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Life of a Computer Scientist: The real way to disable Adobe Updater from your Mac OS X Adobe update manager is really annoying, but most instructions on the web to disable it merely tells Adobe Updater not to report updates; the updater still runs silently. The fact that I'm dedicating system resource every now and then so the Adobe Updater can phone home but not tell me to update is not good enough for me. I want Adobe Updater to stop completely. To stop Adobe Updater completely, one must understand how it gets run in the first place. The updater is launched by a Mac OS X system service called launchd. To launchd, Adobe Updater is a periodic job. cd ~/Library/LaunchAgents launchctl remove `basename com.adobe.ARM.* .plist` rm com.adobe.ARM Basically, the idea is, for each launchd plist file in ~/Library/LaunchAgents that you don't want, run launchctl remove on the job name, which is the same as the plist file name without the .plist suffix, then remove the actual .plist file. You're welcome.
8 Useful Shortcut Keys Using The "Windows" Button [Windows 7] If you’re a rather busy person like me, every single second you waste throws pennies down the drain. Those pennies gather up over a year, so making yourself more efficient at what you do on your computer should be at the top of your list. If you lose 2 cents for every second you lose and you waste 2 minutes of the day moving your mouse instead of pressing quick shortcut keys, that’s $864 every year you’ll never recover – almost one grand! Even if you don’t make money on your computer, think of how much time you can save to do other things like reading a book or playing ball with your kid that always complains about you being such a busy beaver. Many of you know that you can press the “Alt + Tab” shortcut key to switch between windows, but perhaps a few of you don’t know that you can press the “Windows Logo + Tab” key (next to the “Alt” key) for a similar effect, only more aesthetically pleasing. If you’re really bored, just hold down both keys continuously. Using multiple monitors?
Website down or not? - Website availability check 25 Best SSH Commands / Tricks OpenSSH is a FREE version of the SSH connectivity tools that technical users of the Internet rely on. Users of telnet, rlogin, and ftp may not realize that their password is transmitted across the Internet unencrypted, but it is. OpenSSH encrypts all traffic (including passwords) to effectively eliminate eavesdropping, connection hijacking, and other attacks. The encryption that OpenSSH provides has been strong enough to earn the trust of Trend Micro and other providers of cloud computing.Additionally, OpenSSH provides secure tunneling capabilities and several authentication methods, and supports all SSH protocol versions. SSH is an awesome powerful tool, there are unlimited possibility when it comes to SSH, heres the top Voted SSH commands 1) Copy ssh keys to user@host to enable password-less ssh logins. ssh-copy-id user@host To generate the keys use the command ssh-keygen 2) Start a tunnel from some machine’s port 80 to your local post 2001 ssh -N -L2001:localhost:80 somemachine Have Fun
Second Internal vs External Hard Drive - Photo.net Digital Darkroom Forum Steve C , May 31, 2009; 09:35 p.m. I'd like to put all my photos (now on CDs and DVDs) onto a single hard drive for use with Photoshop. I was looking at external drives, but I have room for another internal drive on my Dell (XP), and Dell sells the same brand and size (Seagate 1TB) at the same price as the external. What are the advantages and disadvantages of an internal drive besides the lack of portability and off-site storage? Steve C , May 31, 2009; 09:44 p.m. P.S. ian murren , May 31, 2009; 09:51 p.m. Well an internal should be cheaper than an external drive since your not paying for an enclosure, power supply, interface chips (hard drives are not native usb, so there are some hardware needed). Mendel Leisk , May 31, 2009; 10:16 p.m. I've been using mulitple internal drives for about 15 years now, coupled with a simple efficient command to mirror selected folders. Brad Smith , May 31, 2009; 10:54 p.m. Does your PC have an external SATA (eSATA) port? Alan Bryant , May 31, 2009; 10:57 p.m.
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RAM based SSDs - directory - StorageSearch.com are you ready to adapt to new ways of thinking about enterprise RAM? Editor:- April 2, 2014 - Are you ready to rethink what you think about enterprise RAM? The revolution in in use-case-aware intelligent flash could crossover to DRAM. A3CUBE unveils PCIe memory fabric for 10,000 node-class PCIe SSD architectures Editor:- February 25, 2014 - PCIe SSDs can now access a true PCIe connected shared memory fabric designed by A3CUBE - which exited stealth today with the launch of their remote shared broadcast memory network - RONNIEE Express - which provides 700nS (nanoseconds) raw latency (4 byte message) and which enables message throughput - via standard PCIe - which is 8x better than InfiniBand. Editor's comments:- I spoke to the company's luminaries recently - who say they intend to make this an affordable mainstream solution. The idea of using PCIe as a fabric to share data at low latency and with fast throughput across a set of closely located servers isn't a new one.
KeyRocket for Gmail™ Breaking the Hype of High Frequency RAM - Puget Custom Computers In order to test whether a higher frequency at the cost of increased timings is worth it, we ran a series of benchmarks using the RAM listed below. For each frequency level, we used RAM with timings that are the most common at that frequency. We have found in the past that the performance differences between brands (running at the same settings of course) are negligible, but we wanted to remove as many variables as possilble. We used Patriot RAM for our testing because they had three of the four most common RAM frequency/timing ratios. Patriot does not make a 1333MHz low latency kit with CL7 timings, however, so we tweaked the timings and frequency of the PC3-12800 model to run at those specifications. Due to the different ways that Intel and AMD processors handle RAM, we also performed all of our testing on platforms from both companies.
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