DOS war stories
In honor of the IBM PC turning 30, I thought I’d tell some stories about my experiences with the operating system introduced with it, PC DOS (aka MS-DOS). Early in my career I worked with a guy named...
View ArticleIs Windows optimization obsolete?
I read a statement on Bob Thompson's website about Windows optimization, where he basically told a reader not to bother trying to squeeze more speed out of his Pentium-200, to spend a few hundred bucks...
View ArticleUpgrading a P2-300
Case study: Revitalizing a PII-300 The post Upgrading a P2-300 appeared first on The Silicon Underground.
View ArticleThe ultimate DOS boot disk
A little over a year ago, someone issued me a challenge: Make a boot disk containing the Microsoft network client and CD-ROM drivers. The problem is that the network client, plus the DOS boot files,...
View ArticleNeed to squeeze a little more on that floppy?
I've been experimenting again with bootdisks and the FreeDOS project came to mind. Boot floppies are getting rarer but they're still hard to avoid completely. I think FreeDOS is worth a look for a...
View ArticleRecovering files from found.000
Windows stores orphan files in a directory called found.000 with a .chk extension. It’s possible to recover data from those orphans. Here’s how to recover chk files, or recover files from found.000....
View ArticleHow to quickly find the differences between two Word documents
From time to time, I have to deal with new revisions of familiar implementation guides or other system documentation, and the authors rarely include a changelog in the document. And of course the first...
View ArticleHow I turned my Nook Color into a Cyanogenmod 7.2 Android tablet
So, after most of a year, I finally revisited Cyanogenmod 7.2 on my Nook Color. Competent tablets are available for around $100 now, so perhaps this is less interesting now, but I had a Nook Color, and...
View ArticleAnother easy Apache tweak
I ran my site through Google Page Speed on Tuesday, and scored a surprising 88 out of 100–higher than I expected. Getting above 90 is going to take some optimizations on files that WordPress updates...
View ArticleHow to clean up a Windows server
From time to time, Windows patches will fail to install because a server doesn’t have enough space to install them. Finding the ginormous files are that are hogging all the space on the C drive is...
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