Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

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                          Where is the Life we have lost in living?
                          Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
                          Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
                                                              ~Thomas Stearns Eliot

Prologue

The intent of this website is simple. To synthesis and present the knowledge that is totally lacking in a typical Windows installation. The inspiration behind this is also something very simple, to free the Windows user from the black-box handling of the big bother, a.k.a Microsoft. If the pages are read and followed with a little patience and perseverance, then in about seven days your pc will be free from most of the bloated and resource hungry applications of Microsoft. Yes we know, you still will be running a XP, or a Win 2000 because we all need some time before we can completely break free :-) So till the days when the GNU/Linux {with all the glorious distros :-)} replaces even the remotest county in Australia, here's to freedom (as in speech and as in beer)!

I chose the MediaWiki framework for two reasons :: efficiency, and history. Maybe the same efficiency of this framework could have been replicated with another framework (such as Drupal), but the history was too much to resist!

Wiki (/wiːkiː/) is a Hawaiian word for "fast". 'Wiki Wiki' is a reduplication. "Wiki" can be expanded as What I Know Is, but this is a backronym. MediaWiki [1] is a free software wiki package originally written for Wikipedia. It is now used by several other projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation and by many other wikis, including this website. The collaborative encyclopedia Wikipedia is one of the best-known wikis. Wikis are used in business to provide intranets and Knowledge Management systems. Ward Cunningham, developer of the first wiki software, WikiWikiWeb, originally described it as "the simplest online database that could possibly work".

So much for motivation, intent and history. Now to action. The only decent operating system that Microsoft has come up with is the Windows XP (Home or Professional). I am not commenting on the Windows Server because the intended audience of this knowledge base are people who are not server administrators. If you are still with a Windows 95/98 or Windows ME (what's that!?) then you are pretty much on your own :-) But even if you are on a XP, you have seen how the new pc slides from being a race horse to a drudging hackney, as days go by. And you wonder and ponder to no avail. The one primary reason for this is the proliferation of services! The Wikipedia defines a Windows service as a long-running executable that performs specific functions and which is designed not to require user intervention. Hmmmmmm... you are getting it, right? The big bother has decided for you! And so it's time for you to take control. And time for you to click this link.

--Arindam 20:27, 11 January 2009 (UTC)