The Powershell for Windows has many useful features for controlling your Windows computer; with many cmdlets and scripting ability; but the BASH shell for Linux is already an established shell that is far more powerful and useful. The downside to the Powershell is that it does not seem to have an implementation of grep. Without … Read more
The recent raid that took down the Wikileaks and Piratebay websites could be a sign of things to come. The SOPA and SIPA bills that Congress tried to pass through as well as the ACTA bill are about stopping the sharing of copyrighted material; but other things such as the demonization of social media in … Read more
The ATI Radeon graphics card I have is working rather well when I have the drivers installed; but the open-source drivers leave a lot to be desired. I will probably be using the Fedora 17 Linux distribution in the future; I just need to chroot into the Fedora installation and install the fglrx proprietary drivers. … Read more
The graphical user interfaces that we all enjoy have come a long way since the existence of the Windows ’95 operating system pictured on this page. Computing in those days was an exercise in frustration trying to get the various drivers installed and configured and adjusting the darned IRQs to Getting hardware to cooperate. Nowadays … Read more
I have just installed the Windows 8 Enterprise 90 day trial and first impressions are quite positive. After logging into Windows the first time using your Windows Live account your desktop is setup and then you are presented with a Metro interface. But when you format and re-install the operating system you only need to … Read more
The Windows command prompt I have been using quite a bit in a Networking and Databases course I am studying right now is really getting on my nerves. Not being able to press CTRL-L to clear the command prompt window, not being able to copy and paste as easily as you can with the Gnome … Read more
The free Clonezilla Linux distribution allows the creation and distribution of disk images allowing the Administrator of a room full of computers to create a good fresh installation of the Microsoft Windows operating system and all associated software and then to distribute that image to all other computers in the room. This will greatly simplify … Read more
This is a look at the Windows 8 RTM desktop. The Windows 8 Interface is still here, they would not remove that would they? But this is just a tablet interface on a desktop machine, at least with Gnome Shell and Unity the interface makes some sense, but the Windows 8 tablets require a Windows … Read more
The olden days of computing were dominated by the massive Microsoft corporation, they bought their DOS operating system from IBM, and copied the mouse and icons interface from the Xerox Star operating system from 1981. Nowadays the Ubuntu distribution is copying the Macintosh OSX interface to create the Unity interface. But that is not very … Read more
This video shows how to install an instance of Windows 7 in a Virtualbox disk image, if you install the Virtualbox guest additions you can run Windows 7 at full resolution and copy and paste between the host and the virtualised operating system.
Some awesome Windows 7 styled KDE themes. Make the KDE desktop look like Windows. These themes for your Linux desktop will make it look like a Windows 7 desktop. This is cool if you wish to have a pretend Windows desktop on Linux. http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=141539 This is one very good color theme for KDE that makes it … Read more
Why is the infrastructure of countries like Iran under attack, they have been infected with a computer virus that supposedly originated from Israel. This is part of the cyber-terrorism spectre that is looming over the Internet. Firstly they had the Stuxnet virus, that was programmed to attack centrifuges for refining uranium and now this new … Read more
The Windows 8 reviews are becoming more and and more unfavorable. The interface is being dumbed down and it will end up becoming a joke in the computing world. The Linux Mint 13 distribution has been released and the 64bit MATE release of this distribution is looking very good indeed. As the image to the … Read more
This is what the new copy dialog looks like on Windows 8. The actual process of copying this amount of data over a USB 3.0 connection was actually very fast, the previous versions of Windows were slower at copying data, but now it is getting faster. And I was copying from a 8 GiB USB … Read more
The Enlightenment E16 desktop I have setup on my computer is a very good example of a simple computer interface, the layout of the desktop with the iconbox and virtual desktop pager at the bottom of the screen, the clicking on the desktop to access the root menu and the overall eye candy aspect is … Read more
Linux and UNIX security compared to Windows and Apple Comparing Linux and UNIX security to Windows and Apple. The OSGUI tech show host has posted a video with 6 reasons why Linux sucks, with one of the reasons being that there are many packaging systems instead of just one. But that is the thing with … Read more
I have enjoyed using the Xfce desktop in the past and Gnome 3 is good, but it is bloated and I have decided to switch to something that will not tax my poor CPU so much. The Xfce desktop environment has been around for a very long time and has grown to be a worthy … Read more
The Windows 8 operating system from Redmond will have the anti-virus included in the distributed OS instead of being available as a free download as it was with the Microsoft Security Essentials that I have used on Windows 7. This is causing a bit of debate on whether this is an anti-trust issue or not. … Read more
The Windows installation I have is still infected with Malware even after I cleaned it with MSE and updated all the virus definitions. This is not a good thing to have to deal with, but Linux can do things faster and with more security and stability than Windows 7 can manage. This is a joke, … Read more