Windows NT on hardware it has no business on
A partial retraction. OK, Southwestern Bell isn't responsible for all my missing mail. I had a second POP3 client running that I forgot about, which was grabbing some of my mail. But my computer...
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School's out, school's out, teacher let the monkeys out! Those that didn't leave on their own free will, thta is. I'd do a comprehensive review of the class, and maybe I still will, but I think this...
View ArticleOptimizing Windows networks
My church's IT czar asked me a good question the other day. His network performance was erratic and Network Neighborhood was messed up. Some computers saw different views of the network, although if...
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I can safely say I really did write the book on Windows optimization (Optimizing Windows for Games, Graphics and Multimedia, O'Reilly, 1999, ISBN 1565926773) but that was five years ago and covered...
View ArticlePsst… Wanna compete with Best Buy?
Best Bait-n-Switch is offering a service where they'll remove crapware from a PC for 30 bucks. You can offer to do the same thing for 30 bucks, but do a better job. Here's how. The post Psst… Wanna...
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