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Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
The OS wars continue. Microsoft thought they had a killer OS in Vista only to find out that tens of thousands (myself included) hate it. Ubuntu has recently released version 8.10, nicknamed "Intrepid Ibex" (no, I don't know what an Ibex is let alone an intrepid one). ...
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Sunday, September 21st, 2008
If you’re running Windows XP Pro and you've got it set up with a separate Aministrator account and however many user accounts that each require a password for to logon, sooner or later somebody's going to come to you looking really stressed out like they'd had about six too many ...
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Friday, September 12th, 2008
Something that's been bugging me something fierce since my wife got a Vista machine is the fact that it, like most other versions of Windoze defaults to hiding file extensions for known file types. My recent post about viewing hidden files and folders included fixing that in the XP ...
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Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
Something that I've never cared for is the fact that by default, Windows hides certain files and folders from view. I understand that the reason is to keep the curious but uninformed from accidentally deleting or otherwise changing important system files.
Personally I prefer to be able to see them ...
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