If youre using a shared PPPoE connection and you cant access a website from any PC except the connection host, it might be a problem with your MTU size. See http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article04-107 for a fix

Windows Me/2000: Select Settings in your Start Menu, and then select Taskbar & Start Menu. Turn off the Use Personalized Menus option. Windows XP: Select Settings in your Start Menu, and then select Taskbar & Start Menu. Choose the Start Menu tab, choose Classic Start Menu, and click Customize. Turn off the Use Personalized Menus [...]

The problem is that Windows seems to repeatedly recreate the THUMBS.DB file automatically. Here’s how to stop this from happening: In Explorer, go to Tools -> Folder Options or open the Folder Options icon in the Control Panel. Choose the View tab, and turn off the Do not cache thumbnails option. Click Ok.

Once again, Microsoft isn’t following their own rules. The Windows Picture and Fax Viewer is set as the default image viewer for all sorts of file types in Windows XP. Unfortunately, choosing a new program as the default in the File Types window won’t change this, and there’s no option in the Windows interface that [...]

if you’ve already got a utility in place to manage your ZIP files (such as WinZip), this new feature can just get in the way. For example, Windows will search inside ZIP files when using Search – For Files or Folders, a process that not only causes searches to take longer, but one that may [...]

A program can be started automatically at bootup if a shortcut to the program is in your Startup folder (which is inside of your Start Menu folder). Older programs might still install themselves in your WIN.INI file (on the same line that starts with “LOAD=”). Use Notepad to edit this file. Some drivers can also [...]

Various stuff about WinXP

Researchers at Cern and Californias Caltech have tripled data rates over existing infrastructure by tweaking protocols. They averaged 923Mbits/sec using Fast TCP compared to 266Mbits/sec using standard TCP. By aggregating 10 channels they achieved 8.6Gbytes/sec! FTCP is one of the results of research into the recently launched Grid, a network for distributing computing power rather [...]

Standard 802.11a 802.11b 802.11g Max speed 54Mbps 11Mbps 54Mbps Avg speed 20Mbps 4.5Mbps 20Mbps Outdoor range 30m 120m 50m Indoor range 12m 60m 20m Frequency 5GHz 2.4GHz 2.4GHz Channels 8 13 13 Users/access point 64 32 32 Officially ratified yes yes yes Wifi certification yes yes end 2003

and gawk at cheerleaders at the same time. At least I think its Spanish… http://www.terra.com/fox/galeria/

How to upload files to your blog http://jp.php.net/features.file-upload

With mars approaching the point nearest to earth it has been in 6000 years, there has been an increase intrest in buying plots of land on it. At 3000 yen an acre its a lot cheaper than land in Tokyo, but what worries me is theres at least two different organisations selling land. The Lunar [...]

Interested in learning C# or even .NET? The open source Ximian C# compiler is available for .NET and Linux at www.go-mono.com. Another free compiler is #develop with a full IDE for both C# and VB.NET at www.icsharpcode.net. With open source rivals like these, commercial C# producers like Microsoft and Borland face a stiff challenge, especially [...]

The Panawave Laboratory cult predicted that the world would end on May 15th. They postponed it until May 22nd when it failed to end on schedule. They’re still travelling around in white vans, wrapping up trees and fences in white cloth while they figure out why the world isn’t cooperating with them.

The World of Warcraft screenshots look excellent. You’ll have to wait a while though, the beta isn’t due to start until August at the earliest.