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Glad I’m not the only one who won’t touch Vista

Posted by Mel on Wednesday, 25 June 2008

I’ve been using Vista Ultimate Edition on my work laptop for the past few months even though I disliked it even back then. The only reason it is still on the laptop is that I don’t have the time to wipe and reinstall the laptop with XP Pro.  Hopefully that day will come soon.

I really tried to get to like Vista.  I thought that if I became more familiar with it I might get a change of heart and grow to accept it.  I now know that will never happen.  In fact I’ve come to the completely hate Vista with a passion.  I can’t pick certain features that I individually hate about Vista, it’s the OS as a whole that I detest.  Windows ME 2?

According to a leaked internal memo, Intel are never going to use Vista.  See the article on the Inquirer here (Via).

Nice to know I’m in good company!

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Default Password List

Posted by Mel on Thursday, 20 March 2008

http://www.phenoelit-us.org/dpl/dpl.html (Via)

This list should come in handy at some point for anyone working in IT.  I’d be surprised if it didn’t.  It has already helped me out big time!

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Links for 2008-02-22

Posted by Mel on Friday, 22 February 2008

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Links for 2008-02-14

Posted by Mel on Thursday, 14 February 2008

Happy Valentines Day…and all the commercial crap that goes with it!  Romance my arse, it’s a rip-off!

Anyway, here’s a nice romantic letter to warm the cockles of Intels heart:

A Valentine’s Day Letter to AMD - ExtremeTech

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Use Gmail to filter spam from ISP email

Posted by Mel on Wednesday, 16 January 2008

I was advised to do this in the past by Donncha but never got around to doing it. Must do it soon to see if I can make do without POPFile on my PC.

How to eliminate all spam mail for free | Life in Student Ministry (Via)

Here’s a pre-defined Google search to find more info on this.

Some other links which may be useful:

Gmail Help - Configuring other mail clients

How to Access Gmail with Mozilla Thunderbird - About Email

Update
Works a charm! I have Gmail getting my email from my ISP, Eircon (misspelling intentional!), filtering the spam, and then Thunderbird is collecting what is left after all the multitudes of spam has been removed. I am not sending my outgoing email through Gmail SMTP server though as the “From” field on emails sent through Gmail contains “????????@gmail.com on behalf of ????????@eircom.net”, so still sending outgoing email through the Smart Telecom SMTP server. Not one spam message has got through yet!

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Links for 02-Oct-2007

Posted by Mel on Tuesday, 2 October 2007

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Links for 01-Oct-2007

Posted by Mel on Monday, 1 October 2007

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Links for 27-Sep-2007

Posted by Mel on Thursday, 27 September 2007

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Links for 17-Sep-2007

Posted by Mel on Monday, 17 September 2007

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Links for 06-Sep-2007

Posted by Mel on Thursday, 6 September 2007

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Links for 04-Sep-2007

Posted by Mel on Tuesday, 4 September 2007

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Links for 31-Aug-2007

Posted by Mel on Friday, 31 August 2007

Windows Vista: 10 Things You Need to Know about Deploying Windows Vista — TechNet Magazine, November 2006
Much as I dislike Windows Vista I’m going to have to learn it sooner rather than later from a work perspective. Windows XP works, why can’t the same be said for Vista?

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Links for 08-Aug-2007

Posted by Mel on Wednesday, 8 August 2007

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Links for 01-Aug-2007

Posted by Mel on Wednesday, 1 August 2007

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Microsoft Office 2007 Viewers

Posted by Mel on Wednesday, 1 August 2007

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Links for 27-Jul-2007

Posted by Mel on Friday, 27 July 2007

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5 Years Married Today

Posted by Mel on Friday, 27 July 2007

Wifey, you’re so lucky! ;)

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Links for 25-Jul-2007

Posted by Mel on Wednesday, 25 July 2007

moka5

A moka5 LivePC™ contains everything needed to run a virtual computer — an operating system and a set of applications. It is a full computing environment created by a LivePC publisher and it is streamed from the network to users and run on their computers locally.

Computerworld - Windows Vista A to Z

Computerworld - Must-have Windows utilities for 20 essential tasks

Trouble installing 100.14.09 driver under Ubuntu 7.04(Feisty) - nV News Forums

Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive 12 Ways to Use Facebook Professionally «

eXtropia | Tutorials | Introduction to Web Design | Table of Contents (Via)

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Links for 18-Jul-2007

Posted by Mel on Wednesday, 18 July 2007

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Links for 09-Jul-2007

Posted by Mel on Thursday, 12 July 2007

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Links for 09-Jul-2007

Posted by Mel on Monday, 9 July 2007

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Tagged for Charity Meme by Donncha

Posted by Mel on Friday, 6 July 2007

Donncha tagged me for a charity blog meme which is intended to link to Irish charities in order to (potentially) improve their pagerank.

The list of charities so far is:

I’ve added a link to the National Association for Deaf People which I feel is appropriate as one of my sisters is deaf.

Now, who’s next, seeing as not too many people read my blog? Over to you Eoin.

Update
I’ve added the Kerry Deaf Resource Centre to the list as my sister no is longer involved with the National Association for Deaf People, but I’ll still leave it on the list.

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Links for 29-Jun-2007

Posted by Mel on Friday, 29 June 2007

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Links for 28-Jul-2007

Posted by Mel on Thursday, 28 June 2007

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Links for 26-Jun-2007

Posted by Mel on Tuesday, 26 June 2007

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Free Online Virus & Malware Scanners

Posted by Mel on Wednesday, 20 June 2007

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Links for 19-Jun-2007

Posted by Mel on Tuesday, 19 June 2007

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Links for 18-Jun-2006

Posted by Mel on Monday, 18 June 2007

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Lifehacker Useful Ubuntu Posts

Posted by Mel on Friday, 15 June 2007

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Some Useful Ubuntu Commands

Posted by Mel on Friday, 15 June 2007

It’s been a long time since I played with linux so yesterday I installed Ubuntu 7.04 on a laptop and PC at work.  I wanted to use PCLinuxOS 2007 TR4, especially as I preferred it’s interface and all the included software, but found after installing it that it’s difficult finding help for it, but help for Ubuntu is everywhere.  Something to do with the fact that it is the most popular distro, possibly?  ;)

Anyway, I wanted the laptop and PC to dual boot with Windows XP Pro and I wanted to use the XP boot menu as default.  Anybody complaining about me not using LILO or GRUB as default bootloader can feck off!  I created
a 150MB hda1 partition for /boot and installed GRUB here.  In order to get the necessary file to add to Windows boot menu i used the following command:

dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/mnt/hda8/ubuntu7.bin bs=512 count=1

More info on this can be found here and here, and by searching Google.  I’m not going into details on everything I did, I just want to record the main commands for my own future reference to save me having to search Google next time I want to use them!

After install I was having display problems so, thanks to the  FixVideoResolutionHowto in the Community Documentation for Ubuntu I used the following command to reconfigure xserver:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

I also installed 915resolution using:

sudo apt-get install 915resolution

After I installed an ATI Radeon VE AGP video card I removed 915resolution using:

sudo apt-get remove 915resolution

Now back to learning!

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