Wishing you all a very very Happy New Year

 

HNY 2007

Happiness deep down within.
Serenity with each sunrise.
Success in each facet of your life.
Family beside you.
Close and caring friends.
Health, inside you.
Love that never ends.
Special memories of all the yesterdays.
A bright today with much to be thankful for.
A path that leads to beautiful tomorrows.
Dreams that do their best to come true.
Appreciation of all the wonderful things about you.

Chaos Laboratory wishes you a really bright & prosperous year ahead :)

 

How to replace your Task Manager & handle processes better

 
Process Viewer Screenshot

Lets face it – the default Task Manager (taskmgr.exe) in Windows 2000/XP is of very limited calibre and doesn’t display a lot of critical information – like the originating path of a process, parent-child relationships between processes and specially the DLLs used by each process. All this information really comes in handy when dealing with misbehaving processes as well as for development and debugging of…

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Further musings on Google’s experimentation with the AdSense logo

 
AdSense according to palette

I’d talked about my own experience with the “Ads by Google” logo experimentation in one of my earlier posts titled, Google experimenting with the “Ads by Google” link in AdSense.
There I’d pointed out how Google might have actually heard the grumbles against the idea and resorted to a win-win approach for both Google & AdSense Publishers by tweaking the new logo to blend in with…

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Local Website Archive: Archive your favourite pages in a snap

 
Local Website Archiver

I’ve using this really handy freeware that makes all other Offline Browsers go for a toss. Admitted, Offline Browsers are real good for storing content offline – but very soon your pages and directories become an uncontrollable mess if not organized properly from Day 1. Besides they still reside as individual pages and folders creating a messy folder containing thousands of files.. here’s an alternate…

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Line Counter: An indispensible tool for the .NET Developer

 
LineCounter Screenshot

If you’re a serious .NET developer and use Visual Studio for coding, you’d definitely feel the need to check your project size from time to time. Not only it helps in tracking the size, in a way it gives you an overall idea about the progress as well.
While I was using VS 2003, there was a very handy add-in named Project Line Counter (PLC) from…

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How To: Setup a Local Domain Name Services (DNS) Server for your Intranet

 

This was another of my journeys into the deep dark dungeons of Linux. This time I managed to set-up a DNS server locally and got it resolving addresses over my intranet.
Experimentation Platform:
Intel P4 3.0Ghz (Intel MotherBoard)
1 GB RAM
2 x 80 GB HDD on RAID 1 (Disk Mirroring) – alloted entirely to Linux
Operating System:
Linux – Redhat Enterprise AS Server v3
Note:
I was trying to setup the…

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Desktoptwo: A serious Web OS

 
Desktoptwo Screenshot

Of all the Web OS-es I’ve reviewed, Desktoptwo can be called a serious contender. The whole interface is flash-based giving it a very sleek look with smooth operation – although some applications might take a while to load.
The interface seems like a cross-breed between Vista’s Aero look and Mac OS-X. The application menu is similar to Windows Start Menu. There’s a handy desktop bar that…

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Registrar Lite: A really Powerful & Free Registry Editor

 
Registrar Lite Screenshot

Registrar Lite is a powerful & immensely flexible registry editor for WinXP/2000/NT/ME/9x that offers a horde of necessary features that are totally lacking in the standard registry editor (RegEdit) packaged with Windows. It’s brought to you by Resplendence Software.
Registrar Lite sports a Windows Explorer like two-pane interface with a handy navigation toolbar. The features include…

Background Search and Replace – which, unlike RegEdit doesn’t stop you…

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