Results tagged “windows”

One thing is clear with the arrival of Windows 7, the maintenance tasks on Windows have not changed much. Even this latest version of Windows uses NTFS as the default filesystem, and it still has a registry for storing system... Read More >>

It's time for a house party. What better timing than to coincide with the release of Windows 7. Microsoft was looking for people to host Win 7 parties in their homes, but the application time has closed. A friend of... Read More >>

The problem with opening tarballs on Windows is that Microsoft tends to ignore other operating systems as much as possible. If you've ever tried to open a text file that you created in Linux or Mac OS X in Windows... Read More >>

The objective: finding inexpensive, reliable Windows-based web hosting that offers access to Windows Server 2008 and ASP.NET 3.5. Web hosts that utilize some variety of Linux or FreeBSD are a dime a dozen. There are a few that rise above... Read More >>

I've been looking at ways to be more productive with blogging, and one tip I've heard various places is to use an offline blog editor. The one I hear mentioned the most is ecto. ecto comes in Mac and Windows... Read More >>

Walt Mossberg's column in the Wall Street Journal today (available here) was especially interesting today because he tackled a subject he rarely touches on: Linux. Dell has recently started selling some computers with the option of having Ubuntu Linux... Read More >>

I've been running dual-boot systems since December 2005. On both my desktop and laptop, I had a Windows partition and an openSUSE Linux partition. After using that basic setup for the past year and a half, it's become clear... Read More >>

13 June 2007 What if Linux and Windows had a weddingby Daniel Stout What if Linux and Windows had a wedding and all the companies were in attendance that night there would be a bedding and the developers would have... Read More >>

Just as an example of how cool Linux is to use, it's very easy to do huge downloads. If you're wanting to get the DVD image for openSUSE 10.2, a simple command will do the trick. In Windows, if you're... Read More >>

I'll be the first to admit that Linux appeals to the technically inclined. It also appeals to people who believe in the freedom of ideas. People are cruising along on their Mac OS X laptop or their Windows box, and... Read More >>

Robert Scoble wrote an entry about what he sees as a reason Linux won't be adopted by the masses as their desktop operating system: the fonts. I couldn't disagree more with him. I'm looking at Gnome via SUSE Linux 10.1... Read More >>

Often when I'm walking down the street, people come up to me and say, "Dan, I've been afraid to try Linux. Robert Scoble has me whipped. I've been using Windows for so long, I don't know anything else." It... Read More >>

Long before there was Windows XP. Long before there was Windows 95. There was an operating system that rose up out of the Finnish primordial ooze. A young man named Linus Torvalds had the pluck to want to write his... Read More >>