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Creating OSX and Windows compatible Dropbox Functionality in Windows Server 2008 R2 with Dell FS7500 NAS backend.
This took a while to figure out, mainly because I’m a unix guy trying to “figure out” Windows Server and it’s archaic ACL system and the fact that ACL’s/attributes under OSX are just insane. The main issue I had with all the other recipes on the net describing this process was that it did NOT…
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How to Run Mac OS X Inside Windows Using VirtualBox
How to Run Mac OS X Inside Windows Using VirtualBox: Maybe you’d like to test drive OS X before switching to a Mac or building a Hackintosh, or maybe you just want to run that one killer OS X app on your Windows machine. Whatever your reason, you can actually install and run OS X on any Intel-based…
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How to install Office 2010 on Windows XP x64-bit edition
Let me guess…..you tried it and it failed. Well, there is a way (probably not sanctioned by MS) to get this done. I’ve installed it on two separate machines and verified that it works. First you need to download MSXML 6 from Microsofts website. Just go to microsoft.com and search for MSXML. There should be…
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The Ultimate File Transfer Utility for Windows
I’ve been posting mainly about OSX for the last little while, but no worries, I haven’t given up on Windows…yet :-). Someone today was asking about a good WebDAV client and after searching around for a bit, it seems like there is really only a couple out there. But really none of them can beat…
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Terminator 5: Revenge of the Microsoft Fanboy
Todays must watch video comes to you curtesey of Leon Wang. I seriously think MS should hire this guy to do their ads. This is excellent stuff :-)….
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Solid Colour background in Windows causes 30-second login delay…
Yep MS strikes again. This time though it’s funny as hell. Turns out a bug in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 causes a whopping 30 seconds delay to your login process if you have a solid colour background set as your desktop wallpaper. Why? Well it’s MS, what did you expect, a working…
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…and one final Windows 7 Launch Party Video…….
MMmmmmm…..Windows 7 Space Cake…….MMmmmmmm :-) Hosting Your Windows 7 Torrenting Party – watch more funny videos
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Ninite: Number 1 application you need in Windows…..
There are a lot of fantastic free software packages out there for the PC if you’re running windows. VLC, Firefox come to mind. The problem is that it takes a long time to install all of them on your PC. You know the routine, click, wait for download, double click, next, next, next, etc……Well, why?…
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Windows Launch Party….maybe it wasn’t such a good idea…..
Here is a video for all the people who attended — or god forbid hosted — a windows 7 launch party yesterday. This will give you a rough idea of what people will think of your party video in about 17 years……hehehehe :-)
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Microsoft Photocopies Apple Store…..Literally.
Holy crap…..MS has literally photocopied the Apple Store, replaced the Genius Bar with “Answer Bar” and the Genius’ with Guru’s……Does Microsoft ever come up with something original? :-) Here comes “Attack of the Clones”…..hehehehe