Archive for November, 2007

I stumble on this interesting headline while browsing technorati. Beth’s (afrogtokiss.net) is having a minor problem with his wordpress for not receiving earlier notifications on new comments post. After a few comparison he discovered that dreamhost is being graylisted by google. The reason is still unclear but reading what beth’s posted earlier on it seem like Dreamhost Team will not disclose it on open yet.

On to dreamhost official blog

Hoping that I could get more clear view on this issue I did some more checking on dreamhost official blogs. Unfortunately It doesn’t fudge any relevant news. Their official webblog seems more like a casual blogs full with party pooper.

I spend few minutes fiddling around in their archives before I get on “Are you older than fifth grade”. Its actual content is much more interesting that the crappy headline. Josh Jones (Dreamhost Co-Founder) write a historic trackback of Dreamhost since 10 years ago. The below screenshot has lots thing to says about their business model.

AcroRd32Info is a another creative pieces of crap from Adobe a package for Acrobat Reader. Embed in Windows Explorer Shell, its main role is to start an initial prefetching for PDF documents in the Memory.

To test this program behavior, you will need to open your windows task manager (ctrl+alt+del once) and browse to any folder that contained a PDF documents and stay idle. Within just few seconds AdobeRd32Info will be loaded in the background and stay in memory.That was just for browsing the folder without opening any PDF files yet.

Windows has a standard prefetch modes and its fairly stable for most of the applications out there. Having a another background prefetcher hook on explorer is plain abusive not to mention its running without the owner permissions.

AcroRd32Info stay in your memory so consider it as a pest. So how to disabled it?