With the full retail release of Microsoft Windows Vista just around the corner, one of the major things a new user of Windows Vista will immediately notice is the sidebar. It’s a feature that appeared, dissapeared and the re-appeared thankfully in the later and final version of Windows Vista. I say thankfully as it’s possibly [...]
While Windows Vista is now available for big businesses, organizations vary widely in their plans for adopting the new operating system. Some have plans to aggressively move to Vista, while others are taking a far more wait-and-see approach. Here are some things you need to consider before taking the plunge.
Recently, I received a fresh new laptop from Dell. Upon receiving it, I did the traditional “installation of Windows from scratch” on it to remove a lot of the garbage that is preinstalled on Dells. Then I got really busy installing tons of great software that takes care of pretty much every software need I [...]
It is so rare that I actually find good and useful utilities for Windows XP, but these three I discovered today are something I wish Windows XP had been built with. Ever wonder what your machine was actually doing when the processor goes to 100% and the disk head is clunking left to right at [...]
If you’re suffering working for a boss from hell, be comforted by the fact that you are not alone. Check out the boorish bosses below.
Link baiting is a term used in site traffic techniques that means to entice users to deep link to a page or article within your site. The number of links into your site is a huge factor in the page ranking scores generated by the big search engines like Google and Yahoo. Whether, you are [...]
Microsoft’s new Windows Vista operating system is almost here, but do you really need it? If you don’t yet feel the need to invest in a new OS, or if your hardware doesn’t meet Vista standards, you’ll find that a regular maintenance regimen–along with an occasional checkup–will keep XP rolling along for years to come. [...]
Microsoft has announced the new version of the Windows operating system will be released at the end of January. It’s called Windows Vista and will be the first major upgrade since Windows XP came out a few years back.
As you all may have heard, Microsoft has released Windows Vista to manufacturing yesterday. A momentous event? Well that just depends on who you ask, and if the person is myself then you are going to get the following four reasons why I personally would not even bother with Windows Vista.
PowerShell is Microsoft’s newest replacement for the command line. It’s still in beta, and the latest version is available free for download here. For us older folks, we’ve had to deal with DOS in the past, and then we’ve held on to the CMD.exe program, which is pretty much the same as a DOS command [...]
Last week, I began a countdown of the ten reasons Linux and BSD are far superior to Windows. I received a huge response to the first installment, so without further delay, here’s the final four reasons and my official response to some of the comments and criticisms I’ve received.
I know that some Microsoft fanboys are probably hitting the Send button on their flames as they read the title, but you can’t ignore the truth. Linux and BSD are vastly superior to Windows in every way. Don’t believe me? Read on, my friend. Read on and realize the folly of your MS ways.
Microsoft has reached an enormous success with its Windows product during the last decade and practically monopolized the market for home computer operating systems. But, does it mean Windows is still the best OS around, especially for power users? I’m going to cumulate my Windows XP frustrations and tell you about the top 10 reasons [...]
Thanks to improvements within Apple’s OS X operating system, admins face fewer headaches when they need to connect Macs to Windows networks. But there are still some issues to deal with, like enabling File Sharing and creating Windows user accounts on the Macs, configuring printer sharing, and working with File Services For Macintosh.
