Star Wars in DOS Version

It had been almost two years after my last blog. Today when surfing the net and came across this DOS version of Star Wars make me suddenly had the feel to post in my own blog and share it. This is the reason that make me blogging again after two years. Now let us watch the Star Wars.

1. Open the command prompt by typing the cmd from Run.
2. Type telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl in the command prompt and enjoy :)

Below is the screen shot of the Star Wars that captured by me.

Hope you all enjoy it ;)

Removing unused device drivers from Windows XP machines

When you install a device driver on a Windows XP machine, the operating system loads that driver each time the computer boots regardless of whether the device is present—unless you specifically uninstall the driver. This means that drivers from devices that you have long since removed from your system may be wasting valuable system resources.

Follow these steps to view and remove these unnecessary device drivers:

1. Press [Windows]+[Break] to bring up the System Properties dialog box or go to Control Panel System.
2. Select the Advanced tab and click the Environment Variables button.
3. Click the New button below the System Variables panel.
4. In the New System Variable dialog box, type devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices in the Variable Name text box and 1 in the Variable Value text box.
5. Click OK to return to the System Properties dialog box and then click OK again.
6. Select the Hardware tab and click the Device Manager button.
7. In Device Manager, go to View Show Hidden Devices.
8. Expand the various branches in the device tree and look for the washed out icons, which indicate unused device drivers.
9. To remove an unused device driver, right-click the icon and select Uninstall.

Display Chinese on Mozilla Firefox in Linux

If the Firefox failed to display chinese word for a web page, make sure that the character encoding is correct.(under View --> Character encoding).

If the chinese web page still cannot display properly, then you need to install the 2 extension which are mozilla-firefox-locale-zh-tw and mozilla-firefox-locale-zh-cn.

Then restart Firefox and all the problem should be solved.

Steps to install J2SE 1.4.2 in Linux

1. Download the j2sdk-1_4_2_09-linux-i586.bin from Java Sun.
2. Copy the j2sdk-1_4_2_09-linux-i586.bin to /usr/local/bin.
3. Run ./j2sdk-1_4_2_09-linux-i586.bin and a folder j2sdk1.4.2_09 will be created.
4. Create a symbolic link using ln -s /usr/local/bin/j2sdk1.4.2_09/bin/java /usr/bin/java
5. Finally run java -version to make sure that J2SE is installed sucessfully.If there is java version printed, then means that all should be OK already.

List of freeware I like for Windows

Here are list of freeware that I like and the links to download them:

Browser
Mozilla Firefox
Firefox empowers you to browse faster, more safely and more efficiently than with any other browser.Firefox also provides features like popup blocking, tabbed browsing,smarter search, imporved security and etc.

Firefox Plugins
Flashgot
FlashGot is a free Firefox extension, meant to handle single and massive downloads with several external Download Managers like LeechGet and Free Download Manager.

Download Manager
Free Download Manager
Free Download Manager (FDM) is a full-featured download accelerator and manager. It is absolutely free! Using this software product you can easily download a list of files and whole web sites from any remote server via HTTP, HTTPS and FTP.FDM can resume broken downloads and It splits files into several sections and then downloads them simultaneously allowing you to increase your download speed up to 600%.

Editor
Crimson Editor
Crimson Editor is a professional source code editor for Windows.This program is not only fast in loading time, but also small in size.While it can serve as a good replacement for Notepad, it also offers many powerful features for programming languages such as HTML, C/C++, Perl and Java.

PSPad
PSPad editor is a programmers editor with support for multiple syntax highlighting profiles. It comes with a hex editor, CP conversion, text differences, templates, macros, spellcheck option, auto-completion, Code Explorer and much more. The program is pre-configured for the most popular programming languages (VB, C++, SQL, PHP, ASP, Python etc.) and you can further customize the syntax settings. PSPad includes several additional tools that are especially useful for HTML editing (compress, format code) and also integrates TopStyle Lite and TidyHTML. The program can be used as IDE for any compiler. Additional features include support for project, file browsing, custom shortcuts, built-in FTP client to edit files on the server and much more.

Archive & Cmpression Utility
7zip
7Zip is an open-source file archiver, that offers a the highest compression ratio, using the new f 7z format, which delivers compression results that are usually 30-50% better than standard ZIP. In addition, 7Zip also supports 7z, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, CPIO, RPM and DEB formats, so it can be used with all popular archive files as well.

ALzip
ALZip is a one-stop archiving and compression program designed for speed and ease of use. Beginners can easily perform advanced tasks, while power users can do things faster. With support for more compression and archiving formats than any other major utility, ALZip is the only ZIP utility you'll ever need. You can open 35 archive and compression file formats, open CD image files (ISO, BIN), open virtual CD files (LCD), create eight archive and compression file formats, create self-extracting files (EXE), split files for easy transfers, recover lost passwords from ZIP files, integrate antivirus software, automate tasks with ALZip command-line functions, and get more done faster. ALZip's own ALZ file format allows you to split files in up to 2,600 volumes with no size limit; ZIP files only allow 4GB.
IZArc
IZArc is a full featured archiving tool that you can use to open and create compressed files in many different formats. It offers many advanced features, including repairing of broken archives, searching within archives, password protecting, emailing of archives and much more. The program provides an Explorer style interface with integrated file browser, favorites, customizable toolbar and color coded file listings. IZArc can also be used to create self-extracting or disk-spanning archives and more. Additional features include Windows Explorer integration, anti-virus integration and just about anything else you d would expect to find in a professional archive utility - but this one is free. IZArc support most popular archive formats, including 7-ZIP, ACE,ARC, ARJ,BH, BZ2, CAB, DEB, GZ,HA, JAR, LHA, LZH,PAK, PK3, RAR, RPM, TAR,TGZ, TZ, ZIP and ZOO. The program is easy to use, even for beginners, yet powerful enough to provide advanced users with all the tools you need.

PDF Reader
Foxit Reader
Foxit PDF Reader is an alternative to Adobe Reader, that allows you to view and print PDF files. Unlike Adobe Reader, it opens PDF files very fast, without any delay. It supports all the standard features, browser integration, and also select/copy of text from the documents.

PDF Creator
PrimoPDF
PrimoPDF is a free PDF converter that help you to create PDF by simply 'printing' to the PrimoPDF printer - it couldn't be easier! Within minutes, you can create high-quality PDFs by converting from Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and virtually any other printable file type.

Antivirus
AVG
AVG Free Edition is the well-known antivirus protection tool. AVG Free is available free of charge to home users for the life of the product. Rapid virus database updates are available for the lifetime of the product, thereby providing the high level of detection capability that millions of users around the world trust to protect their computers. AVG Free is easy to use and will not slow your system down (low system resource requirements). Highlights include automatic update functionality, the AVG Resident Shield, which provides real-time protection as files are opened and programs are run, free Virus Database Updates for the lifetime of the product, and AVG Virus Vault for safe handling of infected files.