15 May 2008

Windows Vista versus Windows XP – Reliability

4sysops – For Windows Administrators – It is time for the next round of the Vista vs. XP match. In my view, Vista won the first two rounds (Security and Manageability) by knocking out XP within the first few seconds. If this were a boxing match, XP would have been counted out already. But because we are fair sportsmen, let’s give the old champion another chance to regain its title. As before, the text in italics summarizes Kennedy’s arguments. [...] read more

6 Jul 2008

The Mac approaches 8 percent market share: Is it ready for popularity? | The Open Road - The Business and Politics of Open Sourc

In June, Apple's market share for Mac OS X hit 7.94 percent, according to Net Applications. At its current growth rate of 0.18 percent per month, this means that the Mac should hit 8 percent of the global desktop operating system market by the end of July (posted on 6 Jul 2008 by Blah, Blah! Technology)

6 Jul 2008

Darwine 1.0 stable release is here, run Windows apps on a Mac

Section: Operating Systems, OS-X, WindowsDarwine, the OS X port of the popular wine compatibility layer, has reached a stable version 1.0. Thanks to Mike over at kronenberg.org, it is available pre-compiled and ready to run. Until now, the alternative... (posted on 6 Jul 2008 by Appletell)

4 Jul 2008

Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) Alpha Screenshots

Some days ago the first alpha version of the upcoming version of Ubuntu i.e. Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex was announced by Canonical. Softpedia has got some good screens of this new version some of which I would like to share with all Linux... (posted on 4 Jul 2008 by Sizlopedia)

3 Jul 2008

Turn XP into a Blazing Speed Demon

I used to rely on Norton’s Speed Disk, then, eventually Perfect Disc and Diskeeper to optimize my HDD. Defragmenting is the idea- an antiquated process of reorganizing bytes on spinning platter so that each file is grouped into contiguous locations on... (posted on 3 Jul 2008 by Connected Internet)

3 Jul 2008

How to Create a Password Reset Disk in Vista

We have already written on how to reset the Windows password using a freeware. You can reset your Windows Vista password if you create a reset disk. This reset disk can be saved in USB drive or Floppy disk. To create a reset disk, open start menu and... (posted on 3 Jul 2008 by Life Rocks! 2.0)

3 Jul 2008

Delegating Hyper-V Virtual Machines

I’m not exactly what one would call an “Enterprise” Admin - so i don’t really know all that much about WMI. We first started our internal virtualization stuff when both VMware GSX and Virtual Server 2005 still cost money. So we used VS2005 because we... (posted on 3 Jul 2008 by Lukas Beeler's IT Blog)

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