Archive for August, 2008

20th August Comments

A third of Vista PCs downgraded to XP

Posted on August 20th, 2008 at 4:30 am

 
Vista’s death march picked up some pace yesterday, after a metrics researcher revealed that nearly 35 per cent of PCs built to run the Windows operating system have been downgraded to XP. In a survey of more than 3,000 computers, performance testing software developer Devil Mountain Software estimated that more than one in three new [...]

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15th August Comments

Did Microsoft Forget a Patch?

Posted on August 15th, 2008 at 9:14 am

Lost in the shuffle of this month’s Patch Tuesday barrage is the fact that a critical vulnerability in the ever-present Windows Media Player (WMP) was not fixed “because of a last minute quality issue.”
Microsoft originally listed the WMP update in the advance notice for August but, when the patches dropped on Tuesday, it had slipped [...]

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13th August Comments

Okay I have been slacking

Posted on August 13th, 2008 at 9:11 am

And no that does not mean I have changed over to Slackware. I have had a series of setbacks from 3 major storms to personal situations to a pair of computers deciding they should be retired. Yes I am still out here just a tad slow in the posting is all and I hope to [...]

Posted in Personal

8th August Comments

08-08-08

Posted on August 8th, 2008 at 8:31 am

Why is this date different? Twenty years ago the lights went on at Wrigley Field!
Okay I am a Cub fan and maybe nobody else remembered or cares but it was a dawning of new look and feel to the game of baseball in Chicago. But as normal the purists whined the new wave cheered and [...]

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6th August Comments

WiFi software arrives on Linux desktops

Posted on August 6th, 2008 at 4:55 am

 
A vendor of Linux-based WiFi arrays is finally releasing a version of its WiFi Monitor utility for Linux desktops. The open source, widget-like Xirrus WiFi Monitor for Linux enables users to monitor, secure, and troubleshoot WiFi networks, says Xirrus. The company refers to the software as a "desklet," a widget-like applet that provides quick access [...]

Posted in Networking

4th August Comments

Better Than Beach Reading: A Linux Starter Kit

Posted on August 4th, 2008 at 5:12 am

 
Ah, August. It’s the beginning of the end of summer, and the time when we must all start shaking the sand out of our ears once more. The real world wants us back! This week, we here at LinuxInsider felt it our duty to help those who are fed up with Redmond to find [...]

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1st August Comments

Distro Surfing

Posted on August 1st, 2008 at 12:20 pm

Well I know it has been a while since I posted but as you read the weather hit me hard and then I had a computer take a dump. So I was surfing distros when a good friend suggested I try Kubuntu(Okay it was LinuxChick) and the last time I tried it I had a [...]

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