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How to install php5 in Ubuntu

Pankaj — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 12:52:04 +0000

Installing PHP5 and Apache on Ubuntu

If you are doing any kind of PHP development, you’ll almost always be using Apache along with it. Here’s the quick and easy way to get PHP up and running on your Ubuntu box.

First, you’ll want to add the extra repositories to Ubuntu’s sources.list file.

From a command shell, you will run the following commands:

sudo apt-get install apache2

sudo apt-get install php5

sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Note that if apache is already installed you can omit the first line. Your web files will now be found in /var/www/

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How to Speed up windows XP

Pankaj — Thu, 13 May 2010 05:42:13 +0000

Hi Folks,

Here are some Tips, Tricks and Tweaks to boost up performance of Windows XP.

Before Continuing please take a backup of registry.
How to backup windows registry file.
->start–run–regedit–export.

Lets Start

1. Increase Boot Performance
Click Start, Select Run and type “Regedit”.

Open: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlSession ManagerMemory ManagementPrefetch Parameters.
Double Click “Enable Prefetcher” and change the value Data from 3 to 5. By changing this value OS will fetch up the application more fast.

2.Increase Shutdown Speed:

Open Registry editor, by clicking Start–>Run–>regedit

Open: HKEY_CURRENT_USERControlPanelDesktop.
Double click “WaitToKillAppTimeout” and set its Value Data to 1000.
Double click “HungAppTimeout” and set its value to 1000.

Open: HKEY_CURRENT_USERControlPanleDesktop
Double click “AutoEndTasks” and change its value to 1.

[This step allow windows xp to close non-responsive application automatically.]

Open: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESystemCurrentControlSetControl
Double click “WaitToKillServiceTimeout” and set its value to 1000

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What is Hiberfil.sys and Windows Hibernate function

Pankaj — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 05:49:13 +0000

To understand why hiberfil.sys exists, we must look at the Windows Hibernate function. When you activate Hibernate, Windows takes a snap shot of your current session (all your running programs, open files, etc.) and writes that information to your hard drive. Hibernate was designed to speedup shut downs and restarts and save power on laptops.

Figure 1: Hiberfil.sys, as the name suggests, is the file to which Windows saves the snap shot data. Thus, the file is always equal in size to the total amount of available RAM on the computer (see Figure 1).

Disabling Windows Hibernation

As I noted earlier, you can manually delete hiberfil.sys, but it will just come back. To permanently remove the file, you must disable the Windows Hibernate function. You can do this through either the Windows GUI or from the command line.

Windows XP

On Windows XP systems, you can easily disable Hibernate through the GUI using the following steps:

Open the Control Panel and access Power Options.
Select the Hibernate tab in the Power Options Properties dialog box.
Clear the Enable Hibernation check box (see Figure 2) and click OK.

On Windows 7 & Vista

How to disable Hibernate from Command prompt
Open a command prompt with administrative privileges.
Enter “powercfg.exe -h off” (see Figure 4).
Exit the command prompt.

–Cheers

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Top features of Windows 7

pranky — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:35:35 +0000

Protect your data
USB flash drives are convenient, portable, and very easy to lose. Which is a problem, especially if they’re carrying sensitive data. Fortunately Windows 7 has the solution: encrypt your documents with an extension of Microsoft’s BitLocker technology, and only someone with the password will be able to access it. Right-click your USB flash drive, select Turn on BitLocker and follow the instructions to protect your private files.
Minimise quickly with shake
If you have multiple windows open on your desktop and things are getting too cluttered, it used to be a time-consuming process to close them all down. In Windows 7 you can use the Aero Shake feature to minimise everything in seconds, using a cool mouse gesture. Grab the title bar of the window you wish to keep open and give it a shake, and rejoice in a clear desktop area.
Faster program launches
If you’ve launched one instance of a program but want to start another, then don’t work your way back through the Start menu. It’s much quicker to just hold down Shift and click on the program’s icon (or middle-click it), and Windows 7 will start a new instance for you.
Load IE faster
Some Internet Explorer add-ons can take a while to start, dragging down the browser’s performance, but at least IE8 can now point a finger at the worst resource hogs. Click Tools > Manage Add-ons, check the Load Time in the right-hand column, and you’ll immediately see which browser extensions are slowing you down.
Browse your tasks
If you prefer the keyboard over the mouse, you will love browsing the taskbar using this nifty shortcut. Press Windows and T, and you move the focus to the left-most icon on the taskbar. Then use your arrow keys to change the focus to other icons, and you get a live preview of every window.
Startup repair
If you’ve downloaded Windows 7 (and even if you haven’t) it’s a good idea to create a system repair disc straight away in case you run into problems booting the OS later on. Click Start > Maintenance > Create a System Repair Disc, and let Windows 7 build a bootable emergency disc. If the worst does happen then it could be the only way to get your PC running again.
New WordPad formats
By default WordPad will save documents in Rich Text Format, just as before. But browse the Save As Format list and you’ll see you can also save (or open, actually) files in the Office 2007 .docx or OpenDocument .odt formats.
Get a power efficiency report
If you have a laptop, you can use the efficiency calculator to get Windows 7 to generate loads of useful information about its power consumption. Used in the right way, this can help you make huge gains in terms of battery life and performance. To do this you must open a command prompt as an administrator by typing ‘cmd’ in Start Search, and when the cmd icon appears, right-click it and choose Run as administrator.

Then at the command line, just type in ‘powercfg -energy‘ (without quotes) and hit Return, and Windows 7 will scan your system looking for ways to improve power efficiency. It will then publish the results in an HTML file, usually in the System32 folder. Just follow the path it gives you to find your report.
Search privacy
By default Windows 7 will remember your PC search queries, and display the most recent examples when searching in Windows Explorer. If you’re sharing a PC and don’t want everyone to see your searches, then launch GPEDIT.MSC, go to User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Explorer, double-click “Turn off display of recent search entries…” and click Enabled > OK.