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Entries for January, 2009

Of torrents, and love-hate relations…

It’s interesting really. There is no download method as effective (or fair) as a torrent - both for the servers and the clients (it’s fast). Well, it is not actually a download in the classical sense, after all it’s Peer-to-Peer, but still, it functions effectively like a download.
Yet, there seems to be no end to [...]

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Another advertisement change

As many of my regular readers will know, I keep experimenting with the ads on my blog. This is done out of fun, and to see which ad network yields the best eCPM rates.
Recently, I had two complaints from my readers, noting that the ads in the right box of the page were “somewhat inappropriate”. [...]

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Windows 7 review (in VMware, beta)

Introduction
As my readers will know, I have recently been testing out lots of OSes in VMware. The latest to hit my test line was the beta of Windows 7. In this very brief review, I intend to outline the major achievements of Windows 7 so far.
Despite everything, the hardware requirements for running a normal copy [...]

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Windows 7 and Ubuntu 9.10 - why neither will lose

Introduction
There are plenty of articles around the internet stating that Windows 7 is going to kill Ubuntu or vice versa. These articles are irrationally designed to be Microsoft vs Linux debates, though that is hardly the case: Ubuntu only represents a fraction of the linux distro world, albeit the major one on desktop computers, and [...]

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Testing Linux under VMware

Introduction
I love testing out new Linux distributions. But I hate installing a Linux distribution, only to find that the one I had before was far better. I also spend most of my time is spent under Windows Vista, because no Linux can satisfy the two major demands of mine: Adobe CS and Microsoft Office 2007.
Yet, [...]

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