Windows 7 Now that I’m actually using Windows 7 both starter and home premium editions I can say a few things about it. As you know I used the rather icky Windows Vista before. There are two obvious differences: The taskbar has been significantly improved over Vista where now instead of having to click through [...]
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Windows LIVE, why won’t it DIE?
You know Windows Live is such crap. I mean that. Firstly there’s the email which doesn’t do it’s job on junk mail filtering. Then when you try to mark it as junk the server doesn’t respond. And that’s half the issue with their email, it is frequently down. Nowadays all I get is junk there, [...]
Windows Overheads Getting too Heavy
There is a windows nuisance which seems to be getting nearer crisis point. These are overheads, or if you like computer maintenance, which comprises of several wasteful mechanisms which sap you computer productivity, speed, responsiveness and your personal time. What I’m talking about is everything on your system that isn’t core to your service. There’s [...]
Riding the Google Wave
I got an invite from a friend and I am indeed thrilled to get a look at it. If you are one of the extremely lucky people who have escaped the hype and know nothing about Google Wave, allow me to corrupt you. Google Wave is a new communication tool; Real time – what you [...]
Wine Basics
If you really want to get the most out of wine this article is for you. Here I show you my experience in getting more games to work under wine and the general pattern of how it all works. A basic knowledge of the command line interface (CLI) really helps. Try this tutorial if you [...]
Microsoft sues TomTom
If you’re powerful and losing market share because you can’t innovate, litigate. Microsoft have decided to attack TomTom who are a European-based GPS provider. But the attack is also a proxy assault on Linux which TomTom uses in their product. Keep an eye on this one as it goes through the courts.
Easy Wine
For those of you who are new to Linux, and the dreaded command line (CLI) in particular, you can use wine in the try and pray mode. As I’ve said before around ¼ of games will work like that. However to get a higher success rate and an easier installation process you should consider using [...]
Wine 1.1.14
I’m going to introduce WINE which is all about running Windows based applications on Linux and other operating systems, such as the Mac. WINE is open source. The ability to use Windows based applications is very useful for many Linux users. For new users this mitigates the learning curve of so many new applications at [...]
Software Freedom Day
Software Freedom Day (SFD08) is a world wide event promoting Free and Open Source Software to families and businesses. It’s held each year and this year is on Saturday 20 September 2008. There are many small localised events all across the world organised for that day. My local Linux User group is doing one of [...]