Other Systems
How to open the Vista box
If you’ve ever wondered exactly who it is that Microsoft is catering their operating system, wonder no further. For those of who have bought Vista and haven’t been able to figure out how to open the box, I have the answer for you. Don’t feel bad if you’ve had Vista sitting on the shelf, cursing [...]
Checking out Nexenta GNU/OpenSolaris
I’ve never really played with Solaris before. I’ve looked at it once or twice, briefly, but that was about it. The other day I downloaded a vmware image for Nexenta GNU/OpenSolaris, one of these OpenSolaris-based distributions that apparently uses a lot of GNU software. My first impressions are this: the boot was extremely quiet. That’s [...]
Windows virus cleanup
Well, the one thing I love about being an independant consultant is that I get to do lots of different things, not just work on Mandriva stuff. One of the things I hate doing is Windows maintenance and it seems like there is a lot of that going around. Inevitably it’s the same symptoms leading [...]
Windows innovations and the idiots that believe it
I find the computer industry, as pertaining to Microsoft “innovation” quite laughable. But the thing I find most amusing is that people buy this whole “we’re Microsoft and we innovate”. I don’t think Redmond has come out with an original idea in, well, years. But people don’t see this. It’s funny, this particular comment made [...]
Windows like OS X
Not really, OS X-related, but kinda is considering my Windows install looks more like a default OS X install than my Mac desktops do! Read on for some good links to customizing Windows XP if you, like me, are saddled with using it some of the time and just can’t stand how ugly the thing [...]