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Microsoftism’s on my MacBook
Seems Mac OS/X has not escaped the unnecessary annoyances of Windows. Below are details to unstall a product on my MacBook, following it crashing my machine a few times with the “blue screen on death” below.
Read moreT60 Configuration
This is a long story, of the absolute nightmare I have had with this lemon. I wish I could send it back! I got my new Lenovo T60 from MySQL.
Read moreHow’s your desktop
People that know me, know that I can’t just do one thing at once. People that have seen me work also know just how I can’t just work on a single thing, but work with multiple monitors, desktops and programs everywhere.
Read moreZune or zzz?
An interesting article in the local New Jersey paper this week. “Will Microsoft iPod-rival Zune be a ‘zoom’ or more of a ‘zzz’. This is Microsoft’s attempt to finally case in the 1.
Read moreThe Windoze CLI, or lack there of.
There are many reasons why I hate Windoze, here is just another example. I need via the command line, change to a given directory, so I can manually run a command.
Read moreMicrofox ?
I’ve added Digg to my general lunch time reading web sites. I came across this yesterday. Microsoft invites Firefox development team to Redmond . Well, isn’t that nice, the big boy opening his pond (including all the sharks) to the little fish.
Read moreTroubleshooting Wireless Connections (under Windoze)
Router Configuration In order to enable wireless you will most probably have a Wireless Router that is managing your Internet Connection (via cable or DSL), Each router is different, however they generally all have a web interface to access them, the Netgear and DLink routers seems to have generally moved to http://192.
Read moreA better VNC
I’ve been using VNCViewer from RealVNC under Linux to remote connect to an older machine running windows. Two reasons, I don’t need yet another screen on my desk, and I need windows to adequately test and use the MySQL GUI products, in particular MySQL Workbench.
Read moreMySQL GUI Products
I’ve started now to actively use more of the MySQL Workbench, MySQL Administrator and MySQL Query Browser and MySQL Migration Toolkit. I am traditionally a very command line person, and it’s important that these skills are never put on the back burner.
Read moreUsing Parrallels as a VM for Windows
$ su – $ Parallels-config Configuring Parallels Workstation 2.0 build 1514 Configuring Parallels Workstation 2.0 drivers… Compiling Parallels Workstation 2.0 drivers… Drivers have been compiled successfully. Installing drivers… Starting drivers…
Read moreTesting/Trialing new MySQL Releases
By now, I’m sure you have all heard about Free VMware Player allowing easy and quick access to see, view and use other OS’s easily. For those Windows users out there, now is your chance to trial MySQL under Linux with no impact to your system, why wait.
Read moreUsing VMware Server (free)
VMware recently released the Free VMware player which allows you to test other OS’s easily in parallel with your current OS. They also provide the Virtual Machine Center so you can even trial easily a number of different pre-packaged solutions.
Read moreRunning Internet Exploder (ie) under Linux
It’s really so simple, I’m surprised it doesn’t come bundled in distros. (Well I take that back, I’m as anti-microsoft as you can get, but unfortunately, we have to lower ourselves and our good work to the power of Bill who has it over those uninformed majority being brainwashed with a non-standard and flawed browser, that you have to break your code to get to work for it somethings).
Read morePAE Support (Part 2)
I’ve solved the PAE Support problem with my current kernel of 2.6.9-22.0.1.ELsmp. Referring to my earlier post PAE Support with the inability to get Parallels VM Software working under CentOS 4.
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