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- Microsoft's manifest destiny to include the kitchen sink
- Gimp will do that also..But of course, Gimp is Open sourse, and free. -d
- Tags: dawgit, Gimp, grapic hole punching, windows, window on windows, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-02-17
- Trimming the FAT!
- We're not using thembut we're a SME. We are using Citrix to log into our ERP plus for some users of reports on pgms like Crystal, to keep license counts down.I agree with all your reasons. The desktop became popular because it enabled the end user. More...
- Tags: blade, Dr Dij, windows, security, it management, hardware, networking, window on windows, PC
- Discussion threads 2007-02-15
- Vista is not ready for the corporate world
- Some of each I should think, in terms of faultI can say is we (my employers and I :D ) aren't ready for Vista either, yet. Not sure we are going as fast as we could, or we couldn't have been more ready. In a large legacy app UAC is...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, techrepublic@..., windows, it management, linux, window on windows, Linux/Vista, UAC
- Discussion threads 2007-02-05
- Recover the master database in SQL Server
- Thanks for this articleI have nothing to do with MS Server, but there are others here that do. And they are not any guru's either. People just thrown into the job.DanDid I spur you into action Steve? :DKeep it up.
- Tags: database, droolin, feedback, Microsoft SQL Server, server, window on windows
- Discussion threads 2007-01-24
- Linux is not easier to use than Windows and it never will
- This article was nothing but a flameIf I wanted flames, I'd throw some wood in the fireplace and light a match. DanYour poll doesn't account for same level of difficulty.Well your little poll doesn't account for the possibility that Linux is equally easy/difficult to learn as Windows. Your poll...
- Tags: application name, droolin, Linux, Microsoft Windows, True Crypt, window on windows, windows
- Discussion threads 2007-01-22
- Say NO! to Application Bundling: Microsoft, Google, AOL, Yahoo, Quit it!
- AgreedApplication bundling and startup infection is a massive problem in the PC industry. New PCs are plagued with it and I NEVER trust factory installs; I just nuke the HDD and reinstall everything from scratch.Changing people's default search and home pages by default or not even asking for permission...
- Tags: America Online Inc., george_ou@..., Google Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Corp., software, window on windows, Yahoo! Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-01-05
- Technology and the Revolution
- How would 1776 have turned out?About as well as Iraq is going. The US is facing the same kind of insurgents the British did, and is certainly not winning against them! Such a shame that Bush lied the US in to the war. Such a shame that...
- Tags: window on windows, off-topic, e-mail, programming, networking, windows, software, ITinAtl, shame, feedback, security, career, it management, project management, linux, hardware, British Empire, French People
- Discussion threads 2006-12-08
- Take My Quiz (Windows Code Names)...I will post the answers to the comments section.
- InaccurateWindows for workgroups 3.1 was codenamed Kato and was also known as Sparta in much inner circles,also Windows 2000 was the first release since Windows 2.0 to have no codename designation
- Tags: Operating systems, riordanc@..., Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2006-11-29
- Windows Longhorn Server (successor to Windows 2003 Server)
- Advertisement?Does this entry read like an advertisement intentionally?"You've stuck with them through the bad, why not stick with them through the good?" Does it get sillier than this?I started reading this entry with the hope it would act
- Tags: window on windows, useless, vista, longhorn, windows, server, gsquared, Microsoft Longhorn, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 2003, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2006-11-28
- Windows Calendar: A new feature of Windows Vista
- Without Exchange Server?When you say Vista allows users to share their calendars, do you mean without Exchange Server? While my very small organization would love to share calendars as well as have group calendars separate from personal calendars
- Tags: window on windows, software, windows, rebeccaaward@..., Microsoft Windows Vista, feedback, Home Premium, Ultimate Edition, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Windows, server
- Discussion threads 2006-11-28
- Visually transform Windows XP to Windows Vista Free of Charge....
- Download link failsFYI ... the download link that is supplied in the techrepublic blurb, for the Vista Transformation Pack, ... fails. It leads to a choice of two mirrors, and both fail. I ended up going to the main WindowsX site, and downloading from there.Cheers all.Just Tested link...
- Tags: window, window on windows, software, SafeBoy, Microsoft Windows Vista, feedback, Microsoft Windows XP, Download Link, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2006-11-22
- PowerShell hits the streets
- powershell has neat stufflot of unix like abilities like redirecting output. looks powerful. video took a while to loadI haven't tried it yet.Why is it a long load? a shell should be by nature un-bloated to be best effective.
- Tags: window on windows, programming, networking, it management, security, Dr Dij, Microsoft Windows PowerShell
- Discussion threads 2006-11-22
- Can Windows Vista put security vendors out of business?
- So nice of Microsoft to finally get it right, but...Microsoft is already too late for me. I have already moved comfortably into Linux, as a result of Windows XP vulnerabilities. Am I in a rush to migrate from Windows XP to Vista, considering all the
- Tags: window on windows, linux, windows, feedback, intj-astral@..., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows XP, security
- Discussion threads 2006-11-17
- Get it now: Office 2007 On MSDN
- I've had i for a few days from thereIt was posted on Monday. I love the new interface, but it is visibly slower. It got a lot faster once Desktop Search had done its magic, which took forever (3+ GB of Outlook PST files, just for starters!), but it
- Tags: window on windows, windows, Justin James, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Developer Network, Microsoft Office 2007
- Discussion threads 2006-11-17
- Microsoft buys Firefox!!!
- yeah right...funny guyUmm..."What if Microsoft DID decide to abandon the IE and Windows kernel and embrace open source code"Well...First, Hell would freeze over.Then, cows would jump all the way across the moon.Etc...I don'
- Tags: window on windows, off-topic, rui.b.rodrigues@..., Microsoft Corp., Linux, Windows IE, open source
- Discussion threads 2006-11-15
- Windows XP: Disabling services in the System Tray
- RETURN OF DELETED PROGRAMS FROM START UPI HAVE DELETED PROGRAMS FROM START UP AS YOU MENTIONED ONLY TO HAVE THEM RETURN WITHIN A VERY FEW NEW RESTARTSsome programsare known to happily enter themselves back in to your system tray.The only
- Tags: window on windows, windows, coa@..., registry, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2006-11-09
- Vista's Two-Way Firewall
- Sweet, it looks like a full fledged firewall now!Group Policy control of the firewall policy is the bomb! Most third party solutions would charge you an arm and a leg for the client and the centralized management platform.It looks promising.I
- Tags: firewall, george_ou@..., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP, networking, security, vista, window on windows, windows
- Discussion threads 2006-11-01
- The certification game. Do you want to play?
- I'm glad i'm not the only one who gets itI have been preaching for years that it is more important to be trained and experienced, than certified. Only to have that preaching fall on deaf ears. I am glad to finally hear someone else express the sam
- Tags: certification, feedback, game, jfp, window on windows
- Discussion threads 2006-10-30
- When will Windows ever catch up with NetWare?
- John, that's what shadow copies are for and it's better than undelete.There is a journaling file system on Windows Server 2003. All you need to do is look at the shadow copies and you can go back in time. You don't need the undelete function and that wouldn't...
- Tags: george_ou@..., it management, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Novell NetWare, shadow, Shadow-Copy, window on windows, windows
- Discussion threads 2006-10-21
- Your video iPod: Now with FREE viruses!
- Agreed, but this wasn't a flaw with WindowsAgreed, but this wasn't a flaw with Windows. It was a straight trojan horse that didn't use any holes in Windows. There is nothing in any OS that would prevent you from launching straight malicious code unless it was black listed...
- Tags: Apple Computer Inc., Apple Macintosh, Apple video iPod, george_ou@..., hardware, Microsoft Windows, security, virus, window on windows
- Discussion threads 2006-10-19
