Tuesday, February 15, 2011

0 Speed Up Intensive Applications with RAM Drive

Speed Up Intensive Applications

If your computer has some RAM to spare, RAM drive is perfect to increasing the performance of any applications that must read and write any data. Using a special kernel mode driver along with system memory, a temporary can be created that significantly faster than traditional storage. Spindle based harddisk found in almost every computers have a maximum read and write speed of around 100 MB per second. The performance of RAM drives are only limited by speed of memory and chipsets. That result in read and write speeds well above 1 GB per second and on high end system much faster.

There are a lot of different ways to create RAM drive. The method that i'll show to you will use a free application (utility) called RAMDisk that will allow you to create drive up to 4092 MB (assuming you have more than 4096 MB RAM in your computer)

1. First, download dataram RAMDisk
2. Then, click start button, and launch RAMDisk Configuration Utility




3. On the Settings tab specify the Disk size and Type.


4. Then, click start RAMDisk and your drives will be ready for used in windows explorer listed to the next of the other storage drives on your computer.
The main problem with RAMDisk is the non-persistent nature of the disk. Turn off your computer and the contents of RAMDisk will be gone forever. Dataram RAMDisk has a helpful feature that will allow you to save the state of your RAM drive upon shutting down and loading image of it, from a file from your harddisk, on startup to restore any data. You can find these settings on the load and save tab of the RAMDisk Configuration Utility.



Now, that you have a RAM drive setup and try running moving the internet explorer temporary internet files to speed up internet browsing or redirect any other disk intensive applications to use RAM drives.

Friday, February 11, 2011

0 VM VirtualBox

VM VirtualBox

VM VirtualBox is a software from Oracle (oracle, that name a symbol of free, open-source). This software allow you to make virtual environment in your PC. This virtual environment don't affect the main OS (commonly called HOST). This virtual machine very useful if you want to try many different Operating System without dual-boot, and you can make, reverse code, and modify viruses without affect the Host, absolutely secured.

Download 
VM VirtualBox 4.0.2 for Windows hosts
VM VirtualBox 4.0.2 for Mac X OS hosts
VM VirtualBox 4.0.2 for Linux hosts
VM VirtualBox 4.0.2 for Solaris hosts

I will explain how to use it later. And how to enable XP mode with VM VirtualBox.

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Thank you (/bps)

2 How to Install Google Android x86 ?

Install Android x86 (Live CD / USB)

Android x86 has implemented easy installer to install android x86 to your harddisk, android has support following partition types (System Files).
1. NTFS (New Technology File System)
2. FAT32 (File Allocation Table 32)
3. Ext3
4. Ext2
That mean you can install it with your windows.

Step by step :
1. Boot from Android x86 installation CD/USB, select "Installation-Install Android to harddisk", as the picture below.


2. After your boot has completed, you will see partitions configuration's dialog. You can select one of your partitions to install Android, or you can create or modify the partitions with select "Create or Modify Partitions". Note : If target drive not shown, try "Detect Devices"


3. Android can be installed side by side with other Operating System, or the data in your selected partition. If partition will be formated, you can select "Do not Format" to save the data in your selected partition. Note type of partition, the selected one must same with ID partition, or boot loader will failed to boot.



also note if you select to formating to FAT32, you will see a warning dialog box, if android can't save all data for FAT32. You still can continue to install, but, the android system that installed will work as Live CD. That mean all data will be lost if the machine has powered off. Therefore, we don't suggest to install Android x86 to FAT32 partitions.

4. The next question is "Do you want to install boot loader GRUB?". Commonly you must answer "YES", except if you want to install it by yourself. Note : Boot Installer just create items for Android x86.If you want other Operating System, you need to add items to the  /GRUB/menu.lst manually. See article about "Advance  Multi-Boot"


5. Now, your Installation has started and you can see Installation Progress bar.


6. OK, wait a few minutes, and you will see a dialog box below. Congratulation, your installation has finished successfully. Now, you can start Android x86 directly, or reboot and run it.




Advanced Multi-Boot


To boot to another Operating System you must add items for that OS in this location  /GRUB/menu.lst. For example, for windows, add the following codes :

        Codes :
      tittle Windows
       rootnoverufy (hd0,0) rootnoverufy (hd0, 0)
       chainloader +1 chainloader +1

This assume if windows installed in the first partition of first harddisk. Or, you must change the rootnoverify to the appropriate values. See GRUB manual for details.


Download :


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Thank you. (/bps)

Thursday, February 10, 2011

0 Google Chrome and Chromium

Google Chrome is an open-source software created by Google. Google Chrome is faster, safer, and more stable than other browser. The open-source license make everyone can download, use, change it's source code, distribute google chrome. Google chrome also has many themes, and extension, (most popular is facebook, adblock, and Gmail). If you're interest, you can download google chrome in the link below.


Google also make more advanced browser for developers, it's Chromium. Chromium is an open-source browser project that aim to build faster, safer, and more stable way for all internet users to experience the web. Developers can report bug, submit patch, and debug Chromium. Chromium can't be edited by Visual Studio 2010, it work only at Visual Studio 2008 or 2005. Then, if you are developers, and understanding programming you must try Chromium and you help google to create powerful platform for developing a new generation of web applications. Below is the Chromium download link.


Extract and copy the downloaded file (.zip) to path of your google chrome. Default Chrome path is  "C:\Users\<name of user>\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"

Enjoy developing....