The top 10 dead (or dying) computer skills

This interesting article caught my attention by chance. You'll know what it's talking about if you're in the industry ... The top 10 dead (or dying) computer skills

Further Optimize My EeePC

Whether you've an EeePC, a regular laptop or desktop computer, this post is useful for you if you've over 1GB memory (i.e. RAM) installed.

With the replacement of the original 512MB RAM with a 2GB RAM module, I believe there are some spare memory capacity in my EeePC and thus I looked around to find a way to make the best use out of it. I ended up installed Gavotte Ramdisk - a free small application with a simple user interface (download Gavotte Ramdisk ) - and created a 768MB RAM disk. With the RAM disk, I was able to tune my EeePC further and free up some hard drive space originally occupied by Windows. You may like to refer to eeePC 小報告(三) - XP 優化篇 to see what I exactly did.

Computer Booster

I bought my home PC a few years ago. Even though it's getting old, I still like its design and tiny size very much. Two complaints though: (1) quite slow when starting up Windows ... and also when loading different resource-draining applications; (2) running out of hard disk space.

Before I slept on Thursday night, I dug out the manual of my PC and took out one of the RAM (I had 512MB memory then) from my computer and put that on my bag. On Friday after work, I sought advice from my friend Michael whether or not such old memory (i.e. DDR RAM) is still available ... then I rushed to Wanchai Computer City to look for that ... once I saw that in a shop on the 1/F, I bought a 1GB piece at HKD450. 'cos I had no idea at that time whether the new RAM worked in my PC, I only bought 1GB but actually I thought of buying 2GB to boost my PC's performance. Once I got home, of course the very first thing was to install the new RAM. There're two memory slots in my PC and thus I installed the 1GB next to a 256MB one, making a total of 1.25GB memory. Not bad at all! And the performance now is: SUPER! I think I'm not going to buy another 1GB 'cos enough is enough ...