Tag: XP
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Strong And Stable XP
Oh the sheer irony of this now…either someone was VERY quick off the mark or it was unintended. But guess who was the Home Secretary who didn’t renew the WinXP security contract for the Crown Commercial Service? Which included the NHS? You know the same machines that just got hacked by wanacrypt0r/WCry? Give you one…
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Live Writer
Testing the new Live Writer on this blog, works well and gives you a preview of the page. Spooky for a Microsoft product this actually works! For some reason it posts twice though – editing is OK but a new post gets 2 of them with the same name – WTF? Just tried this on…
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The Beauty of GYBO
I’ve mentioned Get Your Bootleg On mashup messageboard in the past, although sometimes had my differences in the past, it always has great humour and sometimes comes up with classic and extremely funny threads. A recent one was this thread, which mostly about a crap site I won’t mention here, and quite serious in part…
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Another instance of Big Brother CD DRM & Disable your Autorun NOW!
Following the shameful Sony rootkit debacle looks like otehr companies haven’t learned it’s PR lesson. From Ars Technica via greatbearmd’s blog that now the new Coldplay CD X&Y has DRM automatically installed in some countries such as India and a long legal message saying how the CD won’t work in the majority of CD burners,…
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Google talk will be VOIP (Gizmo / VIing et al) compatible
Well Google’s done it’s PR job and Google Talk has even made front page here in the UK, but something you might not know which is FAR cooler and much more important is that they are developing a link to Voice over IP services such as Gizmo, VIing using the SIP protocol so all the…
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Okay you’ve got 2 Windows PCs right…
…and you’d expect them to talk together over Ethernet if I plugged them together, especially as one is XP? BZZZT! Wrong…it magically worked for a short while then died totally. I have no idea why…tried all kinds of settings but the software helpfully that comes with XP to install onto your other machines works with…