Viewing Articles with the tag: tweak
Finding Uptime for Windows
09.Sep.07 | 16 Comments
I’ve been happily using my little Pentium 2 Windows 2000 experiment for the past week and am happy to say it is working quite well. About the only real tweaking I’ve done so far is to drop a custom Firefox build onto it.
I suppose I should plan to run through the BlackViper Win2k Service tuning [...]
Moving the My Documents Folder
01.Mar.07 | Leave a Comment
Here’s a simple little tip for the Windows users. Your My Documents folder need not live on your boot drive. You can easily move it to another drive. I’ve been doing this for years to help isolate myself from drive failures and sleep better knowing that if my boot/OS/Apps drive gets [...]
Firefox 2 Beta 2 - A bit longer look
01.Sep.06 | 13 Comments
Had a quick post up yesterday announcing the release of Firefox 2 beta 2. When I first played with the earlier beta 1 things were pretty horrible, but I managed to talk myself into having a run at this latest beta last night. I’ve since used all of this day, both for [...]
Small Firefox Tweak for the Slower Machines
15.Aug.06 | 2 Comments
I’ve largely moved all my IM stuff over to meebo for the past few weeks. I like it, it works well and it’s nicely suited to the number of machines I use. In fact, at home, I tend to have it running on my little Xubuntu laptop. (which is much more useful [...]
Quick Firefox tweak - free mem
23.Dec.05 | 42 Comments
I’ve groused in the past about how much memory browsers seem to want to hoard these days. I’m a bit of a fanatic about memory usage, to be honest. I really like how Opera will release memory when it is minimized. When you restore it, it just grabs what it needs. [...]
