Windows 7 killing laptop batteries?
Ars Technica reports on issues with Windows 7 and battery life on some laptops. These users claim their batteries were working just fine under Windows XP and/or Windows Vista, and […]
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Windows based Internet cafés “illegal”
I never realised before, but Windows based Internet cafés violate Microsoft’s license terms, because: Windows desktop operating system and Microsoft Office system licenses do not permit renting, leasing, or outsourcing […]
Read moreMicrosoft screencast shows Linux easier than Windows
In their attack on free software, Microsoft has launched a website which compares various aspects of Windows to its counterpart on Linux. One of the latest videocasts compares getting Perl […]
Read moreFinally, a drop-in replacement for Windows Small Business Server
Remember ClarkConnect? Well maybe you don’t, but it was a handy little distro for running local servers. Now it exists as ClearOS, built on CentOS (in-turn built from RHEL source) […]
Read moreHow to triple boot Mac Pro with OS X, Fedora, Windows
Here are some step by step instructions on how to triple boot a Mac Pro (and I guess any Intel based Mac) with OS X (Snow Leopard), Fedora 12 and […]
Read moreBuild libpst for Windows?
We’re about to do a new Xena release at work, but before that happens I need to (somehow) create a Windows binary of readpst (from libpst) to normalise Outlook PST […]
Read moreWindows Server 2008 can now replicate Samba4
A few months ago Tridge demonstrated Samba4 to Samba4 replication and now this goes one step further for real world use. Andrew Bartlett has just blogged about the Samba team’s […]
Read moreThis guy says it much better than I can..
Charlie Brooker from the Guardian says it much better than I can.. I know Windows is awful. Everyone knows Windows is awful. Windows is like the faint smell of piss […]
Read moreNSW locks students into proprietary systems
The NSW Government has announced the roll out of 240,000 netbooks to year 9 students. The system is completely proprietary: Windows 7 Microsoft Office Adobe Photoshop Apple iTunes and more.. […]
Read moreHow to host a Windows 7 Launch Party
My goodness, Microsoft is so hip and cool. They’ve made a video on how to host a Windows 7 Lunch Party. Of course for each of the characters you’ve got […]
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