Archive for the 'Software' Category

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CA Internet security and I haven’t gotten along very well in the past and my attempts to get rid of it were just a continuation of the same problems. Previously I had had problems getting a Removed by HIPS FW error on webpages and that led to me researching the [...]

Happy Easter!  It seemed appropriate to put together a list of Easter Egg sites, and I’m not talking about the beautiful colored eggs, I mean those little surprises hidden away in movies, DVDs, games, software, and web pages.
Easter Eggs in Movies and DVDs:

DVDEasterEggs - Focuses on Easter eggs in DVDs and helpfully includes the region [...]

I recently got a new laptop, nothing fancy, but it needed some tools to be really useful. This is the list that I came up with and it’s just as useful for desktops:

PC Decrapifier - Get rid of the preloaded junk so we can make room for the good stuff

- You have to [...]

There’s no such thing as Free Software, someone, somewhere is paying for it. You may have to fill out a form with your demographic data or just be pulled onto a site that wants you to click their ads as well as their download link. Still, for very little cost to yourself there [...]

I’ve spent several hours reading and soaking in the post on the O’Reilly Radar Blog titled My Tongue-Lashing from Eben Moglen and it’s a lot to take in. The main point of the piece is the video where said tongue-lashing occurs. Tim O’Reilly is on the stage at the beginning dressed like he [...]

Old, dead, obsolete computers
Originally uploaded by Extra Ketchup
This is a picture of a HEAP of Desktops. Recently I found out the hard way that Windows XP also has a Desktop HEAP. I recently was upgraded at work to a Dell Optiplex GX620 with Windows XP Pro. I received the nice new machine with 2 [...]