Wednesday, February 10, 2010

How to Enable AHCI After Windows OS installation?

AHCI(Advanced Host Controller Interface) mode brings 3 main advantages:
  1. Supports NCQ (Native Command Queuing) allowing SATA drives to accept more than one command at a time and dynamically reorder the commands for maximum efficiency.
  2. Supports hot plugging of devices.
  3. Supports staggered spin ups of multiple hard drives at boot time
Tuesday, February 9, 2010

How to find Your processor supports Virtualization or not?

I use the following free tools to verify my matherboard and processor details.

Saturday, February 6, 2010

UnKnown PCI Simple Communications Controller

If  your device manger shows unknown PCI Communications controller and not sure what that device is?

Friday, February 5, 2010

Dynamically Change Environment Specific Web.Config file

When ever we develop ASP.NET application, we keep our entire environmental specific settings into web.config file. Based on where we deploy the application (Dev, Test, Prod), we will comment out other environments which is a manually process. Personally I prefer different web.config files for different environments and based on the Build option you select it should dynamically create the appropriate web.config file for that environment.

Thursday, February 4, 2010

UNIX VS Linux

Recently my wife asked me what is the difference between UNIX and Linux. Basically I dont know much about these operating systems becauseI always work with windows operating systems. Since my wife asked the difference between those and even i want to know other operating systems, so I immediately jumped into google and find the following information.

Factory Method Pattern (Creational)

AIM: Define an interface for creating an object, but let subclasses decide which class to instantiate. Factory method lets classes defer (postpone) instantiate to subclasses.

Friday, January 29, 2010

Spyware or Antivirus Protect 2009 / sysguard.exe Infection

Most of the people browse the internet every day and some sites are reliable and some or not. Eventhough we browse good sites, some sites as 3rd party Ads which install some crap/malware in our computer and says some infection or virus were found in our computer. It asks you to purchase the software to clean up the crap/malware. So many times it happened to my wife computer and good thing is i always take image of her PC so that when ever it infected with virus, i reimage back.