Archive for May, 2008

Thin Clients - How to assemble a cheap computer!

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

I have a pentium pro 333mhz and a pIII 933mhz setup as thin clients.

This kind of junk can be found easily and most of the times without any cost The idea here is to have a typical client-server setup. I use SoThin for this and it does miracles for my kids! The server software […]

Trayconizer

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

Most people come to agree that size does matter in certain aspects of life. Software is not always one of them.

I still remember my old days with assembly when software didn’t came in DVDs but fitted in a very small flash cpu. Trayconizer is a very small and very useful utility to minimize a running […]

Got Synergy

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

Synergy is an application that allows you to share a mouse, keyboard, screensaver and clipboard between multiple computers.

If you have more than one computer, each with its own monitor, you can install synergy as a server on one computer and as a client on the others. After a simple configuration you’ll be able to move […]

Useful Command Line Options

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

These commands can be run on your machine to find information and perform troubleshooting.

Note: Further help for these commands is available by typing ‘commandname /?’ to display help at the command prompt. To get to the command prompt, click ‘Start’, ‘Run’, then type ‘cmd’ and hit ‘Enter’. Similarly, for each of the commands listed below, […]

What Kind Of Flash Drive

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

For those of us who must use workstations with limited program capability a thumb or flash drive can become a necessity.

What should you look for in a thumb drive? How much space do you need? These are the kinds of questions you should think about before going shopping. First of all let’s look at your […]

Darn Small Linux

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

Small Linux, true to its brash name, is a small and highly efficient live CD, an operating system which can be run from a CD-ROM drive or even from a flash drive (on newer computers).

DSL is based on the free Linux operating system, and is optimized to fit into only 50 megabytes of space, enough […]