As part of my ongoing exploration and mastery of the Windows command-line, here’s a tip on how to change motherboards without having to reinstall or repair Windows. This article is for advanced users only, and will render your computer unbootable if you do it wrong. You get one shot at this. The fate of the free world depends on it. No pressure or anything. If there are corrections to this or addenda / hints and tips from other Windows experts please do post them in the comment section.
Among Linux distributions, Ubuntu is the undisputedly most well-known for its user-friendliness (with a tip of the hat to Fedora, though Red Hat aren’t spending as much time advertising it as Canonical, Ubuntu’s parent company, does). In most cases when I’m not being a gearhead with Gentoo, and want to use Linux as a sensible desktop environment, Ubuntu is my choice. Canonical have put a lot of good engineering work into it and that’s shown by its ever increasing popularity among Linux users.
Found this on Google code while working to convert 400+ HTML files as saved by Mozilla Firefox. Firefox creates an HTML file and an associated directory containing the stylesheets, images and other content, so it was easy enough to run this against all the HTML files and get a good rendering of all the items to PDF format. As a bonus tip, if you’ve got a bunch of PDF files in named subfolders, (“Apple Custard/Index.
Ran into this a couple of weeks ago. If you have someone who ran Pages and needs to convert their library of documents to Word format, do the following. This requires iWork ‘09.
Open script editor and paste in the script listed below. Save this script as an application Drag all your Pages documents on top of the script application. Word documents will be created in the same directory as the original document.
A minor annoyance of mine is the fact that, when you pin Windows Explorer to the taskbar in Windows 7 (Windows 7 ships this way), clicking the icon takes you to the ’libraries’ location. Myself, I’d prefer that it go either to my Documents folder or the ‘My Computer’ location, and here’s how to accomplish that:
Open the Start menu Navigate to All Programs -> Accessories Right click on Windows Explorer and select Properties In the “Target” enter %SystemRoot%explorer.
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I’ve long been a skeptic about VMware’s enterprise level pricing, and with good reason. I’ve heard it said that it’s often more cost effective to take all your existing servers and plate them in gold, even after one takes into account the ‘cost and power savings in the long-run’ - there are always incidental needs that drive the infrastructure’s cost upward, not downward over time in a VMware deployment. Most SMB’s simply want to run a few virtual machines on under 10 host servers, and to have a good overall picture of those servers and the VM’s running within them (a central management console).
Google today announced Chrome OS, a Linux based operating system that will boot in seconds and feature the web as its primary application platform (presumably its only platform). This goes further to Google’s plan to ultimately eliminate the power and flexibility of the desktop computer. As application software is delivered from the web, the end-user’s experience becomes that of a set-top box. Though Google began as a corporation with the motto “Don’t be evil”, people should realize that they are indeed just a corporation.
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The FreeBSD project is finally, after much work, pleased to announce the availability of an official FreeBSD web based discussion forum. It is our hope that this forum will serve as a public support channel for FreeBSD users around the world and as a complement to our fine mailing lists.
You can register and start using our new service here: http://forums.FreeBSD.org.
via FreeBSD News
