So I needed to install XP on a toshiba R100 laptop, it’s an ultraportable and as such has no cd-rom and no floppy drive and it didn’t even boot from a USB cd-rom so my only option was to use the PXE network boot option to install the OS.
I never did that before so I [...]
Working on an IT company giving tech support to a wide range of users and dealing with fucked up pc’s everyday there is “one” little detail that really gets on my nerves about Microsoft Windows… you guessed it, the file extensions are hidden by default.
Why is this really? At what point in windows history did [...]
So yesterday I was set in charge of replacing my workplaces aging Trend Micro antivirus with a brand new NOD32 installation. We were already using and selling ESET’s NOD32 to some of our customers when some of us on the tech department discovered it about a year ago and quickly found out that this little [...]
Yesterday I finally deleted my windows vista partition that I never used more than about 3 or 4 times (i’m sticking with XP) and decided to give Apple’s Mac OS X a try. I followed this great guide and was up and running in no time. Almost everything worked perfectly after install except for the [...]
Earlier today I decided to finally switch to the release candidate of Mozilla Firefox 3. My previous Firefox installation was getting a little cluttered with plug-ins and I was getting real long delays every time I opened a new tab. So I was about to do a clean re-install of Firefox and decided that I [...]
