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XP Service Pack 3 now on Windows Update

By on Saturday, May 10th, 2008 | No Comments

SP3 have now been added to Windows Update, and from all reports does make a difference in performance. A few people that I have spoken to have all said that boot times are reduced, and overall running seems to be quicker. If you need to download it manually and/or hate windows update, here is a [...]

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Open Source Alternative to VMWare

By on Saturday, April 19th, 2008 | No Comments

Having used VMWare to build virtual OS systems on one PC (mainly for testing applications), I wondered if there was a open source (and free) equivalent. I found VirtualBox. It looks to do exactly the same thing as VMWare, and can be installed on a variety of platforms. VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and [...]

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Maxtor Hard Drive Jumper settings

By on Sunday, March 9th, 2008 | No Comments

I hate having to pull a hard drive out of a case to check what the jumper settings are for Master, Slave etc. Not knowing the exact model of this Maxtor one I came across today, I though I’d ask my friend Google. I found a page with most (if not all) of the Maxtor [...]

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PuTTY with Tabs?

By on Thursday, February 7th, 2008 | No Comments

My terminal emulation program of choice is PuTTY. It’s a small, simple but very functional piece of software. My only gripe with it has been that it doesn’t have a facility for multiple sessions or tabs – like Secure CRT for example. But today I found something that does the job. It’s call the PuTTY [...]

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Replacement for Ultimate Tag Warrior

By on Saturday, February 2nd, 2008 | No Comments

Evrt since WordPress 2.3 was released, the (brilliant) plugin Ultimate Tag Warrier has not worked. To date there hasn’t been an update for this plugin, but I have managed to find a replacement that appears to work quite well. It’s call Simple Tags. Check it out. There is plenty of info and even video tutorials [...]

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