Microsoft Acknowledges Macs May Get Infected While Using Virtual PC
I think this is the greatest thing ever! It is obviously undisputed that Windows machines are by far the most vulnerable machines in the world, but it is much more satisfying when a branch of Microsoft...
View ArticleMaking a System Image of a Windows Install
I can't count how many times I've reinstalled Windows on my workstation at home. Sometimes it's because of my obsessive need to keep a clean system; other times it's because I've hosed my system with...
View ArticleIf You Can’t Release the Project On Time, Change the Seasons
What do you do when you've been promising a product for 4 years, and now your inability to deliver is becoming a joke? What do you do when you need to push back your release date yet again, but you...
View ArticleApple’s Timeliness Puts Microsoft to Shame
Coming off the curtails of Microsoft's absurd recent announcement redefining the seasons to avoid another release date pushback, progress over in Tiger land strongly suggests that Apple may be...
View ArticleMany Doubt Longhorn’s 2006 Release
Adding fuel to the fire about Longhorn as well as salt to the wound of SQL Server's laughable clarified release date is speculation in the industry that Microsoft's Longhorn will not make its 2006...
View ArticleMicrosoft “Can’t Even Copy Fast”
At a recent shareholders meeting, Steve Jobs made a great, succinct swipe at Microsoft and Longhorn. It is mentioned in: Jobs rebuts eco-group claims at annual meeting. According to MacWorld, when Jobs...
View ArticleHow to Install iTunes on Windows XP SP2
Yes, the ravages of XP's infamous Service Pack 2 are still being felt. Attempts to install iTunes on a Windows XP machine running SP2 may result in error messages and an inability to complete the...
View ArticleWindows on Macs Without Windows…But Don’t Get Too Giddy
If you're familar with the Darwine project, then this isn't anything new. And this tidbit of news itself is already a couple weeks old, but I never got around to posting it, and I wanted to bring it...
View ArticleWindows XP Finally Works on Intel Macs!
During the same week that Microsoft announces that they would be removing support for UEFI from Windows Vista, some hackers finally establish a method to install Windows XP on Intel Macs (legally, I...
View ArticleSome iPods Are Shipping With a Windows Virus
This is pretty funny. Apple contracts various companies to manufacture their iPods, and apparently one company mistakenly allowed a situation where the iPods were being manufactured and released with...
View ArticleResetting Terminal Services Connections
A few days ago at work, I went to connect to a headless server at work, and it indicated that I couldn't connect because all the Terminal Services connections were in use. What now? There are graceful...
View ArticlePogue on Windows Vista Copying OS X
If you haven't seen it yet, David Pogue's video discussing whether Windows Vista copies Mac OS X is pretty entertaining material...for Mac enthusiasts, anyway. Even though I think it is pretty blatant,...
View ArticleWindows 2003 Upgrade Caused “500 NULL” Error in CFMX 7
I was testing an OS upgrade from Windows 2000 to Windows 2003 on a ColdFusion webserver earlier this week, and I experienced only one hiccup, although it was a momentary show stopper. The ODBC services...
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Introducing WriteRoom
We've worked so hard at enabling our computers to multitask effectively--and increasingly faster--that we have far surpassed the human ability to multitask. Don't get me wrong; being able to continue...
View ArticleUninspiring Vista
Steve Jobs has revealed that nearly 50% of all Mac sales are from "Switchers", individuals who did not previously own a Mac. So it isn't news to hear about someone getting fed up with Windows and...
View ArticleFree Command-Line Zip on Windows
Both Linux and Mac OS X have zip, gzip, and bzip2 command-line tools. What about Windows? If you're trying to do some scripting to automate some archiving or backup, and you want it to be a classic,...
View ArticleWindows Vista and Samba Not Getting Along: NTLMv2 is the Culprit
After installing Windows Vista, I could not connect to my Samba fileshares. I'm running Samba v3.0.10 on CentOS v4.4. It turns out that NTLMv2, the authentication protocol, is required by default on...
View ArticleUpgrading Subversion Requires a Bindings Update for Trac!
My Subversion/Trac server was at Trac v0.9.6 and Subversion v1.3.x because those were the latest stable releases when I set up the server. I decided it would be relatively quick and painless to at...
View ArticleWhy That Batch For Loop Isn’t Working
Time for another fun foray into Windows batch scripts. Perhaps you've used the FOR /F command to loop through the contents of a file (for instance, perhaps some data that was redirected to a text file...
View ArticleRedirecting Errors to a File in Windows Batch Scripts
In my post on Redirecting Output to a File in Windows Batch Scripts, I discussed the basics of output redirection into a text file and how this can be used for logging, including error logging by using...
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