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O&O Defrag 10 Professional will make your computer fasterFeb 24, 2008 by Paul White
I recently did a little cleaning of my workstation. Typical stuff like deleting old files, data backups, and of course defrag. Afterwards however my computer just didn't seem as fast as usual. I was using the built in Windows XP defrag program. Which is ok, but unless your system is heavily defraged you really won't notice a difference in performace. I had used another after market program before, but I wanted to see if I could find something even better. I heard about O&O Defrag. So I gave it a try and wow what a difference!
BMW Brings the Internet to your carFeb 23, 2008 by Paul White
It seems that BMW has a new features available for its European Drivers called ConnectedDrive. This will bring the internet directly into your car via your Cell phone's SIM card by the way of GSM EDGE data. This might spell the end for XM and SIRI.
Olive Oil key to long lifeFeb 20, 2008 by Paul White
A women Israeli Arab Mariam Amash, is now claiming to be the oldest person in existance. Claiming an age of 120 Years. I read about this on a news story on MSNBC.com If she is really the world's oldest person, I would want to ask her how she did it. Once thing she did mention was she drinks a glass of olive oil every day. Olive Oil which is thought to have health benefits from the Essential Oils, but also would have a extremely high amount of calories. They say that Good fats don't matter, I guess maybe she could be living proof. The next questions is which brand of Olive oil did she drink? Was it organic, homemade, or regular? I am sure there are some endorsement opportunites coming her way. I have to say at 120 years old she looks better than most 80 year olds I have met. she also maintains an ative lifestyle taking walks everyday.
How to find Slow MySQL queries and Optimize your TablesFeb 12, 2008 by Paul White
After you see good growth in your site for months, suddenly things start to get slow. If your site is driven by a MySQL database, this is most likely the problem. Bandwidth, Transfer, or even your home internet connection is not the problem. The problem is you have some slow queries driving your site. When I say slow we are talking computer terms. Slow could be a fast as 15 ms. One slow query isn't the problem its when you get hundreds of slow queries made by hundreds of users at the same time that it becomes a problem. MySQL is very powerful but only if you create the right indexes. I recently applied these techniques on one of my websites. Here is the step by step guide ( by me ) on how to optimize your MySQL tables. If your ASP.NET site is dragging this can make it 10 times faster.
Stop Spam in SmarterMail with RBL SBL and BL Feb 08, 2008 by Paul White
Once you get a VPS box from HostMySite and you are running your own mail server, the first thing you will notice is how much spam is getting through. This is because there are not advanced spam filters setup when Smartermail was installed on your VPS. So its time to take things into your own hands. Here is the list of RBL SBL BL servers I use to block 99% of all spam. It works so well I was able to cancel my account with postini.
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