Tips to Optimize Windows XP

Before trying any of the following tips don't forget to make a restore point of ur System...
* START>Accessories> System Tools>System Restore and choose "Create a restore point".

Tips :-

1. Click START then Run then type "msconfig" and hit OK.

Then click the Services tab and check off Hide All Microsoft Services so no Windows services are shown in the list.

Next go through and turn off anything that doesn’t seem critical. If you make a mistake and turn something off that makes the system upset you can come back later and turn it back on. If this happens you can also reboot into Safe Mode by hitting the F8 key during boot up and come back to "msconfig" to fix the problem. Note that if you see “Office Source Engine” leave that turned on as it is part of Microsoft Office 2003.

Next go to the Startup tab and turn off anything you don’t think is needed. Often this is where programs that are loaded in the System Tray on the bottom right side of your screen are loaded.

Again if you turn them off and there’s a problem you can come back later and turn them on again.

2. Freeing some of the System disk. Anything less than 300 MB will make ur system slower. Use Disk cleanup Wizard to get the wasted space back...
START>Accessories>System Tools>Disk Cleanup.

3. Fragements on the disk can also cause the disk access time to increase, leading to slower system. Hence, defragmentation of the disk is suggested twice a month.
START>Accessories>System Tools and then Defragmenter.

4. Run Windows Update weekly and see if there are non critical drivers or other updates that are available. Visit http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/.

5. Increasing the Size of the Virtual memory.It is the memory that is required by ur computer when the physical memory or RAM is dissipated.
START>Control Panel>System then the Advanced tab then click the Settings button under “Performance”. Then click the Advanced tab there then under Virtual Memory click Change and reassign the swap file to a new hard drive.

After following all the above tips, u will surely see some improvement in ur PC's speed...unless there is a Virus in ur PC.
So, don't forget to get the best Antivirus installed and updated.

Origin of some Popular names

Apple Computers
It was the favourite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late
in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company
Apple Computers if the other colleagues didn't suggest a better name by 5
O'clock.

CISCO
It is not an acronym as popularly believed. It is short for San Francisco.

Compaq
This name was formed by using COM, for computer, and PAQ to denote a small
integral object.

Corel
The name was derived from the founder's name Dr.Michael Cowpland. It stands
for COwpland REsearch Laboratory.

Google
The name started as a joke boasting about the amount of information the
search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named 'Googol', a
word for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros.After founders -
Stanford graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their
project to an angel investor, they received a cheque made out to 'Google'

Hotmail
Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the w eb from a
computer anywhere in the world.When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business
plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending in 'mail' and
finally settled for hotmail as it included the letters "html" - the
programming language used to write web pages. It was initially referred to
as HoTMaiL with selective uppercasing.


Hewlett Packard
Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company
they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.


Intel
Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company 'Moore Noyce'
but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain so th ey had to settle for
an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics.


Lotus (Notes)
Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from 'The Lotus Position' or
'Padmasana'. Kapor used to be a teacher of Transcendental Meditation of
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.


Microsoft
Coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to
MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the '-' was
removed later on.

Motorola
Founder Paul Galv in came up with this name when his company started
manufacturing radios for cars. The popular radio company at the time was
called Victrola.

ORACLE
Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project for the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). The code name for the project was called Oracle (the CIA saw this as the system to give answers to all questions or something such). The project was designed to help use the newly written SQL code by IBM. The project eventually was terminated but Larry and Bob decided to finish what they started and bring it to the world. They kept the name Oracle and created the RDBMS engine. Later they kept the same name for the company.

Sony
It originated from the Latin word 'sonus' meaning sound ,and 'sonny' a
slang used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.

SUN
Founded by 4 Stanford University buddies, SUN is the acronym for Stanford
University Network. Andreas Bechtolsheim built a microcomputer; Vinod Khosla
recruited him and Scott McNealy to manufacture computers based on it, and
Bill Joy to develop a UNIX-based OS for the computer.

Yahoo!
The word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book 'Gulliver's
Travels'. It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and action
and is barely human. Yahoo! Founders Jerry Yang and David Filo selected the
name because they considered themselves yahoos.....

Announcing openSUSE 11.0 Beta 1

The openSUSE team is proud to announce the first Beta release of openSUSE 11.0!

There are many exciting enhancements and features in the new release. Among these is the incredibly fast package management (libzypp), KDE 3.5.9 and 4.0.3, GNOME 2.22.1, a beautiful new installer, installable live CDs and much more.

What's New

The openSUSE 11.0 beta 1 includes quite a few changes and new features that users will find interesting, including:

KDE 4 and KDE 3.5: The openSUSE 11.0 beta 1 includes KDE 4.0.3, which includes a number of new features, fixes, and optimizations. See the KDE4 page for more info on the KDE4 branch. To help test, see the wiki for info on reporting bugs in KDE. Not quite ready to move to KDE4? No worries, the beta includes an installation option for KDE 3.5 in addition to KDE4.

GNOME 2.22: Beta 1 includes GNOME 2.22.1 with plenty of new features and packages. Interested in helping with testing for GNOME in openSUSE 11.0? See the wiki for all the info you need.

YaST ported to Qt4: openSUSE’s administration and installation tool, YaST, has been ported to Qt4, providing beautiful styling for the installer, and an improved look for areas such as package management.

Encyclopedia Britannica Now Free For Bloggers

Encyclopedia Britannica often is used in case studies as a definitive example of how new technology can disrupt a business. Everything was great for the nearly 250 year old privately held company until the Internet came around and a Category Five hurricaned on their parade. According to Comscore, for every page viewed on Brittanica.com, 184 pages are viewed on Wikipedia (3.8 billion v. 21 million pave views per month). In short, they are a classic example of the Innovator’s Dilemma (see also the Music Industry).

You can purchase the 32 volume Britannica, which has 65,000 articles and 44 million words, for just $1,400. Or you can access it on the web for $70 per year.

And now, you can get access to the online version for free through a new program called Britannica Webshare - provided that you are a “web publisher.” The definition of a web publisher is rather squishy: “This program is intended for people who publish with some regularity on the Internet, be they bloggers, webmasters, or writers. We reserve the right to deny participation to anyone who in our judgment doesn’t qualify.” Basically, you sign up, tell them about your site URL and a description, and they review it and decide if you’ll get in. I wonder if Facebook, MySpace and Twitter users are eligible? They all certainly “publish with some regularity on the Internet.”

Breath powered USB generator does charging on the go

Hey, we're tired of waiting for wireless charging solutions to actually hit the market just as much as the next guy (or gal), but one inventive soul took that frustration out on a swank DIY project that elicits energy from simply breathing. We've seen the use of hot air in powering gadgets before, but this homegrown USB charger was assembled by simply using "parts scavenged from an old CD-ROM drive, a basic electronic circuit, and a few rubber bands." The chest-worn device was intended to output around one-watt for charging a cellphone, which could purportedly juice it up in just under three hours, but unfortunately for us all, this seemingly brilliant device only mustered about 50mW of energy. Of course, that's still getting somewhere, but we're not exactly keen on wearing this thing around for an entire day in order to add a few battery bars to our mobile. Nevertheless, the creator doesn't look to be giving up on it so soon, and hopefully v2 will allow our breath to add new life to our lappies or electric cars, eh?

Why cell phones are still grounded???????

"At this time, all electronic devices, including cell phones and two-way pagers, must be turned off and put away. After takeoff, I'll let you know when you may use approved electronic portable devices."
Of course, those "approved electronic portable devices" won't include your cell phone, not until after you land.
The reason is that cell phones interfere with the airplane's electronics, right?
Well, no, actually. The risk posed by cell phones to airplane equipment is unknown, and will remain unknown for as long as possible.
Phones are banned for two official reasons:

1. Cell phones "might" interfere with the avionics (aviation electronics) of some airplanes.

2. Cell phones aloft "might" cause problems with cell tower systems on the ground.


Both of these risks are easily tested, yet somehow neither the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) nor the Federal Communications Commission has been able to get a definitive answer in the past 20 years as to whether phone calls in flight cause these suspected problems. (The FAA is responsible for the flight safety portion of all this, and the FCC is responsible for the cell tower part.)

GOOGLE HARDWARE

Do u know where till now your search ran in the Google Servers......

Just have a look........

These are both 300 MHz Dual Pentium II Servers with 512MB of RAM. There are 99 G drives between the two machines. The main search engine is running on these. These were donated by Intel.

This is an IBM donated F50 IBM RS6000 with 4 processors

and 512MB of memory. It has 89 G drives internal.

Did u wonder where ur search ran till now.......................................

How was that ..........???????????