Speed Up Windows XP A Little Bit

Had you ever experienced opening a folder in Windows XP and it takes around 30 seconds to a minute (or even more) before you can actually see the files & folders in it? Mind you, I had experienced this even if my machine is sporting around 1GB of RAM.

As you had guessed, the culprit is Windows XP’s default settings. You see, Windows XP will try to automatically locate network drives, folders, and printers by default. This happens every time you open a folder in Windows XP. To avoid the lookups, go to My Computer. Click on Tools > Folder Options. In the Folder Options, click on the View tab and uncheck the option “Automatically search for network folders and printers.”

This should make your folder browsing a little bit faster (even if you just have 256MB of RAM).

Anyone from Ovation Production? SOS Backstage Pass Please :)

I hope that someone from Ovation Production (or Mr. Renen de Guia, himself) visits the local blogdom and reads this post of mine. Will do anything just to get a backstage pass for two (or even one, just for me alon — sorry Rose) for Swing Out Sister’s (SOS) concert come 07 April 2008 at the Big Dome.

You can leave a message thru the comment feature of this post, or email me [email protected] or SMS 0916.320.1513. Thank you!

Using Smart Bro? Use OpenDNS

Ever experienced going to a website and your browser will display: Page cannot be displayed?

The computer unit that we share for internet surfing at home uses Smart Broadband. It is not once that I have to call their Customer Service Hotline just to ask them to refresh their DNS Servers, because we are trying to access a website, which we firmly know that is online (because TurfSitePH.net is the host) and does exist, but gets the “Page cannot be displayed” error over and over again. It only means one thing, the DNS Server of my ISP is broken.

Now, if you do not want to spend wasting your time calling your ISP just to request them to refresh their DNS servers (based on my experience, they will act on it after 48 hours), you may want to use OpenDNS instead? OpenDNS will let you use their DNS Servers, instead of the ones provided by your ISP. In this way, we can be assured that we are browsing the latest version of the website, and it also gives you a safeguard against phishers and scammers, as they try to block websites that fall to these categories when you surf to them.

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Swing Out Sister Live In Manila (07 APR 2008)

Finally, after almost two decades, SOS (Swing Out Sister) is back in Manila! And I will definitely watch them perform live. I am not a big fan; I am a huge SOS fan! How huge? If my child (Robyn) was a girl, she would had been named as Robyn Corinne Xeon (SOS’ lead vocalist Corinne Drewery), but he’s a guy, so his name is Robyn Andi Xeon (after Andy Connel, SOS’ keyboardist). And the last time that they visited the Philippines was almost 20 years ago, I was still at elementary school then and my parents will not allow me to watch them at the PICC.

The date is 07 April 2008 2000H at the Araneta Coliseum, oh no, it’s Monday, have class. But wait (checks the calendar again), it’s a holiday (in lieu of 09 April 2008 — sometimes, I love this government)! Reserve your tickets now via http://www.ticketnet.com.ph

Sta. Lucia PBA Champions; Beats Purefoods

Sta. Lucia Realtors grabbed their very first All-Filipino crown in tonight’s do or die match with the Purefoods Chunky Giants, 100 to 88. I must say, they really deserved it! The Chunky Giants are now a bunch of hot & brat heads (pardon for the terms, but can’t find any better words). It’s high time that PF kicks their coach (I had said it a conference ago).

Congratulations to the Sta. Lucia Realtors!

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