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Since I got my Windows Vista laptop, I have been tweaking and playing with it like a new babe. The Windows Vista operating system is so lovely although sometimes I find the added security features quite annoying. Recently, I found that there is this Windows Vista utility which is meant for benchmarking your system called the Windows System Assessment Tool.

Usually, you would run it through the Control Panel. Go:
Control Panel > System and Maintenance > Performance Information and Tools

Check out my laptop’s performance. Not very good right… all because of the poor graphics capabilities.

OK, this may sound like boring and useless. But, you may not know that you can actually get this tool to display some really cool 3D animations. To do this, you need to get to the command prompt and run the following commands. If you have problem running them, most likely you need to elevate your privileges.

Let me show you screen shots of these 3D animations. The commands to run them are below of the screen shots.

winsat aurora

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When I first saw this keyboard, I fell in love with it immediately although I don’t use a full sized keyboard much as I work on my laptop most of the time.

With this cool keyboard, typing on a keyboard that you are not comfortable with will soon become a thing of the past. The LiberTouch keyboard allows you to customize the key-layout by easily removing and rearranging them. Yes, you are right, you can rearrange them into anything they like!

No info on pricing or availability though, but I will make sure I let you know first when it’s announced.

You might run into this message “The requested operation requires elevation” when you are trying some naughty commands in Windows Vista. Refer to the screen shot below which comes up if you ran the ipconfig /flushdns command.

Well, you get this message because you do not have enough privilege or permission to run the command, even if you were the administrator of the computer. Yes, Windows Vista is that stubborn; or has high security as Bill Gates says.

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In the event that all of a sudden a working website seems to be inaccessible, you may want to try the following instead of restarting your computer. Go to the command prompt and run ipconfig /flushdns.

DNS or Domain Name System in full is the system that maps IP addresses to Internet addresses such as www.kongtechnology.com. A full explanation of how DNS works is beyond the scope of this tutorial, but check out wikipedia for more details if you are interested in learning.

By default, your computer keeps a DNS resolver cache which stores the IP addresses attached to frequently used Internet website addresses. This enables your system to bring up frequently accessed web addresses quickly, without the need to first consult a chain of DNS servers on the Internet to find out what IP address is associated with the website.

Sometimes a bad DNS entry can be cached due to many possible reasons. For example, when a server on the network has changed or has been moved to another IP address or network. When this happened, you will need to either flush the DNS cache to get rid of it, or wait up to 24 hours for it to be dropped from the cache automatically, or maybe can also restart your machine.

Now, how do you do the DNS flushing? Go to the command prompt and run:

C:\>ipconfig /flushdns

That should get your DNS cache flushed into the drain!

Here is a list of various famous names that you have known but possibly haven’t understood what’s the meaning, or where they came from:

Adobe - came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock.

Apple Computers - favorite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company Apple Computers if the other colleagues didn’t suggest a better name by 5 o’clock.

Apache - It got its name because its founders got started by applying patches to code written for NCSA’s httpd daemon. The result was ‘A PAtCHy’ server - thus, the name Apache.

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