System Process

The other day I had a problem with my system. Before I tell you what happened, I recently installed AVG 8.0 and advanced system care onto my computer plus games and other applications. Anyways, I was playing a game I noticed that it would chop and run slow for about 5 seconds than run normal. I thought it was weird and it has never happened before. As a piece of advice, when your computer system is running slow you want to check the task manager. You can simply open this up by hitting ctrl+alt+delete all at the same time to open the task manager. So I opened it up and opened up the processes tab. This shows all of your processes. I noticed my system process was running a little bit over 64,000 kb of memory.

So my first hypothesis is to turn off the system process. I right clicked on it and click end process. I said it wouldn't. So it right clicked it again and clicked "end process tree." My computer didn't work and it basically shut down. So I was wrong and I will never try to shut down the system process ever again.

So I did some research to see what the problem was. I typed into my system process taken a lot of memory. Someone had the same problem I was having. That person posted a comment about AVG 8.0. He said that AVG uses the system process to protect your computer.

I put it to the test. The first thing I did was delete AVG 8.0.

1. All you do is go to control panel and went to remove programs, then uninstalled AVG 8.0
   
2. Checked my system process in the task manager
   
3. Downloaded AVG 7.5 from the AVG website or www.filehippo.com
   
4. Installed AVG 7.5
   
5. My computer ran better!
   

www.AVG.com

 

A cool Game

You should go here and try it out. Play some!

Hey there is a hidden movie on XP!

This is just for fun! This isn't really the best movie, it is only in symbols. So you go to

start>run

Then in the run you type TELNET

a command prompt will come up

Then type o as in the letter O

Then type towel.blinkenlights.nl

then juss sit back and waste good ole company time watchin symbols reinact star wars

Why back up more files?

According to Carbonite.com 43% of people lose their data. There are a lot of different reasons to lose data maybe by dropping your laptop, your laptop was stolen, viruses, accidentally erasing hard drives, power surge in the house, and there are many other reasons. The benefits of backing up your data to a third party sources are, you have your data somewhere else, you save your company from bankruptcy, and if an someone hacks in or steals your computer no one else will see your personal information.

Having your data stored on a third party is a really good idea. You could easily have an external hard drive that you use to backup your files every month. Backing up your files to an online service is a great idea also, because they will be able to manage all of your data at any time or place.

Companies used to put data on zip drives, CD's, or another hard drive. The main problem with that, are people losing the disks themselves. Another problem is that if the disk drives fail you will not be able to access those any more. Using a third party is a great idea because you will be able to have all of your data available at all times.

A lot of companies who do not save their data properly and is lost will file for bankruptcy that year. All of that data will have a lot of accounting information, customer information, and other information that would be devastating to a company to lose. If you lose all of your customer's data you will not be able to bill people what they owe. The company will not be able to receive money from other companies that owe you.

You could argue that if you outsource your data to a third party data center, is that someone could hack into the data center. Another reason is that if that data center was destroyed by fire, flood, or other kind of disaster you could lose everything. These online backup services double encrypt your files so that people can't open up your files to steal information. They also partition your data to another physical place in the country so that if one place is destroyed your data will be in another place. Your data is safe with them.

To sum up that the argument that it is expensive to use a backup service is ridicules. If the servers fail, get destroyed, or hacked into. That is an expensive process to find and recover your files. If you have to bill people and you don't have their information, you will lose their trust and they will go to a different company. It is important to consider this service.

Title:
If losing data is getting your backup... why not try online data backup?
Authors:
Molloy,Cian
Source:
Accountancy Ireland, 2008, 40, 4, 52-55, Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland

Geographical Information Systems

When the smart trucks hit the road in Georgia they have a lot of technology on them. A lot of people think that people who work in the power industry is a simple job that anyone can do. These trucks are as smart as you are. This article that I read to get information about GIS is very sophicated. People were able to find every pole and transformer in the whole state and surrounding states. They even programmed directions to every transformer in the states. One of men said," I have even driven on a pig trail to find a down transformer." This information has even saved lives. When hurricane Katrina blew through Louisiana. These workers went down to help rebuild the transformer there.

The GIS has helped all sorts of people. The Aussies use this system to locate and find locusts. This has helped saved millions of acres of farmland. The system in Australia is able to loate migration patterns in the locusts and able to see how much they are growing in size. This system is a blessing there.

Australian Plague Locust Commission, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Foresty Australia, GOP Box 858 Canberra ACT 2601, Australia

1. Anderson, Joan L., Jolly, Laura D. and Fairhurst, Ann E. Customer relationship management in retailing: A content analysis of retail trade journals 20073. Anthes, Gary. Big Things From Little b 20082. Evans, Dan, Kaplan, Jeremy. PC Magazine's Essential Upgrade Guide 20084. Wolf, Gene. Smart Trucks Hit the Road 2008

Dr Watson32 debugger

Dr Watson is a debugger program that finds unhandled errors. It is really good when it comes to fixing System32 and other system files. But when it comes to movie, pictures, and other media it crashes or locks up your computer. I recently had this problem.
I have a folder with movies in it. On the thumbail it shows the beginging of the movie ( not in animation ) but when i would open the folder my computer would lock up. I tried taking the movies out of the folder. i tried a lot of different things. I finally found a solution.

GO to my computer
click on veiw and it will bring down a drop down list
then click the "LIST" make it a list because thumbnails shows the actual file
then go to tools at the top then click on folder options
then go to the view tab
then ther will be a button there that says "APPLY TO ALL FOLDERS" click that and it should apply that to all folder.
The debugger shouldnt pop up anymore.

Windows Deployment Services

The service that I would like to share with you, that will save your company a lot of money is Windows Deployment services. This is a great service comes with Windows Server 2008. You are able to install through your server manager.     

This service provides a company the best way to plan, build, and test how things will work. This helps companies also to have a quick way to install programs on all of the computers which will save company a lot of money and sooner open date. If the situation calls to install windows XP on 5,000 computers, it will take forever to go one by one to all of the computers to install XP all of them. If you have one server setup with Windows deployment services it will save the company a huge investment. How this works is that you make an image file for XP and you are able to send it to all of computers through the network.

If the company buys server 2008, why buy any other imaging programs? Windows server 2008 comes with windows deployment services. This is a great service because it will do everything those others do well. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb891797.aspx

The only downfall would be that you have to make sure all of the computers come with PXE. PXE is Preboot execution environment. You don't have to worry about this though because computer made since 1998 have this service installed on it. You can find out more from this site http://www.pxe.ca/