So many times I have wanted to see why my windows is booting so slowly. What drivers are causing problems… Well msconfig has a nice feature to disable the eye candy bootup and just show what drivers are being loaded!!

On Windows XP open msconfig and go to the BOOT …

I havn’t posted in a recipe in a while… I did make a few interesting dishes recently, but was a little busy to post the recipe. This recipe I made yesterday was something I came up with after getting inspired watching Sanjay Thummu of vahrehvah.com. His videos on …

rxvt is so much better than the dumb command prompt style shell you get with default cygwin.

Remember to choose rxvt when installing cygwin. Then create a shortcut with the following command

C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -fg green -bg black -fn "Lucida Console-14" -e bash --login -i

UNIX supports a wide variety of directory-navigation tools. Two good tools are pushd and popd.

You’re certainly aware that the cd command changes your current directory. What happens if you have several directories to navigate, but you want to be able to quickly return to a location? The pushd …