Augie’s Weblog

http://www.lifehacker.com.au/tips/2008/08/15/five_best_desktop_search_applications-2.html

above link recommends 5 desktop search

http://www.komando.com/myvideo/

http://www.pcdecrapifier.com/home
This will remove all the junk software that comes with store purchased PC’s

A great site to find out why that process is running on your system and what it is doing to your system.
http://www.processlibrary.com/

example
vol_id -u /dev/sda1

or for more information use
vol_id /dev/sda1

very handy if you have ubuntu and the fstab is using uuid

it is more robust… i am learning to hate that word.

ref:http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=223182&highlight=uuid&page=2

http://forums.anandtech.com/categories.aspx?catid=40&entercat=y

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