11.4″
- 17″ 4:3 / 10.2″
- 15″ 4:3 / 9″
- 12″ 4:3 / 7.2″
- 10.4″ 4:3 / 6.2″
- Performance compare links (CPU)
- Performance compare
- VIA C7-M 1Ghz ~= Celeron-M 500Mhz (raw CPU calculation power)
- Intel Atom A110 800Mhz ~= Celeron-M 800Mhz
- Athlon low voltage 15w TDP 1.6G ~= Atom 1.6G 1.6x, total system power usage 1.1x
- Athlon X2 (Brisbane) 2.7G = C2D 2.0G (E8000), C2D 2.2G (E6000)
- Athlon X2 7000 (Kuma) 2.7G = C2D 2.4G (E8000)
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- Athlon X2 7750 (2.7Ghz) ~= C2D E7xxx same clock 0.9-0.85x
- Athlon X2 7750 benchmarks
- donaimhaber
- Tomshardware: X2 7750 vs X2 5200+
Game: +5%
General: +13%
3D render: +13%
DivX encode: +25%
AntiVirus: +18%
WinRAR/ZIP: -4%
System Power Usage: +5%
- Athlon 64 X2 3800+ (2Ghz) ~= C2D 1.6Ghz
- Athlon 64 X2 5000+ (2.6Ghz) ~= C2D 2.1Ghz
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- Socket 478 Celeron 2.0Ghz 128kB 400FSB ~= Pentium 4 1.6Ghz 512kB 800FSB (75-80% of recent Pentium 4 in general office application)
- Sampron 3100+ (1.8Ghz) ~= Pentium 4 2.3-2.6Ghz
- K6-2 400Mhz ~= P3 155Mhz EB (Video Encoding)
- K6-2 400Mhz ~= P3 195Mhz EB (WinRAR)
- K6-2 400Mhz ~= P3 148Mhz EB (MP3 Encoding)
- P3 1000Mhz EB ~= P4 750Mhz GE Prescott (DivX Encoding)
- P3 1000Mhz EB ~= P4 1560Mhz GE Prescott (WinRAR Compress)
- P3 1000Mhz EB ~= P4 1460Mhz GE Prescott (MP3 Encoding, Office Application)
P3 1Ghz = 50% of P4 2.8G - P3 1000Mhz EB ~= P4 1050Mhz GE Prescott (OpenGL)
- P3 1000Mhz EB ~= P4 1110Mhz GE Prescott (DirectX 9)
- P3 1000Mhz EB ~= P4 1170Mhz GE Prescott (DirectX 8)
- P3 1000Mhz EB ~= Celeron 1250Mhz Northwood (DivX Encoding)
- P3 1000Mhz EB ~= Celeron D 1800Mhz Prescott (WinRAR Compress)
- P3 1000Mhz EB ~= Celeron 1440Mhz Northwood (MP3 Encoding)
- Athlon XP 1800+ (1.433Ghz) ~= 150% of P3 1Ghz (Office Application), P3 & Athlon XP is clock to clock?
- Athlon 64 X2 3800+ (2Ghz) ~= 2 x P4 2.8Ghz Prescott (estimated from WinRAR compression performance) Actual should be ~25-30% better
- Pentium D 820 (2.8Ghz) ~= 2 x P4 2.6Ghz Prescott (estimated from WinRAR compression performance)
- Core 2 Duo E6600 (2.4Ghz) ~= Pentium D 960 (3.6Ghz) x 1.32 (from 3DS Max 8.0)
Core 2 Duo 4M 1.8Ghz ~= Pentium D 9xx 3.6Ghz - Core 2 Duo E6600 (2.4Ghz) ~= Pentium D 960 (3.6Ghz) x 1.33 (from WinRAR 3.6)
Core 2 Duo 4M 1.8Ghz ~= Pentium D 9xx 3.6Ghz - Core 2 Duo E6600 (2.4Ghz) ~= Pentium D 960 (3.6Ghz) x 1.33 (from WinRAR + Photoshop)
Core 2 Duo 4M 1.8Ghz ~= Pentium D 9xx 3.6Ghz - Core 2 Duo E6600 (2.4Ghz) ~= Athlon 64 X2 4800+ (2.4Ghz 1Mx2) x 1.19 (from 3DS Max 8.0)
Core 2 Duo 4M 2.0Ghz ~= Athlon 64 X2 1Mx2 2.4Ghz - Core 2 Duo E6600 (2.4Ghz) ~= Athlon 64 X2 4800+ (2.4Ghz 1Mx2) x 1.34 (from WinRAR + Photoshop)
Core 2 Duo 4M 1.8Ghz ~= Athlon 64 X2 1Mx2 2.4Ghz - Core 2 Extreme X6800 (2.93Ghz) ~= Pentium D 960 (3.6Ghz) x 1.625 (from 3DS Max 8.0)
Core 2 Extreme 1.8Ghz 4M ~= Pentium D 9xx 3.6Ghz - Core 2 Extreme X6800 (2.93Ghz) ~= Pentium D 960 (3.6Ghz) x 1.47 (from WinRAR 3.6)
Core 2 Extreme 2Ghz 4M ~= Pentium D 9xx 3.6Ghz - Core 2 Extreme X6800 (2.93Ghz) ~= Pentium D 960 (3.6Ghz) x 1.58 (from WinRAR + Photoshop)
Core 2 Extreme 1.85Ghz 4M ~= Pentium D 9xx 3.6Ghz - Celeron D 2.8Ghz ~= Pentium 4 2.8GE x 0.866 (Quake 3 OpenGL)
- Celeron D 2.8Ghz ~= Pentium 4 2.8GE x 0.84 (FarCry DirectX 9)
- Celeron D 2.8Ghz ~= Pentium 4 2.8GE x 0.95 (DivX 5.2 Encoding)
- Celeron D 2.8Ghz ~= Pentium 4 2.8GE x 0.936 (3D Studio MAX 6.0 Rendering)
- Celeron D 2.8Ghz ~= Pentium 4 2.8GE x 0.823 (Winrar 3.40 File compression)
- Sempron 3000+ 1.8Ghz 128K ~= Athlon 64 3000+ 1.8Ghz Venice x 0.930 (Quake 3 Team OpenGL)
- Sempron 3000+ 1.8Ghz 128K ~= Athlon 64 3000+ 1.8Ghz Venice x 0.880 (FarCry DirectX 9)
- Sempron 3000+ 1.8Ghz 128K ~= Athlon 64 3000+ 1.8Ghz Venice x 0.959 (DivX 6 Pro Encoding)
- Sempron 3000+ 1.8Ghz 128K ~= Athlon 64 3000+ 1.8Ghz Venice x 1.000 (3D Studio MAX 7.0 Rendering)
- Sempron 3000+ 1.8Ghz 128K ~= Athlon 64 3000+ 1.8Ghz Venice x 0.875 (Winrar 3.51 File compression)
- Sempron 3000+ 1.8Ghz 128K ~= Athlon 64 3000+ 1.8Ghz Venice x 0.937 (Multi-tasking 4 threads)
- Sempron 3100+ 1.8Ghz 256K ~= Athlon 64 3000+ 1.8Ghz Venice x 0.947 (Quake 3 Team OpenGL)
- Sempron 3100+ 1.8Ghz 256K ~= Athlon 64 3000+ 1.8Ghz Venice x 0.921 (FarCry DirectX 9)
- Sempron 3100+ 1.8Ghz 256K ~= Athlon 64 3000+ 1.8Ghz Venice x 0.961 (DivX 6 Pro Encoding)
- Sempron 3100+ 1.8Ghz 256K ~= Athlon 64 3000+ 1.8Ghz Venice x 1.011 (3D Studio MAX 7.0 Rendering)
- Sempron 3100+ 1.8Ghz 256K ~= Athlon 64 3000+ 1.8Ghz Venice x 0.937 (Winrar 3.51 File compression)
- Sempron 3100+ 1.8Ghz 256K ~= Athlon 64 3000+ 1.8Ghz Venice x 0.98 (Multi-tasking 4 threads)
- Pentium 4 630 3.0Ghz 2M HT ~= Athlon 64 3200+ 2.0Ghz 512K Venice x 1.033 (Quake 3 Team OpenGL)
- Pentium 4 630 3.0Ghz 2M HT ~= Athlon 64 3200+ 2.0Ghz 512K Venice x 0.866 (FarCry DirectX 9)
- Pentium 4 630 3.0Ghz 2M HT ~= Athlon 64 3200+ 2.0Ghz 512K Venice x 1.212 (DivX 6 Pro Encoding)
- Pentium 4 630 3.0Ghz 2M HT ~= Athlon 64 3200+ 2.0Ghz 512K Venice x 1.038 (3D Studio MAX 7.0 Rendering)
- Pentium 4 630 3.0Ghz 2M HT ~= Athlon 64 3200+ 2.0Ghz 512K Venice x 1.072 (Winrar 3.51 File compression)
- Pentium 4 630 3.0Ghz 2M HT ~= Athlon 64 3200+ 2.0Ghz 512K Venice x 0.980 (Multi-tasking 4 threads) [$1373 vs $1230, 2006-02-26)
- Atom performance
- Atom 1.6G ~= P4 1.5G
- Atom 1.6G ~= P-M 0.74G
- Performance compare (VGA)
- GF 6200 NV43V is the best of 6200 series
- GF 6600
- GF 6200 = GF 6600 function except performance
- GF 6200LE (NV44A)
- GF 6600LE > X550 > GF 6200
- GF 6600LE use NV43V, plus compression (~10% better), 0.11u, SLI support. RAM (GDDR/GDDR2/GDDR3, 64-256M, 64/128bit)
- More about GF 6200LE
- Doom 3 Demo1, 1024x768x32bit HQ, no AA
- 50.7fps, Athlon 64 4000+, GeForce 6600
- 49.2fps, AMD Sempron 2600+, GeForce 6600 (350/500)
- 37.7fps, Athlon 64 4000+, GeForce FX 5900
- 39fps, P4 3.4Ghz, GeForce 6200
- 39.7fps, AMD Sempron 2600+, GeForce 6200
- 37.4fps, Athlon 64 3000+, GeForce 6600LE
- ~33fps, Athlon 64 FX-55, Radeon X1300 (Guess)
- 22.3fps, Athlon 64 4000+, GeForce FX 5700
- Doom 3, 1024x768x32bit Unknown Setup
- Doom 3, 640x480x32bit LQ
- 17.6fps, Athlon 64 FX55, GeForce 6150 onboard
Doom 3 use 500M texture, locked at 60fps
- 17.6fps, Athlon 64 FX55, GeForce 6150 onboard
- Half Life 2, 1024x768x32bit T3 Demo MaxQ
- Performance compare (base on guaranteed crack of Microsoft Office Word document)
- Pentium 4 2.4GC – 1296000
- Athlon XP 1800+ – 1080000 (~= P4 2.0G)
- Pentium III 1Ghz Socket370 – 816000 (~= P4 1.5G)
- Pentium III 700Mhz Slot-1 – 560000
- CD-R materials
- Nan Ya Plastics Corporation
PhthaloCyanine Material
Brand: e-blue - CMC Magnetics Corporation
PhthaloCyanine Material
Brand: imation
- Nan Ya Plastics Corporation
SONY CRT Monitors manufacturing time-frame
- CPD-15SF1: 1994
- CPD-15SF2: 1995
- CPD-100SX: 1996
- CPD-200SF: 1996
- CPD-200ES: 1997
- CPD-200GS: 1997
- CPD-110GS: 1998
- CPD-210GS: 1998
- CPD-G200: 1999
- CPD-E100: 1999 (FD Trinitron?)
- CPD-E200: 1999/2000
Support
- IBM xSeries 345 Server Support
- Lenovo Thinkpad X31 Support
- BIOS: 3.02, 09/22/2005
- Keyboard removal
- nVIDIA drivers download
- SONY AP VAIO Support & Download
- SONY Documentation download
- HP Surestore DLT1
- HP Surestore DAT40
- About 19560 mbytes (20,510,000,000 bytes) capacity, Xfer: 3M/s
- HP Surestore DAT8
- Intel D865GBFL support
- Logitech keyboard iTouch driver download
- Samsung P10 notebook drivers download
- SONY VAIO notebook online support
- Sony Ericsson R380 WORLD Support (Mobile phone)
- AutoDesk Product Support
- Microsoft TechNet
- Microsoft MSDN
- Microsoft Licensing
- Microsoft Service Providers Home
- Microsoft Windows Deployment and Resource Kits
- Fujitsu Lifebook
- Netvigator Customer Support
- Netvigator Wireless Boardband Service
- Business Netvigator Customer Support
- dialup: 30018300 / 30012000 / 30019611
- AT&T Business Internet Services Help Center
- Kodak EZ200 Digital Camera Support
- Packard Bell Asia Pacific drivers download
- Intel Chipset Software
- BHA Corp (B’s Recorder Gold / B’s CLip)
- Easy Systems (Drag’n Drop CD)
- Motherboard BIOS
- Microsoft TechNet support webcasts
- Microsoft previously recorded webcasts hosted at Interwise
Technical Support (Not related to customer/work)
Dual Core Processor
- LinuxHardware.org – Battle of the High-End CPUs
Dual Core Linux desktop benchmark - (2005-06-17) Linux Database Server CPU Comparison
– Kernel 2.6.5, MySQL 4.0
Compare Intel Pentium D EE with AMD Dual Opteron Dual Core. But no Athlon 64 X2
– MySQL: Dual vs Single Opteron has 38% gain
– MySQL: DualCore vs Single Xeon w/HT 32% gain
– MySQL: Dual vs Single Xeon has 41% gain
– MySQL gcc Opteron 30% better in 64bit, while Xeon -12% worse!
– DB2 Opteron 12% better in 64bit
– Dual Core Opteron 5-10% better than real Dual CPU?
– Xeon with Hyperthreading -10% worse in performance in MySQL! - Pentium D 820 (2.8Ghz) vs Athlon 64 X2 4400+ (2.2Ghz, 1Mx2) Desktop Benchmark
- Tom’s Hardware: The Pentium D: Intel’s Dual Core Silver Bullet Previewed (Desktop Benchmark)
- Test Dualcore – Showdown Athlon 64 X2 versus Pentium D & EE 840
German, Spec CPU2000 results of Pentium D, Athlon 64 X2 - Linux Kernel 2.6 and HyperThreading (HT)
– Kernel 2.6.2, MySQL 4.0, PHP 4.3, GCC 3.3, Apache 1.3, JDK 1.4
– Static HTML Apache: P4 w/HT has 28-29% gain
– MySQL SELECT: P4 w/HT has 38-42% gain
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- Microsoft Windows XP Professional
- Standard Dual Channel IDE Controller vs other build-in controllers
Tested seems there is no performance difference. Use Standard Dual Channel IDE for better compatibility! - Most useful Keyboard Shortcuts
- Offer Remote Assistance
- 308013 – How to Use Offer Remote Assistance
- 301527 – HOW TO Configure a Computer to Receive Remote Assistance Offers in Windows XP
- If no local admin rights: permission denied
- If not enabled offer remote assistance: offer to remote assistance has been disabled
- Windows XP common STOP messages
- Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP
- Windows XP and Microsoft VM
- Download Sun’s Java VM
- Auto install Sun’s Java VM in browser
- 331519 – Network File Errors Occur After You Install Windows XP SP1
– Not solving the network access problem
– Workaround is to disconnect server share connection from Win2k Server - ROUTE command turorial with example
- Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 1 Installation and Deployment Guide
- 294801 – How to Bypass OOBE When You Perform an Unattended Installation of Windows XP
- How to Use the Cusrmgr.exe Tool to Change Administrator Account Password on Multiple Computers
- How to Set the NUM LOCK State at Logon in Windows XP (Using Group Policy)
- Some Windows XP Tweaks
- Change the Default NumLock State
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Keyboard\, InitialKeyboardIndicators (String), 0 = numlock off, 2 = numlock on
- Change the Default NumLock State
- 321379 – HOW TO: Add a “Print Directory" Feature for Folders in Windows XP
- 296861 – How to Install Multiple Windows Updates or Hotfixes with Only One Reboot
- Error 1327. Invalid Drive: (x) when installing/uninstalling a program
Getaround: Map D$ to the Drive: (x) and continue install / uninstall the program - 271965 – STOP 0x0000007B Error After Moving Windows 2000 System Disk to Another System
Fixing 0x7B error by modify the registry value of a Windows installation to change the controller driver to another one - Run a program in lower priority
cmd.exe /c start “" /low “C:\Program Files\program name\program.exe" (parameters…)
Can apply to a batch file and all programs run inside the batch file will have low priority - Audio slow tempo / cracking sound / problem
- ACPI problem
- My experience: Problem arise when single CPU use on a dual CPU motherboard, used ACPI Multiprocessor HAL. Fixed when change into the standard ACPI HAL
- AppLocale
Run CJK non-unicode program without need to switch system locale - Stop using offline files or remove offline files from non-existing file server
- In Windows Explorer: Click C:, Tools->Folder Options->Offline Files, Click Delete Files, choose the offline folders you don’t want to offline anymore and delete it
- Try this if the above still doesn’t work
Before click the delete button, hold down Shift-Ctrl. This will reinitialize the Offline Files cache and all the Offline contents will be reset.
- Remote change the local administrator/power user assignment to domain users
Just use Computer Management, connect to the workstation remotely and assign the domain user into the local groups - solution to setup could not verify the integrity of the file update.inf when update SP1
stop “Cryptographic Services"
rename %systemroot%\system32\catroot2 and %systemroot%\system32\catroot2
start “Cryptographic Services" again - Solution to DMA Reverts to PIO problem
If the ATA drive (usually CDROM/CD-RW) always in PIO mode even choosed DMA, uninstall the Secondary IDE Channel. Let Windows detect and install it again, then can run in DMA mode again! Works for me!
- Standard Dual Channel IDE Controller vs other build-in controllers
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
- Windows 2000 Server Resource Kits
- Server Documentation (Help file)
- Solution for: The Cdralw2k service failed to start
- Windows 2000 Post Installation Checklist
- IntelliMirror Tips and Tricks
Do not mix Offline Folder and DFS - Windows 2000 Fax service
- Determining Operations Masters in a Win2K Forest and Domain
dcdiag /test:knowsofroleholders /v - Windows 2000 Active Directory FSMO Roles
- How do I transfer FSMO roles using the MMC snap-in?
- How do I remove Active Directory (AD) if the demotion failed?
- Import registry in logon script sliently
regedit /s - Assign user logon scripts to user or group with Group Policy
- 287687: Terminal Services Licensing Enhancements
Included in Win2k SP3 - Analyzing Windows 2000 Memory Dumps
- 303215: Microsoft Network Security Hotfix Checker (Hfnetchk.exe) Tool Is Available
- Securing Windows 2000 Server
- 80-20 Rule of Information Security: Removing Unneeded Services, Patch Maintenance, and Enforcing Strong Passwords
- How do I restore default NTFS permissions in Windows 2000? (Same for Windows XP Professional)
- 300237: HOW TO: Be Reminded When Your Computer Resources Are Running Low in Windows 2000 Server
Basic performance monitoring in Windows 2000 - Support WebCast: Corporate Error Reporting Version 2.0
- Upgrading Windows 2000 Group Policy for Windows XP
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Hotfix Installation and Deployment Guide
- A discussion on RPC service in Windows 2000. DO NOT disable it or it will need to reinstall Windows 2000!
- 2003-12: if any disks in software RAID-1 in Windows 2000 Server has bad sectors, it could also hang the machine!
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
- Microsoft Windows 98 / Windows 95 / Windows Me
- HBSRV task use up all the system resources, lock up and hang Windows
- Uninstall hotbar program should fix the problem (I tried this for my client, it works)
- Official program to uninstall Hotbar
- Windows 95/98/Me memory 512M limitation
Windows will not work properly with more than 512M RAM, need to manual set MaxFileCache to 512M or less in System.ini
- HBSRV task use up all the system resources, lock up and hang Windows
- Pocket PC 2003
- Pocket PC 2003 SDK
Seems does not contain the Emulator, Emulator may comes with Embedded VC++ only
- Pocket PC 2003 SDK
- Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2001
- SPSFAQ
A 3rd party SharePoint Portal 2001 FAQ Website - TechNet
- Resource Kit
- SPSFAQ
- Microsoft Virtual PC 2004
- Microsoft Windows Media Technology
- Microsoft CAPICOM ActiveX Control provides a COM interface to Microsoft CryptoAPI
- Microsoft HTML Help Workshop
Create Compiled HTML (CHM) files from HTML files - Internet Explorer 6
- Edit button sometimes disabled, cannot edit the web page:
This is by design. Some dynamic website contents generated by programs are expired so cannot edit by IE. (The webmaster do not want your browser to cache the webpage) Goto edit some static HTML websites only. - IE cannot save animated GIF, only save as bmp?
Solution: 260650 – Internet Explorer Does Not Save Graphics Files in the Proper Format
IE cache maybe full, Tools->Internet Options->Delete Files, clear your cache and try again - Homepage locked for unknown reason, regedit disabled
Maybe your IE is hijacked by some ad program, probably you clicked a exe file to do this. read this article for help and
download HijackThis to fix the problem. (usually fix O5, O6 or O7 entries will fix the problem) - 834489 – A security update is available that modifies the default behavior of Internet Explorer for handling user information
Describe the recent MS04-004 Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (832894) at 2004-02-02 will disable the use of syntax: http(s)://username:password@server/resource.ext !
- Edit button sometimes disabled, cannot edit the web page:
- Outlook Express
- Set Auto-Reply in Outlook Express
Need to define Outlook Express rules, automatic download new e-mail and leave it running to do the auto-reply. - OEBackup
Free Outlook Express complete backup / restore program!
- Set Auto-Reply in Outlook Express
- Internet Explorer 5 Macintosh Edition
- README
- Remove Cache: Remove the folder – System Folder :: Preferences :: MS Internet Cache
- Adobe Photoshop
- Photoshop CS Chinese TTF font problem
Photoshop CS seems only support Unicode Chinese fonts! All old fonts cannot use!!! - Fnord’s free j2K plugin for Photoshop 5.5+ to support JPEG2000 file format
- Photoshop CS Chinese TTF font problem
- Adobe Acrobat 6
- Error loading plugin PaperMetaData.api – Plugin failed to initialize
Maybe uninstalled Acrobat 6.0.2 and reinstalled with Acrobat 6.0 only. Reinstall the Acrobat 6.0.2 update will fix the problem.
- Error loading plugin PaperMetaData.api – Plugin failed to initialize
- Adobe Illustrator
- Outline a stroke in AI8 or AI9
Select the dashed object and apply the Object>Flatten Transparency… command and check the “Convert All Strokes to Outlines" option
- Outline a stroke in AI8 or AI9
- Autodesk Volo View Express
- Fix not enough space error when install to Windows 2000 (Volo View Express build 171)
Caused by an incorrect registry entry made by Windows sysprep.
Set: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon, change “Shell" value from: Explorer.exe, to: Explorer.exe
- Fix not enough space error when install to Windows 2000 (Volo View Express build 171)
- VBScript
- DFS
- Offline Files
- Microsoft Active Directory Technology
- Microsoft Tablet PC platform
- Microsoft Windows Messenger
- XFOR: How to Configure Instant Messaging Client System Policy Settings
- Could not do voice talk with Intel motherboard build-in SoundMAX audio!
Try to turn off the QoS scheduler in TCP/IP - Microsoft’s Guide to Windows Messenger / MSN Messenger
How to login as offline to some people? Add them into Block List without let them know. - 313973 – Windows Messenger Does Not Transfer Files Correctly Over a Virtual Private Network Connection
- Windows Messenger 5.0 in Windows XP: Working With Firewalls and Network Address Translation Devices
- Microsoft FrontPage Server Extensions
- Microsoft XML Notepad
- Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition
- Microsoft Outlook error: The add-in ‘C:\Program Files\Symantec_Client_Security\Symantec AntiVirus\vpmsece.dll’ could not be installed or loaded . . .
Download the tool at the above link to fix the problem. or
1. Remove extend.dat
2. remove old SAVCE entries at: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Exchange\Client\Extensions\ - LU1814: LiveUpdate could not retrieve the update list
Perhaps the hosts file at c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts is corrupted. Edit with notepad, remove all entries except “127.0.0.1 localhost"
Better set the file for read-only for future protection - Error: “VPMSECE.DLL could not be installed or loaded…"
Simple solution, put back the DLL file to the directory. - Could not start Service Engine err=CC001000
- Virus definition file corrupted
- How to backdate the Norton AntiVirus Corporate Edition 7 virus definitions manually
- Quickfix: copy the definition folder from another healthy PC, edit definfo.dat to use that definition, restart the service
- Service disabled, Error 10 The environment is incorrect. Reboot will not fix the problem
- Try to uninstall the Symantec AntiVirus and reinstall again, usually fix the problem
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7023
Date: 3/10/2004
Time: 8:27:26 AM
User: N/A
Computer: VT-DESK
Description:
The Symantec AntiVirus Client service terminated with the following error:
The environment is incorrect.For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
- Realtime Protection failed to load
- Error: “Symantec AntiVirus Realtime Protection failed to load" after installing Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition 8
Maybe try to update the Symevent file again will fix the problem - steps to update the Symevent file again
- Error: “Symantec AntiVirus Realtime Protection failed to load" after installing Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition 8
- Microsoft Outlook error: The add-in ‘C:\Program Files\Symantec_Client_Security\Symantec AntiVirus\vpmsece.dll’ could not be installed or loaded . . .
- Symantec Ghost Corporate Edition 8.2
- Ghost 7.5: Cannot run Ghost Multicast Server on a computer with multiple NICs
No such problem in Ghost 8.0 - Ghost 8.0 CE incompatible with i865G chipset motherboard when using console virtual partition
Likely onboard NIC’s interrupt crash with the SATA controller’s interrupt - When dump to multicast server: Error: “Application Error 503. Connection timed out with Ghost code 19945″ while creating an image file
Maybe the partition it heavily fragmented, try to defrag or save the image to another partition.
- Ghost 7.5: Cannot run Ghost Multicast Server on a computer with multiple NICs
- PHP4
- phpPatterns
- Applied OO PHP: APIs, Design Patterns and Useful Objects
- Turck MMCache for PHP
free open source PHP accelerator, optimizer, encoder and dynamic content cache for PHP - eAccelerator for PHP
continue fork project of Turck MMCache, very update and runs with PHP5 - win32 binary of eAccelerator
- FC2 to FC4 RPM of eAccelerator
- DBG PHP debugger
- BIND name server
- Discussion on memory management in BIND
datasize to limit the amount of VM named is allowed to have
max-cache-ttl, by default it is 7 days, controls the maximum time a record will be cached
- Discussion on memory management in BIND
- Apache HTTP Server
- Using “Listen 10.8.88.19:80″ and comment the “Port 80″ in the config, apache can bind to a specific IP and port only
- Disable visitor caching document in apache
- bwshare
an Apache module for bandwidth throttling and fair sharing. Works for 1.3.x and 2.0.44 (or above?) - Apache mod_perl
- perl
- Modules
- Apache::VMonitor (Visual System and Apache Server Monitor)
- ExtUtils::MakeMaker
Check what constants affect installation of perl modules - ExtUtils::Install
PERL_INSTALL_ROOT affect final install path when type “make install" - Improving mod_perl Sites’ Performance: Part 4 (By make use of shared memory)
- List installed perl modules in a system
1. Install ExtUtils::Installed 2. Use this script #!/usr/local/bin/perl use ExtUtils::Installed; my $instmod = ExtUtils::Installed->new(); foreach my $module ($instmod->modules()) { my $version = $instmod->version($module) || "???"; print "$module -- $version\n"; } - suidperl: relocation error: suidperl: undefined symbol: PL_dollarzero_mutex
In the case of RedHat Linux, probably the perl package and perl-suidperl package are out of sync. Keep both to updatest version will fix the problem.
- Modules
- GNU Utilities for Win32
- RRDToolA complete replacement for MRTG, faster and more flexible
- GNU make
- How to make “make install" install to another directory
make install PREFIX=/new_dir_to_install (also affect the building script)
- How to make “make install" install to another directory
- GNU Grub
- GNU autoconf
- Modify the “root" value inside the top level “Makefile" file to change the install path when building package
- GrabIt A Free Usenet newsgroup file downloader
- Cypheus (Hylafax Windows Client)
- Spybot – Search & Destroy
Free program to remove advertising / spy software from your computer!
Also have useful utility to check your startup registry and folders
Sometimes it can fix “IEXPLORER .EXE Application Error The instruction at xxxxxxxxx referenced memory at xxxxxxxx The memory could not be read ntdll.dll error" if error is caused by some spyware - Hylafax
- wprint / WorldPrint
Filter for Mozilla / Netscape / html2ps to print international encoded html file using truetype fonts - rsync wrapper for win32
- GNU / Linux
- Recover partition table on a hard disk with gpart
- Find command examples
Find files modified less than 24 hours ago
> find . -type f -mtime 0 > /tmp/diff.txtFind files modified older than 24 hours ago
> find . -type f -mtime +0 > /tmp/diff.txtFind files modified 24-48 hours ago
> find . -type f -mtime 1 > /tmp/diff.txtFind files modified more than 48 hours ago
> find . -type f -mtime +1 > /tmp/diff.txtFind all files modified 1440 mins (24hrs) ago or after
> find . -type f -mmin -1440 > /tmp/diff.txt - Wonderful World of Linux 2.6 – Joe Pranevich
- Kernel parameter to disable DMA
ide=nodma: disable all IDE hard disks DMA - Mark badblocks for ext3fs in Linux
Do a: e2fsck -c /dev/hda1
…This option causes e2fsck to run the badblocks(8) program to find any blocks which are bad on the filesystem, and then marks them as bad by adding them to the bad block inode… - How to mirror the [RedHat] Linux root (/) partition
- Linux & PPTP
Recent Linux kernel 2.4.x should support PPTP masqurading already
2.4.22: confirmed support
2.4.17: unconfirmed support, my client seems tried - Bug in kernel 2.4.20 can cause data lost
When using ext3fs in data=journal mode, last 30s of data could lost. Workaround: flush before unmount a fs. - Disk Maintenance under Linux (Disk Recovery)
Mark bad blocks in Linux e2fs - RedHat 7.3-9.0 problem on bootable RAID-1 with Grub
- Sofware Raid and Grub HOW-TO
- Slashdot discussion on Linux RAID
- Official Adaptec AIC7xxx driver for Linux
- Memory Technology Device (MTD) Subsystem for Linux
- Only the 2003-09-01 snapshot works ok with DOC2000 on kernel 2.4.22. 2003-10-01 to 10-09 could not compile!
- Embedding Redhat Linux in a DiskOnChip – HOWTO (PDF)
1. format DOC with TrueFFS tool from M-System? Version 4.2 firmware only! 2. Create /dev/nftla* device files 3. mount the flash device root to /flash (as well as /boot and /etc, if they're seperated) 4. run "rdev /flash/boot/bzImage /dev/nftla2" to direct modify the kernel to start root from /dev/nftla2, lilo-mtd cannot help 5. Use modified lilo from the MTD utils to run lilo for DOC (e.g. mount the flash at /flash, /etc/lilo.conf at the flash's root) /etc/lilo.conf must contains: boot = /dev/nftla disk=/dev/nftla bios=0x80 run: ./lilo-mtd -r /flash -C /etc/lilo.conf
- Another information on using DOC2k w/Linux
- Either use MTD or M-System, MTD seems easier - Recent MTD seems only work with DOC firmware version 4.2
- Example on using M-System DOC with Kernel 2.4.17 MTD
Enable kernel options: MTD Support, Debugging, FTL, NTFL, NTFL write support, M-Sys DOC 2000/Millenium.
- Using DOC with Kernel 2.4
- Tips for Optimizing Linux Memory Usage
Also describes how to see Linux memory usage
- nettimer
Tool to measure bandwidth between hosts, but stopped to devel in 2002-01 - Generic TCP Proxy on Linux
- Squid HTTP Proxy
- Transparent Proxy to a remote box
Setup squid proxy:
http_port 8080
httpd_accel_host virtual
httpd_accel_port 80
httpd_accel_with_proxy on
httpd_accel_uses_host_header onRun at iptables box:
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -s ! squid-box -p tcp –dport 80 -j DNAT –to squid-box:3128
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -s local-network -d squid-box -j SNAT –to iptables-box
iptables -A FORWARD -s local-network -d squid-box -i eth0 -o eth0 -p tcp –dport 3128 -j ACCEPT - Problem on HTTPS transparent proxy
HTTPS traffics are encrypted, we can at most log the connection as “CONNECT" in squid if IE set the proxy server.
- Transparent Proxy to a remote box
- crontab
- syslog
- Explanation of Remote Syslog
Enable remote syslog, add option: -r
- Explanation of Remote Syslog
- mdadm New Linx RAID tools
- OReilly on mdadm
Create RAID-1 array: mdadm –create –verbose /dev/md0 –level=1 –raid-devices=2 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1
Save configuration: mdadm –detail –scan > /etc/mdadm.conf, then add: DEVICE /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 to top of /etc/mdadm.conf - Describe commands to create mdX devices for Linux RAID
e.g. mknod -m 660 /dev/md0 b 9 0; chown root.disk md0
- OReilly on mdadm
- Enterprise Volume Management System LVM + RAID for Linux
- SAMBA
- When using smbclient, tdb((null)): tdb_open_ex: could not open file:
Solution: something wrong in smb.conf, rename the smb.conf and try again. - Windows XP join Samba domain
- How to enable Windows XP to join the Samba Domain
Recommended local group policy settings for a Windows XP Pro to join a Samba domain - Setting Up A Samba Server with Windows XP Clients
- How to enable Windows XP to join the Samba Domain
- When using smbclient, tdb((null)): tdb_open_ex: could not open file:
- xinetd inetd replacement, can have rate control to prevent DoS!
- Sendmail MTA
- sendmail configuration options
- Limit rate of connections can use the rate limit control from inetd or xinetd (run Samba inside inetd / xinetd)
- Redirect a single domain’s e-mail to a specific server
sendmail 8.9.3 – Use mailertable:
%domain name% [smtp:%ip address%] - RedHat 8.0 sendmail 8.12.8 virtusertable behavior
After changed virtusertable, only need to use make to update the db, no need to restart sendmail - Reject deliver to unknown users when using virtusertable in sendmail 8.12
This will also reject e-mail if the from address contain an unknown user of a local domain.
Add a line to virtusertable for each domain:@domain.com error:userunknown User unknown
- SENDMAIL Bounce Problems
Discuss a list of common bounce error message send back from sendmail - Deleting mail from the mail queue
A very useful script to remove double bounce mails in sendmail, perhaps you can run it in cron regularly. - Discuss on handling Double Bounce e-mails – drop them to /dev/null!
define(`confDOUBLE_BOUNCE_ADDRESS’, `doublebounce’)dnl
alias the doublebounce to /dev/null - sendmail SMTP-AUTH-TLS Howto
- sendmail SMTP AUTH Howto
- cpan2rpm
Build perl module RPM automatically from CPAN archive! - Webalizer
- Webalizer + GeoIP library
Patched webalizer, use GeoIP to generate more accurate geographical report!
- Webalizer + GeoIP library
- awstats
An advanced web server, mail server, ftp log analyzer- Enforce single domain browsing at awstat CGI mode:
Add to Apache config: SetEnv AWSTATS_FORCE_CONFIG [domain_name.com]
- Enforce single domain browsing at awstat CGI mode:
- HTTrack Website Copier – Offline Browser
Free, GPL license offline web archive program for Windows/Linux. Can preserve CSS layout, better than commercial programs like Teleport Pro for Windows!! - Postfix MTA
- Name server error for domain.com: Host not found error:
Add correct name server entries at: /var/spool/postfix/etc/resolv.conf, not /etc/resolv.conf only! - Rebuild database db files:
/usr/sbin/postmap hash:relay_domains.lst
No need to restart server - Howto rebuild postfix aliases database
/usr/sbin/postalias hash:aliases
test with:
postmap -q [alias name] [alias file]
- Name server error for domain.com: Host not found error:
- Anteater Sendmail log file analyzer
- Example: ./anteater –aliases-file=/etc/mail/aliases –analyse-all –limit=50 –filter-file=/var/log/mail.info.0 –report-html –report-html-file=/tmp/sendmail_report.html
- sm-pgsql Patch Sendmail 8.12.x to support PostgreSQL maps
- Procmail
- Project Cyrus – Cyrus IMAPD
- Discuss on how to add server side Sent Items
set “altnamespace: yes" in imapd.conf - Cyrus IMAP Server: Alternate Namespace
- DBERROR: archive > /var/lib/imap/db: cyrusdb error
Check permission of /var/lib/imap/db.backup?, maybe owner set to other than cyrus. All files/directories should be owned by cyrus user only. - A very good Cyrus HOWTO document
- Discuss on how to add server side Sent Items
- Sieve – Mail Filtering Language
- By default, Sieve daemon timsieved is run by master cyrus process in cyrus-imapd on port 2000 for cyrus imapd 2.1.x
- SmartSieve (pre-alpha)
PHP program to easy manage Sieve Scripts at Cyrus IMAP server - Tripwire
- PostgreSQL
- SQL query: List all the databases in the server
Run this SQL:SELECT pg_database.datname as "Database", pg_user.usename as "Owner"FROM pg_database, pg_user WHERE pg_database.datdba = pg_user.usesysid UNION SELECT pg_database.datname as "Database", NULL as "Owner"FROM pg_database WHERE pg_database.datdba NOT IN (SELECT usesysid FROM pg_user) ORDER BY "Database" - pgAdmin II Win32 GUI
- PostgreSQL AutoDoc
Auto create PostgreSQL database documentation using object comments and database current config - PHP / Postgresql Examples and Functioning Code (Tutorial)
- Workaround for reverse engineer PostgreSQL from Visio 2002
– Disable reverse engineering of “Foreign Keys" - table/database postgresql disk usage
Usage: ./du_pgdb user password host port database
- SQL query: List all the databases in the server
- OTRS – Open Ticket Request System
- OpenSSL
- Step to create a PKCS#12 file using OpenSSL
openssl pkcs12 -export -in newcert.pem -inkey newreq.pem -certfile demoCA/cacert.pem -name “MY CERTIFICATE" -out mycert.p12 - Win32 OpenSSL binary
- Creating a Certificate With Multiple Hostnames
Using Subject Alternative Name attribute
- Step to create a PKCS#12 file using OpenSSL
- FreeS/WAN
- rdesktop
- Linux Router Project
- Linux SDK for UPnP Devices
- Linux UPnP Internet Gateway Project
This could make Windows XP IM voice/video pass-through the Internet - SharpIDG
Another Linux UPnP Internet Gateway written in C# - DVD2AVI
- WinCVS
- Abee CHM Maker
Free, make CHM files from HTML files, easier than Microsoft HTML Workshop? - TortoiseSVN (Win32 shell extension Subversion client)
- Subversion (A BETTER replacement of CVS that support folder, and rename!)
- Subversion for Windows with Apache server HOWTO
- VNC for Windows CE HPC Pro
- VNC for Pocket PC
- GNU/Linux CryptoAPI
- AT&T GraphViz open source graph drawing software
- imapsync
sync/copy between 2 IMAP mailboxes, since v1.42 can even copy the internal date of the mail from source! - lilo
- Linux kernel options
- Turn off Linux Framebuffer console
Add additional kernel argument to lilo: append="video=vga16:off"
Remember to run “lilo" after modified lilo.conf - Installing hdc to Boot as hda and Using bios=
- PXELinux (describe how to setup boot PXE image from Linux DHCP server)
- Autodesk AutoCAD
- Jabber – open source proprietary IM platform
Windows and Linux client both available - R-Linux
Free Linux undelete / data recovery tool - CVS Concurrent Versions System
- Secure CVS Pserver Mini-HOWTO
- CVS Pserver and Xinetd (seems not work in RedHat 8)
- CVS Pserver and inetd on MacOS X
- Setup example for RedHat 8.0
service cvspserver { disable = no socket_type = stream wait = no user = root group = root log_type = FILE /var/log/cvspserver protocol = tcp log_on_failure += USERID port = 2401 server = /usr/bin/cvs server_args = -f --allow-root=/var/cvs pserver }
- MailScanner
A Free Anti-Virus and Anti-Spam Filter - GNU HTTP tunnel
- TextPad
- PowerOff
Freeware GUI and Command Line utility to issue Wake On LAN on remote PC. (plus other functions) - PsShutdown
Freeware. PsShutdown is a command-line utility similar to the shutdown utility from the Windows 2000 Resource Kit, but with the ability to do much more. In addition to supporting the same options for shutting down or rebooting the local or a remote computer, PsShutdown can logoff the console user or lock the console (locking requires Windows 2000 or higher). PsShutdown requires no manual installation of client software. - SiSoftware SANDRA Professional
- Nagios System & Network Monitor
For availability monitoring. Was called netsaint, written in C. Combine system monitoring and alerting. Can write custom scripts in any language. - VMware Workstation
- Knowledge Base
- Solution to – “Insufficient quota to complete the requested service" error
Not enough memory. Close more Host system applications or add more RAM to the host. - Fix for Ctl-Alt-F1 not work in Linux GuestOS
Set the VMware hotkey from Ctl-Alt to Ctl-Alt-Shift, restart VMware
- BrightStor ARCserve 2000
- Smoothwall Linux Firewall (kernel 2.2.19)
- Freesco Linux Firewall (kernel 2.0.38)
- IPCop Linux Firewall (kernel 2.2.21)
- Mondo Rescue Archive Windows/Linux to Tape/CD, easy to rescue
- Super Rescue CD Base on RedHat 7.2, need 80min CD-R
- Linux Bootable Business Card
- Linux Care Bootable Toolbox (2001-08-20)
- Linux ebtables Ethernet Bridge + Netfilter patch for kernel 2.4
- logwatch (Log Analysis and Reporting Tool)
- windump (tcpdump port for Windows)
- WinPcap (pcap library for Windows, required for windump)
- SmartFTP (Free for non-commercial use FTP client, interface seems copy CuteFTP Pro)
- Net Transport
Download ftp / http / mms / rtsp / pnm files from the Internet - FTP Explorer (Explorer-like FTP client, free for non-commercial use)
- HD Tach Hard disk benchmark tool
- CuteFTP Pro (Full featured FTP Client, include site and content management features)
- SpamAssassin (perl SPAM filter tool)
- Setup SPAM filter in Outlook 2002
- SpamAssassin Virus Bounce Rules
Remove these “your email was rejected" annoying bounce messages
- DocMemory – similar with memtest86, can print result
- HTML Tidy
Tidy up your HTML Code, GNU, cross platform, support asian characters & unicode - MPlayer
The movie player (and converter?) for Linux - AIDA32 Worldwide Sysinfo Tool
Free tool to audit machine configurations, with network and commandline version - SPAMFighter
Free Outlook plugin to filter SPAM - NetStation
Linux diskless thinclient distribution - 2 Disk XWin
2 disks embed Linux thin client distribution - DIET PC
Disless Linux DIY from source thin client distribution - Ad-ware
Filter out Internet advertisements! Free version available! - BeTwin
Use USB keyboard/mouse, multiple VGA cards, to allow single computer shared by multiple users in Windows - hdiutil
MacOS X util to convert dmg to iso- discuss about command to convert dmg to iso
hdiutil convert -format UTDO -o ./$1.iso ./$1.dmg - talk about hdiutil
Closed source only bundle with OS X! No port for Linux! - side notes: For .toast extention, just rename to ISO will work
- discuss about command to convert dmg to iso
- XVI32
A freeware HEX Editor for Windows - Findpart Partition Utilities
- Findext2: Searches for Linux ext2 and ext3 superblocks and calculates possible partition location.
- OpenSource Instant Messaging
H.323
PHP software
- CHORA
Web-based CVS Viewer, produced by horde.org - Agata Report
a Database Reporting Tool and EIS, MIS tool (graph generation), like Crystal Reports. Has Windows & Linux version.
Virtual Hosting/Server services
- Compare between Virtual Hosting & Virtual Servers
- Solutions
- FreeVSD virtual hosting solution (2001-07-02)
- vhost Virtual Hosting solution (2002-12-13)
Keep watching hardware
- Proxim Orinoco BG-2000 Wireless Broadband Gateway
Support PPTP pass-through without any configuration - Hitachi hard disk products (was IBM)
- Seagate hard disks
- Maxtor/Quantum hard disks
- Western Digital hard disks
- Samsung Electronics hard disk products
- Fujitsu hard disk products
- Toshiba Storage Device Devision
- Hitachi hard disk products
- iPAQ H3870
- (3CREB96) 3Com Wireless Bluetooth USB Adapter
- ATI Rage Mobility-M
- Athlon 64
- In MySQL 64bit vs 32bit, ~25% faster in insert / ~50% faster
- Serial ATA
Interested hardware
- Intel Processor/Chipset
- Intel Pentium 4 Processor Specification Update
- Intel Processor Spec Finder
- Intel chipset comparison charts
- Intel Technical Information Center
- 430TX
support 64Mbit memory, maximum 256MB system memory
- 430TX
- Intel Pentium III Processor Feature Overview
- Intel Processor Product Spec Finder
- AMD Processor/Chipset
- HP Surestore Ultrium 230
- HP Surestore Ultrium 215
- HP Surestore DLT VS80
- HP Deskjet 450 (Portable)
- UMAX Vista-S8
- Specification (400x800dpi, 24bit, 1-pass)
- Windows XP can use the VistaScan 3.55 driver for Astra 2200. Has TWAIN, but will not have device driver (SCSI)
- ecRAID storage products
- USB Ethernet adapter for Linux
- Linux USB
- Search results as of: 2003-07-05
- Pegasus II: Planet UE-9600
- Kaweth: Xircom PGENET10
- RTL8150: Tan Tat, BAFO USB 1.1/2.0, Billionton USBKR-100 (most finger size are RTL8150)
- DM9601: SYBA
- Unknown: Genius GF3000U, Alpha, Super, 3Com 3C460, levelone
- AMD Opteron Processor
- Duel of the Titans: Opteron vs. Xeon
- 2003-09-13: Opteron 140 (1.4Ghz), around US$230 / HK$1800, Motherboard ASUS ~HK$1800
- Opteron 140: 32bit ~= P4 2.4Ghz, 64bit ~= P4 3.0Ghz
- PCI-Express (3GIO)
- Introduction to PCI-Express the AGP8X Replacement
- Software compatible with PCI 2.2
- Send in packet, much like Ethernet.
- Bandwidth is per direction, much like Ethernet. (e.g. 16x has In 4GB, Out 4GB bandwidth)
- 1x (2.5Gb/~250MB?), 4x (1GB), 8x (2GB), 16x (4GB) different size slots. Seems the high bandwidth slots are compatible with low bandwidth slots.
- 16x can support 75W display cards
- External connection upto 5 meters
- BTX form factor motherboard appears
- ExpressCard replace PCMCIA Cards?
- PCI: 33Mhz, 32bit = 133MB/s
- PCI: 66Mhz, 32bit = 266MB/s
- PCI-X: 133Mhz, 64bit = 1066MB/s?
- 3GIO:
- PCI-Express X16 slot for AGP replacement: 4GB/s
- Intel chipset either PCI-Express or AGP
- VIA PT890 both PCI-Express and AGP (maybe SiS also)
- Introduction to PCI-Express the AGP8X Replacement
Microsoft News
Programming
Audio Editing
- Advanced MP3-WMA Recorder
Convert any playback audio in Windows to WAV/MP3/WMA songs - Wisecroft Ripper
Convert Real Audio (e.g. *.rm) songs into WAV/MP3 songs
Video Editing
- dvdrhelp.com
A general purpose website on Video/DVD/VCD production - 2003-12: When copy VCD, seems better to turn on error correction to keep the VCD data (reduce read rate to 6x-8x, 1MB/s only)
- VirtualDub GPL license Video processing program
- Steps to compile Xvid codec from source with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0
- tag 2000 audio codec used in most Xvid or DivX movies
- GoldWave audio editor
- Discuss on .MDF and .MDS files
MDF is simply an ISO CD image file, MDS is catalog file read by Alcohol 120% - Codec
- Codec Guide (Official K-Lite Codec Pack website)
- Edskes File Download Mirror (Many codec packs download, not update except QuickTime Alternative)
- Huffyuv (Very fast lossless codec)
- XVID binary codec compiled with intel C compiler
Macintosh Emulation
- GPL, emulate a Mac II to run upto OS 8.1
- SoftMac XP
Another 680×0 Macintosh Emulator, seems run faster. (Run SOFTMAC2.EXE for the faster Express edition) - MacOS 7.5.3 from Apple
- Macintosh ROM images to download
- PearPCA PowerPC platform emulator for windows, seems this works, but speed is 40 times slower than the host!
General
- Tom’s Hardware
- Ace’s Hardware
- AnandTech
- Storage Review
- Different Power Supply Dimensions
- The PC Guide
- Slashdot
- FreshMeat
- Geek.com
- Table of Unicode characters
- List of CD-RW drive models
- List of Modem Manuals
- Rockwell/Conexant HCF modem AT commands
- Use ATX3 to ignore dial tone for rockwell modem
- Location of TCP/IP hosts file in Windows 9x/2k/XP, Linux and Macintosh
- Software Configuration Management Info.
- Computer Technical Links( Many useful articles for a general computer user )
- Public NTP time servers in the world
- PCStats Network
- bootdisk.com Bootdisks collection
- SiS mini-IDE driver is used to support UDMA133 in Windows XP
- ITToolbox Networking (Lots of Networking related information, papers, discussions)
- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
- BarCode-1’s Barcode information website
- Unofficial Linux PCTel HSP modem drivers
- Patched BIOS for old Socket 7 motherboards
Support K6-2 plus CPU, 128G hard disk - Tomshardware on ASUS T2P4 & K6-2
- instruction on setup TXP4, TX97 and other motherboards to use K6-2 (Simplified Chinese)
- DOS USB drivers
Use USB zip, hard disk, CDROM, MO in DOS - Another DOS USB disk driver
Panasonic DOS USB drivers. This works for me - Interesting DOS Utilities
- Wim’s BIOS
identify a motherboard with AWARD / AMD BIOS string - BIOS identification and motherboard model list
Most are in ages before i440BX! - DOS Multiple Configuration Config.sys & Autoexec.bat example
- Gigabit Ethernet
- 4400 Gigabit Ethernet modules
3C17221, 1000BASE-SX, US$339 / HK$2600
3C17220, 1000BASE-T, US$271 / HK$2100
3C16471-US, Superstack 3 baseline 10/100, 1000BASE-T OPTION - LAN Technology Scorecard
1000BASE-T & 1000BASE-SX seems provide same range - Gigabit Ethernet Network Design Using (PDF)
- Real world performance of 1000BASE-TX
97MB/s transfer rate between 2 dual P3-1G, Redhat 6.2 kernel 2.2.17 machines
- 4400 Gigabit Ethernet modules
- Paul Thurrott’s SuperSite for Windows
- O’Reilly’s “Open Source Goes to COMDEX" Contest (The best OpenSource software)
- 281408 – How to Implement a Single Logon Across Multiple Web Servers
- ffdshow (DivX & XviD codec)
- CMC Magnetics Corporation
Seems the OEM manufacturer of Imation CD-R - DTWAIN driver
Common interface for centralize TWAIN compatible drivers? - 48bit LBA – support more than 137GB hard disks
- Discuss about 48bit LBA
- Utility to check 48bit LBA support registry value in Windows 2000/XP
- ASUS motherboards manufactured after 1st January, 2003 will all support 48bit LBA HDD (>137 GB HDD)
- 48bit LBA support has been added between kernel 2.4.17 to 2.4.19
- BenchmarkHQ
Contain links to download benchmark / hardware test programs - Free Cantonese IME for Windows XP/Win7 32/64bit v6.0
- 倉頡碼/筆劃查詢工具」V2.0版 for Word 97/2000/XP
Cannot run in Word 2003! - 倉頡之友 – 香港: 袖珍字典
- List of software require Admin Rights in Windows
- HHReg
Fix “Action Canceled", “This program cannot display the webpage" problem for chm files
Also chm file’s path could not contain # inside it - Recap bad motherboard
- freesshd: Free SSH server for Windows!
Can use this to support rsync at win32 - cwRsync
rsync for Windows! - Posteriza (2005, allow create large poster print from multiple A4 pages!)
- PDF Explorer (Indexing and modify PDF/CHM files, 30 days trial)