I was playing around with Wine the other day. It’s pretty cool that I can run Dreamweaver and Fireworks on Ubuntu with very few issues now. One of the problems I did encounter was that the setup program for Dreamweaver wouldn’t run under wine, and the program files had to be copied across to my [...]

After recently installing a bunch of Shuttle SK22G2 systems in a site with Windows Vista loaded, it became clear that there were some minor issues with the systems shutting down. (Hint: They didn’t) There was an intermittent fault that made them hang on the last phase of shutting down. Frustratingly, there was no evidence to [...]

Yes, it’s true! Windows Vista may actually start making use of the 3D effects enjoyed by other operating systems for so long now. Most notably, the virtual desktop has been toyed around with before in Windows, but it never seems to be executed well. So it seems fitting that there’s a Vista / XP Virtual [...]

Now that MS Office 2007 is doing the rounds, I suppose it’s time to lookat some of its shortcomings. It has a few when it comes to deployment. The biggest nuisance being deployment. You have four options: Install it on a PC manually (not great) Deploy through group policy with no customisations Use a deployment [...]

Windows Vista. It’s big, bad and insists its new technologies upon unsuspecting users while not actually working quite right. The Vista Sidebar is one such culprint. Ever since the early previews of Vista (aka Longhorn), there was a giant box hanging around the desktop on the right side that had a giant clock in it. [...]

I’ve become a huge fan of a program called Meld in Linux. It allows me to compare files, folders and even update CVS repositories (in a basic way). It’s cool Thankfully, there is a very similar program available for Windows and also Open Source called