My Wife Hates my Mac
First: I LOVE my Mac. It's my wife that hates it. I say that in the hopes of heading off a flood of defensive email. Don't bother to write me telling me how wrong this article is: you would be preaching to the converted. I already know that she's wrong, that's she is just hopelessly corrupted by the Microsoft way. I also know that I'm guilty of not training her in the basics of using this iBook, so yes, it's partly my fault. Or all my fault if you like.
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Date: 2003-11-19
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In Defense of Unix (and Linux, of course)
Warning: This article contains strong language and unpopular opinions. Reading of this material by Windows advocates may cause severe gastric distress followed by a desire to strike the author sharply about the head. As the author does not enjoy being pummeled, such persons are kindly requested to return whence they came and do something else.
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Date: 2003-11-14
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Understanding Compression and the Encrypting File System
The Windows XP Professional operating system allows for both compression and encryption natively within the operating system by setting given attributes on the files and folders. Both of these functions are mutually exclusive of each other and only one or the other can be enacted on a particular file or directory at any given time.
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Date: 2003-11-10
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Microsoft's Services For Unix
Gosh, you'd never expect me to say something pleasant about a Windows machine, would you? Well, actually that's not entirely true: I've been known to grudgingly admit that while it isn't Unix, Windows XP Professional really isn't awful. In fact, if you can live without Unixy stuff at your beck and call, Windows XP is pretty good - there are even things I actually LIKE about it.
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Date: 2003-11-07
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Rooting Out Spyware + Hard Drive Installation
Can you help? I've got XP Professional on my PC, and every now and then it decides it's going to dial the internet. No particular reason, no applications calling for it, just now and then. If media player is running it interupts that, or otherwise just throws up a screen saying no dialtone (I don't have it permanently connected to the net). Can I stop it from dialling without asking me?
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Date: 2003-11-06
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