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How to exercise your brain to be better in your work

Oystein — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:25:57 +0000

This article by Jon Davis gives you tips about how to help your brain to stay “fit”. I can personally vouch for some of his tips. For example:

Exercise
Food
Sleep

A lot of excellent reading here.

Tools of the trade

Oystein — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:21:21 +0000

I found this article on tools for use in java development. A log of good input here. In short the article author Ignacio Coloma promotes these tools:

StringUtils from commons-lang
IOUtils og FileUtils from commons-io
Google collections
java.util.concurrent

Se this article for a more detailed information.

Another solution to the nagging Windows update restart popup

Oystein — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 09:04:06 +0000

My last post described how to stop the windows update service to get rid of this annoying restart pop up. Well there seems to be another and more elegant solution. I found this solution on codinghorror.com

In short this solution involves changing the group policy (Windows XP). Do like this:

Start the group policy editor (Start/run/gpedit.msc)
Navigate to Local Computer Policy/Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/ Windows Components/Windows Update
Set the “Re-prompt for restart with scheduled installations” to a very large number so it doesn’t bother you for a reasonably long time. This makes sense because you might want a first indication that Windows Update isn’t completed.
Alternatively you can set the “No auto-restart for schedule Automatic Updates installations” to turn it of completely.

Of cause if your pc are in a domain or you are not the administrator of the pc, you system administrator might not allow you to change these setting.

Windows update restart popup

Oystein — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 13:07:31 +0000

I was just out a second, and while my computer had a little idle time Microsoft updated my computer with some patch. I usually don’t mind that updates are installed automatically, but when it forces me to reboot afterwards it gets really annoying. This led me to google the following phrase:

“kill windows update” (At the time I really meant it)

I obviously isn’t the only one out there that gets annoyed of this freaking nagging pop up. So here is the solution kindly supplied by nzj (link)

Run the following in a command window:

sc stop wuauserv

This stops the Windows update service. After it has stopped you can restart it again with:

sc start wuauserv

And then it will start nagging you again.

Finally an iProduct that I like

Oystein — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 11:10:43 +0000

Apple has earlier launched the iMac, the iPod and a lot of other iProducts. I’m not a fan of any of these, but here is finally one that I like. It’s not by Apple though.

Here it is: the iFinger.

This beautiful product can be bought from Spreadshirt

Wap enabled

Oystein — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 21:33:17 +0000

This site is now wap enabled. Johoo!

Wap can be reached by pointing your wap browser at this url.

Found this on a Firefox forum

Oystein — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 21:50:29 +0000

Why do geeks confuse Christmas and Halloween?

Because 31 OCT = 25 DEC.

Harr Harr Harr.

Slickrun

Oystein — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 11:13:15 +0000

Tried this program from Bayden Systems that lets you define commands for starting programs rather that clicking through loads of menues or tryings to remember numerous custom key mappings. With slickrun you define magic words that are used as commands for starting predefined programs. You can also define multiple tasks for a single command like a mornig statup command.

Slickrun is freeware and can be found here.