Have you ever just finished something important and all of a sudden the lights dim, your PC begins to sound like the clothes washer, and then bam, your work is gone? Been there, done that, got the t-shirt, right? Maybe I should have taken my watch off before sticking my hand in that running PC [...]

Asus announced it will begin shipping it’s Eee PC laptop with Windows XP pre-installed in place of Linux. Talk about the good chasing the bad. Don’t worry though. The Linux version isn’t going anywhere.
When Asus came out with the Eee in Japan it offered it with XP as its primary OS. The model number was [...]

Are you running Ubuntu? Do you like to watch Lost online like I do? Well you can’t with Linux because the Move Network Player that ABC.com uses is only compatible with Windows based IE or Firefox. Install wine and you can install the windows based version of Firefox and watch all 4 seasons [...]

We all knew the day would come and that day is today. A crack from the pirate group Pantheon has been released that allows Vista installations to be activated and made fully operational. The crack doesn’t use time stamp hacks or exploits for the beta version of Vista. The real news here is the the [...]

(At least Microsoft is in school right?) Microshaft is currently working on IE8 and has done something they rarely do. They are using there collective brains and have come up with IE8 standards which will, by default, interpret web content in the most standards compliant way it can. (pretty intelligent right? [...]

Do you feel like you just don’t do enough for society and you want to actually contribute something even if it is just 1’s and 0’s. Then here are 10 great programs that you can install and run on your PC when you have to go back to work cause your incompetent boss, who [...]

If you use Windows, you know about balloons. Every day I get at least one telling me to take a shower or to fall asleep on the edge of a cliff. (my computer hates me) Luckily, I’m the sadist in the relationship. Here is a little registry edit to remove those [...]

We have all been there. The user just changed their password and now they can’t remember it. Alzheimer’s Disease is an epidemic where I work. Anyway here is a useful method for recovering a user account password on a Windows 2000/2003 domain.

We have all been there. Its late at night and you are beat from a day of answering questions and solving problems for your coworkers. All you want to do is watch T.V. and goto bed. Then the phone rings and it is either a family member or friend who just blew up their [...]

Here’s a time saving tip for ya… If you are copying a bunch of files in Windows XP and do not want to overwrite any of them, you are usually stuck pressing no, no, no, for every file. The next time you are given the options [yes, yes to all, no, cancel] you [...]