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When you do a search on your computer using Windows XP built in search mechanism, XP uses explorer.exe to execute your search. For some reason this process has a high priority thread setting and since searching is a reasonably intensive job it starts to use a lot of cpu time. But WTH! Does every thing else has to freeze because of that? Bill seems to say yes, I say NO Continue reading “Searching With WindowsXP”
In every major city there is at least 1 or more escalator in use for public transport (duh!). It’s a convenience staircase. The main purpose is: ‘it makes you move faster’.
How do a lot of people think about an escalator?
After analyzing people that use staircases (in Brussels), I came to the conclusion that the majority of users think of an escalator like this: “Hey this stair is moving me up (or down). Why the f*** would I move myself.”. Continue reading “How to use escalators”
Recently i checked out Drupal ( a PHP content managing system). I installed it locally to test it. And removed it 30 minutes later.
You probably ask yourself: “How can you test it in 30 minutes?”. Easy: you can’t test the full functionality. If every page load in the admin screen takes about an average +5 seconds (on a Dual Core 2Ghz – 2GB-Ram, apache/mysql/php5.2.5 full option), do you expect me to continue testing it?
Continue reading “Drupal 6.2 tested”