Archive for December, 2009

KiloBytes per second vs kilobits per second

Monday, December 21st, 2009

Here is an interesting formula for calculating the data transfer rate vs connection speed of a modem.

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Microsoft Rich Copy

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

This is an awesome tool.   Awesome awesome awesome.   Complete conditional control over anything you are copying!   You can use it for directory comparison, drive recovery and pretty much anything else your copying heart desires.   Designed initially as an internal tool for use by Microsoft, it has been kept up to date, and was officially released to the general public in April this year as part of Hoffman’s Utility Spotlight.

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How to restore a corrupt Windows XP registry

Sunday, December 13th, 2009

Every now and again, you come across a machine that has the registry die completely, coupled with an error message along the lines of

Windows XP could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM

To restore the registry is relatively easy albeit drawn out, providing Windows Restore is enabled.

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