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After installing windows 7 64bit on my computer as the host operating system, copying files from the host windows to my linux virtual machine was painfully slow. After some research I found the fix to be :
Going to the control panel -> network and internet-> network connections-> right click on your physical interface -> click on configure-> click on the advanced tab.

In here make sure ipv4 checksum offloader, large send offload v2 ipv4, large send offload v2 ipv6 are disabled.

Recently, I upgraded to CS4 suite.  It took me a while.  I didn’t want to pay for what I thought was such a minor version update.  It was running slow on my windows 7 64 bit machine.  Zoom in and outs were sluggish and so was vertical scrolling.  The fix seems to be easy though:

disabling OpenGL support (in Edit> Preferences > Performance> Uncheck Enable OpenGL Drawing ).

A colleague of mine recently came over to discuss HTML 5 the next major revision of HTML! He wondered what new and beneficial features were in store. The few noticeable ones are:

• New “nav” and “footer” elements
• Canvas tag for immediate bitmap rendering – this is so cool!  No more using gd libraries on servers – use the clients web browser!
• Drag and Drop capability.  If you’ve ever created a website that had users uploading files we know this is a HUGE feature!  Gmail attachments will be so much easier now too!
• Cross Document Messaging – not too much discussion on this one – are two pages going to be communicate with each other?
• Timed media playback.
• Video tag allows in browser playback – cool in theory but they dropped a specific codec, so now this is going to get messy!  Users will need to have codec’s installed or users uploading will need to take care!

These are the highlights.  In my opinion the drag and drop is by far going to be the most anticipated and highly used feature – next to video.  But regular end users won’t notice the video tag as they are use to flash.  So many users won’t even notice a difference.

Unfortunately, we’ll probably have about 10 years to go until we’re able to use these features.  Microsoft IE 6 is still lingering around, so we have to wait for that beast to die (2014)…..and with some hope and luck, we’ll be happy coding in html 5 within 10 years!

Linux has a good command for killing a proccess (or multiple proccesses) from the command line.  Well what about windows?  It has taskkill:

Taskkill /F /IM process