http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,2000440676b,00.htm Xwindowsjunkie's Blog - Home Server Projects - Latest blog feeds at ZDNet UK en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:50:52 +0000 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:50:52 +0000 20 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (X) There has been a lot going on. I've been trying out CTP 2011 “Quebec” from Microsoft, its basically Windows 7 Embedded. Now I know how various OEMs have been able to demo Windows 7 on all the netbooks that suddenly popped up. Consider the Windows 7 Embed... zdnetuk/10014230 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014230o-2000440676b,00.htm Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:35:06 +0100 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (X) Had an interesting day today. Call it either an example of planned obsolescence or an instance of deliberate system design but I ran into one of the biggest issues of proprietary operating system software. For a customer's installation, we needed to ... zdnetuk/10014079 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014079o-2000440676b,00.htm Sat, 03 Oct 2009 17:22:43 +0100 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (X) A complaint I've made once or twice, Linux is getting bloated has now been confirmed from the source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10358024-16.html Linus Torvald's says so too. (At least as reported by CNet. I tried to find the original quote. Pr... zdnetuk/10013874 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10013874o-2000440676b,00.htm Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:48:07 +0100 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (X) Most of the following relates to using XP Pro as host. As soon as you feel comfortable using Ubuntu or some other Linux as host do it since you will see a performance increase in the VM. On VirtualBox, its like all other VMs from other manufacturers, i... zdnetuk/10013827 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10013827o-2000440676b,00.htm Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:22:34 +0100 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (X) I've tested Win7 in Beta and what turned out to be the RTM. On a dual core with 4 GB of RAM its a fine OS. Faster and much more reliable than Visaster. It did a number of things I was impressed with but there is no compelling reason to run it. That's at w... zdnetuk/10013777 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10013777o-2000440676b,00.htm Tue, 15 Sep 2009 06:29:56 +0100 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (X) I had a hard drive failure on my home Windows XP Pro DELL system last week. I decided this morning at about 4AM to rebuild the system as a dual boot with Ubuntu 9.04 on the second partition. The goal is to minimize my "Windows dependency" status as much a... zdnetuk/10013752 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10013752o-2000440676b,00.htm Sun, 13 Sep 2009 16:11:58 +0100 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (X) DANGEROUS TECHNIQUE DESCRIBED BELOW. THIS WILL MODIFY YOUR DESKTOP OR LAPTOP COMPUTER TO THE EXTENT THAT IT WILL BE EXTREMELY DIFFICULT IF NOT IMPOSSIBLE TO RECOVER CONTROL OF THE SYSTEM. MAKE an image and put it on a bootable CD or DVD if you insist on ... zdnetuk/10013703 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10013703o-2000440676b,00.htm Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:29:18 +0100 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (X) Talked to a rep today at Virtual Computing. There are some "soft gotchas" with the bare metal VM concept. ( A soft gotcha is one that if you gave it a second thought or two, you would've known about it before asking the question.) The obvious one i... zdnetuk/10013670 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10013670o-2000440676b,00.htm Thu, 03 Sep 2009 04:42:22 +0100 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (X) There has been a recent flurry of PR for a firm that is somewhat related to Citrix called Virtual Computing. I do not all the particulars but there is a financial relationship between the two. Citrix is well known for slim-client/remote client hosting sol... zdnetuk/10013648 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10013648o-2000440676b,00.htm Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:31:00 +0100 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (X) or “How to Drive Someone Batty with Windows” Basically setting up a custom User Shell has been fairly well documented. It takes changes to 2 registry keys, one in HK_Current_User and the other in HK_Local_Machine. The Local_Machine key opens up Pandora... zdnetuk/10013462 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10013462o-2000440676b,00.htm Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:48:17 +0100