A rather useful bunch of queries that make use of the new performance data that SQL2005 automatically collects behind the scenes in Dynamic Management Views.\\rThey identify: Causes of Server Waits & Blocking, Missing/Unused/Costly/Fragmented Indexes, Lowest Plan Reuse and Costliest Queries.
Here are four neat Firefox extensions and 1 desktop app that help you track the time you spend online. They even give you reports so you can watch out and make efficient use of your time by cutting down on wandering around sites that are of no use.
Will there be any way to get a copy of Windows XP after June 30? If you want to continue using XP, what problems will you face? If you buy a PC with Vista installed and decide you want XP instead, what are your options?
A study reveals that the volume of information about us generated automatically on a daily basis surpasses the total volume of digital information that we actively create about ourselves. IDC notes that this trend has significant privacy implications and that pressure will increasingly fall on the IT sector to address information management
This happens many times to me: I search on Google for a problem I’m having with my computer, click on a search result, reach the site (most of the time, it’s a forum), and boom! I have to register in order to view the solution on the page. Or worse, on some occasions, they want me to pay them to view the page.
When you spend your life in the water, I guess you tend to develop a good intuition for its subtleties. Dolphins have been observed to create bubble rings by exhaling air carefully in the middle of the vortices caused by the motion of their fins through the water, among other techniques.
Neal set about inventing and patenting a foldable rotor system, a rear wheel suspension lowering unit for soft landings, and a transmission that can be switched between driving the rear rotor of the plane, and driving the rear wheels. The result: the Super Sky Cycle, a genuine, registered flying motorcycle.
A French company has developed a pollution-free car which runs on compressed air. India\'s Tata Motors has the car under production and it may be on sale in Europe and India by the end of the year. The air car can be refueled in minutes from an air compressor and can go 200 km on a 1.5 euro fill-up -- roughly 125 miles for $3.
The advent of digital photography has opened up a new world of image editing possibilities including the ability to fill-in blanks or replace unwanted parts of an image.
The canned cheeseburger is sold under one of Katadyn’s best known brands, Trekking-Mahlzeiten, a subsidiary company that develops specialist ready-meals for the outdoor, expedition and extreme athlete markets. They also sell alcoholic powdered red wine. SWEET!!
Almost thirty feet (9 metres) long, ten feet (3 metres) high and weighing 13 tonne, the \"Monster Motorbike from Hell\", is powered by a Detroit Diesel truck engine and six-speed Allison automatic and uses an Eaton differential from a road train to drive a massive chain on each side of the one-metre wide rear wheel that is from an 80 tonne Cat Loader
I logged into my email this morning to find five Facebook Wall posts from old friends -- many of whom I haven\'t spoken to in a while. \"Hm, what is this spontaneous outpouring of love? How is it that so many have been moved to reach out to me this morning?\" I clicked on over to my Facebook account, only to find -- I\'D BEEN SPAMMED!!!
Ohloh, which ranks the nation’s top open source coders, is opening its service to let other developer teams track and rank their own teams. It’s the latest move by Ohloh, a Bellevue, WA company that already distributes its coder profiles and related data to about 5,000 open source sites.
I’ve just heard from a source that Facebook is “one hundred percent” buying Plaxo. This follows up on at least one previous rumor saying the same thing. While there are reasons to be skeptical, here’s why it could make sense.