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3 February, 20103 February, 2010Tech

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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15 January, 2010Tech

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 […]

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14 January, 201015 January, 2010FOSS, Tech

Microsoft 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 […]

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7 January, 2010FOSS

Finally, 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) […]

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2 December, 20096 March, 2011Fedora, FOSS

How 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 […]

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1 December, 20091 December, 2009FOSS

Build 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 […]

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6 October, 20096 October, 2009FOSS

Windows 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 […]

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29 September, 200929 September, 2009Tech

This 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 […]

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28 September, 200928 September, 2009Tech

NSW 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.. […]

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24 September, 200925 September, 2009Tech

How 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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