The tech debate blasts off (a linkfest) - Towards a leisure society
see the debate blast off in serious economic circles during the last quarter of 2012.
I thought it might be useful, as a result, to provide some links to the most recent developments — since the debate really is moving quickly now.
Monday, December 31, 2012
Sunday, December 30, 2012
Sunday, December 16, 2012
What is svchost.exe And Why Is It Running? - How-To Geek
What is svchost.exe And Why Is It Running? - How-To Geek
Very useful information for understanding all of the crapware service bloat in Windows.
I've got about 75% of all RAM committed when I turn on my ThinkPad, and performance sucks at just about anything. Didn't used to be this bad, so I decided to do some maintenance, but it's not obvious what's what. I mean, come on, "svchost.exe" ?? that's the process name for anything launched by DLLs or from services. Which services can I get rid of? iTunesHelper for one, I don't use iTunes very often on this computer. but I try to stop the automatic launch of the process at startup, and a few days later, there it is again...
Very useful information for understanding all of the crapware service bloat in Windows.
I've got about 75% of all RAM committed when I turn on my ThinkPad, and performance sucks at just about anything. Didn't used to be this bad, so I decided to do some maintenance, but it's not obvious what's what. I mean, come on, "svchost.exe" ?? that's the process name for anything launched by DLLs or from services. Which services can I get rid of? iTunesHelper for one, I don't use iTunes very often on this computer. but I try to stop the automatic launch of the process at startup, and a few days later, there it is again...
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