Category: Microsoft

10 Things Linux Does Better Than Windows
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10 Things Linux Does Better Than Windows

Techgage wrote an interesting article titled 10 things linux does better than windows. Here’s a quick rundown of the 10 things that the article eludes [ continue reading... ]

Chrome and Opera usage expands at the expense of IE
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Chrome and Opera usage expands at the expense of IE

In the latest trending release from marketshare.net an interesting market share hit to IE and Safari took place in the month of November. Here are [ continue reading... ]

VMware ESXi vSphere 4 Bug – Be Aware NMP Errors
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VMware ESXi vSphere 4 Bug – Be Aware NMP Errors

Today at work we ran into quite a crappy issue, which thankfully I read about a few days ago. We started having some guests that [ continue reading... ]

QT 4.6 Release – The Future Platform?
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QT 4.6 Release – The Future Platform?

On Dec 1st, Nokia released QT 4.6. The major new improvements are: (from nokia’s website) Here’s a little video of the Hand Gestures: Do you [ continue reading... ]

Creating Bootable FreeDOS USB – openSUSE Linux
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Creating Bootable FreeDOS USB – openSUSE Linux

I’ve been reading a story about the Dell Latitude E6500 BIOS and possible over throttling during normal operating conditions, and decided to upgrade my BIOS. [ continue reading... ]

Problems Connecting to Yahoo Messanger w/ Pidgin
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Problems Connecting to Yahoo Messanger w/ Pidgin

If you’ve recently have had problems logging into your yahoo account you may not be the only one. On my systems all of a sudden [ continue reading... ]

Opera 10 Beta 1 is out and better than ever
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Opera 10 Beta 1 is out and better than ever

Opera 10 Beta 1 was release yesterday and I decided to give it a whirl on my openSUSE 11.1 workstation, and boy was the performance, [ continue reading... ]

OpenOffice 3.1 Beta on openSUSE
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OpenOffice 3.1 Beta on openSUSE

Have you gotten the itch to install OpenOffice.org 3.1? Are you running openSUSE? Well you’re in luck. The openSUSE Build Service has had the OpenOffice [ continue reading... ]

SLED (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop) 11 Exclusive Sneak Peek
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SLED (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop) 11 Exclusive Sneak Peek

As the excitement of SLED 11′s release swirls around, Novell has given the opportunity for people to get a Sneak Peek. Here’s some verbage from [ continue reading... ]

Microsoft Security apparently is a Bad Request
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Microsoft Security apparently is a Bad Request

So right on the cusps of the Emergency patch release by Microsoft on Oct 17th, I decided to try to read up on it (I [ continue reading... ]

How I saved my Co-workers Windows XP installation with Linux
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How I saved my Co-workers Windows XP installation with Linux

Today one of my co-workers ran Partition Magic on his work box, to free up some contiguous free space to expand his C partition (System). [ continue reading... ]

Switching from Windows to Linux, what you need to know
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Switching from Windows to Linux, what you need to know

Switching from Windows to Linux and what you need to know: Since we are in touch economic times the most important question is “How much [ continue reading... ]

Installing Microsoft Fonts on openSUSE 11.0
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Installing Microsoft Fonts on openSUSE 11.0

As you may have noticed currently there is no package in the openSUSE 11.0 update repo to install Microsoft fonts during your openSUSE 11.0 installation. [ continue reading... ]

VMWare Workstation not working with Wireless (Kernel 2.6.20)
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VMWare Workstation not working with Wireless (Kernel 2.6.20)

So you may be using VMWare Workstation on a nice shiny Linux box, just to find out you cannot use your Bridged networking over the [ continue reading... ]

Microsoft Repair, now you can’t run Windows Updates? How to fix
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Microsoft Repair, now you can’t run Windows Updates? How to fix

So, have you recently had to run a Microsoft Windows Repair on a machine using the Windows XP CD and then were unable to do [ continue reading... ]