It’s been going around the office that Microsoft has admitted failure, Paul Grahm even thinks Microsoft is dead, but I’m not convinced. Loss of relevance; sure, but death, failure, I don’t think so. From the Inquirer, Dell announced that it would be offering XP again on home PCs. The second that Vista came out, Microsoft …
Using cwRsync on Windows and rsync on Linux you can seamlessly mirror directories on two or more computers. In my case, because of iTunes and an iPod, I’m forced to keep a copy of my library on a desktop computer and on my media server. Yes, I’m aware of mt-daapd and I already have it …
A lot of long-overdue and much-needed technology has been put into the Vista graphics layer. If you’re developing software, that’s great. But what does it mean for users? Link via Digg
If you’re having problems with Windows Vista improperly waking Neosmart might have a solution for you. See below for specific problems: When recovering from a hibernate: “Cannot find uxtheme.dll” appears whenever you attempt to run (almost) any program. No matter what you do, you can’t even run Task Manager. What’s worse, a restart doesn’t fix …
ReadyBoost is the Windows Vista feature that allows you to use a nonvolatile flash-memory device as virtual memory in order to improve Vista’s performance. While SD, CF, USB drives, and any other flash device will work, 2.5MB/sec throughput for 4K random reads and 1.75MB/sec throughput for 512K random writes are required, and a maximum of …
There seems to be a serious problem Microsoft has yet to address when dual-booting between Windows Vista and Windows XP. Specifically, when XP boots, it mounts any connected drives and checks for System Restore information. XP automatically assumes Vista restore points are corrupt and will delete Vista’s restore points and shadow copies. Officially, Microsoft’s only …
Capturing dynamic screen shots has long been a feature of OS X, finally, Windows users no longer have to feel left out. The Snipping Tool should already be familiar to XP Tablet Edition users, but Vista users should be pleasantly surprised by it’s functionality. The Snipping Tool allows you to capture any portion of a …
Windows Disk Imaging I’m no authority when it comes to disk imaging and Microsoft’s products. That is not to say that it isn’t needed, only that I haven’t used a Microsoft product in a serious enough environment to need to do that. Mainly I backup files and directories that I think are important and leave …
I keep most of my media on a centrally located MythTV box running Linux. I can share stream music to iTunes on my Mac by running mt-daapd and howl on my Linux box. With Windows XP, everything worked even better; all I had to do was access my music via a Samba share. Unfortunately with …
You just plunked down that chunk of change for Vista and can’t find the option to add a network location. In order to add a network location, like that site you always ftp in to, double click “My Computer,” right click and select, “Add a Network Location.” Ahh, doesn’t that feel better?