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Microsoft Hatred is a Disease

WARNING: Personal opinions abound … After all the furor about Microsoft contributing 20,000 lines of code to Linux and Microsoft’s “Community Promise” regarding C#, a language I use professionally, I recently read this article and I have to agree with Linus, in particular “I may make jokes about Microsoft at times, but at the same Continue reading →

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Alan Doyle on July 27th 2009 in Ubuntu, Windows

Windows 7, not bad but …

… I’m sticking with Ubuntu. Recently I’ve been trying out Windows 7 RC on my Samsung NC10 netbook, mostly out of curiosity. I have to say after being unimpressed with Vista it’s not bad. It’s new taskbar reminds me a lot of KDE 4, Aero Peek, Aero Shake and Snap are quite nice and the Continue reading →

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Alan Doyle on July 26th 2009 in Ubuntu, Windows

A New Beginning …

Today is a new day, a new year in fact, I don’t normally do “New Years Resolutions” and I’ve just realised that I’ve been working on new versions of my 3 websites ( Darkbyte, Osmium Consortium and My DVD Collection ) for over 2 years and still haven’t put anything on-line. I’ve reckon I’ve rewritten Continue reading →

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Alan Doyle on January 1st 2008 in Ubuntu, Windows

Vista RC1. Pah!!!

Well I’ve gotten Windows Vista RC1 and well it fared no better than Pre-RC1. Am I dissapointed? … Yes Am I surprised? … No. To be fair to Microsoft the problem is partly Toshibas fault but I can’t help but remember that I was at least able to install Windows Vista Beta 2 when it Continue reading →

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Alan Doyle on September 8th 2006 in Windows

More Vista woes …

Well today I’ve downloaded Vista Pre RC1 DVD ISO and tried to install it on my Toshiba Satellite A30-104. Upon inserting the DVD and pressing a key at the prompt I got the standard black and white progress bar, however when it reached 100% and attempted to switch into the GUI installer I got a Continue reading →

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Alan Doyle on August 31st 2006 in Windows

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