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If you don’t have enough money to actually travel to the moon, why don’t you send your names over there? Your names will be collected and placed onboard the LRO spacecraft for its historic mission bringing NASA back to the moon. You will receive a certificate showcasing your support of the mission. Here is mine.

About the Mission

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is the first mission in NASA’s Vision for Space Exploration, a plan to return to the moon and then to travel to Mars and beyond. LRO will launch no earlier than November 24, 2008 with the objectives to finding safe landing sites, locate potential resources, characterize the radiation environment, and demonstrate new technology. More>>

Hurry up! The deadline for name submission is June 27, 2008. Send your name to the Moon Here>>

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Knowing what specification of computers I am dealing with is always the first step that computer technicians take to troubleshoot computer problems. But how can they get those information? There are 3 ways to dig those info:

BIOS Setup:

You can easily find some info of the computers at the boot up by pressing F2/Del button (depends on what kind of BIOS). Some BIOSs give detail info, some are limited. You cannot get a full detail of your computers by using BIOS control panel anyways.

Using OS’s properties/preferences:

All operation systems have their own ways to display system information. If you are using Windows, right click on My Computer –> Properties. If you are using MAC, click on System Preferences.

However, using OS’s tools sometimes make you confused because there are so much unorganized, irrelevant and duplicated information. So this method is only for getting the general view if your computers. To get a full detail report, most of professional techs use the third approach.

Using third-party applications (for Windows only)

There are 3 common software that computer techs use to get a full view of computer systems: CPU-Z, Sandra, and SIW.

CPU-Z:

A great tool to gather your system information based on 4 main devices: CPU, motherboard, memory, and system (Windows and DirectX). It’s FREE and NO-INSTALLATION required! You can download CPU-Z HERE.

Sandra

SiSoftware Sandra (the System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant) is an information & diagnostic utility. It should provide most of the information (including undocumented) you need to know about your hardware, software and other devices whether hardware or software. You can download and try Sandra Lite (free version) here.

SIW

SIW is an advanced System Information for Windows tool that gathers detailed information about your system properties and settings and displays it in an extremely comprehensible manner. SIW can create a report file (CSV, HTML, TXT or XML), and is able to run in batch mode. Download SIW HERE.

Hope you like this post.

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We all know that the computers always carry junk files when we have them work for us. That will reduce the performance of our computers. Therefore we need to throw all those junk files away regularly to make sure our systems run at their maximum speeds.

Cleaning computer junk files is not as simply as pressing delete button on keyboard or right-click-n-delete job. There are files that we can see and can delete manually, but there are still tons of junk files that we cannot recognize or don’t have enough time to find-n-delete. Why don’t we get a tool doing that for us? One of my recommended clean-up tools is CCleaner. And guess what, it’s FREE!

No matter what we do with our computers, what programs (applications) we run. A few clicks with CCleaner will help our computers get rid of those junk files. You can try CCleaner by downloading at their website http://www.ccleaner.com or HERE.

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