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Process Lasso helps you rope in unruly Windows applications

Process Lasso
If you're tired of having Windows applications eat up all of your system resources and lock up or crash your computer it might be time to get a new computer, or at least some more RAM. But if you don't fancy spending the cash, you might want to check out Process Lasso, a free tool to help you keep runaway programs under control.

Process Lasso does a couple of things. It can sit in your system tray and do nothing at all until an application meets certain conditions, like eating up more than 35% of your CPU cycles. Then Process Lasso goes and lowers that proces's priority. But you can also set it to do a bunch of other things including:
  • Limit applications so that they only use one CPU on multi-core systems
  • Set an application to run at a certain priority every time they run
  • Configure the programs that launch on startup
  • Kill currently running processes
  • Log all executed processes
You can achieve some of the same results with Process Tamer, an application we looked at a couple of years ago. But Process Lasso is far more customizable than Process Tamer.

[via Lifehacker]

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Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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