derek | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 25 2006 | windows, vista, media center, marketing, retail
I think this actually makes a lot of sense -- a kiosk only goes so far. MCE, Zune, and recent smart phone / PDA type devices are considerably more interesting than a "solution center featuring platform and development tools" (ewwwwww).
Quoted: And what about Media Center? How often has it been demonstrated in a store's home theater setting, much less connected to an Xbox 360 in another mocked-up room?
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 20 2009 | windows, 7, vista, microsoft, tips
Some interesting keyboard shortcuts here.
Quoted: It’s great to see Windows 7 Beta finally released to the world! We're very proud of what has been accomplished over the last months; in many ways, it sets a new quality bar for a beta operating system release. Building on top of the Windows Vista foundation,
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 22 2008 | vista, windows, uac, patch.exe, gnuwin32
Was always annoyed by this and just gave in by using an authenticated prompt ... didn't realize it was just using the file name to determine whether or not elevation was necessary. Probably would break a lot of installers without this behavior, but still -- wow.
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 26 2008 | winmover, tools, windows, vista, taekwindow
taekwindow alternative.
Quoted: ... Download freeware and shareware software utilities. Download files for your computer that tweak, repair, enhance, protect ...
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 18 2007 | microsoft, windows, vista
Quoted: For that, you absolutely positively need testers who are non-programmers. You need feedback from people like your target market, to give you information on how ...
derek | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 10 2007 | vista, windows, raid, 680i, partitions, gparted, diskpart
Very handy, this extended my NTFS partition that gparted couldn't see (RAID) instantly ... to maximize, just:
list disk
select disk 0
list volume
select volume 0
extend- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 06 2007 | smtp, windows, vista
This works, and it's zero config.
Quoted: Free SMTP Server supports all email programs
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 06 2007 | windows, smtp, vista
Quoted: XMail is an Internet and intranet mail server featuring an ESMTP server, POP3 server, finger server, TLS support for SMTP and POP3 (both server and client side), multiple domains, no need for users to have a real system account, SMTP relay checking, DNS based maps check, custom (IP based and address based) spam protection, SMTP authentication (PLAIN LOGIN CRAM-MD5 POP3-before-SMTP and custom), a POP3 account syncronizer with external POP3 accounts, account aliases, domain aliases, custom mail processing, direct mail files delivery, custom mail filters, mailing lists, remote administration, custom mail exchangers, logging, and multi-platform code. XMail sources compile under GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, OSX, Solaris and NT/2K/XP. Read the file README.TXT included with the distribution.
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - May 26 2007 | windows, microsoft, vista, search, tips
There are some pretty crazy operators in here. Search photos by camera make? Just tried it, works well.
Quoted: The following tables describe the syntax to use with Windows Desktop Search, as well as the properties that can be queried for each category of file displayed in the Desktop Search results window.
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 06 2007 | vista, windows, craplets, oem
The last Dell I got here at work was surprisingly tame with regard to craplets. I didn't even bother reformatting the OS -- that's right baby, rocking your Blue Dot features on XP Home all day long.
Quoted: On my new Sony, there were two dozen trial programs and free offers. The desktop alone contained four icons representing come-ons for various America Online services, and two for Microsoft.
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 21 2007 | windows, apple, os x, vista
I generally agree ... it all sucks, so choose the least expensive suckage. :)
Quoted: That's the first secret of using computers: they all suck. Which makes the entire Mac vs. PC debate relative degrees of moot. I learned this lesson early in life; evidently some people are still struggling with it.
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