Does your office is planning to go green? One way to do that is by reducing your office paper consumption. To do that, you can start by encouraging your employees to only print document when it’s really necessary to do so. Often at times, employees will use company’s printer to print that cute picture of a kitten 🙂

To make the ‘encouragement’ to have a little more ‘muscle’, you could put announcement in the printing room that says that the printer usage is being monitored. Of course it should not be just a bluff, you could utilise PUMA to help you monitor the printer usage.

Go Green

PUMA is written in VB.NET (.NET 2.0) and SQL Database as the backend. It consist of two parts, the monitoring service (installed on employee’s PC) and the Management Console (act as the server, in which the monitoring services submit their reports). I have not tried it myself, but I already submit it to management for approval 🙂

The usage of computer based business application was supposed to reduce the paper consumption. But actually it ends up increasing it by many folds. Hopefully PUMA will help all of us to reduce our office paper consumptions.

I have a program in my server which is a memory hogger. Every time its memory consumption hit certain number, it will stop entertaining users’ request. Which in turn, the users will call me, and ask me to restart that program.

So before I get down and get my hands dirty, I googled for solutions. But the closest I can get is:

• Process Monitors.
• Crash restarter

So I guess I need to write it on my own. Enlighten me please 🙂

Forgot your Windows Administrator password? Try this amazing tool: Offline NT Password & Registry Editor. You can download the ISO CD image and burn it to a CD as an emergency CD.

No blank CD? No problem. You can also use thumbdrive and make it bootable. How? read README.TXT inside the ISO CD Image file.

Too lazy to read? Well basically it consist of two steps:

1. Copy all files from the ISO CD Image to the thumbdrive
2. Assuming that your thumbdrive is mounted as drive F:, open console/command-prompt and execute this command: F:syslinux.exe -ma F:

Thank You pnh@pogostick.net, you saved me today 😀