Another reason to ditch Windows…
After a year and a half of fighting Vista on my Toshiba A135-S2276 I gave up. Quite simply I got sick of the problems, errors, lock ups, “security” pop-ups and general sluggishness. So to sort of future proof me, also since I figured it was easier, I bought a new hard [...]
Wandering around I was glad to see that the Linux Screw has a pretty complete list of Windows Software equivalents for Linux. I’ve used Ubuntu Linux for the past year and a half and still find times I boot back into Windows. Some cases in looking back I can understand as I still haven’t heard [...]
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As the days go on I tend to pop up shell windows with tail running so I can follow the traffic on my web server(s). Well that was all fine and good, but it got really messy following many servers. Plus straight text wasn’t very pretty. Then Dougal Cambell pointed out a [...]
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Here, from a page about Windows Vista at Dell’s site, is a shockingly honest explanation of just how meaningless the “Windows Vista Capable” sticker on some PCs is:
Yes, folks, that does say that a PC that meets the conditions to be marketed as Windows Vista Capable may be a swell Vista system…as long as you [...]
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Well don’t you hate it when Windows errors out or crashes? It looks like IKEA will too:
I hadn’t been feeling well for the last few days… even spent a few hours in the emergency room Tuesday, So I decided to take it easy on making any posts. But in some wandering around I came across this post about a guy who wanted to show that evolutionary is all in the [...]
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Unless you’ve recently emerged from a coma, you know the consumer versions of Microsoft’s new Vista operating system ship Tuesday. Over the next few weeks, NBA star LeBron James will try to convince you to move to Windows Vista as part of Microsoft’s massive ad campaign.This column is not a review of Windows Vista. I’m [...]
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The excellent Security Now podcast just aired an interview with Peter Guttman, the security researcher who wrote the celebrated “A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection” (this is the paper whose “executive executive summary” read simply, “The Vista Content Protection specification could very well constitute the longest suicide note in history”).Guttman has really dug [...]
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ReactOS 0.3.0 Released!
This release holds a few records - it is the most long-awaited release of ReactOS, it is the release which was preceded by 3 Release Candidates instead of usual 2, and at last ReactOS release never had so much changes since the last one.
This release’s main feature is the networking ability - it’s [...]
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APC Magazine » How Vista screws dual-booting nirvana
[...] In my sanguine state, I didn’t even notice that I had just told Ubuntu to hibernate instead of shutdown. Generally, I tend to avoid hibernating my notebook. Over the years I’ve become accustomed to treating an OS like my office; the first thing you do when you [...]
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