Mohammad Al-Refai
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I feel the need….the need for speed
Mar 29th
Who doesn’t???
FireFox got a feature called pipeline which can speedup things and you will be able to browse fasssssssster.
The thing about pipelining is instead of using the old fashion way of sending a request then wait for the response from web server then send the next request, you can just send up to 8 requests while the responses are on the way, that would speedup your browsing if you got a fast Internet connection (there will be no significant difference if you got low speed).
The only drawback (and the reason why it is turned off by default) is the possibility that some web servers might not like the pipeline behavior and therefore stop responding to your requests (break the web page), to this day I didn’t have any such problems (am I lucky or good?).
Here is what you need to do:
1) In address bar write “about:config” then click on “I’ll be careful, I promise!”.
2) In filter box type “network.http.keep-alive”, if Value is False double click so it become true.
3) In filter box type “network.http.version”, make sure the Value is 1.1
4) In filter box type “network.http.pipelining”, if Value is False double click so it become true.
5) If you are on proxy or you are not sure In filter box type “network.http.proxy.pipelining”, if Value is False double click so it become true.
6) In filter box type “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests”, double click and set the value to 8 (you can set it to any number between 1 and 8).
That’s it, wear racing gloves and feel the speed!
Save coffee beans…Macro your life
Jan 9th
So, it’s the last day before the weekend, and you need to catch up on some sleep… You can’t wait to hibernate in your bed this weekend…
Then your boss smells your happy unproductive weekend plans on you and pulls this crap..
His tasks were nothing creative and I will have to stay in the office late just to do thousands of repetitive moves (copy, switch windows, paste then click a button…blah blah blah!)
Before you run to refill that coffee maker, install this freeware program Macro Maker.
So here is the deal, with this program you can either record your moves so you can repeat them later, or you can simply insert a couple of actions from a drop down list.
After you are done define a trigger which can be by pressing a keyboard button or on a schedule.
You also get to define number of times for that action to be repeated (in this make sure the last move is a preparation for the next one so you won’ t end up repeating yourself).
Now all is done and the (CBRSo) Coffee Beans Rights Society are happy, but hey don’t give all your tricks away – don’t tell your boss how you did it…let him wonder about it the whole weekend ;)
See, a geek can be your best friend..and they are good in bed 8-]
Get nerves of steel! Stop worrying about your network with Steel Inventory.
Nov 6th
Are you a Network Admin?
Do you have problems sleeping, worrying about your network?
Do you Keep up with hardware/software changes on your network?
If you answered yes to any if the above questions – Then you should check out Steel Inventory.
With admin privileges you can learn about every piece of hardware and software, that exist on your network, view host names and gain the ability to take snapshots of workstations.
Farther more it tells you when a change occurs.
Don’t have a budget for it? Don’t worry it’s FREEEEEEEEEEEEE
With Forward Come Responsibilities. Is it for real or a hoax??
Oct 23rd
Who hasn’t gotten an E-mail from “friends” warning about something crazy or ridiculous? Normally these messages asks you directly to forward it to a number of people.
Just remember one thing before spreading the probable hoax – Since marketing a lie isn’t much better than making it. The most simple lie can be devastating to someone’s life (Imagine someone spreads your child’s photo as a missing kid, everywhere you go with him people will hold you till the police arrive!).
Investigate those E-mails using a reliable websites first. You might try searching the issue in snopes which will tell you if it was true or false or even undetermined. Some E-mails tell you to check a website which is not legit, or might mix some true with lies in hope you will not notice. Let’s take the old Microsoft and AOL will PAY YOU for forwarding this message – upwards of $100 per forward! WOOT!! Now if you type in some of the text from the message into Snopes you will get back this page.
Explaining that IT IS A HOAX! It’s not REAL! Stop propagating this crap!! Dig?
If you don’t wanna bother yourself to check then don’t bother forwarding it (skipping is still better then spreading false information).
Hide Drives in My Computer
Oct 15th
Captain: Cloak drives (L, M and Y) in My Computer sector.
Lieutenant: But why captain?
Captain: The program acquires an access to some files on the network; we’ve mapped their folders as drives within My Computer. Now we don’t want the user to realize their existence, even if they do…they might mistake it with the local drives, and decide to work in it.
(If you hide the C drive, then Open explorer and type c: and it will still take you there)
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Excel 2007: Selecting Cells with numbers only in a sheet
Oct 12th
So you’ve spent a long time making this excel sheet and formulating it’s cells for your future needs.
In the rush of work you’ve fed the empty cells with numbers and saved over the original file -the one for general purposes – and now you are busted in tears :’(
Wipe your nose for God’s sake, there is actually a way to select only cells with numbers, skipping all cells with formulas and text:
1) On your keyboard press (F5) or (Ctrl + g) and a (Go To) window will popup.
2) Click on (Special) button.
3) Click on (Constants) and uncheck everything from (Text) down to (Errors) leaving (Numbers) checked.
Note: take a moment to see all the other selections you may need for other scenario’s, you never know when you’r gonna need them(Ex. like selecting all the formula’s of text).
4) Click (Ok) and all the required fields are selected and with a one (Delete) press on your key board they are all empty again.
Here are some hotchicks……Err, I mean hotkeys you might wanna know:
- (CTRL+`): Switch between numbers-View and Formulas-View in all Cells.
- (CTRL+` or F4): Repeats last possible command or action.
- (CTRL+;): Enters the current date into selected cell.
- (Alt+ Enter): For a new line within a cell (don’t be surprised a lot of people don’t know that).
