I came up against a problem today whilst working on fixing a design to work correctly in both IE6 and IE7. That problem was, I am running IE6 in a Windows XP virtual machine in VMWare Fusion on my Macbook Pro. Normally, I test IE7 on my Vista desktop and IE6 in the Virtual Machine. [...]

Did you know, if you press the Insert key on Windows while holding down Shift, it will paste whatever is in the clipboard at the time, the same as Control + V. I didn’t know that before, just something I came across by accident then. That’s in Vista, I’ll give it a go on XP [...]

I was recently helping a friend move their XP install over to a new hard drive without having to re-install XP or any of their programs. The situation is this, she previously had an 80gb drive with XP installed on it, and a secondary 250gb drive. She bought a 750gb drive and wanted to move [...]

I have noticed news and rumours popping up, as well as some releases on Apple’s website about the next version of OS X, due out next year, Snow Leopard. Just going off the information directly from Apple, Snow Leopard is sounding like it is going to be a very interesting release and as an unashamed [...]

Python object-oriented programming language at uni in ITB001: Problem Solving and Programming, I figure what better way to solidify what I am learning than to write about it. Someone might find it useful as well. So if you see anything that is wrong, or anything like that, feel free to point it out, I won’t [...]

Hard drive line up I have been working on my new baby since I got home after watching Sweeney Todd this evening, trying to get it up and running. It’s been over a week since I bought the parts, that’s the longest it is has ever taken me to get a new computer up and [...]

With my installation of 4gb of RAM in my new computer it became time to figure out what operating system to use. As I mentioned in my earlier blog about installing the OS on my new computer, Windows XP Professional 32 bit, Windows Vista 32 bit, and Windows Server 2003 would not see more than [...]

My current workspace as you can see in the photo on the left is quite crowded, with both the old and new computers, the laptop, 2 keyboards and 2 mice. Yes, I have a KVM switch, but I prefer to work with separate gear for each computer where possible. Getting an OS to work has [...]

I have been having some interesting computer problems the past few days. I have noticed that upon a fresh boot the past two times I have booted, Explorer.exe has been using 100% of the CPU time and rarely drops below 90%, thus everything else has trouble running. Of course if you change the priority to [...]

Joe Wilcox from Microsoft Watch has some really great advice in his top 10 recommendations for 2008. It’s just a pity that chances are, Microsoft won’t take much of it on board. I particularly like number 2, and I think this is something that would be really beneficial. There is nowhere that properly showcases Microsoft [...]