This is one of those Incredible Coincidences or possibly Acts of God. I can’t tell you which or whether.
Last night a coworker and I gave a presentation to our local linux user group on virtualizing the enterprise with VMware. It went reasonably well, in that nobody threw anything and the only people who fell asleep [...]
Ok, my pop culture tends to go missing sometimes. Yes, sometimes for years at a time. Apparently today was one of those episodes.
Conan O’Brien?
I purchased one of those tiny USB tuners for the computer. It came with this boffo little antenna that I stuck up on top of my monitor farm. I like putting up [...]
Preston Gralla over at Computerworld mentioned that Microsoft has had the brilliant idea to cripple Windows 7 on netbooks. It will sell a Windows 7 Starter Addition that is purposely crippled to only allow three applications to run at the same time.
It will be possible to run more apps but the victim… errrr….. consumer will [...]
Part of what I do during the day involves computers. It suddenly occurred to me to share some knowledge. Boy, sometimes I feel so smrrrt.
I won’t repeat how to keep your computer clean - if you’re interested, check out leftystrat’s Guide to Safe Computing in the black menu bar above. It’s a decent guide but [...]
No, I’m not kidding.
Hell hath frozen over, you say?
Nah, read on…..
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Anybody who has read even one post on this blog knows that I’m not the biggest Microsoft fan (there - that was polite, wasn’t it?). Ok, that was the understatement of the year.
I think Microsoft had the germ of a good idea with UAC.
Please stop [...]
When I set up a computer, I set it up for my use. I customize it, I make necessary changes, and say appropriate magic words in the hopes that the operating system will run and continue to perform the way I want it.
Keep in mind that I don’t use XP a whole lot and that [...]
McAfee
My first enterprise antivirus experience was McAfee. We’re talking probably late 1980’s and there was nobody at the company interested in viruses so I figured I’d take a look. I managed to clean an infection and decided we needed a corporate antivirus and policy, thus McAfee. This was a time where the problem was primarily [...]
Just a short while ago it was announced that Ford would have computers in some of their cars and that the computers would have a Microsoft operating system. So naturally I got to thinking about the end result of this:
you will have to reboot your car at least once a day
you will not be able [...]
As you no doubt have read, I’m having hard drive problems with my laptop. It’s not so much a problem as a total failure but sometimes we like to stay optimistic (or use Classic British Understatement<tm>, even though I’m not British).
The hard drive continued to sit there and confound Spinrite. I believe that after a [...]
I’m at work, dealing with this morning’s emergencies. My teammates are working on some serious Active Directory Windows networking issues. One of the many reasons I hate Microsoft is that the errors are random and stupid. Whenever we are victimized by one of these errors, I refer to it as Bill’s Will. When production servers [...]
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