Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Download All Actual Test Without Paying

Download all latest ActualTests @ :

hxxp://downloads.actualtests.com/Pdf-Down/uploads/XXX-XXX.zip
XXX-XXX = your Exam code.

Note: For downloading Microsoft exams, add ZERO before the exam code. e.g. if u want to download 70-285, then use 070-258 in place of XXX-XXX

XPS Essentials Pack -- Error 1722. There is a problem with this Windows Installer package.

Error:

Error 1722. There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A program run as part of the setup did not finish as expected. Contact your support personnel or package vendor. Action WICUpdateInstallAction, location: C:\WINDOWS\Installer\MSI93E.tmp, command: /q /z
=== Logging stopped: 2008-10-28 13:10:19 ===

Solution:

1. Make sure you uninstalled the .NET 3.x things (no %windir%\system32\xpsviewer folder anymore)
2. Make sure you have WIC installed or install it.
3. Get yourself Orca, the MSI database editor from MS (you may have to get a Windows Platform SDK in order to get access to the Orca.msi); I used Orca 3.1.4000.2049
4. Make a copy of your XPSEP MSI.
5. Right-click on the copy - "Edit with Orca"
6. Go to InstallExecuteSequence.
7. Find the Row labelled WICUpdateInstallAction - Right-click - "Drop Row".
8. Save.
9. Double-click the MSI copy you just edited.
10. Hopefully, the installer should run through fine.
11. Reinstall .NET 3.x and all other things you uninstalled beforehand.

Solution taken from here.

Friday, October 24, 2008

10 things your IT guy wants you to know

  1. If you ask me technical questions please don’t argue with me because you don’t like my answer. If you think you know more about the topic, why ask? And if I’m arguing with you…it’s because I am positive that I am correct, otherwise I’d just say “I don’t know” or give you some tips on where to look it up, I don’t have the time to just argue for the sake of it.
  2. Starting a conversation by insulting yourself (i.e. “I’m such an idiot”) will not make me laugh, or feel sorry for you; all it will do is remind me that yes, you are an idiot and that I am going to hate having to talk to you. Trust me; you don’t want to start a call that way.
  3. I am ok with you making mistakes, fixing them is my job. I am not ok with you lying to me about a mistake you made. It makes it much harder to resolve and thus makes my job more difficult. Be honest and we can get the problem resolved and continue on with our business.
  4. There is no magic “Fix it” button. Everything takes some amount of work to fix, and not everything is worth fixing or even possible to fix. If I say that you just need to re-do a document that you accidentally deleted 2 months ago, please don’t get mad at me. I’m not ignoring your problem, and it’s not that I don’t like you, I just cant always fix everything.
  5. Not everything you ask me to do is “urgent”. In fact, by marking things as “urgent” every time, you almost ensure that I treat none of it as a priority.
  6. You are not the only one who needs help, and you usually don’t have the most urgent issue. Give me some time to get to your problem, it will get fixed.
  7. Emailing me several times about the same issue in the same day is not only unnecessary, it’s highly annoying. Emails will stay until I delete them, I won’t delete them until I’m done with them. I will typically respond as soon as I have a useful update. If it is an urgent issue, let me know (see number
  8. Yes, I prefer email over telephone calls. It has nothing to do with being friendly, it’s about efficiency. It is much faster and easier for me to list out a set of questions that I need you to answer than it is for me to call and ask you them one by one. You can find the answers at your leisure and while I’m waiting I can work on other problems.
  9. Yes, I seem blunt and rude. It’s not that I mean to, I just don’t have the time to sugar coat things for you. I assume we are both adults and can handle the reality of a problem. If you did something wrong, I will tell you. I don’t care that it was a mistake, because it really makes no difference to me. Don’t take it personal, I just don’t want it to happen again.
  10. And finally, yes, I can read your email, I can see what web pages you look at while you are at work, yes, I can access every file on your work computer, and I can tell if you are chatting with people on an instant messenger or chat room (and can also read what you are typing). But no, I don’t do it. It’s unethical, I’m busy, and in all reality you aren’t all that interesting. So unless I am instructed to specifically monitor or investigate your actions, I don’t. There really are much more interesting things on the internet than you.

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Another Dromaeo run

Here are the results.

8845.80ms (Minefield) 9790.00ms (Chromium)

Tested with builds:

Chromium0.3.155.0 (Developer Build 3653)
WebKit528.4
V80.3.5.2
User AgentMozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/528.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.3.155.0 Safari/528.4


Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1b2pre) Gecko/20081021 Minefield/3.1b2pre (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

Thursday, October 02, 2008

SunSpider Chromium vs Minefield

Another test:

Here are the Minefield results. Paste the Chromium results in the inputbox and you get this result:

TEST                   COMPARISON            FROM                 TO             DETAILS

=============================================================================

** TOTAL **: *1.15x as slow* 3821.8ms +/- 3.6% 4412.2ms +/- 2.7% significant

=============================================================================

3d: 1.99x as fast 470.0ms +/- 10.6% 236.4ms +/- 39.9% significant
cube: 2.78x as fast 151.0ms +/- 11.7% 54.4ms +/- 45.4% significant
morph: - 148.2ms +/- 21.0% 116.8ms +/- 46.3%
raytrace: 2.62x as fast 170.8ms +/- 15.8% 65.2ms +/- 35.6% significant

access: 4.59x as fast 617.6ms +/- 6.3% 134.6ms +/- 7.9% significant
binary-trees: 5.61x as fast 75.2ms +/- 27.8% 13.4ms +/- 32.5% significant
fannkuch: 6.15x as fast 254.8ms +/- 16.4% 41.4ms +/- 11.4% significant
nbody: 4.05x as fast 201.6ms +/- 12.0% 49.8ms +/- 27.0% significant
nsieve: 2.87x as fast 86.0ms +/- 26.3% 30.0ms +/- 28.0% significant

bitops: 5.02x as fast 491.2ms +/- 11.3% 97.8ms +/- 25.7% significant
3bit-bits-in-byte: 19.8x as fast 118.8ms +/- 9.3% 6.0ms +/- 14.7% significant
bits-in-byte: 8.01x as fast 113.8ms +/- 19.8% 14.2ms +/- 28.0% significant
bitwise-and: 3.10x as fast 104.2ms +/- 25.7% 33.6ms +/- 46.1% significant
nsieve-bits: 3.51x as fast 154.4ms +/- 17.6% 44.0ms +/- 29.8% significant

controlflow: 10.0x as fast 62.0ms +/- 26.0% 6.2ms +/- 9.0% significant
recursive: 10.0x as fast 62.0ms +/- 26.0% 6.2ms +/- 9.0% significant

crypto: 3.77x as fast 301.2ms +/- 23.4% 79.8ms +/- 18.7% significant
aes: 3.64x as fast 104.2ms +/- 34.0% 28.6ms +/- 18.3% significant
md5: 3.58x as fast 84.6ms +/- 17.7% 23.6ms +/- 4.7% significant
sha1: 4.07x as fast 112.4ms +/- 23.1% 27.6ms +/- 36.4% significant

date: *8.50x as slow* 291.0ms +/- 3.8% 2474.8ms +/- 3.1% significant
format-tofte: *5.17x as slow* 176.2ms +/- 5.4% 911.2ms +/- 6.4% significant
format-xparb: *13.6x as slow* 114.8ms +/- 12.5% 1563.6ms +/- 4.8% significant

math: 2.43x as fast 433.6ms +/- 12.1% 178.8ms +/- 14.5% significant
cordic: 1.90x as fast 192.6ms +/- 12.1% 101.4ms +/- 25.2% significant
partial-sums: 2.86x as fast 145.4ms +/- 21.7% 50.8ms +/- 5.0% significant
spectral-norm: 3.59x as fast 95.6ms +/- 17.3% 26.6ms +/- 25.1% significant

regexp: *1.50x as slow* 333.0ms +/- 8.6% 498.0ms +/- 10.0% significant
dna: *1.50x as slow* 333.0ms +/- 8.6% 498.0ms +/- 10.0% significant

string: 1.16x as fast 822.2ms +/- 5.0% 705.8ms +/- 9.1% significant
base64: 1.30x as fast 92.4ms +/- 15.8% 71.0ms +/- 39.2% significant
fasta: 2.04x as fast 185.2ms +/- 8.0% 91.0ms +/- 16.6% significant
tagcloud: ?? 165.2ms +/- 16.3% 169.6ms +/- 11.4% not conclusive: might be *1.03x as slow*
unpack-code: ?? 254.6ms +/- 7.3% 255.4ms +/- 4.3% not conclusive: might be *1.00x as slow*
validate-input: - 124.8ms +/- 15.8% 118.8ms +/- 27.2%
Note that Chromium is faster everywhere except the date and regexp functions.
Versions used:
Chromium0.3.155.0 (Developer Build 2750)
WebKit525.19
V80.3.3
User AgentMozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.3.155.0 Safari/525.19

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1b1pre) Gecko/20081001 Minefield/3.1b1pre (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Minefield tweak: (javascript.options.jit.chrome;true)

Wednesday, October 01, 2008

Dromaeo Chromium vs Minefield

I've been using the Chromium with V8 Javascript Engine and Firefox with Tracemonkey Javascript  engine nightly builds for a few weeks now. Performance varies, but overall they are faster then the official stable builds.

There is alot of buzz about these new engines on the Net. Here is my Dromaeo comparison, done with the following versions:

Chromium 0.3.155.0 (Developer Build 2750)
WebKit 525.19
V8 0.3.3
User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.3.155.0 Safari/525.19

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1b1pre) Gecko/20080930093007 Minefield/3.1b1pre (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)