Windoze

Win4LinPro Trial

In my continuing effort of finding a suitable complete Windows environment under Linux for those small occasions when you just can’t ditch it, I’ve tried Win4Lin. You can download 2 week evaluation copy from the website.

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Windoze and Microspew at it again.

In reading the Google News Sci/Tech headlines today, near the top was the following article. Windows Security Flaw Is ‘Severe’ Washington Post – 36 minutes ago A previously unknown flaw in Microsoft Corp.

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December Java Users Group talk on AJAX

I attended the December meeting of the Brisbane Java Users Group last night. The presenters Alex and Brad from Working Mouse a Brisbane Based J2EE Solutions Provider gave a talk on AJAX.

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Mount Window Share under Linux with Samba

First check what shares are available for your Windoze Box (in this case it is at 192:168.100.36 with a login of and a password of ) $ smbclient -L 192.168.100.36 -U $ mkdir /mnt/

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Photoshop CS .PSD Thumbnails in Windows Explorer

Adobe Photoshop CS (v8.x) no longer supports displaying PSD files as thumbnails in Windows Explorer’s thumbnail view, all you get is a standard Photoshop icon. If you have upgraded from a previous version of Photoshop to Photoshop CS you will be OK but a fresh install of CS will NOT included thumbnail previews of PSDs.

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Change user file permissions when moving windows disk to new machine

Set, view, change, or remove special permissions for files and folders Important: If you are not joined to a domain and you want to view the Security tab: 1. <td class="text"> Click <b>Start</b>, and then click <b>Control Panel</b>.

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Changing IE spinning logo and title

This tweak will change the animated bitmap image that displays when IE (or Outlook Express) is busy. This tweak also removes or changes the branding string added to the window title ( Figure 2 ).

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Ripping CD’s to MP3 (on Windows)

For use on Windows platforms I use Free MP3 Rip from mgshareware.com. My Settings are: In CD | Options menu option on the General Tab, select Default Encoding Format MP3.

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