Category Archives: software

Trouble with Torrents (uTorrent) on Windows Vista with McAfee

By Odd Christer Brovig | Published: November 9, 2007
My mother recently bought a shiny new dell with Windows Vista on it. I recently got my fingers on it, and it’s pretty darn alright. But I had one problem: starting uTorrent was causing the system to slow down and also drop http traffic… After consulting a friend we found out he had the same problem some [...]
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Lessons Learnt After Developing a Web Application – Design and Implementation

By Odd Christer Brovig | Published: May 28, 2007
This spring I have been doing some work on a web application, part of a deliverable in one of my courses (INF5270). We were a team of four writers/programmers/designers/whatever needed. The deadline was about an hour ago, and we delivered our system 3 hours before that for once. So, for personal reflection I thought I’d [...]
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SumatraPDF – a small gem

By Odd Christer Brovig | Published: May 14, 2007
Thought I just would share a link to a small gem (literaly): SumatraPDF. It’s a blazing fast PDF viewer without any bells and whistles, just pure PDFviewing goodness. It can’t select text, but I seldom do that anyways. Give it a try :-)
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Essential Software for a Fresh Windows XP Install

By Odd Christer Brovig | Published: May 6, 2007
As a personal reminder, and possibly helpful for other people, I’d thought I’d post what software I spend hours installing after hours of installing Windows XP. Security Spybot S&D – Cleans out spy and malware Avast! Anti virus – Free, and good(?) Avira Anti virus – Free, and good(?). Has a annoying screen popping up each time it updates [...]
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