Last night was a bit wild. I remember getting home sometime in the early hours and stumbling from the car to the shower to soak away the drinking. By the time I realised that I still had my wallet and week old iPhone 4 in my pockets, they were dripping wet. I checked my phone this morning and found water condensation on the inside of the camera lens and flash!

fix · hints · iPhone · tips

I use VPN for work quite often, and lately more often than not. I needed a way to connect to VPN as soon as possible, even before I logged in to Windows. The answer is to use the RASPHONE and RASDIAL commands with the Windows Task Scheduler.

connectivity · hints · VPN · Windows

Need a fast and easy way to kill an unresponsive application in linux?

hints · linux · tips · ubuntu

Recently I was tasked in the office to resolve a performance issue on some PCs. They weren’t that old but seemed to get slower and slower during the day until they were unusable. Like many package PCs on the market, they had a decent CPU speed but were quite anemic in the memory department. The solution? More RAM of course! Here’s a closer look why…

memory · performance · RAM · Windows