Here’s a sweet video of a guy doing the Star Wars theme beatbox style. The camera angle adds to the visual, but it’s too bad the overall quality of the video isn’t any better. Made me think of Blake Lewis a bit from American Idol fame, what ever really happened to him?
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tv416Vw7mk]
My first computer when I was a kid was a TRS-80. Cassette deck for saving my programs and everything! My first Windows machine was a Toshiba Infinia I purchased after college in ’96 while living in Nashville. I believe the Infinia was the greatest computer design ever. At the time, it was the only tower and monitor combo that was black and not the ugly beige box.
I’ve still got the tower and the CRT. I just dumped off three other old CRT’s at Best Buy to take advantage of their recycling program. I just can’t ditch the Infinia monitor though. My original goal was to rebuild my own machine as a living room computer/media center. The immediate goal now is to figure out how I can reuse this monitor.
My first thought was to hope that the AT&T U-verse box had a monitor out option. It doesn’t, so now I’m wondering if there’s an adapter that will let me use the monitor as a display and accept input from S-Video or RCA outputs.
Anyone have an idea of how that could be done?
If you’ve been using your computer for very long you’ve probably experienced the time where you’re sitting in front of it and think, “This use to be so much quicker back in the day.” What happened? Things get clogged up and mucked up and sometimes you just need a couple of tweaks to get a bit more pep in your system’s step.
One of those tweaks you can do is to delete your prefetch files and this has been said to improve your reboot time. What the prefetch routine does is look at the applications you use and creates pointer index files to the files those applications will need so that Windows can access them and start-up those programs quickly.
There’s a bit of a debate on if this is actually a tweak worth doing or not. In my opinion it does help. The slower prefetch experience Ed Bott noticed is due (in my opinion) that upon the first reboot of the system the prefetch files are getting rebuilt and identified as needed. I don’t think you’ll see the immediate effects until the following reboots.
It’s also my opinion that this helps because you may have started programs months ago that you no longer use and Windows is wasting resources in identifying where those programs and files are located to boot up quicker.
If you’re interested in seeing if this will work for your needs, you can follow these instructions for emptying your Prefetch folder on your Windows XP machine.
What’s been your experience with refreshing your prefetch files?