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    Tip Jar: Live Dangerously! Fix your crawling BSNL DNS

    Disclaimer: Implementing this change requires understanding Windows Networking. It may contravene BSNL policy. This writer uses India's BSNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited - what a mouthful hence the acronym) Dataone broadband service. Which is a bit of step-child with mostly outdated (and therefore useless) configuration information on the vendor's site. That is assuming you can find said information in the first...
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Archive for March, 2007

Let’s Hear It For Internet Explorer

Mar 25th

Posted by Administrator in E-Musings

Once upon a time I loved a free software called MyIE. This add-in wrapper extended and enhanced the Internet Explorer (IE) browser engine. But MyIE2 wasn’t the first of its breed. That accolade goes to StileSoft’s NetCaptor that began as a free standalone plug-in piggy-backing on the IE rendering engine. Then NetCaptor decided to become advertisement-supported while also introduced a rather nasty memory leak that never seemed to be fixed! For the uninitiated memory leaks on Windows are nasty. More so on typical Windows 95/98/2000 computers with 64-128 MB of RAM. And so I very regretfully discarded it.

MyIE came out of More >

Da Good, De Bad ‘n Dem Ugly Ones

Mar 19th

Posted by Administrator in E-Musings

This post kicks off a new series about Great, Lousy and Downright Ugly software. Luckily, there aren’t too many of the last. But sadly plenty of the middle. But the guinea pig that I like to think of myself isn’t that stupid to crash a carefully configured computer with some of the lousy stuff. It may get installed but one whiff of ‘the stupids’ and its G-O-N-E.

Dem Ugly The NETEagle TCP Optimizer was a disaster. First it needs the .Net Framework installed. And once setup, all you get is a screen where you select the Windows OS type (Win 9x/ME; WinNT/2000/2003/XP). More >

Busy, busy, Busy Little Me

Mar 6th

Posted by Administrator in E-Musings

I know I promised to regularly update this blog. But you do realize that was a New Year Resolution. To be discarded the moment I (or you) sobered up. And if this off (mainly) and on (rarely) frequency annoys you, I’m sorry to see you go.

Truth time: I have just inherited a company from the owner. It’s not that the said owner’s gone away leaving the reins of power in my grubby paws. He still drops in and interferes So I spend my time managing the company. And Managing him. With a few hours left over every day to eat More >