Not everyone has system administrators running around them, to take care that no one hacks their servers and ensure all the updates are up and running. We talked about securing a system by disabling direct root access/login for a Linux based system, but... Techie Buzz »
Reinstalling an operating system is probably one of the most vexatious procedures one can do on their computer. Firstly, it’s a lengthy process which require you to be in front of the computer but do nothing at the same time. Secondly, a lot of the... (posted on 27 Aug 2008 by Make Use Of)
Windows comes with a rather attractive set of standard icons which are scattered throughout the operating system. One thing you may not know is you can make use of this icons on any of your shortcuts by going to the shortcut’s properties window and then... (posted on 27 Aug 2008 by PCMech)
Vista's dead, but Microsoft may be trying to revive the corpse by calling it Windows 7. read more (posted on 27 Aug 2008 by Cyber Cynic)
In Wednesday's IT Blogwatch, we watch Apple's enterprise market share grow. Not to mention Error'd Error'd Everywhere... Gregg Keizer reports: read more (posted on 27 Aug 2008 by IT Blogwatch)
My last review of openSUSE 11.0 generated mixed comments, but one of the recurring themes was disapproval of my recommendation because SUSE is the “enemy” of Linux, simply because it struck a “deal” with Microsoft. I am no expert in legal matters, but... (posted on 27 Aug 2008 by Scientechie)
Finally. Today, I completed my download of openSUSE 11.0 (after my recent Vista failure) and set about installing it. It was a DVD of the latest ISO from openSUSE. My machine is the same Acer Ferrari 5000 (2.0 GHz X2 AMD Turion 64, 2GB RAM, ATI X1600... (posted on 26 Aug 2008 by Scientechie)

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