Do you have a process that won’t die? Tired of searchindexer.exe calling you at home to harrass you for the rent? Do you have credit card debt?

Your solution is here! OK, what you want to do to prevent searchindexer.exe (searchprotocolhost.exe) from spawning everytime some MS product loads, just follow these simple steps:

1. Start > Run
2. Enter ’services.msc’ and hit Enter.
3. Find ‘Windows Search’
4. Punch the screen (just kidding)
5. Double-click (on the Win Search item)
6. Set ‘Start-up type’ to ‘Manual’.
7. Click the ‘Stop’ button if it is enabled (because that means the service is running)
8. Click the ‘Log On’ tab
9. Select each hardware profile item on the list, one at a time, and click ‘Disable’ for each one.

That should stop it from running without hacking your system to bits. Now, I have to say that I have NO IDEA what this is going to do to the searchability of your MS products. I mean, if Outlook is firing it up, it must be indexing your e-mail with it or something, so who knows what effects it could have ultimately. But in the mean time, enjoy the CPU time you’ll save, which I believe translates to energy savings as well. It must, right?

If I’m wrong, educate me.

I finally got the Zonet ZEW2501 USB Wifi dongle working with the 2.6.22 kernel in Ubuntu. It was quite a hassle. If you can, shop around for something which linux plugs ‘n’ plays with, rather than going through all this. But I would guess that if you found this post, it’s probably too late.

So on to the guide (I posted it on the ubuntu forums): http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=3191237#post3191237

I have released a kit which aims to make life a little easier for those of you who want to spruce up the SWFUpload interface with some style. An example using the tango desktop project theme:

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I recently published an article at The Bakery which explains how to incorporate SWFUpload into your CakePHP application. SWFUpload is a fantastic javascript/flash library which facilitates multiple file uploads with real-time upload progress.

The article includes the SwfUploadComponent as well as usage tips. I developed this component because I needed to handle uploads which could be associated with any number of objects in Mango. One of the key goals of Mango is to be user-friendly, and since file uploading is one of the least fun experiences on the Web (in my opinion, anyway), I needed to find a way to at least simulate the kind of user interaction that the desktop operating system offers. SWFUpload meets that need.

I’m working on a project page for SwfUploadComponent which will have the API for the component. Stay tuned.

Thanks to Eelco Wiersma for the original code which I used as a basis for development. Also, thanks to gwoo for guidance and cakebin pastes - he helped me to tweak it for performance and readability.