Last week I have installed Thunderbird 3.0 and found that its memory foot print is way high than its previous version. After digging I figured out that the reason for this high memory foot print is because of the new auto indexing and global search features packaged with thunderbird 3.0. I have disabled that option [...]
Archive for December, 2009
Disable Thunderbird 3.0 Global Seach and Indexer if you are already using Google Desktop search
December 16th, 2009 | by Ashok Chava | published in Computers, Latest
How to stop indexer in Thunderbird 3.0
December 14th, 2009 | by Ashok Chava | published in Computers, Latest
Thunderbird 3.0 comes with a very nice and powerful global search functionality. For this when you fist start the thunderbird 3.0 after installation, it will try to index all the messages in your your inbox and folders, which will kill your machine and stop you from doing anything else on your machine. If you want [...]
Thunderbird 3.0 released
December 11th, 2009 | by Ashok Chava | published in Computers, Latest
Long wait if over and the new version looks great and works great. Few things I notices after I started working on this
1) The UI and tabbed interface is much better than what I have anticipated.
2) The feature like “Show in conversation” you get as part “other actions” in message body is pretty good and [...]
Connecting two PCs with out switch or router
December 9th, 2009 | by Ashok Chava | published in Computers, Latest
One easy way of doing this is by connecting two PCs using a Ethernet Cross over cable. I got this cable for 35(1 meter in length) from a local computer hardware shop. After connecting the two PCs change the network connection settings as given below
In the properties of TCP/IP portal
For the first PC give IP [...]
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