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When I've been to Auckland first two times, I felt like I am in San-Francisco. Same altitude, big bridge, hills, multinational atmosphere...

Fortunately, I've felt the difference on our third time. The essence of the difference is in the picture under ljcut, taken from the same point at the same very central point of the Auckland City.
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New free windows CPU quota tool

I had some spare time this holidays, so I've finished the first version of CPU quota tool I've started few months ago. (The coding took few days, I did not take it very seriously)
I had a customer asking if it's possible to set a CPU quota on a certain application in MS Windows XP. This customer is using MS Windows XP for some hard-line embedded job (you'll be astonished if I tell what the software is about. Unfortunately, I've signed NDA.... never mind). So besides some watchdogs, mirroring, hot-swap, etc, they needed CPU quota. I've suggested to use ThreadMaster software that does the job. Meanwhile, I've found it useful for my laptop, because MS Outlook and some other applications some times misbehave. The issue with ThreadMaster is that there is no GUI, and you have to control it with regedit, which is hard and dangerous. I've also did not like some minor quirks.
So I've decided to code my own, and voila: You can download it if you don't mind beta. It's free and always will be. I may release a shareware version with more bells and whistles soon. (I've a decent business plan, that promises a good ROI. It is good mostly because "I" in ROI is tiny - the tool complexity is laughable comparing to what I've been doing last couple of years).
The screenshot is under the lj-cut.
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