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Mac keyboard on Windows - and working as well

07.22.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Well I went ahead and bought a MAC aluminum keyboard. And I must admit, it’s a beauty. It also types really nice once you are used to it. However, Apple in it’s infinite wisdom has not released a seperate driver for Windows machines. The only way you can get it is via Torrents or via [...]

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“Drop Down”, Quake-style command prompt for Windows - Instructables - DIY, How To, tech

07.18.08 | Permalink | Comment?

I just had to sharea this one very cool thing:
“Drop Down”, Quake-style command prompt for Windows - Instructables - DIY, How To, tech.
It’s a Quake-style console for use in Windows. Now you might think why would you want that? Well it autohides as soon as you click anywhere or ALT+TAB to another program, but keeps [...]

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Network Monitoring, reporting and charting

07.11.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Pff… if you ever want to give yourself a headache - try setting up your own network monitoring/reporting/charting stuff. First off, finding anything that runs on Win32 is a challenge - and if you can find a freeware version, you almost found the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow so to speak.
Now [...]

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5 Pet peeves in regards to mails that need to go

07.08.08 | Permalink | Comment?

I just had to post and share this one:

The liberal use of the “VERY HIGH PRIORITY!!!” flag
The 18-line sig about all the Bad Things that will happen to me if I ever reveal the contents of your privileged, confidential (and unencrypted) message
The unrequested press release (and the serial ignoring of the “Unsubscribe” I sent [...]

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Virtualization

06.08.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Well, lately I have been playing around with VMWare Workstation 6.5, and I must admit that it looks and runs really nicely. The performance seems to exceed that of Virtual PC on some points IMHO. But Virtual PC is completely free.
I have also installed Virtual Server 2005 R2 EE (Enterprise Edition) again for testing purposes. [...]

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