Virtual machine users rejoice!! No longer do you have to use one virtual machine tool at work and another at home. Now VMWare has released a version of its free VMWare player that actually allows creation of virtual machines. Some may recall that I previously posted about Virtual Box–Sun’s open source tool that you could [...]
For many years its been common internet knowledge that you don’t open email messages from people you don’t know. It’s also understood that you don’t click on popup ads. Unfortunately, now malware coders are making their ads look like legitimate virus warnings so unsuspecting users think that they are really infected with some virus and [...]
What better way to start off the New Year than with a new toy?! This all started several months ago when my old mobile phone began acting strangely. It was also a clam shell type phone and when I opened the lid to take a call it would drop it immediately. It got to the [...]
Yesterday I posted a tutorial on how to create virtual machines. I wrote about how vms can be handy tools especially to us developers who sometimes need two or more OSes at once. I also wrote about how virtual machines mimic real physical machines in many ways. One of those ways is how virtual machines [...]
Many moons ago I recall reading an article in one of the better-known PC mags about how to re-install Windows 98. The article suggested wiping the hard drive clean and doing a complete re-install about every 6 months. The sad part is that I was one of those people who needed such an article. Many [...]
A lot of developers work exclusively with IDEs and GUI front ends for debuggers and the like. While I don’t have any problem with those tools, I prefer to use the command line; mainly because I sometimes work remotely and trying to use VNC doesn’t work well in all cases. If I use [...]
