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Activating XP
News To help you explain the basics of Product Activation, I've compiled 10 of the questions I am asked most frequently and the answers I give to those questions. Product Activation is currently required for all OEM and retail versions of Windows XP...
[August 4, 2002, 19:35]
2008-01-06. Vista Is A Downgrade. Part 4.
Talkback I've upgraded to newer versions of Windows before (oh and I say "upgrade" but I have Vista installed on a reformatted hard drive.it's a brand new install! I ask them why since I've only had it 2 years and they said they're sorry it's not supported.
[January 6, 2008, 23:57]
Administrate NetWare Via Linux
News I'll be using Red Hat 7.1 in this article. It can run on many platforms, including all versions of Windows after Windows 95, Solaris, and Tru64 UNIX. What I'm covering will work on most distributions, with some subtle variations.
[June 18, 2002, 10:46]
Opera Cuts Legacy Code For Speed
News I've worked with Opera since version 3, and I've liked it a lot," said Monte Hurd, a systems architect with Starphire Technologies in Clearwater, Florida. One of the main problems I've had with Opera has been JavaScript compatibility.
[August 21, 2002, 8:28]
What To Do When Windows Update Won't Update
News I've had mixed results from the drivers that Microsoft recommends through Windows Update. When I checked mine, I found over 600 files, so it's hard to say whether this doesn't fit the definition of a large number or I've just been lucky.
[May 12, 2003, 11:17]
Open Source Renders Patching A Problem
News For example, in October 2005, the OpenSSL.org Project released a patch to fix a vulnerability in all previously released versions of OpenSSL (i.e.all versions up to 0.9.7h and 0.9.8a). Most administrators have little time to check for patches or...
[November 17, 2005, 11:10]
Microsoft Faces Office Pricing Dilemma
News I think they've kind of put themselves in a bind with the student-teacher edition," DeGroot said. Microsoft's decision to cut retail prices for some versions of its Office software is more a reaction to internal pressures than outside competition...
[May 29, 2003, 11:40]
Free Memory Test
News If you are using an earlier version of Memtest86, I strongly recommend upgrading to one of these two versions because of the way memory size is determined. This technique seems to be less problematic than the technique used in previous versions.
[March 27, 2003, 11:23]
Is Caldera Moving Away From Linux?
News The first four weeks on the job I've spent a lot of time looking for value points, leverage points, if you will, in terms of "what do we do with this company. We've been around a long time. The company owns several key versions of Unix and makes...
[August 28, 2002, 13:56]
Mandriva Linux - Wonderful And Maddening
Blog Comment Just a few comments: not including Windows in the bootloader list straight away isn't intentional, I think it's a bug that shows up in certain cases (I've seen a couple of other reports). I've seen the same bug with the "pleeease register" wizard...
[July 2, 2008, 9:38]
Linux Reaches 2.6 Milestone
News It's not the totally empty patch I was hoping for, but judging by the bugs I worked on personally, things are looking pretty good," Torvalds said. It's an important milestone, but it would be irresponsible to bring it to customers this summer and...
[December 18, 2003, 7:55]
Google News Gets RSS And Atom Feeds
News Google News, which aggregates links to the latest news stories on thousands of Web sites, is available in 22 versions for different audiences around the world. The RSS and Atom feeds are being initially offered on just six versions — US, Canada...
[August 9, 2005, 16:55]
Skype Pursuing "Unarticulated Needs"
Blog Comment I do agree that actions speak more loudly than words, and the actions of the large, growing community of people who use Skype every day to connect with their friends, family, and business relationships speak for themselves.
[August 5, 2008, 9:36]
Porn Trojan May Mark New Era For Mac Security
News I've been using Macs since 1989. This is the first time I've seen something like this," Eckelberry wrote, quoting his colleague. Intego claims the vulnerability is likely to exist in older versions of Apple's operating system because all versions...
[November 1, 2007, 7:45]
P3P: Big Backers, Slow Pickup
News They'll deny it, but I've been to meetings where I've seen it happen," he said. People are already falsifying keywords and other aspects of their Web sites, so I think that's a logical extension. A beta version of the software, which is free for...
[June 11, 2002, 10:02]
Spamfighter Exceeds Its Authority
Forum Having used Spamfighter through various (free and Pro) versions over some years now (currently using 6.2.42), overall I'm very happy with it. I've tried numerous other products and it's by far the best and the easiest to use.
[May 14, 2008, 9:19]
Microsoft: Office '10 Years Ahead' Of OpenOffice
Talkback I've been using OOo for about the last three years now, both at home, and have implimented it for my employees at the office. After years of MS Office failure to support previous versions of it's own .DOC format, after countless hours of migraine...
[March 16, 2006, 0:43]
Ballmer Sets Microsoft Apart From The Rest
News I've heard a statistic that Microsoft accounts for less than 1.5 percent of total IT expenditures in large enterprises. It's so fundamental to the definition of the machine and the basic experience people have, I wouldn't expect anything of that ilk.
[November 9, 2005, 11:05]
Mozilla Releases Firefox 1.5
Talkback I've been using the previous versions of Firefox for about 4 months now and I think I am yet to have a single program crash! something which was an occasional annoyance with Internet Explorer (especially when writing long emails on Hotmail and then...
[November 30, 2005, 18:50]
FOR F=1 TO 100:PRINT "JOURNOZ ROOL!";:NEXT F
Blog Comment I've been hacking with the z80 code and I've come up with the following three versions which prove that for your particular code CPIR would be a couple of T states faster, but I take your point. I do feel slightly worried that I had enough time on...
[June 13, 2007, 23:03]
