haimg

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I love to program, tinker with things and generally a curious person. My career started with developing DOS TSRs in x86 Assembler. My daily work includes programming in Delphi (Windows), Ruby on Rails (Linux) and Java (Android).

My company Hagel Technologies makes network bandwidth monitor DU Meter and other software. I sometimes write in my blog.

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Oct 5	comment	Computer automatically shuts down after a period of idling Are you sure it is not installing Windows updates and then reboots automatically? See in the "Installed Windows Updates" under control panel.
Oct 5	comment	Windows 7, pre-caching large image files What is exactly your question? You explained something, but didn't actually ask anything.
Oct 3	comment	My UPS has a 5ms switchover time, server shuts off during said time "Shutting down" as "turning itself off immediately" or as "orderly OS shutdown"?
Oct 3	comment	Media Sanitation "One OR TWO passes"? I'd say you give Uncle Arnold too much credit...
Oct 3	comment	Can't Open Up Event Viewer I've been through this issue (cannot open the even viewer after an update). I think removing .NET via Add/Remove programs (Windows features in there) and then rebooting and adding it again solved the issue for me, but I'm not sure. So I'm entering this as a comment and not an answer.
Oct 3	comment	Can't Open Up Event Viewer These comments are not really helpful to solve the underlying problem.
Oct 2	comment	*Change in executable (.exe) size while transferring file from one PC to another** Yes. I worked in an antivirus company many years ago. Basically you write a filesystem filter driver... Then you can do all kinds of "funny" stuff, e.g. return different file size depending on who's asking, etc.
Oct 2	comment	*Change in executable (.exe) size while transferring file from one PC to another** When a virus infects a file, it adds its payload to it, so the file grows. To avoid detection, on an infected system (where the virus is resident and active), it shows the filesize as it was before infection. But if you copy that file to a clean system, you see its true size, which is what it was before it got infected plus the size of the virus payload.
Sep 30	comment	Does 5 GB of jpeg images take the same amount of time to download and/or import as 5 GB of plain text? Well we're talking about network latency now, and since the original poster didn't specify the protocol, this is moot. Some protocols/programs know how to interleave the data transfer, e.g. start the second download before first one is complete (download managers for example), thus somewhat reducing the latency-induced overhead.
Sep 30	comment	Does 5 GB of jpeg images take the same amount of time to download and/or import as 5 GB of plain text? @chris-nava: Yes, this is very true. I've only considered files of the same size, but you're correct to point to this nuance.