If you like IHOP, you’ll love SpyHop! Today is my work from home day and I am taking advantage of it to do the Vista Server Pack 1 update on Dominica’s HP Compaq 6515b laptop. It is a pretty major change and includes the kernel change syncing Vista with Windows Server 2008. So I am …
Monthly Archives: April 2008
April 2, 2008: Nothing Exciting Today
I worked at home until midnight last night. I went to bed when I was just too exhausted to be of any use. I took Oreo for a late night walk outside and discovered that it was raining. Raining quite hard in fact, but it didn’t start until the moment that Oreo and I went …
Linux’ kscand
In Linux the kscand process is a kernel process which is a key component of the virtual memory (vm) system. According to Unix Tech Tips & Tricks’ excellent Understanding Virtual Memory article “The kscand task periodically sweeps through all the pages in memory, taking note of the amount of time the page has been in …
Handbrake Settings
Now that I am getting comfortable with Handbrake and its settings I have noticed the dearth of information online about peoples’ preferred settings. I feel that this information is very valuable and so have decided to share some baseline information about my own settings. Unless otherwise stated I do my conversions to the .mp4 MPEG4 …
April 1, 2008: Working Late
How can it be April already? That’s crazy. March just flew right by. I was really tired this morning and decided not to go in early like I usually try to do. I like going in to the office early but once in a while I just need some time to sleep in like a …