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Apple iPod FTW

I finally caved and bought an iPod. After plugging it in and dumping some songs using iTunes I was a little confused with the menus -- too many options, and why read the manuals... It quickly became apparent I'd be using the playlists option a lot. :) iTunes allows you to create smart playlists, these things are insane. You can filter out and not listen to songs you've skipped twice (or once) before, or only play songs you haven't heard in 30 days. It's simple, but powerful. I was really impressed by this. When you plug it into your computer, the iPod (If properly configured) can act as a hard drive that you can just dump data too, however, to actually playback music and video you need to register it with the iPod's internal database (Use iTunes -- Turn off that auto sync stuff though) it's VERY handy to have mass storage everywhere you go (Providing you bring your USB cable) Movie playback is good, but you for best results rip and encode your own DVDs, the qual...

Speeding up Vista's network speed

If your using Vista and you have poor network performance, it could be the addition of a new feature called "Receive Window Auto-Tuning" in the TCP/IP stack. To check the status of this feature, from a command prompt run: netsh interface tcp show global You should see something like: Querying active state… TCP Global Parameters ———————————————- Receive-Side Scaling State : enabled Chimney Offload State : enabled Receive Window Auto-Tuning Level : disabled Add-On Congestion Control Provider : none ECN Capability : disabled RFC 1323 Timestamps : disabled In this example, you can see I have it disabled. The default is "Normal" on a 100mbit network, when I disabled this "feature", I went from 3mb/s to almost 5mb/s. These need to be run from an Administrator Command Prompt (Right click on the command prompt, click on "Run as administrator" for a pretty picture see http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/Windows_Vista_run_command_prompt_as_administrator-t146674...

Vista Slow Copy

Vista makes it very, very slow to copy, rename, or delete ordinary files. From MSDN TechNet: http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1358057&SiteID=17 From The Register: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/26/vista_copying_bug/ Get the fix here: http://hotfix.xable.net/download/index.php?dir=Language%20Neutral/Vista/&file=Windows6.0-KB931770-x86.msu

What Kenshin character are you?

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