Marc Abramowitz

Nicole has a new laptop with Windows Vista and it’s been a bit of an adjustment. One thing that has been a bit confusing is that Vista has changed some of the familiar folders like “Documents and Settings” (“Users” is the new preferred location and I have to say that I like the new name much . . . → Read More: Vista Junction Points

I was using Cygwin rsync on our two Windows laptops to copy our files over from the old laptop to the new laptop. Invariably, the rsync would copy a handful of files and then hang. Restarting the rsync would copy a few more files and then hang again. Searching around on the Web, I found a . . . → Read More: Solving rsync hangs with Cygwin

From http://www.shup.com/:

Shup is a free multi-host file uploading, image editing, and collaboration tool for Windows. With it, you can quickly share your screenshots, images, and other files by turning them into web links.

Not only can Shup upload many kinds of files, it can also upload to many different hosts:

Flickr
ImageShack
PhotoBucket
Stashbox
Waffle Images

I’ve tried it and I’m finding it . . . → Read More: Shup

ReactOS® is an advanced free open source operating system providing a ground-up implementation of a Microsoft Windows® XP compatible operating system. ReactOS aims to achieve complete binary compatibility with both applications and device drivers meant for NT and XP operating systems, by using a similar architecture and providing a complete and equivalent public interface.

Some screenshots I . . . → Read More: Photos of installing ReactOS in a VM

As a frequent Linux user, I take for granted that I can take a .iso file and mount it and poke around in the contents. The so-called loopback mount, despite its confusing name, is nonetheless incredibly useful and available “out of the box” with any decent Linux distro.

OS X can even more easily peek inside .iso . . . → Read More: Mounting an .iso file in Windows