Win XP SP3 – Microsoft continues to suck

So, I inherited my wife’s Dell desktop when she said that she essentially didn’t require a dedicated workstation any longer. It’s still running XP even though I do most of my work in *nix land, helping with some things like updating the maps on our GPS, with software that only works on Winblows. I threw [...]

A free Windows OS

I was poking around on the Internet and I came across ReactOS, a free Windows XP compatible OS. It looks like they’re pretty far along. Wow. If anyone has tried, it please let me know. I’m very curious.

Word sucks

#ifdef RANT I must use it at my current job, but I’ve always preferred markup that just does what the hell it’s told. I’m just trying to do a simple nested list, modifying an existing one. 1. one 2. two So I put in something between them 1. one – bullet one – bullet two [...]

Mercurial + TortoiseSVN = good stuff on winblows

So, I’ve been using Mercurial for a while now, and while Linux support rocks, the Windows support could be much better. A recent suggestion on the Mercurial mailing list had me integrating it with my already installed TortoiseSVN, and it wasn’t difficult. From my Mercurial.ini. [ui] ssh = C:\Progra~1\TortoiseSVN\bin\TortoisePlink.exe -l msoulier -ssh -2 -i m:\.ssh\putty_rsa2.PPK [...]

Microsoft to resell SuSE

Someone check the temperature in Hell, Microsoft is apparently going to resell Linux; SuSE Linux, to be exact, in a deal with Novell. I wonder what SuSE fans think of this.

The Microsoft version of multi-user

So, at work my Windows XP box was moved to a new domain. The domain that my account was in was MITEL-NA, and now it’s plain old MITEL. But, to access my work PC from my Linux box via remote desktop, I was specifying the MITEL-NA domain as a command-line argument. At work I was [...]

Mercurial with ssh on Windows

I’ve recently been looking a the Mercurial SCM tool, as it’s light and fast, and works around distributed repositories like Git does. It was simple to set up on Unix, especially my FreeBSD box. On Windows though, I had a couple of problems. First, when I ran the installer it tried to overwrite my msvcr71.dll, [...]

The “new” security features of windows Vista

I read about an article today about why you should upgrade to Windows Vista, and I just had to laugh at some parts of it. First of all, Jim Allchin says that you should buy it because it’s more secure. Yeah, we’ve heard that before there dude. With the security record of Windows, it’s really [...]

Good system utilities

One of the things that bugs me the most about running windows is the fact that it hides so much from you. Being a hacker, I want to know what’s going on with my operating system. If something is misbehaving I want to be told, and be given the opportunity to kill it. I don’t [...]

The devil you know

In the last month I’ve decided I want to explore the world of Microsoft Windows again, God help me. This was mainly motivated by the fact that I can’t use my webcam with MSN on Linux yet. I tried, compiled a driver and managed to get video, but I couldn’t get sound from the microphone [...]