I love virtual machines. The virtual machines that I have are used for many purposes. My primary home computer is an early 2008, 15” MacBook Pro. It has Mac OS X Leopard as it’s primary operating system, Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 in Boot Camp, and Windows XP Professional SP3 in VMware Fusion. My primary office […]
TechCrunch is reporting that Facebook now has more worldwide users than MySpace.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/12/facebook-no-longer-the-second-largest-social-network/
This doesn’t really surprise me. Once Facebook opened it’s doors to pretty much anyone, it would only be a matter of time until it had more users. According to TechCrunch, both services are pulling in +/- 115 million users. That is a lot of […]
Today I got an e-mail from InfoWorld about their "Save XP" campaign.
Dear "Save XP" petition participant —
Thank you for signing our "Save XP" petition. You’re getting this message because you told us you wanted updates on new developments in the "Save XP" campaign. Here’s what’s happening:
Close to 200,000 people have signed the petition […]
Microsoft has finally released Service Pack 3 for Windows XP. There are different versions of it available using the URLs below:
Windows XP Service Pack 3 Network Installation Package — 316.4MBhttp://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5b33b5a8-5e76-401f-be08-1e1555d4f3d4&DisplayLang=en
Windows XP Service Pack 3 ISO File — 544.9MB http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=2fcde6ce-b5fb-4488-8c50-fe22559d164e&DisplayLang=en
The ISO file seems to be similar to be similar to the version Microsoft put together […]
As I have previously stated, I work as a Computing Consultant at a local University. Since we have so many computers, we use volume license keys for Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office.
Dell and other OEMs are under pressure from Microsoft to stop including Microsoft Windows XP as the installed operating system that is installed by […]
I am a regular reader of the work of Deb Shinder. She is the editor of the weekly newsletters at VistaNews and WXPNews. She also blogs about other things tech related at Deb-Tech.
About an hour ago, I was reading her posting titled “Microsoft Small Business Security Quiz.” She says the […]
I usually don’t write posts that directly refer readers to another blog sites but today is an exception. Today, Microsoft announced the timetable for Windows Vista Service Pack 1. The official Windows Vista blog can be found here and the official post can be found here.
As I have mentioned in previous posts, I work as a computing consultant at a local university which means I deal with lots of computers that I do not personally own.
The majority of the work that I do configuring a new computer for the campus network, specifically active directory. The university has a contract with […]
I work as a computing consultant for a local university and when I configure a new computer that has been purchased by a faculty or staff member I always install Microsoft Office. Since December 2006 (we are a volume license customer so we received media early) I have been providing clients with the option of […]
How many of you use Windows Vista? I personally know about 10 people that are running it as their primary operating system and the majority of them are satisfied. The machine that I have running Windows Vista is a Dell OptiPlex GX270 with 3 GHz Intel Pentium 4, 2.5 GB of RAM, and a 128MB […]
