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Index of pages filed with the "Windows" tag (listing records 1 to 9 of 9):
- Windows Reference Installation
(Date: Thu 27-Oct-2005 | Comments: 4 | Permalink)
Aside from an IBM ThinkPad running Windows XP, that accompanies me on road-trips, and a rack of LaCie Ethernet Disks running Windows XP Embedded, I have completely eradicated Windows PCs from my day-to-day operations. However, as a self-proclaimed geek ... (continue reading) - Screen Recorders
(Date: Fri 28-Jan-2005 | Comments: 5 | Permalink)
I've just come across vnc2swf, a screen recorder for *nix X-Window (X11) and Mac OS X. vnc2swf is a neat little application that records a "video" of screen activity and converts it to a Macromedia Flash movie. Unfortunately the software only runs on ... (continue reading) - Repairing Windows XP Backup
(Date: Thu 16-Dec-2004 | Comments: 18 | Permalink)
Every day, at 18:00hrs, my Windows XP-based desktop PC performs a full backup of its hard disks to a NAS appliance. The backup takes advantage of Windows' "Volume Shadow Copy Technology" to ensure that no files are skipped during the process. XP's backup ... (continue reading) - The Weekender #2
(Date: Sat 11-Dec-2004 | Comments: 6 | Permalink)
Can you believe it? I've actually managed to produce a second post in the critically acclaimed "Weekender" series. Hoorah! So here we go, a new collection of juicy tidbits collected over the previous week. Warning: Contains some adult content. May also ... (continue reading) - Liberation Day
(Date: Tue 9-Nov-2004 | Comments: 8 | Permalink)
This is a momentous day. I have finally purged the last remaining Windows server from my network! The Great Cull of 2004 began, you may remember, with the cleansing of my media server back in August. I subsequently eradicated Windows from my "scratch ... (continue reading) - Unix Shell on Windows
(Date: Thu 21-Oct-2004 | Comments: 10 | Permalink)
Our Shapeshifter application servers all run some variant of Unix. Whilst working on the servers I spend most of my time in the BASH shell. On my Windows XP desktop computer, I spend a large portion of my time using the DOS shell. The problem is that ... (continue reading) - Windows 2000 Server Has Pissed Me Off for the Last Time
(Date: Tue 31-Aug-2004 | Comments: 4 | Permalink)
I returned to the office after my week's sojourn in Paris only to find that one of my file-servers had died in my absence. It seems our building suffered a direct hit during an electrical storm and, in accordance with Murphy's Law, I had a single server ... (continue reading) - Perl Development Environment
(Date: Tue 17-Aug-2004 | Comments: 10 | Permalink)
"A craftsman is only as good as his tools," claims the familiar adage. Of course, it depends on how you define "good". In the field of computer programming, "good" could refer to the quality of the programmer's code, or it could refer to that same programmer ... (continue reading) - Your Chance to Fix IE
(Date: Sun 2-May-2004 | Comments: 0 | Permalink)
We've all complained about Microsoft Internet Explorer's abysmal W3C standards support. Now we have a chance to voice our complaints and, just possibly, have them resolved ... (continue reading)
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