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XP faster than Linux?

My laptop’s more responsive and web pages seem to render so much quicker now. YouTube videos don’t stutter. Scrolling is smooth. All great.

Have I installed Windows 7? Nope, I’m just messing in XP.

I can’t believe how badly upgrading to Jaunty Jackelope has crippled my Ubuntu install. With the exception of the time [...]

Messing with hard drives

Copying these isn't that simple

I’ve been randomly offline a lot over the last few days. Partially because I’ve been visiting friends and family, partially as I’ve been migrating hard drives in my laptop. Again.

Currently I run Windows XP and Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope (9.04) – predominantly the latter, though I keep the [...]

Windows 7 Release Candidate

Windows 7

Well the Windows 7 Release Candidate is available for download. For free. If you want it, it’s a 2.3Gb DVD ISO file and available from this link to the download information page. You’ll need a Microsoft Live ID of some description, if you don’t already have one. Your free license key is [...]

Outlook Express and Hotmail… no more

Outlook Express

This may seem like old news to someone who’s stayed in the loop (I hadn’t), but as of June 30th 2008 – officially – Outlook Express users could no longer access their email via Outlook Express. Instead, Microsoft decided to force everyone to download their newer Windows Live Mail program (an [...]

Mounting an ISO image in Ubuntu and Windows

A CD. Yesterday.

An ISO image is a single file that images an entire (usually optical) disc – a CD or a DVD. They’re often used for software distributions or archives. Most CD authoring programs will happily accept them and burn them to disc – Ubuntu can even do this by simply right-clicking [...]