Monthly Archives: April 2010

How To Speed Up Your Pendrive??

Posted by on April 17, 2010 1 comment

It always has been a time consuming task to copy data from one system to other or to some portable device. Follow the steps to increase the performance of your usb flash drives.

  • Set your pendrive filesystem to NTFS (well FAT32 cannot handle large data). This can be done by formatting the drive and settting the filesystem to NTFS.
  • Right Click the drive and click properties
  • Select the hardware tab and select your drive from the list and click properties.
  • Select the policies tab and change the radio button to Optimize for performance.

There you are done. Now enjoy higher data rates.

Note: Formatting will delete all your data. NTFS cannot be read by WIndows 2000 or before. Original data rates may depend on your pendrive and Operating System.

Arch Linux, First step in creating your own OS

Posted by on April 13, 2010 1 comment


It’s a dream of every noob that even before coding the first “Hello World” program, student want to know how to code an OS. Dreams are good but this is harder than one can image. If you are so strong with your dream, rather than thinking of coding your OS from scratch better you try building your own Arch. Arch Linux is a fully customizable, light weight operating system. The CD image can be downloaded. But this is actually a very slim installation and it’s not at all usable. You will have to install the window manager, desktop environment and everything else you see on a full fledged operating system.

One of the main disadvantage of Arch Linux is it’s cryptic text based installer. So better you watch some video and get familiarised with the instalation procedure.

Here are a few video tutorials for the installation and customization of Arch Linux.