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XAMPP fails to start Apache 2 on Windows

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Written by Alex Balyuk   
Thursday, 30 September 2010 03:49

I recently decided to install XAMPP on WindowsXAMPP on Windows. I have done in many times on Linux and process was always very smooth. The installation of XAMPP on Windows Vista turned out to be a task from hell. For a long time I could not start Apache web server. First it would not start because uninstalled IIS kept some junk behind that was blocking port 80, then nothing would happen at all. Installing it as service did not do a difference. The problem with this is that there were multiple problems, I will describe each problem faced and how to fix it.

Last Updated on Thursday, 30 September 2010 05:31
 

Google Chrome - Increase number of thumbnails (Speed Dial)

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(9 votes, average 5.00 out of 5)
Written by Alex Balyuk   
Saturday, 14 August 2010 02:14

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Google Chrome is by far faster than FireFox and other top of the line browsers, under load when 7+ tabs open at a time in 1 or more windows. Chrome uses more resource because tabs do not share resources (i.e. each tab runs as a separate new process with it's own memory pool and CPU time), this significantly improves the performance. Think about it, how useful are your 2 or 4 GB of RAM if 40% or more is not used..., and how useful is your CPU if it is 90% idle..? Google Chrome utilizes the computer resources much better, you will have to sacrifice about 60MB of RAM per tab but you will gain a lot of performance. I notices performance improvements by as much as 400% on Google Chrome vs FireFox under Fedora 13, and Google Chrome 5.0.3 is at least  2x faster than FireFox 3.6.8 under Windows Vista Professional.

I like everything about Google Chrome except for 2 things:

  1. Thumbnails View looks empty on 24" monitor, and there are not settings to increase that.
  2. Development Tools are not on the same level as FireBug

After a little research I found an easy way to fix my first dislike "Thumbnails View" problem.

Last Updated on Thursday, 19 August 2010 15:52
 

Navigation to the webpage was canceled in chm file

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Written by Alex Balyuk   
Saturday, 31 July 2010 02:35

I downloaded a big help file. I was able to open and read it on the Linux Machine at work, however when I got home and tried to open the same file on my Windows Vista machive I got "Navigation to the webpage was canceled". This is happening becuase windows does not trust the file.

Last Updated on Thursday, 19 August 2010 15:54
 




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