There’s an interesting article about performance of server apps in the July 2010 Communications of the ACM somewhat provocatively titled “You’re Doing It Wrong”. In it, Poul-Henning Kamp, the architect of an HTTP cache called Varnish...

To fix a problem with a corrupted Outlook profile , I created a new profile which caused all my Contacts to be initialized from my Windows Live account. Pretty much everything came in OK, but one of the annoying things is that the “default mailing...